Junior guard from Michigan chooses Hawkeyes

IOWA CITY - Alexis Sevillian made up her mind, and told her older sister the news.

The response?

'She said, ‘Are you ready to get beat?'” Sevillian said Monday, after confirming that she has orally committed to play women's basketball at the University of Iowa.

And the Sevillian family tree has another Division-I branch.

A 5-foot-6 junior guard from Goodrich, Mich., Sevillian will join her sister Keke in the Big Ten in 2016-17. Keke is a sophomore at Penn State.

Their father, Clarence, was a wide receiver at Vanderbilt.

Sevillian chose the Hawkeyes over Nebraska.

'I really had a connection with the staff and the players,” she said. 'It was better than any other connection. They really made me comfortable.”

Sevillian averaged 12.6 points, 2.1 assists and 3.0 steals per game last season as Goodrich went 22-3.

Her senior teammate, Tania Davis, plans to make her decision this week. Iowa is among her finalists.

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