No. 4 Iowa vs. Michigan women’s basketball glance: Time, TV, live stream, game notes (Feb. 15, 2024)

What: No. 4 Iowa (22-3 overall, 11-2 Big Ten) vs. Michigan (16-9, 7-6), women’s basketball

When/where: 7 p.m. Thursday, Carver-Hawkeye Arena, Iowa City

TV/streaming: Peacock

Radio: Hawkeye Radio Network affiliates

Iowa’s next game: At Indiana, 7 p.m. next Thursday

What to know: Iowa’s Caitlin Clark, the nation’s leading scorer at 32.1 points per game, needs seven points to catch Kelsey Plum (Washington, 2017) at the top of the NCAA Division-I women’s basketball scoring chart. Plum scored 3,527 career points, Clark is at 3,520.

Clark’s career-high (46 points) came against Michigan in a road loss Feb. 6, 2022.

Iowa’s loss at Nebraska on Sunday dropped the Hawkeyes into a second-place tie with Indiana (20-3, 11-2) in the Big Ten standings, a game behind Ohio State (21-3, 12-1). The Hawkeyes are at Indiana next Thursday, host Ohio State in the regular-season finale March 3.

Michigan is coming off an 86-58 home win over Rutgers on Saturday. The Wolverines lead the Big Ten is scoring defense, at 61.3 ppg allowed.

Laila Phelia leads the Wolverines at 16.1 points per game and is third in the Big Ten in minutes (34.1 per game).

Iowa’s Kate Martin has scored in double figures in 17 of the last 21 games.

Gabbie Marshall needs 14 points to reach the 1,000-point mark for her career.

Iowa is projected as a 2 seed in the NCAA tournament by ESPN’s Charlie Creme. Michigan is listed as one of the “last four in” and an 11 seed.

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Comments: jeff.linder@thegazette.com