When Iowa women’s basketball defeated LSU in the 2024 NCAA Tournament to move on to the Final Four and gain some measure of revenge from a loss in the national title game the previous year, it marked the end of Angel Reese’s college career, but not the end of her rivalry with Hawkeyes superstar Caitlin Clark.
This weekend, the latest piece of evidence backing up that fact emerged.
In a nationally televised matchup Sunday between Clark’s Indiana Fever and Reese’s Chicago Sky, Clark was hit in the head by Reese as she drove to the basket and went up for a layup, sending Clark tumbling to the floor.
Reese was assessed a Flagrant-1 foul, which was upheld after a video review of the play, giving Clark two free throws and the Fever the ball.
Though the play met the definition of a Flagrant-1 foul, it didn’t appear to be intentional, as Reese, who had been drawn near the top of the key as Indiana set a screen, chased down Clark and made what looked to be an earnest attempt to block the shot. Clark wasn’t hurt, either, as she immediately got up from the floor after the play.
“It’s just part of basketball,” Clark said after the game. “It is what it is. She was trying to make a play on the ball and get the block. It happens.”
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