No. 5 Iowa vs. Nebraska women’s basketball glance: Time, TV, live stream, game notes (Jan. 27, 2024)

What: No. 5 Iowa (18-2 overall, 7-1 Big Ten) vs. Nebraska (13-6, 5-3), women’s basketball

When/where: 1 p.m. (CT) Saturday, Carver-Hawkeye Arena, Iowa City

TV: BTN

Live stream: FoxSports.com or Fox Sports app

Radio: Hawkeye Radio Network affiliates

Iowa’s next game: at Northwestern, 7 p.m., Wednesday

What to know: Iowa hasn’t played in six days, and its previous outing was a 100-92 overtime loss to Ohio State, in which the Hawkeyes let a 12-point lead slip away in the last 8:50 of regulation.

Iowa’s Caitlin Clark (31.7 ppg) needs 42 points to climb to No. 3 on the NCAA all-time women’s basketball scoring list. Jackie Stiles (Missouri State, 2001) resides in the 3-spot at the moment with 3,393 career points.

Clark is two 3-pointers away from reaching the top five all-time in that category.

Iowa resides in a three-way tie for first place in the Big Ten, along with Indiana and Ohio State.

The Hawkeyes have won eight straight in the series, winning 80-76 at home last season, 80-60 at Lincoln.

Nebraska has neither won nor lost consecutive games since winning two straight against Maryland (Dec. 31) and Wisconsin (Jan. 4). The Huskers are coming off an 82-73 loss at Penn State on Sunday.

Junior post Alexis Markowski averages 16.8 points and a Big Ten-best 10.5 rebounds per game.

The Huskers (plus-10.5) and the Hawkeyes (plus-9.9) are 1-2 in the Big Ten in rebounding margin.

Comments: jeff.linder@thegazette.com