Holy Cross Crusaders vs. Iowa Hawkeyes | ESPN College Basketball | NCAA Tournament

Holy Cross Crusaders vs. Iowa Hawkeyes | ESPN College Basketball | NCAA Tournament

Home Whits for the Hawks and they have the ball to start it out right away Holy Cross coming out aggressive trying to collapse on every Drive Marshall three assist Caitlyn Clark made field goals and it was The Supporting Cast getting them the out here’s Janelle Allen off

The ball fake off the bounce goes to the left hand and scores in the lane and A Little Too Short from Janelle C up the this a disciplined Holy Cross team they’re not going to force things great double on the Block but you see their patience and Poise and handling it

Foreman will step outside and knock down the [Applause] jumper they are the overall number two seed in this tournament behind undefeated South Carolina and they are losing early cross is off to a great start she’s got four points early two rebounds and she has been phenomenal on

Defense she has got a really fun connection here in Crusaders the other way McCormack front rims it here comes Clark Marshall gets a look and hits it mccormac steps away bed by kbach and another steal for Holy Cross brona Off the Mark offensive rebound and a stick back and collectively they’ve been getting

The job done they’ve also got a couple of quick fouls now picked up on lindsy berer number 35 in purple and Bron of power Cassidy will knock down the three and route to the national championship game she scored 32 per night only Cheryl swoops had a better tournament run double team awaits Here

Comes Martin to help forced a tough Shot oh Grady running the floor rim to rim bothered on the shot and then rips it away from brona who rips it right [Applause] back all alone power Cassidy hits the three well this terrific defense brona power Cassidy stays straight up she’s able to keep a hand on putting the power

In the power Cassidy on that one final minute of this first quarter she’ll try for a back to back and get it I mean they’re they’re just really good in their execution they checks the shot clock Foreman staying right with her off the spin the help comes and One defense for shots like this right terrific individual effort staying glued to Caitlyn Clark the collapse comes and she just makes a heck of a shot shot clock is off here for Holy Cross Lo to hold for one but they’re scrambling right now Iowa applying some pressure

Power Cassidy gets it up and gets it In she’s very proud of the four threes her sisters hit here early and does she take credit for her shooting as well hey there’s Kate Martin Marshall on the inbounds well executed by Iowa and they’re up by 10 really good job defensively of keeping this Crusaders team out of

Rhythm spin it around to the other side of the floor a falter for [Applause] three Martin got it back to her and then around the defender to ogrady in a Timeout Holy Cross three in the corner and then in transition Ado Grady a 70 Hawkeye run I think hly Ro has a report

For us from that last timeout Holly yeah a lot of confidence building in that last timeout for Lisa bler she’s reminding her team as we see a great shot there from brona so there’s plenty of help for cl Caitlyn here in the first half and that’s what it’s going to take

And for Caitlyn Clark to continue to trust them to trust that the game is going to open up for her and there she breathes a sigh of relief and the left side step step back that’s the specialty you probably can’t defend it any better than that the hand in the face the the

Breath of fresh air andang close through the first half Clark tracks down the rebound the push side step for Taylor McCade for three those two are heavily reliant on their defenses Martin back door from Clark well Holly mentioned it moving without the basketball cutting the back cut on the overplay the rotation not

Quick enough enough Kate Martin able to finish an easy [Applause] two staly had two fouls in that first half Martin the and one she is tough as Nails great job creating the contact Martin on the inbounds rebound stick back a falter such a good rebounding guard well the out of bounds play a

Terrific read and you watch Sydney falter she comes in from That Elbow area point field goal percentage wins versus losses because that’s the strength of this Iowa Hawkeye team the way that they can spread the floor the way they can make you pay as Addison o’ Grady gets an easy [Applause]

To Clark left in the lane nice drop off for ogrady flirting with a triple double again 13 points seven rebounds [Applause] Allen double comes she drops it off for Foreman count it and if that’s on Caitlyn that’s number three getting production from all five players on the

Floor number one in the country in scoring number one in assists number two in field goal percentage number one in most threes made and there’s another one for Caitlyn Clark unfortunately for the hawkey her teammates have been picking up the slack and look we we’ve seen a

Lot of growth in Caitlyn Club in terms of her leadership in terms of her going to continue to be an area of growth as she progresses to the next Level Corman this is the other way for ho across M Cormac side steps the defender and hits the three the Crusaders have found a little bit of Rhythm on the offensive end they’re not going to give up they’re going to continue to chip away but you got to stay in the space

And not let 22 get herself going trying to set up inside foran looks for three Clark off the crossover goes to the left side and lays it up and [Applause] in a Cormac swatted by [Applause] Mart working inside power Cassidy off glass and that ends about a 4minute drought for Holy Cross Crowd trying to pick up the energy clerk gets another steal for Clark on OPP POS for the layup how entertaining it is social media these athletes allowing themselves to be seen on a personal [Applause] level Clark assist to O Grady 27 points 10 assists eight rebounds three steals the day for Her and some welld deserved rest to get ready for Monday a falters they continue to move the ball so Well mccormac got it you got to check out Holly Rose Twitter at sport siren come to watch Caitlyn and stay for the other Caitlyn that’ll be over on ESPN 2 and a chance for a three-point play here for Iowa top scoring team in the country

Hits 90 again and they’ll pick up a win in the first round over Holy Cross 991 to 65 what an effort by the Crusaders but too much Iowa [Applause] Hawkeyes

Check out these highlights from No. 1 Iowa’s 91-65 win over the No. 16 Holy Cross Crusaders. The Hawkeyes’ Caitlin Clark finishes with a near triple-double and Kate Martin ends with 15 PTS and 14 REB.

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