you're gonna throw all of your resources at trying to stop that and making someone else beat you. (dramatic music) (crowd yelling) it does point out that basketball is a team game and the success of the team is dependent on more than just one player. (dramatic music end) - [announcer] omaha. (logo whooshing) (gentle classical music) - [announcer] "full court press" is presented by state farm. like a good neighbor, state farm is there. - i think i motivate my team with my passion and my energy.

i feel like that's always been how i've played, and i've never changed, and i think that's just contagious for the rest of my team. - i motivate my teammates on the court mainly by leading by example and showing them how to get it done. - i feel like our team is really connected so once one player is playing hard, we all just play hard for each other. this is the best team i had the best chemistry with. (people cheering and applauding) - [announcer] and now, "full court press" presented by state farm. (gentle music) - [man] it's not just that she's great. it's that everywhere she pops up now is an event. - [man] the greatest women's basketball player we've seen. - caitlin clark, caitlin clark. - [man] she is without a doubt a revelation. - [man] clark is the platinum certified rock star of college basketball. - [man] young fans wanna more like caitlin, not mike. (crowd cheering)

- fame. i feel like it's still something that's really hard for me to wrap my head around. (somber violin music) i was once that little iowa girl. (basketball thumping) who was inspired to dream big. - [director] action. - [man] absolute worldwide phenomenon last year during the run when everybody kind of got introduced. - it's that easy. - it's been so exciting watching women's sports recently. caitlin clark. - this moment we kinda needed something. - [jimmy] this is that moment. - to just like, yeah and caitlin's that moment. - [man] wait till this girl gets to the wnba. she is somethin' special. (crowd cheering) - this is not the same as what it was. me and you, we cannot go and just walk around like nobody knows who you are. that's not the reality of the situation. and i think that there's still moments where she realizes that, and she's like, damn, like, that kind of sucks. - [caitlin] oh my gosh, i can't feel my face. - are we soft? we're just too soft. (spatula clanging) (food sizzling) (people chattering)

- [fan] we drove from chicago to see you yesterday, to see the whole team. - oh, thanks, thanks. - [fan] you were awesome. - thank you. - [fan] you're amazing. - thanks. - for a minute, i thought they were talking to me. (woman laughing) - they are. don't listen. they are. they're not talkin' to me. hardest part about being caitlin clark i would say having to feel like you're always like on. - [fan] we came from wisconsin. - ready? you just have bad days, and there's days where you don't wanna talk to anyone. but somebody comes up to you, and this is their 10-second interaction with you so you better smile and be kind. but at the same time, it's just like, like you just wanna be normal sometimes. - good game. - thanks, appreciate it. (gentle piano music) - [man] generational player comes with a lot of responsibility. it's not easy being caitlin. - [man] anyone who's doing anything great is gonna be inundated with haters. - [man] caitlin clark is a generational star

and with it comes perks and scrutiny. (water bubbling) (somber music continues) - i just wanna sleep for like three weeks straight after the season's over. - you wanna sleep for three weeks straight during the season too. - that too. i love sleeping. it's awesome. (state farm jingle) - shoot. - shoot. - okay, i'll shoot. - what's happening? - but i don't see any hoop. - no, i said that because of. i'm sorry, shoot. - where's the hoop? - they don't have one. - (laughing) my acting skills are fire. - can you say the jingle for us right now? - no. - [connor] please? - caitlin was the right player at the right time. she's able to get into the public consciousness.

people say, hey, i don't watch basketball. i don't know anything about sports. i know who this caitlin clark kid is because i saw her in funny state farm commercials. - they're gonna want the jingle for this. - okay. - like a good neighbor, state farm is there. - don't worry. - nil, name, image, likeness, enacted in 2021. players can't be paid directly to perform, but they can make money off their name, image, and likeness. - one of the biggest shifts in college athletics, you had these players that make a lot of money for the universities, and a lot of money is made off of these players. they couldn't make any money for themselves. and then, 2021 hits, and everything changes, and you finally give these players an opportunity to not only put themselves in a better situation financially for themselves and their family but to also grow their brand. - my name's caitlin, and this is nike tech. - before nil, the narrative of the ncaa was

we start allowing players to make money it's gonna hurt the women's game. women are getting paid now, and they are not only competitive with men. in many instances, they are out-earning men. (mellow rhythmic music) - kiki was the first college athlete to have the jordan brand deal, and that's groundbreaking. (women chattering) - three, two, one. (women screaming) - [team] kiki, kiki, kiki. - i started talking to the jordan folks my senior year of high school. i wanted to do a shoe that meant a lot in terms of like where i was from because i thought doing cherry blossoms for dc and just like my hometown and where i grew up would be really cool. so yeah. - yeah, kiki. - yeah.

