Iowa vs. Washington State women’s basketball glance: Time, TV, game notes (Nov. 24, 2024)

What: Washington State (2-2) at Iowa (5-0), women’s basketball

When/where: 3 p.m. Sunday, Carver-Hawkeye Arena, Iowa City

TV: Big Ten Network

Radio: Hawkeye Radio Network affiliates

Iowa’s next game: Thursday vs. Rhode Island, 5:30 p.m., at Cancun, Mexico

What to know: Iowa is 5-0 for the first time since 2017-18. This is the first time, ever, that the Hawkeyes have started the season with five double-digit victories.

Iowa is coming off a 71-58 win over Kansas, in which the Hawkeyes allowed just four points in the first quarter.

The series is tied 1-1. The last meeting was a 74-66 Washington State win in 2016-17.

Villanova transfer Lucy Olsen leads the Hawkeyes at 17.4 points and 5.4 assists per game. Addison O’Grady averages 15.2 points and is shooting 70.2 percent from the floor.

Hannah Stuelke (14.8 points, 7.8 rebounds per game) shot 46.0 percent from the line as a freshman, 62.9 percent as a sophomore. As a junior, she’s at 80.0 percent (24 of 30).

Washington State represents a League of Nations, of sorts. Only three on the Cougars’ roster are American. Two are from France, one each from Canada, Niger, Taiwan, Australia, Spain, Italy, Kosovo and Estonia.

The Cougars are averaging 9.8 assists and 13.8 turnovers per game, and are getting outrebounded by 8.5 boards per contest.

Eleonora Villa, a 5-foot-8 sophomore guard from Italy, leads WSU at 15.5 ppg.

Washington State was the Pac-12 tournament champion in 2023. The Pac-12, of course, isn’t what it was then; the last two remaining teams (Wazzu and Oregon State) are serving one basketball season in the West Coast Conference.

Comments: jeff.linder@thegazette.com