Jeff Linder

Women’s basketball: Minus Hannah Stuelke, Iowa suffers a 50-49 loss at Oregon, its fifth consecutive defeat.

Women’s basketball: Hawkeyes head west in an effort to keep their season from heading south. Freshmen Aaliyah Guyton and Taylor Stremlow have emerged as the team’s young ‘dogs.’

What to know about Sunday’s women’s basketball game between Iowa and Oregon. Game time, TV schedule, game notes.

Girls’ basketball: Cedar Rapids Prairie tops Iowa City West, 65-57, is the last remaining unbeaten in MVC action.

Women’s basketball: Free-throw follies rear their ugly head for the second straight Thursday night, and Iowa blows an 11-point fourth-quarter lead in a loss to Nebraska, its fourth in a row.

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Girls’ basketball: The Wamac East is ‘one of the most competitive leagues in the state, and the records prove it.’ All six teams are above .500 overall.

Area girls’ basketball Super Ten: No changes whatsoever, from 1 to 10. Cedar Rapids Prairie stays on top.

Women’s basketball: Iowa Coach Jan Jensen is relying both on analytics and her ‘gut’ to get the right pieces in place in an effort to snap a three-game skid. “I really do believe I’m pushing the right buttons.”

What to know about Thursday’s women’s basketball game between Nebraska and Iowa. Game time, TV schedule, game notes.

Girls’ basketball: All five starters hit double figures, and 3A No. 1 Mount Vernon tops Center Point-Urbana, 68-41.

Women’s basketball: Indiana leads from start to finish, sends No. 23 Iowa to its third straight loss, 74-67. “We’re going to let this one hit us a little bit,” Iowa’s Taylor McCabe said.

Girls’ basketball: A downhill slope remains slippery in terms of participation in Iowa. Six schools, including Central City, aren’t playing a varsity schedule, and last year’s statewide number of 6,179 is a 38-percent decrease from 2007-08.

What to know about Sunday’s women’s basketball game between Indiana and No. 23 Iowa. Game time, TV schedule, game notes.

Women’s basketball: Hawkeyes’ bus ride home from Champaign was quiet, yet productive. Players discussed what went wrong in the loss to Illinois, and the coaches resumed discussion about combinations and chemistry.