- nil has illuminated for people how valuable female athletes are in the marketplace. - honestly to have her own pe, i'm just so proud. like, that is so cool. i just can't. - goin' to college in la, i think the opportunities here are really different than if i had gone to a school in a smaller town. i mean, just the market of la, all the people that come through here, it's opened up a lot of new opportunities for me. you know how i did like the deal with beats? - [friend] yeah, yeah. - so, we're gonna go to like the beats studio, and it was so cool. they created like a custom headphones, basically, for me. - kiki represents the next generation in that she's kind of like this walking kind of corporation of excellence. - hey. - hi. - good to see you. - [kiki] good to see you. how are you? - are you ready to see your custom headphones? - yes, i am.

all right, let's open 'em up. (wrapper ripping) (zipper whirling) dang, these are sick. - [man] yeah. (laughing) - dang. i love the coloring and like little details in the design. (mellow hip hop music) the colors really speak to me, and i like you know the ucla blue. my hair in the ponytail and the poof is kind of like my signature thing. i really like it. - i think the nil environment and experience has been really excellent for her as a sort of a four-year long kind of business internship, requiring her to think about who she is and how she wants to communicate who she is. - my dreams are to use my platform to impact others and be more than just a basketball player. - thank you. - international players like kamilla, they're not allowed to do work with the student visa that they are granted.

most of the things you do for nil's classified as that, and so therefore they can't do that without the possibility of having their visa revoked. - money for me is accomplishing my dreams because my first dream to come play basketball here, it was to give a better life to my family. - if she had nils, life would be totally different for her. it is a big disadvantage, but we just try like to not be focused on it and play and and give the best that she can. - all right, we comin'. let's go ladies. (mellow christmas music) - [game announcer] raiders and chiefs about to kick off, and before they do we say happy holidays to you. (people chattering) - we went to the chiefs-raiders game on christmas. it was good to get all the cousins and aunts and uncles together and kind of celebrate christmas

a little different than we usually do. - [man] let's go hawks. - that's right, baby. - [man] let's go hawks. - it took me back to my childhood in a way. i have family that lives in kansas city, and we would go to the chiefs games when i was growing up. there's chris jones right here. just wait, when he walks over past us. - you're down there with her and watching it all unfold, and sometimes brent and i just look at each other like, wow, she lives in a different world than we do. (caitlin laughing) - you gotta get a picture of this. - [caitlin] hello. - i'm so happy to meet you, caitlin. - [caitlin] caitlin, nice to meet you. - i'm jim nance. - [tony] oh, you're the basketball player. - i am. - how are you? no, she's the legend. - [tony] you're the best basketball player i've ever seen. - thanks, appreciate it, thank you. tony, come on, get in. - [jim] come on, tony. - woo. - [woman] she's the boss. - awesome, thank you. - getting to do something outside and away from basketball and be with all my family, those aren't moments i really get too often. (crowd cheering) - [jim] pressure from behind. somehow got away. it's caught for the touchdown. (everyone cheering and applauding)

- i miss out on a lot of family events. it was special to be able to get to share that with my family. - [everyone] pat, pat, pat, pat. (somber music) - six older cousins growing up, she was in the middle of this pack of six boys who just did not give her a break. - if we were playin' football, then she was gonna try to play football. if it was capture the flag or kick the can outside in the yards, then that's what she'd be doin', and she'd be running after us, running from us. - they put her in a snow suit and throw water balloons at her. i mean, they were just awful to her. (brent laughing) - [blake] we have nothing to do all day. it's hot here and humid, and she has like all of her snow gear on so that she doesn't feel getting hit, but she just wanted to play with us. - i just wanted to do everything that they did. on the day my older brother learned to ride his bike with no training wheels, i did too because i was so mad

that like he could do it, but i couldn't. - [brent] princess. caitlin had a small pink bike, and we really hadn't taught her how to ride the bike, but we were teaching blake. - so, i like got out my pink bike, and i'm like, mom, take my training wheels off. let's go. - [anne] up, put your other foot up. - oh cate, now that blake's learned to ride, catie's givin' it a shot, and she's doing quite well. if my brother can do this without training wheels, i can do this without training wheels. - [anne] cate. - [brent] there she goes, yeah. look at that. pedal, pedal, there. there it is. - [anne] keep pedaling. - wow, look at that. catie, great job. - everything had to be a competition all the time. (kids laughing) colin and caitlin, they were playin' basketball, the two of them somehow, and it always gets physical down in the basement. - i remember i was playing good defense. she missed a shot. - i like was getting so angry and pissed that i like just chucked him into the wall,

