No. 22 Iowa women’s basketball glance for Cancun Challenge: Time, TV, game notes (Nov. 28-29, 2024)

What: No. 22 Iowa women’s basketball (6-0), at Cancun Challenge

When/where: 5:30 p.m. (CT) Thursday, vs. Rhode Island (4-3); 8 p.m. (CT) Friday, vs. BYU (5-1); at Cancun, Mexico

TV: None

Radio: Hawkeye Radio Network affiliates

Iowa’s next game: Saturday, Dec. 7, vs. Tennessee, 6 p.m., at Brooklyn N.Y.

What to know: These will be Iowa’s first two games this season as a ranked squad. The Hawkeyes had been the first team among “others receiving votes” through the first three polls.

Thursday marks the first meeting between the Hawkeyes and Rhode Island. Iowa and BYU have played three times (most recently in 2006), and Cougars have won all three.

Rhode Island has won its last two games, including a 63-58 win over Brown on Saturday.

Six Rhode Island players average at least 8.0 points per game, led by Harsiman “Honey” Kaur at 10.1.

BYU is the second of Iowa’s three Big 12 opponents. The Hawkeyes handled Kansas, 71-58, Nov. 20, then host Iowa State on Dec. 11.

The Cougars won their first five games, then suffered a 67-60 loss to Northern Colorado on Saturday.

Delaney Gibbs paces BYU at 17.3 ppg.

Comments: jeff.linder@thegazette.com