Iowa women's basketball coach Lisa Bluder answered questions from reporters after Iowa's 87-75 loss to South Carolina in the 2024 NCAA women's basketball national championship game.
It's more like Caitlin made her look like a great coach which she ain't. C'mon, Bluder coached for 35 years and has only two NCAA Final appearances to show for without winning any. And winning few Big10 championships in women's basketball doesn't mean much outside Big10.
Coach Bluder is a Class Act. That question from the young lady from Cleveland brought a tear to my eye. CC may be gone but Hawkeye Nation has one helluva Coach and Leader and Staff!! She has a pretty good recruiting class coming in and the future of the Iowa Hawkeyes is in incredibly capable hands!!
Bluder has been around the game for a long, long time. I admire her as a coach. She and Staley are great ambassadors for the game. Looking forward to seeing how she and Iowa move forward to the post-Caitlin era. An aside--I wouldn't say nobody thought Iowa would be there at the beginning of the year
Lisa Bluder is a classy, great coach. Gabbie is my fave with her tenacity and selflessness, big plays at big times. Hey coach, go coach the Kentucky men. Love your style of play.
We love you coach Bluder. I wouldn’t take any other college coach over you. And there are so many great coaches in the women’s game. Just like Caitlin, you are a true champion. Never a double loser
I pray this inspires athletes to try iowa out. Iowa is a beautiful state. I hope we become competitive every year! Good job hawks good job South Carolina great year!
Upon observance of the game IOwa the young lady team done their best but they collapsed in rebounding but for me I had to congratulate coach Bluder and greatest women player Caitlin Clark as well as her teammates nevertheless in a game there's always be a winner Congratulations to the champ South Carolina To Caitlin Clark these is not the end of your journey together with your teammates Kate Martin Gabbie Marshall Stuelke and the rest of the team congratulations once again
After the Game Dawn Staley was talking, and said something that blew my mind! 🤯🤯They South Carolina spent the 3 practices before NC State preparing to stop Caitlyn and Iowa! WOW, that was quite a gamble and it paid off! Love Dawn Staley, but Iowa could not even consider that as an option with a game against UCONN and Geno!💛🖤
It only seems that in the last two or three weeks teams started hounding Clark with stick-like-glue defense in her face. It was the only way to slow her down. You can't let her have any space at all or she'll get you. Why didn't all teams try that? Maybe they didn't have anyone fast enough or with enough stamina. Hell if I know. I watched and listened to a number of games where CC had some trouble in the third and fourth quarter scoring. She can't do it all. All I know is that there is no other way. Either way, it was exciting basketball no matter who you cheered for. I do know is it is hard to win it all with just one player scoring half your points.
@@davewanamaker3690good points , I don’t even think she rest CC, the mental pressure gets you quicker when you can’t sit , think , and breathe. They have to get a few more pieces to help the team.
S.C. bench is unbelievable! Each game they score 30 to 35 points a game. That's hard to compete with. Next year Dawn's bench will be ready to be starters because she know how to develop & use her bench. Only 2 of S.C. players are leaving. WOW!
Bluder blew her chance for glory while she had CC. She didn't develop other players as shooters and depended too heavily on CC to do all the scoring to win. Her strategy of putting all eggs in one basket failed against LSU and SC in the NCAA Finals, back to back. Her team will be in the rebuilding mode, starting next year, with mediocre results, at best, until another player like CC joins her team or she develops her players to be better scorers.
Excuse me? Lisa Bluder did one hell of a job coaching this team. She took Iowa to back to back final fours. I'm an Iowa fan and I can appreciate what the team has done the past two years. Give her a break.
Mostly agreeing with your point. Iowa has been a good program but from a recruiting perspective, SC is bringing in an awesome class and LSU, UCONN are bringing in top recruits. Iowa is not going to be a place where any top prospects are wanting to play.
@@superyt4ever well say whatever you want but I think Lisa is a great coach and Iowa has a bunch of classy individuals on their team. Proud to be a hawk fan!!!!
In the midst of the CC hoopla this coach is hardly mentioned . Trivia question : Who was the head coach of Indiana State in 1979 when Larry Bird made that undefeated run to the finals , losing to Michigan State ?
I like Lisa. But she didn’t adjust to getting virtually show down low. She should have had everybody shooting threes. This isn’t a hindsight comment. It was obvious as it unfolded. I say this as an Iowa fan.
ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-wYEldEDV3dQ.html. Here's the full game link of Iowa beating South Carolina last year! This was a phenomenal game!!! NO ONE BUT IOWA BEAT THEM LAST YEAR! I AM SO SO PROUD OF THESE GIRLS, SO PROUD OF THEM!
She waisted her bench players all season long depending on a few of them. You can't waist a player like McAabe was a talented freshman 3point shooter. A.J., Goodman,Gyamfi, they should been more involved.
Every coach has their own flair so. Lost me on the wheel of fortune vp award, but every coach has their own schtick so. It's like you have to watch a thousand games to see what you are looking for.
Im.a South Carolina fan but I feel sorry for the rest of the team I blame u the coach allowing her with all of those forced shots down the stretch ur offense is fluid in the half court but u let her just chuck up the dumb shots and cost u the game
You are asking for A LOT if you think that 3 players can win against a huge / amazon team like SC... talk about a stacked LINE UP... who couldn't win with that? THEY ALMOST LOST to fair.. HAWKS are an amazing team at their UNDER SIZE and the fact that they can out run most of the other teams ... good game HAWKS.