and it was like the corner. and he like put his hand back and like went like this, and there was just like, just blood everywhere. - and then, sure enough, here comes caitlin up the stairs with colin, and he's holding his head. - they get in the car. they go up the street. kid gets like five staples in his head. - she just had that fire, that competitiveness, and wasn't afraid of showing that to other people. (crowd cheering) (referee whistle) - [game announcer] another sold out crowd files into carver-hawkeye arena on the university of iowa campus. the main attraction, caitlin clark, of course, and the fourth-ranked team in the country. - michigan state's really good. they're not ranked, but they're a really, really great solid basketball team. they played us really well. (crowd cheering) we could never figure out a way to pull away. - [game announcer] 23 seconds to go. all tied up at 73. - [game announcer] gotta hold it for the last shot here, and iowa's just gotta let caitlin clark be caitlin clark. - it's a tie game, but i'm feeling really confident.

pressure is something you embrace as a competitor. i think that's always kind of been who i am. i love the big moments. i love the big games. - it's the the desire to take the shot. she wants to take the shot. - that's just caitlin clark. - [game announcer] i think everyone in america knows who it's going to. - [game announcer] anticipation here. davis, time winding down. clark for the win. (crowd cheering) oh, she does it time and time again and walks off with the w. - no one expects more out of her than her. it doesn't matter if she's playing colin and i in the basement, if she's playin' final four games, in a national championship, to her it's all the same. and it's part of why the biggest of moments don't have like much effect on her at all. - [game announcer] that is the most caitlin clark way

to win a game. (laughing) logo threes, it's her signature. - [game announcer] iowa wins 76-73, 11 wins in a row. - gotta make it close so i can do that. - [game announcer] she put up a 40 piece, eight threes, and walks off with the game winner. - [sports reporter] 76-73, the hawkeyes win an exciting game to start 2024. (people chattering) - we win at the buzzer. it wasn't our best game. it wasn't our best game. - no, certainly not. - but hey, all that matters is we won. - it was exciting. - it was exciting. i wanted to keep everybody entertained a little bit. - yeah, that was the game plan. keep everyone on their toes. - yeah, what the scouting report said. keep it close. make everybody entertained. hit a buzzer beater. - [jada] it was clutch. - [caitlin] all right, we play rutgers tomorrow so. - [jada] in new jersey. - our coaches were kind enough to bring us to new york city 'cause a lot of people haven't been here before.

- like me. - hey is it your guys' first time in new york city? - [teammates] yes. - everybody but me. i've been here one time. (gentle harp music) l-f-g-l-f-g. (crowd applauding) i'm so scared. this is fire ♪ are you ready ♪ ♪ you must think that i'm crazy ♪ ♪ you wanna replace me ♪ ♪ baby there's ♪ ♪ n-n-n-n-n-n-n no way ♪ ♪ if you thought you could leave me ♪ ♪ you must think i'm naive ♪ ♪ believe me there's ♪ ♪ n-n-n-n-n-n-n not sorry ♪ (crowd cheering and applauding) - yeah, queens. - yeah, queens. (caitlin applauding) nice job. that was awesome. - appreciate it. - if we can play with half the energy that you guys performed with tonight, we're gonna kill it. (cast applauding) (people chattering)

- i've heard so many stories. people are in bars in new york city, and they're asking, hey, can you turn on the iowa game? there's that girl, that number 22, that i wanna see. - [crowd] caitlin clark. - guys, no. - [crowd member] come on. (crowd cheering) - [coach bluder] when caitlin's light shines, it shines on all of us.

