IOWA CITY, Iowa — Caitlin Clark said she won't be thinking about the fact that Monday's NCAA tournament second-round matchup with West Virginia will be the last home game of her Iowa career.
Instead, she and the Hawkeyes — the Albany 2 Region No. 1 seed — are fully consumed by the battle they expect to get from the No.
8 seed Mountaineers (8 p.m. ET, ESPN). «Coming out with a strong start will be really important for us; I think that goes for any game,» Clark said Sunday. «But our group has played in quite a few March Madness games where we didn't come out and set the tone, and we were able to take a breath and respond. »I think understanding we're not going to win by 25 points.
That's not what this is at this point. It's going to come down to single possessions, and you have to execute possessions. You need to get [offensive] boards.