South Carolina rains on Caitlin Clark's parade! Iowa superstar fails to end her college career with March Madness final 勝利，勝つ ahead of WNBA 草案 as Gamecocks are 栄冠を与えるd 国家の 支持する／優勝者s

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South Carolina has rained on Caitlin Clark's parade, with the Iowa superstar failing to end her college career on a high with a NCAA 選手権 勝利，勝つ ahead of the WNBA 草案 later this month, as the Gamecocks are 栄冠を与えるd as this year's 国家の champs.

Guards Tessa Johnson, Kamilla Cardoso, and Te-Hina Paopao 連合させるd for 48 points in Sunday's 素晴らしい 87-75 復帰 勝利，勝つ at ロケット／急騰する Morgage FieldHouse - home to the?NBA's Cleveland Cavaliers?- to overpower Clark's own special 30-piece in her last game ever for the Hawkeyes.

Iowa (34-5) （機の）カム out 解雇する／砲火／射撃ing in the first ４半期/4分の1, outscoring their 対抗者s, 27-20, before South Carolina (38-0) made up for the end-of-４半期/4分の1, 7-point differential by 得点する／非難する／２０ing 29 in the second, while the Hawkeyes only put up 19.

Once the 得点する／非難する／２０ was in the Gamecocks' 好意 at halftime (49-46), they never looked 支援する, にもかかわらず Clark's 近づく 二塁打-二塁打 heroics (8 回復するs), which 原因（となる）d a few 神経-racking moments for 夜明け Staley's undefeated team in the fourth.

South Carolina 最終的に put 19 points apiece in the last two ４半期/4分の1s, while the Hawkeyes had 13 in the third q uarter and 16 in the last.

Iowa's Caitlin Clark stands in 狼狽 after coming の近くに to winning an NCAA 肩書を与える for a second year in a 列／漕ぐ／騒動

The South Carolina Peacocks won their second NCAA 選手権 three years on Sunday

Clark nearly put in a 二塁打-二塁打 業績／成果 in Cleveland, as he had 30 pts and 8 補助装置s?

South Carolina went undefeated all season long (37-0) under former NCAA guard 夜明け Staley

The 22-year-old Clark - NCAA's かつてない 主要な scorer for both men and women - made 10 of 28 発射s - 含むing 5 of 13 3-pointers - and finished her four-year stay in Iowa City with 3,951 points. She also had five 補助装置s.?

にもかかわらず Sunday's loss for the Hawkeyes, Clark's run to a second straight NCAA final helped turn the women's tournament into 任命 television. Her 業績／成果s have 始める，決める a new TV ratings 記録，記録的な／記録する for women's college basketball twice in the last week alone, with another 記録，記録的な／記録する likely waiting after the 肩書を与える game.?

She has also tried to take her blossoming stardom in stride, frequently deflecting much of the attention to her Iowa チーム仲間s and a sport that is having a moment.?

'I 本人自身で want to thank Caitlin Clark for 解除するing up our sport,' Staley said after her Gamecocks were （人命などを）奪う，主張するd as 国家の 支持する／優勝者s for the third time since she became the program's 長，率いる coach in 2008. 以前 South Carolina won in 2022 and 2017.

'She carried a 激しい 負担 for our sport. ... Caitlin Clark if you're out there you're one of the GOATs of our game. We 高く評価する／（相場などが）上がる you,' Staley 追加するd, 跡をつけるing 支援する on her comments that Iowa's 星／主役にする play had to 勝利，勝つ a 選手権 to 安全な・保証する her 遺産／遺物 in college sports.

Clark 得点する／非難する／２０ 18 of Iowa's final 20 points in the first ４半期/4分の1 but was 二塁打d- and even ３倍になるd-team at time for the 残りの人，物 of Sunday's contest

Gamecocks guard Tessa Johnson was South Carolina's highest-scorer of the game with 19 pts

Clark always had the 十分な attention of …に反対するing coaches. And South Carolina's depth 証明するd to be too much in 前線 of a sold-out （人が）群がる. It wasn't for 欠如（する） of trying. It just never is with Clark.

She （機の）カム out 解雇する／砲火／射撃ing , 得点する／非難する／２０ing 18 of Iowa's final 20 points in the first ４半期/4分の1 as the Hawkeyes built a quick 27-20 lead. The Gamecocks used 多重の defenders to try to keep up with Clark. It didn't seem to 事柄. She knocked 負かす／撃墜する three 3-pointers in the 開始 10 minutes, 含むing a rainbow over the 6-foot-7 Cardoso.?

The 18 points broke the 選び出す／独身-４半期/4分の1 記録，記録的な／記録する of 16 始める，決める by LSU's Jasmine Carlson in the second ４半期/4分の1 of the Tigers' 勝利，勝つ over Iowa in last year's 肩書を与える game.

The NCAA went to a ４半期/4分の1 system in 2016.

South Carolina, however, 回復するd to 逮捕（する） its second 選手権 in three years.

Clark checked out with 20 seconds remaining, 収入 a 抱擁する from coach Lisa Bluder while the （人が）群がる gave her a 非常に長い standing ovation.