- [woman] i may be inspired in the middle depending on time. i'll let you know. - [woman] fair enough, all right. (women chattering) - [coach staley] usc, take it away. - all right. what did we see in the film yesterday, what we dropped in there? what were some of your observations? - coming from the east coast i never really had anything against usc so i didn't think too much of them, but then i talked to all like my cali teammates and friends.

and they're like, i hate sc so much. i never like really understood it honestly until this year. - okay, stop. they're not very good in transition and gettin' matched up, okay? just because they're in front of you does not mean they're guarding you. - i feel like they're kind of, i dunno, kind of cocky. we just don't like each other, don't match well. - juju's goin' wherever she is. so whoever juju is guarding, you have to know when the ball goes inside, you need to be calling for the ball 'cause she is going no matter who she's guarding. (mellow music) - [game announcer] a lot of buzz around at usc. they've got a new arrival. - [game announcer] they sure do, and that's number 12 juju watkins. she's a superstar. - we knew the first time we played against her, especially as a freshman, like we could pressure her. - [game announcer] the crosstown showdown has never been this big. fans have been lined up outside a sold out pauley pavilion for hours. the first time that ucla has sold out pauley pavilion

for a women's basketball game. - [kiki] our first game against 'em, we came out really strong. - [game announcer] kiki rides and the crowd explodes. - we kind of took them out of the rhythm, played incredible defense on juju. - [game announcer] that's a block. nothin' coming easy for juju watkins in this game. ucla's been impeccable in their defense so far. - we just turned them over. we pressed them. we were just in control of that entire game. - [game announcer] and there you go. ucla remains undefeated and takes down southern california. these two teams will play again january 14th. - anytime we can deny juju the basketball, we wanna do that. everybody wants to win. what does it mean to us? raise your hand. i watched their little presser yesterday, and they talked about it's time for a new queen. (players laughing) they said they hated our little blue gym,

and that when they come, keep your hand up. - how can you? - keep your hand up. and when we go to their place, they want the boos, and it's time to initiate a new queen. it's gonna require a little bit more. take your hand and just stretch it all the way up. that's a little bit more. one more sprint, one more slide, one more communication, a little bit more from everybody is what's gonna get this done. (inspirational music) - i think a lot of the criticism and doubt that we get is, comes from like lack of experience because we're not a school that has been there. we hear a lot about none of their players have played in the final four. (crowd shouting) - [game announcer] crosstown showdown part two. fans have been lined up down the street for hours.

it's a top 10 matchup, usc hosting ucla. ucla comes in undefeated, the second ranked team in the nation. so much at stake. - [coach close] come in. kick their ass. (players cheering) here we go, rebound. one, two, three, rebound. (pa announcer yelling) (crowd cheering) - [game announcer] akan rockwell gets the tip. trojans on their way. (crowd cheering) - they came out swinging, and we weren't prepared. and we didn't respond. - when you have a very high achieving group, sometimes you can get a cautious group. timeout. (referee whistle tweeting) there's too many mental errors. we're not gonna do this by ourselves. we gotta do this by execution together. i actually really challenge kiki with that a lot. like are you wanting the play to happen to you, or are you gonna go make the play? go, kiki, go. her work ethic, her talent, her selflessness,

that's all great stuff, but she needs to be our leader. for us to go where we need to go, she needs to grow into that. (crowd cheering) - [game announcer] look at that one from watkins, juju watkins, great finish. - [pa announcer] yeah, juju. - [game announcer] kiki rice, tryin' to get it in. its hands of bigby. juju watkins extra gear finish. (crowd cheering) they're a dominant rebounding team. they haven't dominated the boards. they've turned it over left and right. offensively they've got nothing going on. - we can't turn the ball over 15 times in the first half and expect to win against a good team. we really put ourself at a disadvantage. - you got your asses kicked. 15 frickin' turnovers? they want it more than you. they're tougher than you. they're more together than you. how does that feel? how do you like them apples? that's the truth. don't point fingers at anybody else.

point it right back at you, and do somethin' different. the most urgent team wins, and they are so much more urgent than you. we'll see what you got. - [player] let's go. - [player] hey, come on, let's go, let's go. (referee whistle tweeting) (crowd cheering) (mellow inspirational music) - [game announcer] four seconds, kiki's gotta shoot. just a lid on the bucket for ucla. watkins all alone. she's fun to watch. (referee whistle tweeting) - [game announcer] osborne, tough and one. quick pass off. there's the finish. lead cut to eight. - we've got to go right at juju here. - [game announcer] nothin' coming easy for the bruins. - in the fourth quarter, there was like a jump ball on the side. (crowd cheering) (referee whistle tweeting) - [game announcer] whoa oh. - kind of got tangled up with one of the girls on sc,

and she like kind of pushed me, hit me on my face. and i went back up to her 'cause i'm like, you're not gonna just push me, hit me in my face, and i'm not gonna do anything. i got a tech, and i fouled out of the game. - intentional files on both kiki and the other player. we gotta get a sub for kiki. it's really hard to connect to someone who's not willing to be vulnerable, but she's growing in that. i'm really challenging her to have confrontational moments and to have vulnerable moments. (buzzer blaring) - [game announcer] trojans, they're gonna hand ucla their first loss of the season. (somber music) - [coach close] i don't get the opportunity to win a game against a top 10 team that that could mean more to the other team than it could mean to us. i try to keep telling her. i'm not asking you to be a rah rah leader. i don't think that's her personality,

but sometimes an increase in vulnerability in an appropriate situation just deepens and increases your influence. together. one, two, three, together, - together.

