Iowa women’s basketball: Caitlin Clark wins, Lisa Bluder’s team keeps rising in the rankings
The Hawkeyes, led by Lisa Bluder, are still among the top teams in the nation. Iowa was ranked as the second-best team in the nation on Monday, just behind South Carolina. In the history of the program, Iowa has ranked second 16 times in total.
Iowa City, Iowa The Hawkeyes, led by Lisa Bluder, are still among the top teams in the nation. Iowa was ranked as the second-best team in the nation on Monday, just behind South Carolina. In the history of the program, Iowa has ranked second 16 times in total.
Since the poll’s release on October 17, the Hawkeyes have been among the top five teams. With 15 straight weeks of play, Iowa presently has the longest active run among the AP Top 5. The Hawkeyes are ranked 23rd all-time in appearances with 327 in the AP Poll.
The Hawkeyes just defeated Northwestern and Maryland on the road. Iowa defeated the Xfinity Center on Saturday, 93-85, to end a seven-game losing run.
the Terps. Iowa is 7-1 this season against teams earning votes and the AP Top 25, having last begun 21-2 in the 1995–96 campaign.
Furthermore, for the sixth time this year, Iowa’s true senior guard Caitlin Clark has been named the Big Ten’s Player of the Week. Clark. With this win, Clark has won the most weekly awards from the Big Ten in conference history, surpassing Megan Gustafson, a former Hawkeye. (23)
Clark finished with a season-high 12 assists, six rebounds, and 38 points in a primetime game against the Maryland Terrapins. None of the previous 25 collegiate women’s basketball teams have had more than two games with 30 points or more and 10 assists in as many games as she has had in her career. Out of those, five were against clubs with rankings.
The All-American is the first men’s or women’s Division-I college basketball player to record more than 3,300 points, 950 assists, and 850 rebounds in a single game.
profession. Currently ranked second in the NCAA scoring record for all time is Clark. She is behind Kelsey Plum by 66 points.
“I remember, to be honest, [the record] was very much a low point in my life,” Plum told ESPN. “It felt like a lot of pressure, and that record kind of ensnared me.” I hope that the media as a whole takes the time to realize that Clark is a young woman with feelings and emotions in addition to being a basketball player. There’s a lot to handle there, yet she handles it with elegance.