Defense — and free throws — saved the day, and No. 2 Iowa fought past West Virginia, 64-54, in an NCAA women’s basketball second-round game before a sellout crowd of 14,324 Monday night at Carver-Hawkeye Arena.
NCAA women’s basketball: Iowa’s 92.8-point scoring rate leads the nation; so does West Virginia’s plus-8.8 turnover differential. The Hawkeyes and the Mountaineers collide Monday with a spot in the Sweet 16 on the line.
Hannah Stuelke didn’t play in the second half of Iowa’s 91-65 first-round NCAA women’s basketball tournament win over Holy Cross. The Hawkeyes’ second-leading scorer and an all-Big Ten second-teamer, Stuelke confirmed afterward that she was suffering from “probably” a migraine.
Caitlin Clark scored 30 of her game-high 34 points after intermission, and No. 3 Iowa outlasted Nebraska in overtime, 94-89, in the Big Ten women’s basketball championship game Sunday afternoon at Target Center.
Hannah Stuelke went 7-for-7 from the floor and 2-for-2 from the free-throw line, scoring 16 points in third-ranked Iowa’s 95-68 Big Ten women’s basketball tournament semifinal victory Saturday over Michigan. She said she’ll be ready for Sunday’s championship game after a brief injury scare in the fourth quarter.
Time, TV and notes for Friday’s Big Ten women’s basketball tournament quarterfinal between No. 3 Iowa and Penn State.
Women’s basketball: Media, coaches unanimously select Iowa’s Caitlin Clark as the Big Ten player of the year.
Caitlin Clark completed her season-long series of record-setting moments, and sixth-ranked Iowa kept that revolving door at No. 2 spinning with a 93-83 women’s basketball victory over Ohio State before a vocal crowd of 14,998 on Sunday at Carver-Hawkeye Arena.
Women’s basketball: Good vibes return for No. 4 Iowa in a 101-85 Sunday stroll against Illinois.
Time, TV and notes for Sunday’s women’s basketball game between No. 4 Iowa and Illinois.
Time, TV and notes for Sunday’s women’s basketball game between No. 2 Iowa and Nebraska.
Hannah Stuelke scored a career-high 47 points — the most ever by a player, male or female, at Carver-Hawkeye Arena, and one short of the Iowa women’s basketball record — to lead the second-ranked Hawkeyes past Penn State, 111-93, in a Big Ten game Thursday night at Carver-Hawkeye Arena.
Second-ranked Iowa beat Penn State 111-93 in a Big Ten women’s basketball game Thursday night at Carver-Hawkeye Arena.
Women’s basketball: Lisa Bluder and the Hawkeyes are 0-6 at Maryland, including a 96-68 waxing last season. But the Terrapins are as vulnerable now as they’ve even been since joining the Big Ten.
The No. 2-ranked Iowa women’s basketball team is on pace for a its best rebounding season ever. The Hawkeyes face a Big Ten showdown at No. 18 Ohio State on Sunday.
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