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After being down by as many as 20 in the first half, Iowa women’s basketball couldn’t battle back against the No. 16 ranked Colorado Buffaloes. Iowa ended up losing the game 90-87 despite the fact that Iowa played a sloppy first half in their first road game. Samantha Logic did everything in her power to try and give Iowa their first lead of the game late, but came up short finishing with 26 points, 6 assists. Iowa outscored Colorado 52-42 in the second half of the game, giving the Buffaloes their real first scare of the season. “We just got … Continued

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Iowa found themselves reaching deep on their bench for help after both Bethany Doolittle and Claire Till both had early fouls, but Iowa still defeated the Stony Brook Seawolves 78-40. “This is one of those game’s we were waiting for as far as the change in officiating,” Lisa Bluder said, “ We were kind of dreading and it came to fruition tonight.” Doolittle picked up two fouls within the first six minutes of the game and didn’t see action until the start of the second half, that required Iowa to go to freshman walk-on Hailey Schneden for nine minutes of … Continued

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The University of Iowa women’s soccer team is usually getting ready to prepare for the end-of-the-season team banquet at around this time of year. This is typically a time when players, coaches, administrative staff, and families gather to remember the season that was and celebrate the season that has come to an end. Not this year. The Hawkeyes will instead be taking the practice field to start preparing for the first NCAA Tournament appearance in program history. The team learned their fate Monday afternoon while watching together in Carver-Hawkeye Arena, surrounded by plenty of staff from the athletic department. They … Continued

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  Dribble, dribble, spin, catch, bend, extend, release. After that, it’s up to the rim, backboard, net, and basketball. Some people have rituals, some have routines, some just shoot. The only constant is that everyone is 15 feet away from the hoop, behind a line, wide open, with a ball and a goal-1 point. When the game of basketball was created by James Naismith in 1891, free throws were nowhere to be found on the original 13 rules of the game. It took 5 years for free throws to implemented into the game and another year to move them from … Continued

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The Iowa women’s basketball team is scheduled to play both Arkansas Pine-Bluff and Stony Brook this week. They are coming off a 97-93 upset victory over No. 14 Dayton in the Hawkeye Challenge that gave them their first home tournament title since 2010. Here are five things you should know about the team this week: Samantha Logic captures awards Not only did she play lights out during the Hawkeye Challenge, she played the last four minutes of the game and overtime with part of her tooth missing after a loose ball scuffle. The highlight of the day from her was … Continued

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