NCAA women’s basketball: Intentional-foul call on Hannah Stuelke leads to an Oklahoma five-point possession. The Sooners went on to rout Iowa, 96-62, in a second-round game.
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NCAA women’s basketball: Intentional-foul call on Hannah Stuelke leads to an Oklahoma five-point possession. The Sooners went on to rout Iowa, 96-62, in a second-round game.
See photos as the Hawkeyes took on the Sooners in Norman, Oklahoma for a chance to advance to the Sweet Sixteen.
Women’s basketball: Oklahoma torches Iowa on the glass, advances to the Sweet 16, 96-62. Sooners rule the glass by a 64-33 margin, snagging 24 offensive boards.
The sixth-seeded Hawkeyes will face third-seeded Oklahoma — coached by Iowa alum and Lisa Bluder era player Jennie Baranczyk — on Monday in the second round of the NCAA tournament. Follow The Gazette’s live blog below for score updates, highlights and analysis.
Craig Doty went head-to-head with McCollum when they coached in the same Division II conference. “We built our roster and our defensive system with the goal of taking them down,“ Doty said.
Ben McCollum joins the Hawkeyes after one season as the head coach at Drake. Before that, he spent 15 seasons at the helm at Northwest Missouri State.
McCollum, born in Iowa City and raised in Storm Lake, has won 81.8 percent of his games in his 15-year college coaching career.
NCAA women’s basketball: Sweet 16 is at stake when Iowa meets Oklahoma on Monday, and guarding the Sooners, according to Coach Jan Jensen, is a ‘10’ in degree of difficulty.
NCAA women’s basketball: As an assistant coach and a hard-nosed player, Jan Jensen and Jennie (Lillis) Baranczyk teamed to lift the Hawkeyes in the early years of the Lisa Bluder era.
What to know about Monday’s NCAA women’s basketball game between Iowa and Oklahoma. Game time, TV schedule, game notes.
NCAA women’s basketball: Freshmen are a focal point in the Hawkeyes’ first-round rout of Murray State. Ava Heiden and Taylor Stremlow hit double figures, and Solon native Callie Levin hits her first career basket.
NCAA women’s basketball: Ava Heiden is key off the bench and in the paint, and Iowa thumps Murray State, 92-57, in the first round.
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