DALLAS — Iowa Hawkeyes coach Lisa Bluder found the officials' approach «frustrating» in Sunday's 2023 women's NCAA title game, where her team fell 102-85 to the LSU Tigers at the American Airlines Center. «I can't comment on the officials,» Bluder said postgame. «It's very frustrating because I feel like I can't talk to them.
They won't even listen. That's what's frustrating, is there wasn't even a conversation that could be had. When your two seniors have to sit on the bench — they don't know they're seniors, I get it — but those two women didn't deserve it.
I don't know. It's too bad. Yeah, it's too bad.» There were 37 fouls called in all by the game's end, with fifth-year senior Monika Czinano and senior McKenna Warnock fouling out in the fourth quarter at the 6:25 and 1:33 marks, respectively.
That isn't as many fouls as Friday's national semifinal game between South Carolina-Iowa (38) and UConn in last year's national championship game had 21, more than either team on Sunday.