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By the time this plays here on Saturday morning, we'll know who won the game, but come with us as we trek through the thrills and the chills and the spills as we are here in Omaha, Nebraska, DJ's dugout in West Omaha, and the place is filled with hundreds of people.

John Stewart.

These are Hawkeye fans in big red country in Omaha.

What kind of impact has this Iowa basketball women's team made this year capturing the imagination and even the fan favoritism of the country?

Well, you know that, John,

there's been a

lot of action this year as far as with Caitlyn Clark.

She's immediate darling.

She's in front of everybody all the time.

It takes time out to greet everybody after the ball games and things and she just has a lot of wide appeal where even a lot of fans that are not necessarily Iowa fans have become enamorated with Kate.

Have you ever seen DJs filled like this?

Even the conference party rooms are filled for a women's basketball game, Johnny.

Not too often, you know, you have a little bleed over on a Friday night.

You know, some people are just here anyway, but there's a lot of people that we see that have different parts of the uniform and the colors of Iowa here.

And then

we're in Jersey that have 22 on it for Caitlin Clark.

Now, Johnny, we have some Husker fans here.

Do you think they'll be cheering for you, Con, or do you think it's going to be pretty much an Iowa crowd?

You will kind of have to stay tuned to find that

out.

Johnny, as we're just about at the tip-off here, it's incredible the good PR this has been for the University of Iowa.

You cannot buy this with millions of dollars.

This is very true, John.

You know, as the women now over the last two years have both got to the final four, and it draws a lot of attention to the University, not only throughout the state, but throughout the Midwest and probably throughout most of the country.

And Johnny, I gotta say this, with these Final Four teams, between South Carolina and LSU prior to the Final Four and Yukon, I gotta say that I don't mind the Yukon team.

I like their coach, Gino Ariyama.

I like Paige Beckers.

I think she's just a standout young woman.

And it's hard for me to really have an animus tonight against Yukon.

Should be a wonderful match-up, though, between two quality programs.

Yes, it should be a real good game.

You know, it always depends upon the stars of the game and which one may or may not be hot.

And, you know, I kind of think myself, at least, that Yukon may have a little bit better supporting cast than what Iowa does.

Yeah, I actually...

You do give a slight edge to Yukon, at least a couple points, but don't count Kate and Gabby and Caitlin and Hannah and Sid and all the great ladies off average ticket price tonight, 413 bucks a seat.

Just amazing.

And the Hawkeye cheerleaders are all out there, the dance team and the black and gold.

There's a lot of Hawkeye fans.

At this game the crowd here at the restaurant is fired up and I think we're gonna see a good one I look forward to some streaks and some runs, but we will see here shortly Iowa versus Yukon Well John no one's panicking but the Hawks are down two and a half possessions Kate had a

Nice layup that didn't quite go in, and Yukon is shooting the lights

out.

Iowa's got to figure out somehow to play a little bit better defense.

They haven't given up offensive rebounds, just aren't on top of them, and you've got to make a few more shots.

Yep, I agree.

Well, it's still first quarter, a little over halfway through.

Hawks aren't out of it.

It's not a double-digit lead.

Kelsey Plum in the crowd, the 2017 Wooden Award winner, eating a big vat of buttered popcorn as Kate and the girls retake the court.

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Johnny, not a good first quarter for the Hawks.

One for eight from three-point lane nothing going in well except for Kylie I think a two for nine maybe but Down by five in the quarter as bad as they play they've not out of it though

No, there's they're still in the game.

You know they could start hitting and step Yukon really wasn't hitting all that terribly well either after about the first four or five minutes and

And so you gotta consider all facets.

You know, I don't think Iowa's getting killed on the boards, but they need to play a little bit better man defense.

And they're not getting the ball to Kate.

They gotta set up the screens to Caitlyn Clark.

They're not getting the ball to Caitlyn at all.

She know Arielle has drawn up good defense.

Sometimes they saw three people collapse in on Caitlyn.

Hannah can go right.

She has a tough time going left, I think.

Maybe Yukon's figured that out.

It's going to be a blind burner, guys.

We'll be

back.

Johnny halfway through the second quarter, we're down nine.

We look very discombobulated as Roco said on TV, doing the game with Yukon's Rebecca Lobo.

Every pass is getting tipped, and Caitlin looks terribly frustrated.

She ain't touching the ball.

This is true.

You know they made the The decision that It's not gonna meet them somebody else is gonna two or three others are gonna have to do it So far too many turnovers.

