Five decades after the passage of Title IX, many challenges remain for women’s sports — both at Iowa and across the country.
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Five decades after the passage of Title IX, many challenges remain for women’s sports — both at Iowa and across the country.
Moment No. 1 in our series of the top 50 moments in Iowa women’s athletics history: On Feb. 3, 1985, 22,157 fans flocked to Carver-Hawkeye Arena and shattered the women’s basketball attendance record.
Moment No. 2: Iowa women’s basketball overcomes tragedy on its way to the first and only Final Four in program history.
See photos from Iowa men’s basketball practice on Tuesday, June 21, 2022.
Iowa men’s basketball will again roll with Filip Rebraca in the post, while hoping for more help from Riley Mulvey and Josh Ogundele.
Iowa’s Keegan Murray started his NBA lottery pick story at Prairie High in Cedar Rapids.
If Keegan Murray goes in the top five picks of Thursday’s NBA Draft, he will be highest-drafted Hawkeye ever. Ricky Davis in 1998 was Iowa’s last first-round pick.
From the “front lines” of the fight to keep Title IX’s implementation in sports alive to the focus on women’s athletes’ well-being, Christine Grant left quite the legacy both at Iowa and across the country.
The last player from Cedar Rapids to be taken in an NBA draft will be smiling as the next one gets announced Thursday night. Russ Millard, a second-round NBA draft pick in 1996, was a big part of some big Iowa wins.
Moment No. 6: Lisa Bluder and Megan Gustafson became the first player-coach duo from the Big Ten to sweep the Naismith National Coach of the Year and National Player of the Year awards.
Moment No. 7: Christine Grant pulled off what she later described as her “best recruiting job I ever did in my life,” swaying C. Vivian Stringer to come to Iowa.
Iowa’s Big Ten opponents for the 2022-23 men’s basketball season were announced Thursday.
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