NCAA women’s basketball: Iowa’s 92.8-point scoring rate leads the nation; so does West Virginia’s plus-8.8 turnover differential. The Hawkeyes and the Mountaineers collide Monday with a spot in the Sweet 16 on the line.
The Hawkeyes have their hands full in a second-round NCAA tourney game against West Virginia. Which probably is just the way Clark wants it.
The most decorated outgoing class in Iowa women’s basketball history will make its Carver swan song Monday night, when the second-ranked Hawkeyes face West Virginia in an NCAA second-round game. The sentimentality will subside sometime well before tipoff.
Time, TV and notes for Monday’s NCAA women’s basketball tournament second-round game game between No. 2 Iowa and West Virginia.
Photos from Iowa’s 91-65 win over Holy Cross in an NCAA women’s basketball tournament first-round game at Carver-Hawkeye Arena in Iowa City on Saturday.
Hannah Stuelke didn’t play in the second half of Iowa’s 91-65 first-round NCAA women’s basketball tournament win over Holy Cross. The Hawkeyes’ second-leading scorer and an all-Big Ten second-teamer, Stuelke confirmed afterward that she was suffering from “probably” a migraine.
A stretch without Caitlin Clark, a 10-0 gem late in the first quarter, sprung Iowa out of a small early hole, and the second-ranked Hawkeyes subdued Holy Cross, 91-65, in the first round of the NCAA women’s basketball tournament before a sellout crowd of 14,324 Saturday afternoon at Carver-Hawkeye Arena.
Holy Cross, to its eternal credit, didn’t bend the knee to Caitlin Clark or Iowa. But 16th-seeds don’t win games like this, so the Hawkeyes immediately move on to tougher obstacles.
Follow The Gazette’s live blog for score updates, highlights and analysis as the No. 1-seed Iowa Hawkeyes host the No. 16-seed Holy Cross Crusaders in an NCAA women’s basketball tournament first-round game Saturday at Carver-Hawkeye Arena.
Iowa and Utah will face off for the first time since 1964 in the second round of the NIT on Sunday.
West Virginia Coach Mark Kellogg went viral — and roused Iowa fans — with his comment last Sunday after the NCAA women’s basketball tournament pairings were released.
Iowa guard Molly Davis is “attacking rehab” as the Hawkeyes prepare for their NCAA women’s basketball tournament opener against Holy Cross.
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