At first glance, Iowa’s road to a second straight NCAA women’s basketball Final Four is littered with familiarity. Here’s look at this week’s Carver combatants in the First Four and first- and second-round NCAA tournament games, plus a list of potential foes in Albany.
The Iowa men’s basketball team is getting a home game in the 2024 National Invitation Tournament, and it’s coming up fast.
For only the third time — and the first in 31 years — the Iowa Hawkeyes are an NCAA women’s basketball tournament 1-seed. Iowa is the top seed in the Albany-2 Region, termed “Murderers’ Row” by ESPN analyst Carolyn Peck.
At least four of the state of Iowa’s Division I basketball teams head to the NCAA tournament, and there isn’t a one of them that hasn’t already done big things
To paraphrase Jimmy Dugan, the National Invitation Tournament isn’t supposed to be fun. If it were fun, everyone would want to be in it.
In the University of Iowa’s rich women’s basketball annals, No. 1 seeds in the NCAA tournament have been uncommon. The Hawkeyes are expected to earn a rare 1-seed Sunday, when the NCAA bracket is released (7 p.m., ESPN).
Iowa’s NIT fate was sealed Thursday when it dropped to 18-14 after dropping a 90-78 decision to Ohio State at the Big Ten tournament in Target Center.
The Iowa Hawkeyes lost their second-round Big Ten men’s basketball tournament game to Ohio State, 90-78. They never led, and didn’t get closer than eight points in the final nine minutes.
Iowa’s Big Ten tournament opener against Ohio State on Thursday in Minneapolis is the definition of a must-win, and that’s to get to a probable must-win Friday against Illinois.
Previewing Thursday’s Big Ten men’s basketball tournament second-round game between Iowa and Ohio State at Target Center in Minneapolis, where Hawkeye basketball teams are 6-0 over the last 53 weeks.
Addie Deal, the 12th-ranked prospect in the 2025 class according to ESPN, committed to the University of Iowa on Tuesday.
Iowa 6-foot-10 freshman Owen Freeman has done more than average double-digits in scoring in securing Big Ten Freshman of the Year honors, and the sky may be the limit.
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