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CLEVELAND -- Before Friday's Final Four showdown, before both players had even made a national semifinal or won a player of the year award, Caitlin Clark and Paige Bueckers first faced off at the college level in a game that seems like a lifetime ago.
It was March 2021, and the NCAA tournament was played in a "bubble," the tail end of a season marred by the COVID-19 pandemic. The women's tournament hadn't yet surged in popularity, and couldn't even use March Madness branding.