They can't really work anything on the offensive end.

Yeah, the

The turnovers are the tale of the tape astonishing.

I think Iowa's had a half dozen turnovers in the last five minutes.

They're really out of sync.

Can't find a groove right now.

And there are shots.

Summer quality shots.

Nothing is dropping.

That's right.

And they're not really about one in every three possessions.

It's about all they're really getting a good shot.

Yep.

Going to be tough.

I give credit.

Gino Ariyama, I think, has drawn up a winning game plan if the Hawks can't find a way to respond or adapt.

Well, and he really is not playing

a whole

lot of... a lot different than they do all the time.

You know, they...

Target the star of the other team and make sure they're not going to beat them.

John, you made an interesting point about the Bobby Knight type of defense.

What are they doing to Clark?

You say they're not guarding her so much as face guarding her.

Talk about that.

Well, that's what you do when you want to keep the ball out of somebody's hands.

You kind of face guard them and just trail them right around the court so they can't go get the ball.

So she's not even getting the ball because they can't pass it into her.

That's right.

All right, guys.

Well, it ain't over till it's over.

It's still a free possession game.

Let's see if the Hawks can tighten it up by halftime.

Johnny, we come back.

Hawks down now by over 10.

And an observation you made, I think, is spot on.

Everybody is very quick on the

UConn team.

And that has bothered Iowa even during the season.

Ohio State was pretty quick.

And Iowa won the slugfest one time and got buried the other time.

And four or five of those Yukon girls are quite a lot a bit taller than ours, aren't they?

I don't know if they're lots, lots taller, but their center is considerably taller, kind of like Angel Reese.

Yeah, we're down a dozen guys.

This is a pivotal time here if they can get under double digits at half.

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Guys, it ain't over till it's over.

Can Kate and the women respawn?

Lisa Bleuter's got them in the huddle.

We'll see what happens.

Johnny had a 10-2 run.

Coulda closed it to two points, but a bad shot by Kate.

And good grief, Yukon scores right before half to go up by six.

Disappointing, they were rolling for a while.

Yes, they got themselves back in the game, you know, playing as poorly as they are.

Six points is certainly not insurmountable.

The other thing about six points, Katelyn Clark's only got six, that's tough.

Yeah, when your star is not scoring.

Even when she does get a shot, she's not scoring.

That's the problem.

She's gotten the ball very little, but even the shots she's taken, cold as ice tonight.

Yeah, they're not barely missing.

They're missing bad.

They're missing bad from far and she's even missing some at the layup.

So unless the tide turns and she catches fire this second half, could be a tough half, Johnny.

And she doesn't have to catch fire, but if she doesn't, the rest of them must.

play better.

They're making way, way too many turnovers.

Their shooting percentage is probably pretty decent because they're not getting many shots.

But the turnovers are killing them.

I think we got a dozen turnovers at half.

That's fatal, John.

That's fatal.

Well, that's why I say the shooting percentage isn't bad, but it doesn't tell the story.

You can shoot 50% if you only get about 12 or 14 shots.

32 to 26 at half, Yukon up, Caitlin Clark, only six points, six assists.

That's the tail of the tape so far.

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Okay, we're at halftime, and who better than to bring in former

Georgetown women's coach Patrick J. Knapp Jr.

who this time of year 30 years ago led his team to a great bevy of victories in the sweet 16 tied for ninth of the nation.

Coach Knapp you have the

A great synchronicity of not only being good friends with Yukon coach Gene Ariyama, who's drawn up a great game plan tonight, obviously, but also recruited against Lisa Bluter.

Coach, a tough half for Iowa.

The crowd here in Nebraska is rooting for Iowa, but they're down by six and a half.

Your take on your friend's coach, Gene, knows the game plan, and can the Hawks respond?

Coach

Knapp.

Well, let me tell you.

John, UConn is playing tight, man-to-man defense, picking up Caitlyn Clark way over half court, slowing down Iowa's transition, and then denying the ball, jump switching everywhere.

It's something I don't understand how UConn has done it, and most big 10 teams have not done it.

This is tremendous defensive effort.

in the foul trouble, so this game is far from over.

Fascinating, coach.

We're going to bring you in again.

at the end of the game as our audience is listening here Saturday morning to this live Friday night travel log as we examine the game.

Hey coach, what do you do?

Caitlin Clark, six points and six assists.

What do you do to break that open the second half?

Or has Gino got that pinned in and just gonna force the other four to pick up the slack?

