The Penn State women’s ball group put together a solid execution Thursday within the Huge Ten Women’s Ball Competition. Its compensate? A quarterfinal diversion against Iowa and NCAA all-time driving scorer Caitlin Clark.
The Woman Lions steered Wisconsin 80-56 in a second-round amusement in Minneapolis, progressing to the quarterfinals for the primary time since 2014. Coincidentally, that’s the final time Penn State made the NCAA Women’s Competition. To induce off the NCAA bubble, Penn State (19-11) might got to disturbed second-seeded Iowa in Minneapolis.
Four Penn State players scored in double-digits Thursday, with Kylie Lavelle driving with 14 focuses on 6-for-7 shooting. Ashley Owusu included 13 focuses and six bounce back, as the Woman Lions shot 49.2 percent. Penn State mixed its scoring, getting 37 focuses from the seat, and overwhelmed the paint, where it scored 44.
Presently, the Woman Lions confront one of their greatest challenges of the season. Third-ranked Iowa (26-4) enters the Huge Ten Competition having fair beaten top-seeded Ohio State on Sunday, when Clark got to be the driving scorer in NCAA ball history. Clark leads the country in scoring, averaging 32.3 focuses per diversion, and has scored 968 focuses the season. Advance, Iowa has overwhelmed the later arrangement against Penn State.
The Hawkeyes (26-4) have won nine straight against Penn State, averaging 102.8 focuses per amusement within the final six. Iowa won the regular-season assembly 111-93 in February, a amusement in which Clark scored a moderate 27 focuses and committed 12 turnovers. In any case, Hannah Stuelke scored a career-high 47 focuses, making 17 of 20 shots. Clark had 15 helps on Stuelke’s record night.
Penn State looks for its to begin with offered to the NCAA Women’s Ball Competition since 2014. Coach Carolyn Kieger’s group has won 19 diversions, the foremost in her five seasons, and may be a bubble group for the 2024 women’s competition. ESPN’s most later bracketology lists Penn State among the primary four out of the competition.
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