New footage has emerged on
Social Media, clearly showing that screen on Gabbie Marshall in the waning seconds of was indeed an offensive foul. Previous play showed Edwards from the waist up and at an angle that does not prove how far she moved. In videos that surfaced Saturday, the 21-year-old was seen moving a considerable distance to intercept Marshall so that UConn star get the ball unimpeded. Additionally, Edwards lifted her left elbow and arm, essentially shoving Marshall as she attempted to get over the Huskies forward's screen. Once the new footage circulated on social media, fans began to change their tune on the foul, which initially was deemed controversial. "This shouldn't have been a controversial call," a user on X noted, which garnered over 1,000 likes. "It's only controversial if you were rooting for UConn. Definition of a moving pick. And leaned into with her elbow. The fact that there was 3.9 seconds left shouldn't matter." Another fan chimed in and claimed that the initial replay angles did not help fans determine whether the call was correct. "The video on TV/Internet did the play dirty [because] it looks like a bad call. In this angle she is clearly moving, she is WAY out of her cylinder (stance is SO wide) and her elbow is out. It is egregious enough that you have to call it even though we all hate it." The new footage puts to bed any conspiracy that the referees were out to help Caitlin Clark and Iowa reach the national championship against Dawn Staley and South Carolina. Shortly after the Hawkeyes defeated the Huskies, fans, players and pundits were to X to share how a . "Wow, what an unfortunate time to call an offensive foul," former UConn legend and WNBA star Diana Taurasi said. "Just know how to ruin a game. Oh my God, that's terrible. That's terrible, that's terrible. It didn't even get her open. That's a tough play." So tough was the play that even Marshall began to from disgruntled fans for being the victim of the illegal screen. "It's out of my control to make the calls, but personally, I thought it was an illegal screen," Marshall told reporters during media availability. "And it's not like the first one of the game. "I've gotten a lot of hate comments. I don't know. I'm not the one that made the call. So I'm not sure why they're mad at me personally." In the end, Bueckers understands what's done is done and the entire game. "I feel like there were a lot of mistakes that I made that could've prevented that play from even being that big," Bueckers "You can look at one play and say, 'Oh, that killed us for that us.' But we should have done a better
Job - I should have done a better job of making sure we didn't leave the game up to chance like that and leave the game up to one bad call [not] going our way and that deciding it. "Yeah maybe it was a tough call for us but I feel like I could've done a better job preventing that from even happening."