Well I would do two things, one.

I would have catered them to give up the ball and then run through several layers of screens, kind of like what Steph Curry does and other players.

Reggie Miller has done in the past, so they need more screening acts of art.

The other thing is, if they do a ball screen with Paige Becker's player,

I think Caitlyn Clark can take Beckers to the basket.

She's not the best defensive player on that UConn team.

Excellent stuff.

Coach Knapp will enjoy getting your postmortem at the end of this.

Regardless, Coach, you were on the ground level 30 years ago when you and UConn were the first nationally televised teams really in the country on national television with women's hoops.

You were the coach presiding over the world's largest and most important media market in DC.

How gratifying is it to you 30 years later to see that foundation that you built matriculate into where

where a guy like me in Omaha, Nebraska tonight is in a sports restaurant and bar where everybody is cheering for the Iowa Hawkeyes in black and gold, wearing jerseys with 22 on it.

Did you ever foresee this, Coach?

Well, we always hoped we would, John.

We worked very hard to just get a game on TV.

We took early ESPN time slots that weren't very good.

Johnny, the Hawks have almost tied it up here in the third quarter.

Kate finally got a three-pointer, but still many missed opportunities.

We missed about five shots under the bucket.

Layups!

Yeah, we missed a few close in ones tonight, John, but they're still in the game.

That's all you can do.

When you have a bad start the way they did, that's all you can ask for at this point in time.

Hopefully they got

One more little run in them and can get themselves in the lead.

I agree, guys.

It's a one-position game.

Anybody's win.

Very exciting.

And the crowd here is getting jazzed at DJs.

Johnny, late in the third.

I don't know what the Hawks are doing, but we got a tie game at 47.

Well, for a while here lately, the ball has actually...

been hitting the bottom of the net after goes through the hoop rather than before it goes through the hoop.

That always helps.

A little bit of foul trouble on the Yukon women.

Yeah, they're big gals.

Even though there's not been many fouls called in the game, they all seem to be centered on two or three people.

All I know is the Hawk women were down by 12.

It's a new ball game, John.

I'm encouraged late in the third.

Yeah, there's there's something to be encouraged about you know, they're playing a little bit better It seems like the the pace of the game has sped up a little bit here in the last three or four minutes, which also helps Iowa

Looks like the crowd in Cleveland favors Iowa looking at the TV screen

Yeah, I would think that the two teams are probably about equal distance apart But you know a lot of game left

and just always remember never forget

The citizens of Connecticut largely are communists.

I don't know anything about Connecticut.

Other than where Hartford is.

They're woke commies.

That's never good.

Go hawk women.

Now, Johnny, I don't like these nail biters.

We're tied at the end of the third quarter.

I'm starting to get nervous, Johnny.

Nervous.

I don't like being nervous.

Oh, this is a good game for concessions at the bar, John.

You got to keep it close to keep the people interested.

Oh my goodness, we're tied at the mid-fifties here, guys.

Johnny, one quarter left.

Who's got momentum or is it basically even?

I don't think there's really a whole lot of momentum in this game because neither team really seems like they can...

They're scoring a lot of baskets in a row.

You know, they make two or three, then they miss a couple, then they make three or four more, and they miss two or three.

And it's highly unlikely, probably, that either team is gonna put together a 10 or 12 point run.

That's what bothers me.

This could go down the wire, guys.

Let's hope the Hawkeye women can do it.

They have clawed back from double digit deficit.

When you put that much of a...

A fiery comeback on.

You want to finish that comeback, Johnny?

Yes, you sure do, but you know, you just never know how it'll be.

Many missed opportunities for the Hawkeyes tonight, yet they're still tied.

They had their chances underneath the basket, just didn't cash them.

Six close layups that have not matriculated for Iowa, that's a concern.

That's always a concern when you're missing close shots.

It doesn't matter what team you're on or who you're rooting for

One advantage is a little foul trouble on Connecticut, but the rest may even that up start calling against Iowa now

You know it's kind of hard to tell in the women's game a little bit because Since the fouls reset a lot more than they do in the men's or you know every quarter It has a tendency to be a little bit more even

You know, that's a great point.

The women's rules are different with the reset of fouls each quarter.

Heading into the fourth quarter is nail-biting time.

This game is tied with 10 minutes left, perhaps in the season, or perhaps in a berth for a national championship for the Iowa women.

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John, these are the last seconds here.

70 to 69 Iowa.

