No. 10 Iowa vs. No. 15 Maryland women’s basketball glance: Time, TV, game notes (Jan. 22, 2026)

What: No. 10 Iowa (16-2, 7-0) vs. No. 15 Maryland (17-3, 5-3), Big Ten women’s basketball

When/where: 5 p.m. (CT) Thursday, XFINITY Center, College Park, Md.

TV: Peacock

Radio: Hawkeye Radio Network affiliates

Iowa’s next game: Ohio State (home), 1 p.m. Sunday.

What to know: Iowa is in the top 10 for the first time of the post-Clark/post-Bluder era. The Hawkeyes have won six consecutive games.

Iowa’s Hannah Stuelke is the national player of the year by the United States Basketball Writers Association. In two games last week (against Oregon and Michigan State), the Cedar Rapids native posted 40 points, 17 rebounds and 13 assists.

Stuelke also was the Big Ten player of the week. Addie Deal was the Big Ten freshman of the week.

Speaking of Cedar Rapids, Brenda Frese (like Stuelke, a Washington High School alum) has amassed a 681-202 mark in 27 years of coaching, including 624-172 in 23 years at Maryland.

Frese’s 2006 team won the NCAA tournament championship. Her teams won or shared the Big Ten regular-season title in six of Maryland’s first seven years in the league, but none since 2021.

The Terrapins won in Iowa City last year, 74-66.

Four active Maryland players are averaging in double figures, led by Oluchi Okananwa (5-foot-10 guard), at 17.3 points per game.

Former Indiana player Yarden Garzon adds 12.9 ppg and is shooting 40.1 percent from 3-point range.

Comments: jeff.linder@thegazette.com