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and there's a cash bonus when you open a new checking account to get you started. wow. anything you can't do? ( ♪ ) mugs. ♪ bmo ♪ - [game announcer] a lot of value in this matchup. the last two women's national championship winners will face off. ninth-ranked lsu is gonna host the number one team in the country in south carolina. gamecocks are currently the only unbeaten team left in division i - [assistant coach] all right, tell me about how we're playin' reese. - [coach staley] y'all probably don't wanna, you know, touch her, but the more you touch her, the more she's gotta fight over a 40-minute period. - south carolina versus lsu is gonna obviously be a big matchup. both teams have very talented players. they both can hoop. (crowd cheering)

- [game announcer] angel reese is just an incredible force inside for lsu, dominates in the paint. she is a fiery catalyst for the lus tigers. (crowd cheering) - [assistant coach] we're gonna try to do a whole lot of different things. angel will switch. if she's up that high, go at her, attack her feet. - [coach staley] can't guard you, kamilla. can't. can't. - they was the defending national champions, and they have something that we want. we want to be the national champions this year. (gentle piano music) every time that we're having shootaround, that we have not practiced before a game, she thinks about the plays that she want to run in the game. - i want plays in which our play, our bigs, are coming from out to in, stuff to where they gotta come out and play, all right? i think she respects me in that she knows what i want from her, like what i need from her.

and sometimes when i'm demanding, i know she doesn't like that about me. here we go, let's go. i'm hot. - [kamilla] hey, i got it. - [coach staley] what are y'all doin' on the backside? - oh, ****, that's the wrong player, huh? sorry, that was me. - [coach staley] come on. - when i first got here, i didn't even like to put extra work in. - ain't nobody had angel. nobody had angel on that backside. who? - she used to come to me like, tell me "kamilla, you can be a great player. "you just gotta believe in yourself. "you just gotta stay confident." - good, get it. good. do i want a better relationship with her? i do, but i'm okay bein' somewhat of the enemy. i'll eat that so she can be the number one pick. loosen up, kamilla. - [kamilla] ah. - [coach staley] loosen up. - sorry. - loosen up. loosen up. go out there.

loosen up. fight, fight, 'cause that's what's gonna, you're gonna have to do that **** tomorrow night. you're gonna have to fight. (suspenseful music) i need kamilla to tap into. there's a monster in there, like, she just really doesn't know it yet. i'm a taurus. she's a taurus. we don't like to lose, and we don't like to look bad. (jet engine humming) - it's time now, guys. just put an end to all this hype about who's the best team. they have somethin' that we want. we want the national championship. they're just in the way right now. let's go and do what we need to do, each and every one of you. when i say e-n-d, effort never dies.

- [players] whoa. (players cheering and applauding) - [game announcer] number one south carolina, number nine lsu, here we go from baton rouge. - [game announcer] people have come from hundreds of miles away, and this crowd is loud, electric, and ready to rock. - one, two, three. - together. - courtside seats were going for in the thousands. it out-rated the boston celtics-miami heat. (crowd cheering) are you kidding me? women's basketball south carolina-lsu is out-rating a good nba game? - what's up kim? how you doin'? - girl. - how you doin'? - they can say whatever the hell they want. it don't get no better than what you and i **** put on this floor. and don't you ever forget it. - [game announcer] tonight, a matchup between the last two national champions, south carolina and lsu.

- i was a little nervous because i knew they was gonna play us hard, but i feel like nothing is impossible, you know? (dramatic music) - [game announcer] certainly a matchup to keep an eye on is angel reese on kamilla cardoso. - [game announcer] here is reese comin' up with a steal as she fronted cardoso. that three is good. aneesah morrow fired up already. - not every individual will have the responsibility of anchorin' a team. it's only bestowed on those who can handle it. i told kamilla, i don't mean to throw that on you, but i do mean to throw that on you because it is time. yo, you gotta want it. you gotta want it. - there are games that you see her play, and she's unstoppable. and then there are games where she kind of floats, and maybe we don't hear from her for a little while.