There's a lot of time left.

The referees put more time back on the clock to help Connecticut.

4.6 seconds left.

Iowa inbounding.

Can Iowa inbound it without a turnover here?

They've got to.

They've got to.

Clark has it.

She's dribbling.

She's fouled.

1.1 seconds left.

Kate missed the second, but she made the first two-point lead for Iowa to inbound it.

Iowa has the jump ball

possession.

Oh, that was brilliant.

She threw it off the Connecticut girls feet 0.1 seconds left 0.1 seconds left they just have to inbound at once Now the refs of course are trying to put more time back on the clock to help Connecticut because Gino Gino Ori Enema is

Just pouting like a little loser there.

Here

we go.

Kate, I say throw it off of her again.

Throw it off of her again.

0.3.

The refs cannot help Connecticut anymore, despite trying.

There it is!

Iowa wins!

Iowa wins!

Iowa wins!

Last thing in heaven there is no beer for the radio In heaven there is no beer That's why we drink it here And when we get up there Our friends will be drinking all the beer Let's go home

Back to you guys at KXL Waterloo Cedar Rapids, Iowa City, showing you what it's like on the western end of the state of Iowa.

We're across from Council Bluffs in Omaha.

We're at DJs and all the Hawkeye fans are here.

In

heaven, there is no beer.

What a sight here.

Even Omaha, rooting for the Hawkeyes.

You bet.

What a night, man.

What a game.

It was not pretty, but they got the job done in the end and we're back.

Back to the championship game.

Hanna Stelke, amazing.

Kay Martin getting that rebound.

Yeah, she was, I mean, Kate Martin with those big shots late, Kate Martin with those shots, and then Stokey obviously, 23 points career hyfer in the NCAA tournament, so unbelievable night.

I think we wore him down with foul trouble, and we got him pooped out.

Coach Knapp, the former Georgetown women's coach, who coached against Gino Aurelia years ago and who recruited against Lisa Bluter.

He said it half time, Iowa can win this game by...

getting Yukon into foul trouble and getting him exhausted.

That's exactly what Bluter accomplished.

Absolutely.

Yeah.

They, uh, we just kept running, kept running, kept attacking the basket, stopped selling for jump shots and what a, what a finish right there.

Unbelievable.

How about everybody's singing in heaven?

There is no beer for the Hawkeyes here in Omaha.

Hey, there's, there's still beers to be like, keep drinking, but yeah, we're going to, we're going to keep drinking.

Go Hawks.

And you have a fine, uh, partner here, uh, with you.

How long have you been a Hawke fan, young lady?

Just since Caitlin Clark took the floor.

That's exactly right Caitlin Clark.

So I am so old I graduated from high school in Marion, Iowa the same year Lisa Bluter did Wow my dad was her dentist her family ran the country kitchen in Marion, Iowa What an unsung hero Lisa Bluter is to keep this team together keep the egos in check keep them cohesive

Absolutely.

She's the best

Can you believe, I did not think this team would be able to claw all the way through the Big Ten tournament and get the final this year.

It's amazing.

Yeah, Caitlin Clark is unreal.

She makes everyone around her better.

She's the greatest player in this generation.

And we're lucky to be able to witness it as Iowa fans.

So we're going to enjoy one more ride on Sunday afternoon.

The poise of these women to never give up.

They just have, in the clutch, they're amazing.

Yeah, you can tell they put the work in and they trusted each other.

Obviously, that showed tonight.

So, I mean, they deserve this opportunity and hopefully they get it done this time.

Well, yours truly is an old but very proud Iowa alumnus.

Thanks for being here and for cheering.

It's nice to see Omaha turning black and gold.

You bet.

Go Hawks!

Death taxes and so sorry, Creighton, but you choked again in March.

The Hawkeyes are in the final.

Back to you guys in studio.

Johnny, can you believe it?

The Hawkeyes win is a miracle.

Down by 12, up by 10.

Winning in the last seconds.

Johnny, I'm holding on the chandelier, swinging from it.

Here are DJs.

DJs doesn't have any chandelier.

And that would be quite a picture.

I would mind seeing you hanging from a chandelier and rolling back and forth.

Johnny, tell

them, though, who did lead as mayor of DJs the entire throng of hundreds in a chorus of our unofficial victory anthem in heaven, there is no beer.

Who led that?

Who is the Lawrence Welk of the band tonight?

Well, John, you were leading Lawrence Welk.

I don't know about.

