No. 11 Iowa vs. Western Illinois women’s basketball glance: Time, TV, game notes (Nov. 26, 2025)

What: No. 11 Iowa (6-0) vs. Western Illinois (4-0), women’s basketball

When/where: 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Carver-Hawkeye Arena, Iowa City.

TV: B1G+

Radio: Hawkeye Radio Network affiliates

Iowa’s next game: Fairfield (home), noon Sunday.

What to know: Iowa jumped eight spots in the AP poll this week.

Sophomore Ava Heiden is the Big Ten player of the week after accumulating 38 points and 17 rebounds in the Hawkeyes’ two wins last week at Orlando, Fla.

Heiden was 9-for-11 from the field in the second game, against Miami (Fla.).

Chit-Chat Wright remains day-to-day. She suffered an upper-body injury in the Baylor win last Thursday.

Iowa is 6-0 in back-to-back seasons for the first time since doing it in three consecutive years (7-0 in 1991-92, 6-0 in 1992-93, 11-0 in 1993-94). The Hawkeyes started 8-0 last year.

The Hawkeyes have allowed 61 points or less in each of the first six games. It’s the first time an Iowa team has done that since 1995-96.

Iowa is 9-2 against Western Illinois, has won seven straight in the series (it went overtime in 2015) and its last loss to WIU came in 1980.

Western Illinois stayed unbeaten last Thursday, powering past Bradley, 84-77, behind Raegan McCowan’s 28 points, including 14-for-16 from the free throw line.

Mia Nicastro, a 6-foot-2 senior forward, leads the Leathernecks at 26.3 points and 11.3 rebounds game. She is shooting 59.7 percent from the floor.

The Leathernecks have played their first four games in front of crowds with an average attendance of 544. It will be 14,998 at Carver on Wednesday.

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