At Gabe’s By the Park in St. Paul — a known Hawkeye-friendly bar — Iowa fans gathered to watch the team battle against the South Carolina. The Gamecocks finished ahead of Iowa 87-75.
Just in time for the 50-year anniversary of Hank Aaron's record 715th home run, Charlie Russo is making available footage he shot of the homer. The 81-year-old Russo, who runs a fish market in Savannah, followed Aaron's family onto the field with a video camera after Aaron passed Babe Ruth and filmed the celebration around home plate.
Friday's semifinal averaged 14.2 million viewers, making it the most-viewed women's basketball game on record and the largest audience for an ESPN basketball broadcast.
Winnipeg won all four games against Minnesota this season and improved to 17-5-1 against Central Division foes, Minnesota is 8-13-3 in the division. The Wild begin a five-game road trip Sunday in Chicago.
Anthony Edwards struggled from the field, making just 6 of 19 shots and finishing with 17 points. Nickell Alexander-Walker was the only other Timberwolves player in double figures with 13 points.
Caitlin Clark led Iowa back to the national championship game, scoring 21 points as the Hawkeyes rallied past Paige Bueckers and UConn 71-69 in the women’s Final Four. Next up for the Hawkeyes is a rematch with unbeaten South Carolina, which lost to Iowa in last year’s Final Four.
In south Minneapolis, nearly every single seat in the 700-seat Riverview Theater was taken. The crowd cheered, mostly for Iowa, eating popcorn from the theater, which opened up for people to watch the game for free and held a canned food drive to collect for people in need.
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