We're going to bring Coach Knapp in here shortly.

Iowa goes on to the national final, a second shot at the national title.

come back tonight.

And we'll have more as you're listening to us on Saturday morning.

You're listening to our voices live from Friday night in the heart of Huskerville, the western side of Iowa, across the river from Council Bluffs in Omaha, where hundreds cheered on the Hawkeyes in a riveting photo finish tonight.

John Jacobson here with John Stewart on the Jacobson group now it's Saturday morning bright and early during drive time Prime time but guys you're listening to Friday night as it happened coach it was tumultuous here was absolutely tumultuous

The crowd went berserk.

It looked like Iowa down 12, then up 10.

Looked like they were going to give it away at the end.

What a miraculous finish.

Coach Knapp, your takes, you know, both of these coaches.

You at halftime, we've got you on here saying that perhaps Yukon could be worn down both in terms of energy and foul trouble.

Did your prophetic utterances come true?

I

do believe that I will war out UConn.

UConn didn't have enough depth.

Nica Muir put on a tremendous defensive effort against Caitlyn Clark.

And it just could not continue.

It could not extend throughout the game.

But give Iowa a lot of credit, John.

Coach Bluter got the ball to Caitlyn through some screening action.

and got her a

little

bit more open, but I'll tell you what, Caitlin Clark just continued to play her game and passed the ball to her open

teammates, and her supporting cast came

through.

Felt kind of the same way in the middle part of that fourth quarter that you said about about Yukon it seemed like a couple of the gals were lumbering up and down the floor pretty slowly they needed to Somehow get the game slowed back down into a half court game where they could rest on offense a little

yeah, I believe however John that I Would continue to pace in my opinion and war Yukon out

The other thing that happened was, obviously, Yukon's posts missed some very, very key open shots.

Now, that's no excuse.

That's part of the game.

I mean, Hamastoki had her ups and downs.

But, you know, I was just relentless and outplayed Yukon, and they continued to

put forth a great effort and their stamina outlasted new cops.

Coach, I was terribly concerned about Iowa turnovers.

A dozen in the first half, only two in the second half.

Is that coaching or is that a team just settling down?

I think they settled down.

And again, if you're going to have Cape and Clark handle the ball the majority of the time, she really doesn't turn it over.

They got used to Yukon's pressure.

They knew what was going to happen.

Again, they made some key turnovers late.

I would get Hannah Stalke.

Terrible, terrible.

Key, key turnover.

Give Yukon credit.

They were scrambling.

And Yukon, again, missed some open looks.

But it doesn't matter.

Iowa made their looks.

And I think the supporting cast was the key.

I was very impressed.

You know, this wasn't a Katelyn Clark 40-point game.

No, not at all.

This was a Katelyn Clark finding her teammates open and then her teammates either scoring or finding another teammate open.

It was classic Iowa women's basketball.

It was.

You know, Coach, what drove John Stuart me crazy was some of the Iowa Mrs. John.

We were under the bucket six times for what I call layups, and how can those not go in?

Coach, you work on layups in practice.

Hannah has trouble with her left, but even Caitlin misses some of these layups.

What's going on there?

Just the crowd in the bar was just apoplectic on some of those misses under the bucket.

Well, it's a frenetic game.

You have the other team getting a hand up, they're scrambling on defense.

give the other team credit and the pressure of the game credit.

But again, if it happens to both teams, which it did, one team outlasted the other.

And Iowa's portitude is something to behold, to be honest with

you.

I got to say, I admired Connecticut.

John, they went down the court.

It seemed like 10 times in a row and made key buckets.

And Edwards was just a force.

She was almost unstoppable, coach.

Yeah, and she also missed some very key shots.

Yeah, that was going crazy.

Yeah with her misses and there were a couple of those shots Those plays that he set up particularly for her.

Oh They didn't they did not you know, they did not capitalize and Edwards made You know the key fell at the end of the game.

That was huge people walk off I think some people will argue

Either A, don't call it, or B, it wasn't a foul.

I think that she did lean that left shoulder out there, and I think that was an appropriate call.

Coach, how was the officiating in general these last few games?

How would you rate it compared to some of the problems we've had in the past?

Well, like you guys, I'm texting with numerous coaching friends all over the country during a game like this.

And we all felt there were a lot of tic-tac, foul

calls

at both ends.

So it was at both ends, maybe it came out, Connecticut had more bad calls against them than Iowa, maybe five to four, I don't know.

