CLEVELAND — Caitlin Clark first told Lisa Bluder she wanted to go to a Final Four during her recruitment. She kept saying it once she made it to campus even though the Hawkeyes had only ever gone once two decades prior. They hadn’t even made it into the NCAA tournament field during part of Clark’s high school career.
“A lot of people laughed at her and maybe even laughed at her for coming to Iowa, quite honestly,” Iowa head coach Lisa Bluder said. “But she believed, we believed, and she got everybody else in that locker room to believe.