Articles Tagged: Lisa Bluder

NCAA women’s basketball: You wanted an Iowa-LSU NCAA rematch? You got it, Monday night for a Final Four berth.

NCAA women’s basketball: Iowa eliminates Colorado in the Sweet 16 for the second straight year, 89-68. Next up Monday: LSU for a berth in the Final Four.

In the final year before its members scatter, the Pac-12 has five teams in the Sweet 16. Colorado and UCLA make up half of the Albany-2 semifinal field while Oregon State met Notre Dame in the Albany-1 semifinals.

Time, TV and notes for Saturday’s NCAA women’s basketball tournament regional-semifinal game between No. 2 Iowa and No. 17 Colorado.

Here’s a look at this week’s four Albany-2 combatants at MVP Arena. It’s LSU vs. UCLA, then Iowa vs. Colorado on Saturday.

Defense — and free throws — saved the day, and No. 2 Iowa fought past West Virginia, 64-54, in an NCAA women’s basketball second-round game before a sellout crowd of 14,324 Monday night at Carver-Hawkeye Arena.

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.

Time, TV and notes for Monday’s NCAA women’s basketball tournament second-round game game between No. 2 Iowa and West Virginia.

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.

Iowa guard Molly Davis is “attacking rehab” as the Hawkeyes prepare for their NCAA women’s basketball tournament opener against Holy Cross.

The wide-eyed, 16-seed Holy Cross Crusaders get their view at women’s basketball royalty when they tackle No. 2 Iowa in an NCAA tournament first-round game Saturday at Carver-Hawkeye Arena.

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.

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.

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).