LSU deserved to win the title. But the shame of Sunday’s game is that we’ll never know how the highly hyped national championship game would’ve looked like if the officiating crew hadn't made itself the star.
The 2023 NCAA tournament will go down as an epic success story for the enterprise of women’s basketball and for champion LSU, who beat Iowa, 102-85, to win it all on Sunday. When future generations scan the history books , all they will know about these Tigers is that they were outrageously consistent all season. They went 34-2, would’ve lost even fewer games if they didn’t share a league with Dawn Staley’s South Carolina juggernaut, and ultimately triumphed over the Hawkeyes and Caitlin Clark.
There will be no asterisks on the Tigers’ national championship banner, well earned by one of the great offensive blitzes in tournament history. Iowa entered averaging a Division I-best 87.3 points per game, and LSU ensured it would win its first title by passing that number with nearly six minutes left. LSU guard Jasmin Carson played a literally perfect first half in which she took five three-pointers, two twos, and two free throws, and made all of them for 21 points.
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