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March Madness: With 'nothing to lose,' LSU embraced its unlikely path and won a national championship

DALLAS — In the national championship game between Iowa and LSU, featuring standouts Caitlin Clark and Angel Reese, it was a reserve without a single point in the past three games who stole the show.

That’s just the way March Madness, this LSU team and even this entire college basketball season have gone. The commonality tying it all together is that graduate guard Jasmine Carson, who led LSU with a clutch 22 of the team’s championship game record 102 points, is a transfer who wasn’t even on the Tigers squad this time last year.