One CC of fun

 I don't know how you can play a game much better than Caitlin Clark and Iowa played the game of basketball last night, knocking out undefeated South Carolina and ending the Gamecocks 42-game winning streak in the women's national semifinals. I'm sure that small cadre of sad creatures who still hate women's sports will tell us how.

But the women's tournament keeps putting up big TV numbers and selling out arenas while the scalpers get three times for tickets  what they got even a year ago, and last night will only help their business. Iowa-South Carolina was exactly what everyone thought it would be, and Caitlin Clark was once more a CC of fun and then some.

Five days after she set social media on fire with a 41-point, 12-assist, 10-rebound symphony in the Elite Eight, she did it again last night in the Final Four. Again she went for 41, this time accompanied by eight assists and six boards, as the best defensive team in the nation proved helpless to stop her. Again she hauled her team along with her, accounting for 58 of Iowa's 77 points in the 77-73 win.

The woman is a gold filigree legend now, doing things unseen either forever or for a very long time. Her 41 points last night was the most scored in a women's Final Four game since Sheryl Swoopes went for 47 against Ohio State -- 30 years ago. And only one person has ever gone for back-to-back 40s in the history of the women's tournament.

That would be Caitlin Clark. She stands alone there.

She and the Hawkeyes get LSU in the title game tomorrow night, and that's a story, too. In just her second season since leaving Baylor to return to her home state, head coach Kim Mulkey has the Tigers playing for the championship after kicking to the curb the  other 1-seed, Virginia Tech. Even she admitted it was "crazy."

Crazier yet if the Tigers find a way to slow down Clark and win the title.

Even crazier if they can't, and CC Of Fun does it one last time.