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Throwback Tuesday: Looking back at how Northwestern women’s basketball shut down Caitlin Clark in 2021

Although Iowa guard and Naismith Player of the Year Caitlin Clark couldn’t lead the Hawkeyes past the LSU Tigers to secure the NCAA Women’s National Championship on Sunday, she just put on arguably the greatest individual March Madness run basketball has ever seen — among both the women’s and men’s tournaments.

Clark’s 30-point showing in the title game marked her 90th straight game reaching double figures in scoring. In fact, she’s scored 10 or more points in 99 out of the 100 games she’s played during her three seasons at Iowa.

The one exception, you might ask?