- [game announcer] reese comes up with the o board. van lith, got it. (crowd cheering) got a three, plus the foul away from the ball. - i mean, kamilla is just bein' pushed around. i gotta get kamilla out. - [game announcer] well, kamilla cardoso in that first quarter did not score. (dramatic music continues) - i know she really wanted to play well, but sometimes when you wanna play so well it almost works against you. - [game announcer] this game is gonna be won or lost on whether or not kamilla cardoso shows up because right now angel reese has her number. (crowd cheering) - [pa announcer] angel reese. - it's us that's killin' us. it ain't them. defense is decent. sometimes things happen to throw your habit off, and then you know, mentally you gotta shake it off and get right back in. (inspirational music) - [game announcer] reese gets swallowed up by cardoso.

gives a little stare afterward. - one of my favorite memories from the game was when like i had a block on her two seconds after she blocked me. and it's just basketball. we just out here to ball out and win games. - [game announcer] here's feagin into cardoso. cardoso cuts in for two. it's a one point game. - [coach staley] let make a layup, guys, okay? let's make a three. let's make a layup. (crowd cheering) - [game announcer] a chance to take the lead. cardoso lays it in. south carolina, its first lead. here comes johnson blowing into the front court, and that's number five on reese. angel reese just picked up her fifth foul. (dramatic music) (crowd cheering) here's paopao. hall will take that one. and hit. in the corner, hall.

another three. (upbeat music) and that should do it. the gamecocks remain undefeated. south carolina is going to escape victorious. - you know who you are. - yes. (players cheering) - let's go. i know we didn't play our best game. we didn't. kamilla, you hit big buckets when we needed big buckets. you did. (players applauding) you can't. you can't dog pound on yourself for the negative and never come out of it and see the positive. you can't do it, okay, 'cause it'll **** with your mentals, and you can't. (players cheering and applauding) let's go, nobody. - wait. wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.

angel ain't get her double-double. (players cheering) - kamilla was who we needed her to be in the second half. the game that we played at lsu, it's gonna be a norm for us. we got other fan bases commenting on the game. we got nba players. we got robin roberts commenting. we won. - [assistant coach] together on three. one, two, three. - together.

(mellow music) - [reporter] caitlin clark continues to transcend the program in ways that once seemed impossible. for the first time in the history of iowa women's basketball, every game for the season is sold out. - [reporter] the average purchase price is $521. the highest ticket on stubhub is over $4,000. - [reporter] the caitlin clark invasion officially took over evanston tonight. - caitlin clark and the hawkeyes, this is the 11th time, folks, they've sold out on the road this season. (crowd cheering) - we've played in a sold out environment almost every single game, home or away.

- [game announcer] from the banks of the olentangy river in columbus, ohio, welcome to sunday big ten basketball, as the 18-1 iowa hawkeyes, winners of 15 in a row, get set to face off against a hot ohio state team. - goin' and playin' in other people's environments, it can be tough. (gentle ominous music) - when there's 15,000 people on the road cheerin' against you, it's a lot different than 2000. it just adds a whole nother element. - [game announcer] to find the shot that you want. one possession game, mcmahon, okay. (crowd cheering) - [game announcer] look at those long strides. - to keep this ranking, to perform at this utmost level every single night, and that can wear on you. - [game announcer] did it all afternoon. gets her own rebound. pumped up cotie mcmahon. (crowd cheering) give and go opportunity. davis keeps it. - yeah, they led by 12 with under nine minutes to go in the game,

and iowa just didn't play well down the stretch. - [game announcer] 10 to go on the shot clock. taylor. (crowd cheering) oh, four quarters just wasn't enough. so, we gotta keep on playin'. (referee whistle tweeting) overtime in columbus tied at 83. (referee whistle tweeting) (crowd cheering) iowa being patient. blocked by mikulasikova. mikulasikova holding the follow through. that's big time. (crowd cheering) (somber piano music) this ohio state buckeye team, and they have taken down the number two team in the country. - [game announcer] caitlin clark with 45 points. - when we lost the game, i think we were all kind of shocked. and then, we're leaving the court, and people just start coming onto the court.

we had never been a part of something like that. - [game announcer] as the hawkeyes suffer their first loss in big ten play. - ohio state fans stormed the court. caitlin's comin' off the court. she gets hit by a fan and falls to the ground. - i was just trying to get out of there, and didn't see her, and kind of collided pretty good. and then, we kind of just both fell over. kind of scary. could have caused a pretty serious injury to me, and knocked the wind out of me, but luckily my teammates kind of picked me up and got me off the court. and their ad already came and apologized to me. so, i really appreciate that, and you know, that's just what comes with the territory. - because caitlin is who she is, the reaction to anything that happens to caitlin is gonna be polarizing. - fans do not belong on the court ever. the nba, major league baseball, they don't do it. when somebody gets hurt, we're gonna get serious about it.

