Iowa Basketball

Luka Garza has been persistent in his quest to get a standard NBA playing contract, and Thursday was the day. The Minnesota Timberwolves converted the former Iowa National Player of the Year’s two-way deal to a standard contract.

Monika Czinano has been watching Iowa’s NCAA women’s basketball tournament run from Hungary, where she is playing professionally. “I always had belief that they would make it back to the Final Four,” she said.

Time, TV and notes for Friday’s NCAA women’s basketball tournament national semifinal between No. 2 Iowa and No. 10 Connecticut.

Iowa Athletics will host a watch party at Carver-Hawkeye Arena for Friday’s women’s basketball Final Four game against UConn, the department announced this week.

A win over Kim Mulkey and LSU and a second straight Final Four bring a “feeling of satisfaction“ to veteran Iowa women’s basketball coach Lisa Bluder, who didn’t need a transfer-portal pickup after all.

Here’s a look at the Final Four women’s basketball teams. It’s Iowa vs. Connecticut on Friday, preceded by South Carolina vs. North Carolina State.

Iowa junior guard Payton Sandfort has declared for the 2024 NBA Draft, the school announced Tuesday. He has until May 29 to remove his name from draft consideration.

Here are a few links to good stories and essays about Caitlin Clark’s performance Monday night in Iowa’s NCAA tournament regional final win over LSU. The consensus seemed to be this: Caitlin Clark was quite good.