As great as Caitlin Clark and Angel Reese have been during the NCAA Tournament, Iowa and LSU are playing for a national title makes this year’s final different from others in the recent past.
Sunday’s final will be the first without a No. 1-seeded team since 2011 when two No. 2s played for the championship.
Texas A&M won the title over Notre Dame that season, and Iowa could follow the Aggies as the last No. 2 seed to win the tournament. LSU would be the first 3-seed to win the national title since Tennessee in 1997.
Based on seeding, few predicted this finals matchup possible. Per ESPN, only 1.1 percent of brackets had Iowa versus LSU in the championship game.
