Iowa Basketball

Megan Gustafson, the 2019 National Player of the Year at Iowa, is on a WNBA juggernaut in Las Vegas, and has a good chance of playing for Spain in this month’s Olympics.

Caitlin Clark and her Indiana Fever endured 88-69 loss to reigning-champion Las Vegas Aces, but the rookie guard from Iowa got the news she’ll play in WNBA July 20 All-Star game against the U.S. Olympic team.

Kate Martin wasted no time earning a spot in the two-time defending WNBA championship Las Vegas Aces’ rotation on a team loaded with talent.

Luka Garza, the consensus men’s basketball National Player of the Year as an Iowa senior in 2021, has signed a two-year contract with the NBA’s Minnesota Timberwolves. He could have opted for free agency.

A Cedar Falls native (she was Miss Iowa Basketball in 1997) and former Iowa player, Randi Henderson has been named to Jan Jensen’s staff, as has Sean Sullivan.

Iowa had a streak of NCAA tournament appearances snapped last season, but Fran McCaffery’s Hawkeyes could jump back in the Top 25 picture quicker than some may think.

Catching up with six WNBA players with Iowa ties, through games played Thursday.

NBA players Kris and Keegan Murray returned to their high school alma mater Cedar Rapids Prairie on Thursday to be honored with a special wall display of them outside of the school’s main gymnasium and by having their Prairie jerseys retired and honorarily hung inside the gym.