No. 2 Iowa vs. No. 10 UConn NCAA women’s basketball Final Four glance: Time, TV, live stream, game notes (April 5, 2024)

What: No. 2 Iowa (33-4) vs. No. 10 Connecticut (33-5), NCAA women’s basketball tournament national semifinal

When/where: 8:30 p.m. (CT) Friday, Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse, Cleveland

TV: ESPN

Live stream: ESPN.com, ESPN+ or ESPN app

Radio: Hawkeye Radio Network affiliates

Iowa’s next game: Winner faces No. 1 South Carolina (36-0) or No. 11 North Carolina State (31-6) for the national championship at 2 p.m. (CT) Sunday.

What to know: Iowa is a 2 1/2-point favorite to reach the title game for the second straight year.

The teams have met twice in the Caitlin Clark/Paige Bueckers era. Connecticut won in the 2021 Sweet 16, then again in the Phil Knight Legacy championship last season.

Iowa earned atonement for its 2023 national-final loss by beating No. 8 LSU, 94-87, thus earning its second straight Final Four trip. Clark posted 41 points and 12 assists. Kate Martin added 21 points, Sydney Affolter 16.

Clark was named the Naismith Trophy winner on Wednesday, and is a heavy favorite to claim Associated Press national-player-of-the-year honors for the second straight year on Thursday. She is averaging 32.0 points and 9.0 assists per game, and has scored 3,900 points in her career.

Bueckers (22.3 ppg) led the Huskies back to the Final Four for the 23rd time with 28 points in their 80-73 win over Portland-3 top-seed USC.

UConn has won 11 national championships, the last in 2016, all under Geno Auriemma, who owns a career record of 1,213-161 in 39 years.

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