Only Caitlin Clark and USC’s JuJu Watkins outscored Iowa’s Lucy Olsen last season when Olsen was in her third season of pouring in points at Villanova.
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Only Caitlin Clark and USC’s JuJu Watkins outscored Iowa’s Lucy Olsen last season when Olsen was in her third season of pouring in points at Villanova.
Juju Watkins, second to Iowa’s Caitlin Clark last year in NCAA scoring, is the sophomore sensation who will lead Big Ten preseason favorite USC in its first year in the conference.
Women’s basketball: Iowa’s Sydney Affolter will miss about a month after undergoing knee scope.
The Gazette’s Jeff Linder reveals his preseason ballot for the Associated Press women’s basketball poll. South Carolina is No. 1; Iowa State is 12th, Iowa 21st.
Iowa’s Payton Sandfort is on the preseason All-Big Ten men’s basketball team. The 6-foot-8 senior forward averaged 16.4 points, 6.6 rebounds and 2.7 assists last season.
Caitlin Clark’s rookie-season impact on the WNBA was phenomenal in multiple ways, and she’s only just begun.
New Iowa deputy athletics director Joe Parker has embraced the “fun” challenge of preparing the Hawkeyes for the changing college athletics landscape.
Iowa’s Hannah Stuelke, Lucy Olsen earned preseason all-Big Ten women’s basketball honors. USC’s JuJu Watkins is the preseason player of the year, and the Trojans are preseason title favorites.
Caitlin Clark has departed, but fan interest in the University of Iowa women’s basketball program remains sky-high. General public seating for the 2024-25 season is sold out at Carver-Hawkeye Arena, the university announced Wednesday.
The WNBA playoffs are set. Caitlin Clark’s Indiana Fever face two games at Connecticut in best-of-3 series that starts Sunday.
The Iowa men’s basketball schedule for 2024-25 has been filled in, with Thursday’s announcement of its 20 Big Ten conference games.
The Big Ten released its 2024-25 women’s basketball schedule. Sundays are for Big Ten showdowns at Carver-Hawkeye Arena. Coming to Iowa: Maryland (Jan. 5), Indiana (Jan. 12), USC (Feb. 2) and UCLA (Feb. 23).
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