This Sunday, South Carolina, underneath the management of Coach Daybreak Staley, celebrated a triumphant finish to an impeccable season by clinching the NCAA nationwide championship with an 87-75 win towards Iowa. This victory not solely ended Caitlin Clark’s extraordinary school profession but in addition marked South Carolina’s standing as one of many ten Division I groups to ever end a season undefeated. Remarkably, they achieved this feat with a totally new lineup, as none of final 12 months’s starters, who skilled a defeat towards Iowa within the earlier nationwide semifinals, have been current.
Caitlin Clark, the standout senior from Iowa, put up a valiant effort in her remaining school look, aiming to safe the Hawkeyes’ first championship title however finally developing brief. Clark dazzled with 30 factors within the recreation, breaking the championship document by scoring 18 of these within the first quarter alone, cementing her legacy as one of many NCAA’s all-time greats.
With this win, South Carolina has now claimed three nationwide titles in simply eight years, with the final two coming up to now three seasons. Coach Staley’s outstanding teaching prowess has lifted her into the pantheon of legendary coaches like Geno Auriemma, Pat Summitt, Kim Mulkey, and Tara VanDerveer, who’ve all secured not less than three nationwide championships.
Because the celebrations proceed, social media has been ablaze with reactions to South Carolina’s historic win.
South Carolina second half going do it each time pic.twitter.com/iCxjlKWdan
— Don Cali 👑 (@DonCali_) April 7, 2024
The Carolinians outdoors celebrating South Carolina win! 🏆 #NATIONALCHAMPIONSHIP pic.twitter.com/9CrN7XyKUR
— 🅈🅅🄴🅃🅃🄴 (@ldywdefitness) April 7, 2024
Girl Gamecocks wore dwn C.Clark. Main defender, R. Johnson made it extraordinarily powerful on each possession and it wore Clark dwn. Caitlin carries a heavy load, rating and facilitate 4 every1 else 4 not less than 40mins a nite. I consider that workload lastly caught up together with her.…
— shannon sharpe (@ShannonSharpe) April 7, 2024
Daybreak Staley personally thanks Caitlin Clark for lifting up girls’s basketball.
All class. pic.twitter.com/QNy1TwaFvD
— Sports activities Illustrated (@SInow) April 7, 2024
Caitlin Clark: *scores 18 factors within the 1st Quarter*
South Carolina: pic.twitter.com/0h7Bn5KRc0
— Muhammad Alinked-in (@PBSImpulse9) April 7, 2024
SO completely satisfied for Daybreak Staley and South Carolina going undefeated to win yet one more Nationwide Championship.
Give Daybreak & her ladies EVERY SINGLE FLOWER 💐 pic.twitter.com/C6nPz25JPc
— Britni Danielle (@BritniDWrites) April 7, 2024
Lets goooooooo!!!!! South Carolina group has been phenomenal!! @dawnstaley is solely the most effective!!! Freshmen stepped up BIG, bench was BIG, and the leaders lead BIG!! I find it irresistible!!!
— Gabrielle Union (@itsgabrielleu) April 7, 2024
Congrats to the Gucci and Louis Vuitton Daybreak and the girl Gamecocks of South Carolina!!!! That was motivating and unforgettable. Thanks. That was past deserved, it was earned.
— Lil Wayne WEEZY F (@LilTunechi) April 7, 2024
Iowa gamers to South Carolina coach after not having the ability to cease kamilla cardoso : pic.twitter.com/5tkhJ7L76a
— Shannonnn sharpes Burner (PARODY Account) (@shannonsharpeee) April 7, 2024
Daybreak Staley: *pouring her coronary heart out about how a lot she wished this*
Her South Carolina gamers behind her: pic.twitter.com/gjJSGxGRph
— Oluwajomiloju (@JomiAdeniran) April 7, 2024