- i think we all have seen the caitlin clark effect on the ratings and the money and how much tickets are and everything. can we not get a **** somebody surrounding caitlin clark when maybe a bunch of ohioans are chargin'? - did she get a technical? - who? - [man] caitlin clark for that flop. - flop? - whoa. - when you're the best, people wanna tear 'em down. they wanna find something wrong with her. and that one just became, oh, she ran into the fan on purpose and faked it. like, that's the craziest thing i've ever heard. - did she flop? she accentuated the contact after. - (laughing) she threw her hands. i mean, she flopped. - everybody has an opinion. people thought i ran into her on purpose, which, why would i ever do that? i don't know. but, yeah, it definitely gets annoying. there's gonna be people that love you. there's gonna be people that hate you. there's gonna be a lot of people that wanna see you fail.

- if you're going to break a record, to me, if it's legitimate, you have to break that record in the same amount of time that that player set it. - nobody's takin' 40 shots a game like you see across the country. we're not that kind of team. - i hold great, or the levels of immortality or the pantheon, to when you win championships. - you can not go down as the greatest college basketball player of all time without winning a national championship. you can't do it. - you can stay off twitter. you can stay off instagram. you can mute people, block people, hide comments. it doesn't matter. eventually you're gonna see something. she sees what people say. i don't think anybody can understand the pressure she's under, the microscope she's under. - do i think i'm polarizing? yeah, probably. i feel like the way i like play the game, the way i carry myself, the things i can do on the court, it's probably a lot of things that a lot of people haven't seen before, specifically on the women's side of basketball. - whether they're rooting for her,

or they're rooting against her, that transcendence is what the game has needed. (traffic whooshing) - i leave to brazil on february 5th to go play for my national team. we're gonna be competing for the olympics. (gentle suspenseful music) - if we recruit an international player, we're gonna give them an opportunity to play for their national team because we want them to be olympians. she'll miss missouri, and she'll miss connecticut. i know it burns her up. (plane dinging)

(birds squawking) - it was a really hard decision. but also like i know my national team needs me. this is very important because brazil haven't been in olympics for a long time. - whenever like you talk about the olympics and your national team, like this is huge, and kamilla makes the difference in the brazilian national team. (gentle suspenseful music continues) (coach speaking in a foreign language) (coach speaking in a foreign language) (coach speaking in a foreign language) - she is the anchor of the brazilian national team,

and the hopes of your country are on your shoulders. (coach speaking in a foreign language) - i feel like there's not too many opportunities for kids that came from poor places like i did to be here. so, for me it's really, really, really important. (people chattering) (kamilla speaking in a foreign language) (man responding in a foreign language) (gentle piano music) (janete speaking in a foreign language) (jessica speaking in a foreign language) (jessica speaking in a foreign language) (jessica speaking in a foreign language)

- for me, it was really hard at the beginning because they used to make fun of me. they used to bully me, and i used to go home and cry and sometimes i used to just fight them because i was very electric. (jessica speaking in a foreign language) (jessica speaking in a foreign language) (jessica speaking in a foreign language) - when i play for the olympics qualifier, it is actually gonna be with my mom and my sister's

first time watching me play. (gentle piano music) (jessica speaking in a foreign language) (jessica speaking in a foreign language) (janete speaking in a foreign language) i just wanna go out there, play the best as i can so they can just be proud of me and see the woman that i'm becomin'. - [game announcer] the fiba women's olympic qualifying tournament. three teams will move on to the paris games. - the first two games were australia and serbia, two powers in women's basketball. they just fell a little bit short at the end of both those games,

which set up a must-win game against germany, where they had to win by at least eight points to qualify for the paris olympics. - [game announcer] it's the final game of fiba women's olympic qualifying tournament between brazil and germany. they played with a bunch of passion here on their home floor. the one thing they have not done is sent the crowd home happy with a victory. fiebich for three, and she drills it. a 9-0 start for germany, and they silence and stun this crowd. here she is battling, dontessi. goes back to the same move. cardoso flies in for the rebound. - [game announcer] what more can you ask for from a senior in college to come to your national team and play your heart out? (crowd cheering) and now she has 19 points and 11 rebounds. - [game announcer] two minutes to play in the game. brazil with a chance to go to paris. they lead by four. they have to win by eight.

