Take your pick now, between the perfect team, undefeated and overall No. 1 seed South Carolina, and the perfect storm, all-time NCAA scoring leader and otherworldly Iowa star Caitlin Clark.
We got the game we wanted, basketball world, an NCAA women’s basketball title tilt that is about to shatter some more ratings records.
But first, a minute on how we got here, and a hope that by the time these two No. 1 seeds tip off Sunday afternoon in Cleveland (3 p.m., ABC), the conversation is as much about the majesty of what the South Carolina did to North Carolina State in the second half of their game as it is about what the referees did for Iowa in the final seconds of theirs. If all you are still talking about is the end of that thrilling nightcap, when UConn’s Aaliyah Edwards was called for an offensive foul while trying to set a screen, thus costing UConn the chance at a potential go-ahead shot, you are burying the drama and heroics that delivered us to that moment.
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