But you know what, it's part of the game, and you gotta make the last shot, the last rebound, you gotta make the last play, and Iowa did it.

They are an incredible group of young women,

It's just tremendous to see their enthusiasm.

I'm watching them on TV now.

Celebrate advancing to the final game.

John, I have to tell you this next game against South Carolina is going to be very difficult.

It looks like almost an invincible fortress.

This undefeated 36-37-0 team from South Carolina just destroyed North Carolina State tonight.

Coach, you said...

earlier that Iowa might have a better match-up than UConn against South Carolina, but how do you go up against this monolith?

They look perhaps like the greatest team I've seen in years.

Well, I'll tell you what, Iowa is impressing me with their defense.

They do stop the ball, they get a hand in the face, Gaby Marshall blocks shots.

who are at distract shots all the time at five foot eight.

It's incredible.

So what I'm getting at is I think they'll stay in front of the ball and distract South Carolina enough on the perimeter.

It's then going to become an inside game.

South Carolina has more all-American types down low.

Iowa.

You know, Cardoza is very good at 6-7.

Ivo would stole Keith Goodman and others.

It's probably going to get in foul trouble, but they're going to have to battle their way through 40 minutes.

I wouldn't put it past Iowa to be in this game for quite a period of time, but...

I don't just have Carolina losing.

Yeah, yeah, I think it's going to be a tough uphill slide.

Regardless, how can you not fall in love with this Iowa team?

Caitlin and Kate and Hannah and Gabby and Sid and Molly and O'Grady and McCabe.

And, you know, it just goes on and on with these great contributors.

Coach, is it?

You've coached and you've won hundreds of games.

Ray Lisa Bluter as an overall, I would say to me, her greatest attribute is her ability to keep a team cohesive.

How good of a bench coach is she?

Would you spend a little bit of time tonight on Lisa Bluter as a bench coach?

Sometimes I think she's underrated.

Grade her out as a bench coach and also as an overall chairman of the board keeping these ladies on the same page this year because Kim Mulkey had trouble with that at LSU.

Oh yeah, that's for sure.

Look Lisa.

I don't have the numbers in front of me exactly, but at least over the last four years, the Clark has been there.

He's probably won 120 games.

You're a damn good bench ghost.

I believe she knows and her staff knows exactly.

See, if you get the ball to Clark, that's the key thing.

If you get it to

her, she's going to

make the right play.

So it's not just get the ball to Caitlyn so that she can shoot a three or a left.

She's going to make the right play, drive, jumper, kick, dish, assist.

When that happens, you only have to dive in the first part of the play.

She knows her team very well.

I believe she's very underrated in that regard.

Kate Martin came through with some key buckets.

I just love her fiery Disposition when you think of that five losing Molly Davis having said a falter come in to compliment Kate Martin up front and then they have Hannah Continuing to progress and then of course with Gabby and Kate in the back court and what about Gabby's defense against Buckers tonight

Well

It was great.

Like I said, she had a hand in the face.

She has a hand up, moves her feet very well.

His Iowa girls are much quicker than people think.

They have good balance.

They have a good sense of distance from the ball handler.

I believe that, again, on Sunday, rebounding is going to be critical.

So they're going to have to box out.

South Carolina is going to go inside, keep the Cardoza and others.

I know Sculpey and Goodman and others will be tested down low.

South Carolina cannot stand the fact that they lost last year to Iowa.

Dawn Staley is a terror.

Let me tell you.

Again, again, and again, I picked you up tonight.

So what do I know?

Coach, you know a lot because you were there at Ground Zero as we said earlier.

The captain of the media.

the prime media market of the whole world.

You had that vaunted perch at Georgetown with the media market with Gino Ariela coaching.

You guys go back to getting the teams on national television.

Coach, how proud are you tonight seeing Gino coaching and Lisa Bluter who was a young Drake coach when you were recruiting against her and seeing Rebecca Lobo who you had to defend in your epic matchups.

against UConn at Georgetown.

They're doing the game tonight on national television, prime time coach.

Do you feel good about being that cornerstone that helped build this thing from the ground up a third of a century ago?

Oh, I was involved as no doubt.

My teams, my staff, my players were involved.

I'm watching Superd and Diana Tarasi on ESPN now.

I can't tell you how many times they drilled up are behind.

I'm very proud of Gino.

I'm a good friend of his.

I know he is hurt very badly by this.

He expects to get to the final four and win.

He just doesn't have enough players right now.

