Mike Hlas

Plus, if you don’t watch the halftime show you won’t know what all the praise and criticism is about.

No. 21 Badgers bring height and heft to Carver against Iowa team that no longer has its best big man.

Guard Braden Smith scores 31 points to lead with No. 7 Boilermakers to 10th conference win in 12 starts.

It isn’t on conventional television. It isn’t on conventional television. It isn’t on conventional television.

Sophomore Freeman is Hawkeyes’ team-leader in scoring and rebounding

Sunday at Carver-Hawkeye Arena was built around Clark’s No. 22 getting retired. Her former Hawkeyes team, led by Olsen’s 28 points, made the day complete with a big upset of the fourth-ranked Trojans.

The bottom three of the 18 teams won’t advance to Indianapolis for the league tourney, and the Hawkeyes have work to do to be one of the 15 that do

Iowa remains winless in Big Ten road games, drops to 4-6 in the Big Ten.

The Buckeyes haven’t had the homecourt success of most Big Ten teams, and the Hawkeyes haven’t had any conference road successes this season.

Hawkeyes and Buckeyes are coming off tight wins. Iowa is in need of a couple road victories between now and the Big Ten tourney.

Iowa ends 3-game losing streak after sweating out the finish in which the Nittany Lions scored the last seven points.

At 3-5 in the Big Ten with three straight losses, Iowa badly needs a win. It faces a Penn State team that, like the Hawkeyes, likes to get up and go, and score.

Hawkeyes will try to halt 3-game skid and climb over Penn State in the Big Ten standings.

Lewis, a 6-foot-7 forward, had decommitted from hometown USF team. He announced his choice of Iowa Thursday.

Iowa’s third straight loss was a bad one, at home against Minnesota. Attendance remains down, while apathy is going up.