satou sabally will go to the line. and kamilla cardoso just picked up her fifth foul and also shoved satou sabally in the back. wow. - [game announcer] you don't wanna see that, and that's from lack of experience from cardoso. this is something that she's gonna take away for the rest of her career. - [referee] disqualified foul, number 10 for pushing from the back. disqualified foul, number 10. - [game announcer] floater in the lane, missed it. followed her own and put it up and in. ties the game. and germany up one after the foul shot goes through. brazil's gonna run out of time at home, and germany are headed to paris. (crowd cheering) (somber piano music) (kamilla speaking in a foreign language)

(janete speaking in a foreign language) (somber symphony music) (janete speaking in a foreign language) - brazil is home, family.

it's the place where i grew up. but i feel like usa is the place where i got the opportunity to follow my dreams. (inspirational music) (janete speaking a foreign language) (bus engine humming)

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(crowd chattering) - [girls] clark, clark, clark, clark, clark. - [game announcer] arguably, this could be the most watched women's basketball game in history. (crowd cheering) (suspenseful music) - goin' into the nebraska game, caitlin wakes up. she's really sick. she's says to me, "i don't know if i can play it." - i felt awful. i had like completely sweated through the entire bedsheets. like, it was just really bad. i had like a gigantic ziploc bag full of every drug you could imagine. - [reporter] she's going for the national scoring record today. - [reporter] 39 for the ncaa all-time scoring record. - [reporter] here is the road to the record for caitlin clark. 38 to tie kelsey plum. 39 to have it all by herself. - she's like sittin' on the couch. she's like, "i have to play." i'm like, "yeah, you do.

"you have to play." (suspenseful music continues) - we got a little bit of adversity here. not a lot, but a little bit, right? - there's so many people that count on her, people who spent thousands of dollars on tickets to go to that game. they wanna see her get close to breaking the record, but they wanna see her perform. - there's nothin' as fun as goin' into somebody else's arena and ownin' it. - for me, like it was never an option. it was like i was playing no matter what. whether i was dying, i was gonna go out there and play. (suspenseful music continues) - [game announcer] how do you think nebraska will deal with caitlin clark today? - [game announcer] well, i think they're gonna give her different looks. - [game announcer] that's not the look that they wanted there. (referee whistle tweeting) clark to the bucket, two and a foul. caitlin clark throws a three. (crowd cheering) out of nowhere sometimes. - 39 is an insane amount of points.

it's kind a testament to her that i was like, i guess i gotta go to that game now because 39's pretty in the cards. (referee whistle tweeting) - [game announcer] two and a foul for caitlin clark. eight points for the record. will she or won't she? (suspenseful music) - fourth quarter hits. they're up 14. iowa starts to take their foot off the gas, and nebraska comes storming back. - [game announcer] the big ten freshman of the year keepin' that play alive. - [game announcer] and the foul. - you all right? all right. caitlin was exhausted. she was sick, missed practice the day before. we were ready to try to give her an iv at halftime. - [game announcer] this is way too tight of a game to be thinkin' let's take out caitlin. - [game announcer] caitlin clark has not scored here in the fourth. - nebraska was so motivated to win this game. - [coach bluder] no, no. (crowd cheering)

- [michael] they had never beaten her, specifically. - [caitlin] in the fourth quarter, i literally just lost all gas. - [game announcer] caitlin clark with five for the tie. it's no good. - the frustration of feeling like that game was one we should have won. that team is not better than us. are you **** kidding me? are you **** kidding me? - [coach bluder] we had a 14-point lead. pissed it away again. - [reporter] kelsey plum will remain number one in the record books for at least one more game as iowa suffers a disastrous fourth quarter collapse while caitlin clark plays maybe the single worst quarter of her entire collegiate career. - [coach bluder] you gotta earn it. you earn it in practice. you earn it through your preparation. you earn it by knowing your scouting report. you earn it by boxin' the **** out. iowa, one, two, three. - iowa. (drumbeat thundering) (gentle music)

- [man] omaha.

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