Mike Hlas

It’s a second-straight Final Four for Iowa, with a thorough vanquishing of 2023 conqueror LSU.

Name a team stat, and probably either LSU or Iowa are high up the NCAA women’s basketball national charts.

If you think the LSU women’s basketball players are disrespectful or dismissive of Iowa, you’ve only seen them from far away.

Caitlin Clark brushed off having two first-half fouls with no fear, and the Iowa Hawkeyes shuffled off the Colorado Buffaloes, 89-68, behind her 29 points and 15 assists.

Every word and gesture scrutinized, a $5 million offer to play 10 games against men — every day is bringing greater attention on Caitlin Clark as Iowa proceeds in the NCAA women’s basketball tournament.

Albany gets Iowa, South Carolina and LSU, a lot of women’s basketball star power to stuff into a small tournament venue.

Four-year Iowa men’s basketball player Tony Perkins has entered the NCAA transfer portal. Perkins scored 1,175 career points and started 81 games as a Hawkeye, leading the team in assists and steals this season

Sydney Affolter made Iowa’s only basket of the fourth quarter Monday night against West Virginia’s ruthless defense. The biggest basket of the game is what it was.

The Hawkeyes have their hands full in a second-round NCAA tourney game against West Virginia. Which probably is just the way Clark wants it.

Holy Cross, to its eternal credit, didn’t bend the knee to Caitlin Clark or Iowa. But 16th-seeds don’t win games like this, so the Hawkeyes immediately move on to tougher obstacles.

The head coach and a starting guard for South Dakota State used the same two words as a possibility for the Cyclones after ISU’s 82-65 first-round NCAA tourney win over the Jackrabbits: National championship

The Iowa men’s basketball team will play Utah in a second-round National Invitation Tournament game Sunday. Let’s just say it will bring an end to the weekend.

Payton Sandfort, identified as the Iowa men’s Caitlin Clark in the Wildcats’ scouting report, has career-high 30 points and Ben Krikke scored 24 for Hawkeyes. Iowa never trailed and heads to this weekend’s second round.

Previewing Tuesday’s NIT first-round game between Iowa and Kansas State: Teams with 14 losses apiece clash in Carver-Hawkeye Arena.

The Iowa men’s basketball team is getting a home game in the 2024 National Invitation Tournament, and it’s coming up fast.