LSU wins NCAA Women’s Basketball National Championship

They weren’t supposed to be there, they had a weak schedule, it was just Kim Mulkey’s second year as head coach of the LSU Tigers, they arrived too soon. At least, that’s what they said and yet they still arrived as national champions of women’s college basketball.

On Sunday, the Purple and Gold cut down the nets at the American Airlines Center in Dallas, Texas after taking down the Iowa Hawkeyes in convincing fashion 102-85.

The Tigers had to go through one of the best players to ever pick up a basketball, Caitlin Clark, who’s now the first-ever tournament player to drop back-to-back 40 point games.

LSU’s road was far from easy, taking down Hawaii, Michigan, Utah, Miami, Virginia Tech, and Iowa to reach the pinnacle of the sport for the first time in program history. LSU Guard Flau’Jae Johnson said, “When we start piecing it together and we start having those 100-point games, and they said it was because we had a cupcake schedule, well, we just put 100 points on Iowa, so cupcake schedule that! And don’t get me wrong, Iowa is a great team. Caitlin Clark is a generational type of talent. You don’t really see too many like that, so to be able to do that on that type of team was amazing.”

LSU Guard Jasmine Carson said, “It’s a surreal feeling. I can’t really explain it. I’ve just got to give the credit to God and my teammates and coaching staff. When you work hard, you can accomplish anything, and not many seniors get to go out the way I’m going out being a national champion. It’s almost like Joe Burrow status, because we won the national championship, so I mean it’s great, it’s great.”

LSU ends its historic season with an overall record of 34-2, the only losses coming at the hands of top ranked South Carolina in the regular season and Tennessee in the SEC Tournament.

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