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The Final Four of the 2024 NCAA Women’s Basketball Tournament will feature a championship-worthy battle Friday night in Cleveland.

Iowa and UConn will only be battling for an opportunity at a title, however.

Caitlin Clark is entering what she hopes to be the penultimate game of a legendary collegiate career, having helped Iowa establish itself as a powerhouse over the last four seasons. The Hawkeyes entered this tournament as the No. 1 seed in their portion of the bracket, and grabbed wins off No. 16 Holy Cross, No. 8 West Virginia, No. 5 Colorado and No. 3 LSU — exacting revenge for last season’s championship bout.

It’s all about winning this season, however.

Paige Bueckers and No. 3 UConn are looking to play spoiler, and they’re no easy match. The Huskies knocked off No. 14 Jackson State, No. 6 Syracuse, No. 7 Duke and No. 1 USC to get to this point, looking to regain there crown as women’s basketball royalty.

Iowa is a 3.5-point favorite at FanDuel Sportsbook. The winner will play either South Carolina or NC State in the championship game.

The Iowa Hawkeyes, led by Caitlin Clark, face the UConn Huskies, led by Paige Bueckers, in the Final Four round of the Women’s NCAA Tournament at Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse in Cleveland, Ohio on Friday, April 5, 2024.

Here’s what you need to know:

What: 2024 Women’s NCAA Tournament

Who: Iowa vs. UConn

When: April 5, 2024

Where: Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse

Time: 9 p.m.

TV: ESPN

Caitlin Clark and Iowa are back in the Final Four again. So are Dawn Staley and undefeated South Carolina.

The women’s basketball world will descend on Cleveland for the national semifinals on Friday and the championship game two days later.

Clark willed her team to its second consecutive trip to the Final Four, scoring 41 points to beat defending champion LSU 94-87 on Monday night. The Tigers knocked out the Hawkeyes last year in the title game. Now the Hawkeyes are two wins away from their first national championship.

“That’s obviously our goal. That’s where we want to be,” Clark said. “But you’ve got to win one at a time. There’s still two more there to get. That’s what makes the Final Four so fun. Anybody can take it. Anybody can win it.”

Next up for Iowa is UConn, the team that knocked them out of the tournament in Clark’s freshman season. The Huskies beat Southern California 80-73 in the other regional final on Monday night.

Staley’s team will face North Carolina State, which is making its first appearance in the Final Four since 1998.

A lot of attention will be on Clark, which Staley doesn’t mind, because it means her unbeaten team is flying a bit under the radar. It’s the second consecutive year that South Carolina has reached the Final Four undefeated and the fourth in a row the team has advanced at least this far.

Most of the talk this season has focused on star players across the country like Clark, USC’s JuJu Watkins, UConn’s Paige Bueckers and Notre Dame’s Hannah Hidalgo.

The Gamecocks, who have an entire new starting five this year, aren’t built around just one player. They have taken a back seat as far as attention goes.

“I like it. I really do. Like go ahead, take the spotlight, put it somewhere else,” Staley said. “Let this team continue to thrive in the space that they’re given. Hopefully at the end of the day, next week this time, I’m hoping that we give a lot of people a lot to talk about.”

Like South Carolina, there wasn’t much expectation for the Wolfpack to make the Final Four. They were unranked coming into the start of the season, making N.C. State the first unranked team in the preseason poll to reach the Final Four since Washington did it in 2016. Wins over UConn and Colorado before December gave notice that the Wolfpack really were a good team.

N.C. State was one win away from reaching the national semifinals two years ago before losing to UConn in double overtime in the Elite Eight.

“I think of Kay Yow — 34 years at N.C. State and took this program to a Final Four in ‘98,” Wolfpack coach Wes Moore said. “I think of the players two years ago that were a double-overtime game away from being in this exact spot. So I think of them. And then I think of these players, again, overcoming all the doubts and questions and just — Final Four, y’all.”

Moore knows his team has a tall task ahead against the Gamecocks.

“They’re a great, great team. Obviously, the best team in the country. But you’re not playing a four-out-of-seven series. You’re playing one game, OK?” he said. “So we’ve just got to find a way to win one game against them, and it’s going to be a big challenge.”

UConn is back in the Final Four after seeing its 14-year run end last season in a loss to Ohio State. Now the Huskies will have to figure out a way to slow down Clark, who has been nearly unstoppable the last two years.

Caitlin Clark and the Iowa Hawkeyes head into the women's Final Four today against the University of Connecticut Huskies. This game is all that stands in their way of playing in the National Championship on Sunday. With two top-tier college basketball programs going head-to-head, this March Madness Final Four game is a must-watch.

It's a battle between Caitlin Clark and Paige Bueckers. The Iowa star and her team defeated defending champs LSU and Angel Reese on Monday. Clark scored 41 points and earned the title of Most Outstanding Player in the regional tournament.

UConn Women’s Basketball is the gold standard in women’s sports. However, it has been a number of years since the Huskies have stood on top of the college basketball world. The team came away with big wins over the likes of Syracuse and Duke in the first three rounds, but really showed their stuff in the Elite Eight when Paige Bueckers helped UConn beat one-seeded USC.

This is the 23rd Final Four appearance for the Huskies, as they will look to make it to the championship game for the 12th time in program history.