In 2023, Angel Reese and the LSU Tigers won their only national championship, both individually and in program history. Under the tutelage of Kim Mulkey, the likes of Reese, Flau\u2019jae Johnson, Last-Tear Poa, and others defeated then-coach Lisa Bluder\u2019s Iowa Hawkeyes, led by superstar Caitlin Clark and Kate Martin at the time. LSU won by 17 points, 102-85, to take home the elusive title.<\/p>\n
However, there was a gesture by Reese towards Clark that went viral and is talked about to this day. On the 0:53 mark of the fourth quarter of the 2023 NCAA title game, Reese looked directly at Clark and did WWE superstar John Cena\u2019s \u201cYou can\u2019t see me\u201d gesture, a move that Clark had previously done to her opponents.<\/p>\n
As Reese and coach Mulkey were celebrating their championship win, they were being interviewed on the Women\u2019s NCAA March Madness panel. The now-Chicago Sky stalwart was asked about her gesture and the reasoning for her to stand her ground against Clark.<\/p>\n
\u201cCaitlin Clark is a hell of a player, for sure, but I don\u2019t take disrespect lightly, and she disrespected Alexis (Morris) and my girls, South Carolina, they still my SEC girls too. They not gonna be disrespecting me either, so, I wanted to pick her pocket, but I had a moment at the end of the game and that was just in my bag. I was in my moment, yeah,\u201d Reese said<\/a> (via YouTube channel \u2018Women Hooping\u2019).<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Reese was eventually named as the Most Outstanding Player (MOP) for the NCAA tournament that year. In the title game, she went on to tally<\/a> 15 points, 10 rebounds, five assists, three steals, and a block in 29 minutes. The Tigers finished the 2022-23 season with an overall record of 34-2 (15-1, SEC), while Reese concluded that year with averages of 23.0 points, 15.4 rebounds, 2.3 assists, 1.8 steals, and 1.6 blocks per contest.<\/p>\n Clark had a stellar individual outing in the loss with 30 points, including eight three-pointers, two rebounds, and eight assists in 35 minutes of action.<\/p>\n Caitlin Clark Got Her Revenge On Angel Reese And The LSU Tigers In The 2024 NCAA Tournament<\/p>\n A year later, in the 2024 national tournament, Caitlin Clark and the Iowa Hawkeyes were able to exact revenge on Angel Reese and the LSU Tigers.<\/p>\n In the Elite Eight of Albany Regional 2, Clark and company eliminated LSU from the postseason with a seven-point win, 94-87. In the victory, the now-Indiana Fever star dropped 41 points, seven rebounds, 12 assists, two steals, and a block in 40 minutes.<\/p>\n College Sports Network has you covered with the latest news, analysis, insights, and trending stories in\u00a0football<\/a>,\u00a0basketball<\/a>, and more!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In 2023, Angel Reese and the LSU Tigers won their only national championship, both individually and in program…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":287,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68],"tags":[402,398,400,401,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-286","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-basketball","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-ncaa","10":"tag-ncaa-basketball","11":"tag-ncaabasketball","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}