Articles Tagged: Lisa Bluder

Caitlin Clark was undeniable Sunday with the Final Four squarely in her sights

NCAA women’s basketball tournament: 40 minutes — and Louisville — stand between the Iowa Hawkeyes and the Final Four.

NCAA women’s basketball tournament: When Iowa recruit Ava Jones was severely injured last summer, Louisville Coach Jeff Walz stepped up, for Lisa Bluder and for the Jones family.

NCAA women’s basketball tournament: Iowa’s ability to run in transition, from guards to posts, is “unheard of,” according to Colorado coach JR Payne.

NCAA women’s basketball tournament: New format and sites force teams and fans to ramp up the travel, especially to Seattle.

Iowa women’s basketball players Caitlin Clark, Gabbie Marshall and Monika Czinano and head coach Lisa Bluder met with the media in Seattle before Friday’s NCAA tournament Sweet 16 game against Colorado.

When Iowa Coach Lisa Bluder was asked Thursday for a season-defining moment, she didn’t point to any of the Hawkeyes’ 28 victories. The spark for the late-season run came in a lopsided loss at Maryland.

No. 3 Iowa hosts Georgia on Sunday, and a trip to Seattle for the NCAA women’s basketball Sweet 16 awaits the victor.

NCAA women’s basketball tournament: No. 3 Iowa routs Southeastern Louisiana in Round 1, 95-43.

Iowa earned a 2-seed for the NCAA women’s basketball tournament and will play a first-round game Friday at Carver vs. Southeastern Louisiana.

Iowa women’s basketball coach Lisa Bluder feels the Hawkeyes “deserve a 1 (seed in the NCAA tournament), but I think we’ll get a 2.”

Surrounded by Iowa fans who filled Target Center’s lower bowl to produce a Big Ten women’s basketball tournament attendance record of 9,505, Iowa did its part to keep the volume turned up. The Hawkeyes set a tournament record of their own with 105 points in a 33-point rout of No. 14 Ohio State for a championship repeat.

Watch Iowa women’s basketball coach Lisa Bluder’s postgame press conference after the Hawkeyes beat Ohio State 105-72 to win their second straight Big Ten tournament championship at Target Center in Minneapolis.

Lisa Bluder, Caitlin Clark, Monika Czinano and McKenna Warnock discuss No. 6 Iowa’s 86-85 win over No. 2 Indiana on Senior Day.

Women’s basketball: This game lived up to the hype, and then some. Caitlin Clark’s 3-pointer at the horn sent Iowa past Indiana, 86-85.