Well, three key injuries, as they said at the beginning of the year.

How hard is that to cobble together a team with Walking Moondid like that?

They put up a valiant effort.

They did.

They did.

But you know, the better team won.

I mean, let's be honest.

Everybody has injuries.

Everybody has circumstances they need to overcome.

and Iowa was the better team, there's no doubt.

I gotta tell you, coach, when Iowa turned it over with 3.9 seconds left with Yukon having the ball and us, I had by only one, I made the quick exit for a bathroom.

I had lost faith.

Well, I'll tell you what, you know, if they had gotten the ball at half court,

It would have been a different play and possibly a different set of circumstances.

But they had to inbound it at three quarter court.

They didn't waste time.

They had to take up time, dribble the ball up court.

I think Gino might pick a different play if you had to do it open.

But then again, he might say, my kid should have set a better screen.

That's a tough one.

You know, that's a tough one.

I

used to always think that in that kind of situation, if you go to your very best player, everybody knows you don't do a very best player.

So use that player as a decoy.

And that's hard to live with if somebody else misses a shot.

But everybody in the building knew the ball was going to do.

Pagebacker and...

That's why it was a moving screen.

Yeah, I would defender got over the screen body to body with beckers and helped cause a moving screen

Unbelievable coach.

I got to say this Although you had Yukon tonight with with the points

I did not think, as much as I love this Iowa team, and Johnny Stewart, you've loved this Iowa team too, but John, I did not think they would win eight in a row, beginning with that, run all the way through the big 10, and now to win four big games here to get into the final four from 64 to 32, 32 to 16, 16 to eight, now eight to four.

Actually, the fifth game, fifth game to get to the final.

John, did you think these guys would do it?

I didn't know if they could or not, but you know, you also have to look at that.

Almost every team that's gotten this far has won that many games in a row right now.

I just didn't think we could do it again this year with no portal additions and the loss of Monica Zanano.

Coach, does this surprise you that this Iowa team is able to get back the final short of players that were on that team last year simply developing who they had in their pipeline already?

You know, I told our audience and you and our crew, John, all year long, that I didn't know whether Iowa had the supporting cast.

Well, I am absolutely wrong because what Caitlin Clark does, essentially with her unselfish play and her brilliant passing, is she emboldens her teammates.

She gives them confidence because she's going to give them the ball.

Lisa Bluder basically says, hey baby, you need to step up.

Because Katelyn isn't going to take a contested three from 35 feet, you know, with two players on.

Right.

Not going to drive the lane with three players on.

Right.

He's going to give you the ball.

And those young women have stepped up.

Guys, we thank again coach Patrick J. Knapp, Jr., the Georgetown legend.

He's won over 250 games as a Big East coach.

He helped get women's basketball to where it is today.

He was on the ground floor with media, with Georgetown, with UConn, with Rebecca Lobo, recruiting in the Midwest, and he's now reaping some of the rewards of his

early coaching labors, a man who won games of the NCAA and went to that final top 10 tying for ninth in the country 30 years ago now, a broadcaster for ESPN and university official still in his own right.

Coach Knapp, thanks for taking time with us at midnight Eastern time this evening.

You're listening to us on Saturday morning right in the heart of Hawkeye, land Iowa City, Cedar Rapids, Waterloo on America.

original blowtorch 50,000 watt KXEL coach they're having thrills reliving these moments the next morning here on Saturday from us live here Friday night thanks coach now

Thank you, John and Johnny.

See you later.

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For Coach Patrick J. Knapp Jr., John Stewart and the rest of the crew, this is John Jacobson saying bye-bye.

Welcome back to XEL Live and Local Continues, and I'm joined via Zoom by Doug Oldacre.

Mr. Oldacre is Executive Vice President with Security National Bank.

You can learn more online at snbconnect.com.

Mr. Oldacre, thanks so much for taking the time, sir.

Thank you, Jeff.

Pleasure to be here today.

Thank you very much.

And I can recall, and I don't want to say it's that long ago, but obviously it's 40 years ago that folks in my family business

They had to make sure to get to the bank by two o'clock every afternoon because the hometown bank closed at two thirty and they wanted the deposit on that day's account and now you can take pictures of the checks and you can just send it down the line with an app etc.

It's changed the whole dynamic of how we get from point A to B but the concept of customer relationships that's not different.

You just don't see them as often but the importance of having that

strong relationship and that trust, and I don't mean a pun because you deal with trusts in the states, but that's still foundational even though the bank's been around 60 years.

