Emotional Caitlin Clark reflects on final season with Hawkeyes after loss to South Carolina

Caitlin Clark looks back on the Hawkeyes 2023-2024 season and comments on how she plans to move forward despite the upsetting loss.

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CAITLIN CLARK: It's certainly been a special year. And to be honest, like, after last year, I was kind of like, well, how do I top-- how do we top doing what we did last year? And somehow, someway, every single person in our locker room believed. And to be honest, this year was probably more special than last year-- you know, the teams we had to go through to get to this point. We won the Big Ten Tournament. We lost two players that were three-year starters for our program.

And to be back in this position, and come out here and battle-- I mean, South Carolina is just so good. Like, there's only so much you can do. I mean, Cardoso has 17 rebounds. They have 51 as a team. We have 29. Like, hard to win a basketball game like that. You basically got to shoot perfect at that point.

And I'm just proud of our group. We never backed down. And we gave it everything we got. I think for me is just-- the emotions will probably hit me over the next couple of days. And I don't have much time to sit around and sulk and be upset. And I don't think that's what I'm about, either, is-- yeah, I'm sad we lost this game. But I'm also so proud of myself. I'm so proud of my teammates. I'm so proud of this program. There's a lot to be proud of.

But there's going to be tears. It is sad that this is all over, and this is the last time I'm going to put on an Iowa jersey. So I think just reflecting back, and soaking in everything that I was able to do, because basically, anybody other than me and Coach Bluder never thought this was possible.