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Good morning! Just try to keep Caitlin Clark under 40 points today.
The hype entering yesterday’s Elite Eight games was nearly unreachable. Four teams and four superstars Iowa’s Caitlin Clark, LSU’s Angel Reese, UConn’s Paige Bueckers and USC’s JuJu Watkins battling for two Final Four spots. In a transformative year for women’s college basketball, the day had national-championship vibes.
Reader, it lived up. Both of these games were.