It is foundational, but the way you provide that more and more today, the way you provide that customer interaction is having a customer-friendly technology

systems in place.

And so in many ways, technology is replacing that human interaction.

But the human interaction, even though it's being replaced, has to be a positive customer experience or they'll just go somewhere else.

And frankly, Jeff, it has to be quick.

It can't be where you've got to click through.

two or three or four different screens to get where you want to.

It's got to be much faster than that.

Actually, it's an exciting time for our industry.

It seems to me, what's the next 10 or 20 years going to look like?

It's hard to say, but it probably is fair to say that we won't see the level of changes that we've seen, at least in my career, over 40 years.

Jeff, when I started 40 years ago, I did not have a computer at my desk.

We kept customer logs and information in client files.

And if we wanted to look up client information, we'd have someone from our file department bring your file to me.

And I could see correspondence.

I could see your balance sheet.

I could see this or that.

Today,

Actually, today as we speak, I have three computer screens open right now in my desk.

So the speed with which technology has changed our industry in the last 40 years is probably going to moderate a bit.

But the common theme, though, is positive and quick customer experience with accuracy.

Boy, if you don't, in our industry,

If you don't have accurate information in front of that client, it's a problem for you.

Technology and the impact on the financial services industry in general, banking more specifically, has been significant over the last 40 years.

One of the other things that has evolved during your career and during the life of the bank has been the

increased number of vehicles we have for retirement planning and I know when I was setting some of these things up as a younger man you had a few options and now for a small business owner they're all manner of different opportunities and different sorts of funds it's not just a 401k it's not just a coffee can under your bed I mean you've got everything in between

Talk, if you will, about how that aspect of the business has grown over this course of time, in particular with what you folks at Security National Bank have done.

I think it's grown exponentially as well, as we were just talking about earlier.

I do still think, though, that Jeff, well, a major concern today

maybe much more so than I even experienced 30 or 40 years ago, is perhaps financial planning.

Am I going to have enough to retire on?

Or here is my retirement nest egg.

How much can I spend?

It's typically we would ask a client or a prospective client

What do they intend to do at retirement?

Are they traveling?

Are they going to be gifting money to grandchildren kind of in this transition stage of their life?

What are your goals, aspirations, dreams?

What do you want to do at retirement?

Because let's face it, in order to retire comfortably, you've got your income, interest, dividend, capital gains or whatever, and then you've got your outflow, don't you?

How are you going to spend your money?

And we do a lot more financial planning, whether it's for a small business owner, as you mentioned earlier, whether it's just for an individual who's retiring or wants to retire, we do much more financial planning today.

And speaking of technology, the technology that all of us can use today will run thousands of scenarios at a time.

Imagine that and be able then to

to present to a client or a prospective client, how they might best allocate their portfolio, how much they might comfortably think about spending, and you can essentially plug information into software, and it'll run thousands of scenarios and come up with the optimal scenario for you as our client.

Well, to try to have done that 40 years ago,

I guess maybe in a way, Jeff, is similar to what artificial intelligence is doing in so many different ways.

I mean, it also has applications to the financial services industry, and that's maybe just one example of it.

We still see a significant interest in group retirement plans, specifically 401k plans, of course IRAs, IRA rollovers, things of that nature, but we have a variety of

different kinds of products whether they be deferred compensation plans as I said 401k plans that sort of thing so Maybe much more coming into focus today at an earlier age Help me plan for my retirement take me through one of these Monte Carlo scenarios that I just talked about

then maybe 40 years ago when people would maybe postpone that kind of discussion, almost right up to if not post-retirement.

And what's changed is people coming to us at an earlier age today.

I give you another example, Jeff.

I mean, 40 years ago, you wouldn't talk to a prospective client without investigating life insurance as a component of their financial plan.

Not that we don't still do that today, but today more than ever like 40 years ago Long-term care insurance is a major focus for us today because the costs of Long-term care are rising so rapidly that it can deplete someone's life savings very quickly and so while so much has stayed the same in terms of the need to plan the outcropping of

those recommendations has changed a bit, insurance being an example of that, I think.

Doug Oldaker, Mr. Oldaker is Executive Vice President for Security National Bank.

Their headquarters are in the Omaha Council Bluffs area.

They also have facilities in Texas and in Iowa, statewide operation based with a branch in Jordan Creek, that mall area of West Des Moines.

Mr. Oldacre joined us via Zoom, so you can hear the conversation now.

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