#iowa state basketball

[orangeball]

hey mama, 12 won the big 12

[bueckerrss]

hey pookie butt😩 you should do dating caitlin hcs bc you did kk and it was so good🙂‍↕️

DATING CATILIN HCS

warnings: kissing, (minor) injuries, fluff, cute little scenarios, cursing, slightly suggestive.

tags: @patscorner @wintersstan @pbueckerslover @h34rtsformilli @cosmopretty

a/n: hope yall enjoy 🫶

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✰ always texting (because she never leaves that phone alone)

✰ cute little dates at your favorite restaurant

✰ the amout of .5s you both have of each other is INSANE.

✰ horrible cook but tries her best for special occasions (your birthday, anniversaries etc)

✰ small injury or not, shes always looking for comfort. For example: sprained ankle? Shes hopping to you to get a kiss, jabbed finger? Shes making her way to get a kiss for her “booboo”

✰ always being her biggest cheerleader on and off the court

✰always sneaking kisses before and after games

✰ sleeps super late and complains about having to wake up early

✰ you're her passenger princess no matter what “my turn to drive!” you say as you grab the car keys heading for the door “fuck no.” she replies as she snatches the car keys.

✰ she carries your bags without you having to ask

✰ hickies everywhere.

✰ shower sex

✰ shes a top argue with the wall.

[swiftiesusa]

kate is so baby girl coded

[misskelley]

In the W and the rivalry lives on

[connormccafferyhater]

i think you’re an undercover racist if you fw katie lou but don’t like kelsey mitchell

[pbnbucks]

starting to hate living in iowa theese mfs getting scary tbh.

[kdsburneraccount]

anyways fully expecting a uconn-usc (scar) final but like maybe caitlin clark will do miracles again

[thundergrace]

[tvmusiclife]

Happy Women's Championship Day to all who celebrate:

12 pm: Iowa v. Nebraska (Big 10 Conference final)

1 pm: NC State v. Notre Dame (ACC Conference Final)

3 pm: South Carolina v. LSU (SEC Conference Final)

4 pm: Stanford v. USC (PAC 12 Conference Final)

8:15 pm: USWNT v. Brazil (inagural W Gold Cup final)

[memenewsdotcom]

Caitlin Clark goes No. 1 in WNBA draft

[goodapollo]

Made the 6hr30min drive from Toledo to Knoxville to cheer on the Toledo Women's Basketball Team in our first NCAA tournament since 2017!

[orangeball]

new cyclones!

[bueckerrss]

MARRY YOU - KATE MARTIN

summary𞠬: basically the title :)

warnings:mentions of drinking, fluff, kissing (i think that’s it) (maybe some bad spelling and sorta rushed)

tags: @patscorner @wintersstan @pbueckerslover @h34rtsformilli @cosmopretty

a/n: sorry if this is bad i wanted yall to have something before i left for my family trip and didn’t have time to write, plus it’s been a while since i wrote hope you enjoy:)

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The pounding music and the strobing lights set the vibe of the club. Your girlfriend kate had asked you to join her and the team in getting drinks after a hectic practice day. Kate hadn't left your side since you got to the club, being super affectionate and clingy not that you minded of course you haven't had time to be together with her schedule and your night shifts at the hospital.

after a few drinks, a song came on, you turned to kate who was already looking at you that was your guys favorite song. She grabbed your hand dragging you to the dance floor her hands immediately finding their place on your hips, “have I ever told you how much I love you?” asked kate as she smiled “every second of every day, but I love it when you do” you smiled as you leaned in to peck her lips “I want to get married” kate blurted out “what?” you asked taken back by her sudden confession, not that you guys hadn’t talked about it or it’s not like you hadn’t planned the wedding in your head a million times, “I want to get married y/n” she repeated with a smile “like now?” you questioned looking at her in shocked “yes! Right now I saw this chapel a few blocks from here.” she stated as she grabbed your hand and started leading you outside.

“Wait kate are you being for real right now? Like you seriously want to do this?” you asked stopping to get a good look at kates face to make sure she wanted to do this “Yes babe, I want to do this, sure it won’t be a big wedding like you wanted but  I want to do this now we can have a big wedding later. Unless you don’t want to get married?” she said “no, I do want to get married but honey we don’t have rings or anything” you replied taking her face into your hands “paper rings” she said smiling as she took out two rings from her pocket, you smiled at the rings in her hand “let’s go get married then” you laughed as she took your hand and led you to the small chapel.

[quotesfrommyreading]

For so long, fans and media members alike have treated women’s basketball — and women’s sports in general — as some sort of charity case. It wasn’t about the product on the court as much as it was about patting yourself on the back for being one of the good guys. It didn’t matter if those tickets you got for the game came as part of some discounted package to try to fill seats, or if they were free. Brownie points counted just the same.

More than 6 million people tuned in to watch Iowa play South Carolina in the Final Four on Friday night. Iowa-LSU was broadcast on ABC, easily accessible to even more eyeballs. The cheapest single ticket to get into American Airlines Center on Sunday was more than $400. Clark and Reese are bona fide stars, attracting massive followings on social media and big-money NIL deals. The demand to see them square off was real; no one watched this game simply to support the sport but rather because they wanted to watch a great game with compelling figures.

We witnessed a sport take a giant leap this weekend. It’s not often you realize something like that is happening in the moment, but it was undeniable. That’s why the officiating bothered me so much. It’s also why I couldn’t stand the discourse that popped up after the game around Reese and Clark, who are both elite trash-talkers. Of course, there was the racial undertone of comments praising Clark for her behavior on the court but calling Reese “classless” (a word that was trending on Twitter in the aftermath) for her taunting. Cultures clashed in a big way on multiple fronts.

So many of the male pundits who rushed into the conversation ostensibly on Clark’s behalf wanted to paint her as a victim, despite the fact that Clark expressed no anger or hurt feelings afterward and said she didn’t even see Reese’s hand-waving because she was trying to get to the handshake line. Clark is a trash-talker and a relentless competitor, just like Reese, and they’ll both continue to play that way because it’s what makes them great. But the pundits who teed off on Reese to somehow protect Clark were doing so with arrogance and such obvious paternalism, in addition to the thinly veiled racism.

Caitlin Clark does not need a white knight. She is not your charity case, either. She is an athlete who handles her business and should be treated as any elite male athlete would be. This is a sport that should be treated as a real sport, which means there are winners and losers and also debates about which player is best. It’s OK to criticize players and coaches who make mistakes. For so long, the gatekeepers of the sport believed they needed to be advocates for women’s basketball at all times for it to grow, and that meant only writing positive stories or treating players with kid gloves. We should be well past that now.

So, let’s level up the sport to meet its moment. Fix the officiating that has been subpar and unacceptable for way too long. Treat the product as the money-maker it is when its media rights deal comes up. And allow these tough-as-hell women to fight their own battles.

  —  LSU, Iowa and women’s basketball deserve better than lousy officiating and paternalistic discourse

[chick-in-the-cheap-seats]

[newsbrand]

LSU Women’s Basketball 🏀 Team has earned the national championship against Iowa State. The star ⭐️ player of LSU Angel Reese has a response to all the backlash she has been getting criticizing her sportsmanship