Women’s Basketball

Iowa's Samantha Logic (second from left) talks to teammates during a timeout during the second half of their Round One NCAA Women's Division I Basketball Tournament game against Miami at Carver-Hawkeye Arena on Sunday, March 24, 2013, in Iowa City, Iowa. Iowa won, 69-53, to advance to play Notre Dame in Round Two. (Jim Slosiarek/The Gazette-KCRG)

WBB: Hawks take aim at Notre Dame

Iowa is a big upset away from first Sweet 16 since 1996

IOWA CITY — A huge challenge awaits. So does a huge opportunity. “If this doesn’t get you up, nothing will,” said Samantha Logic, point guard for the University of Iowa women’s basketball team. The Hawkeyes (21-12) load up their slingshots for Tuesday’s second-round NCAA tournament game against second-ranked Notre Dame (32-1). Tipoff is 8:40 p.m. [...]

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Notre Dame head coach Muffet McGraw reacts during the first half of a first-round game against Tennessee Martin in the women's NCAA college basketball tournament on Sunday, March 24, 2013, in Iowa City, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)

Iowa/ND: Two programs in two different places

NCAA women's basketball: Iowa is in the upper-middle class; Notre Dame is elite

IOWA CITY — There’s no Florida Gulf Coast in the NCAA women’s basketball tournament. No LaSalle or Wichita State. “There’s just not the parity in women’s basketball as there is in men’s basketball right now, and that’s unfortunate,” Iowa coach Lisa Bluder said. What there is: A well-defined upper crust. Notre Dame is among those [...]

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Miami coach prophetic on Iowa’s Logic

NCAA women's basketball: Sophomore guard scores 23, helps Iowa move on

IOWA CITY — This was what Katie Meier feared. “Well, I think I jinxed (us) in (Saturday’s) press conference,” said Meier, the women’s basketball coach at Miami (Fla.) “You asked me the key to Iowa and I said Samantha Logic, because boy, she was phenomenal.” Logic scored 23 points and grabbed 11 rebounds as Iowa [...]

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Iowa's Jaime Printy (center) high-fives pep band member Tim Clay (right) of Johnston, Iowa, as the Hawkeyes and their fans celebrate their Round One NCAA Women's Division I Basketball Tournament win over Miami at Carver-Hawkeye Arena on Sunday, March 24, 2013, in Iowa City, Iowa. Iowa won, 69-53, to advance to play Notre Dame in Round Two. (Jim Slosiarek/The Gazette-KCRG)

Second-half spree sends Hawkeyes past Miami

NCAA women's basketball: Down 7, Iowa storms back and advances to face Notre Dame

IOWA CITY – Samantha Logic insisted the game wasn’t slipping away. But the Iowa Hawkeyes were teetering on the brink of major danger before Melissa Dixon shot them out of trouble. Dixon nailed three consecutive 3-pointers in less than two minutes as the Hawkeyes rallied past, then ran away from Miami (Fla.), 69-53, in an [...]

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UT Martin’s Butler dazzles Iowa City despite loss

Skyhawks juniors scores 37 in opening round defeat

IOWA CITY – Fans migrated to baseline to get a closer view of Skylar Diggins. Faithful followers wearing Kelly green, black and gold and Hurricane Orange, took out their cell phones and aimed them at the Notre Dame All-American guard who boasts more than 312,000 Twitter followers. But when they exited Carver-Hawkeye Arena Sunday night, [...]

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WBB: Hawkeyes and Hurricanes: Flip a coin

Iowa hosts tournament for first time since 2009

IOWA CITY – The Iowa Hawkeyes gathered at Lisa Bluder’s house for a team meal Saturday night. Bluder wasn’t cooking, but said that chicken and lasagna would be on the menu. The Hawkeyes are hopeful that it wasn’t their Last Supper as a team. “I hope we come out and win this first one so we [...]

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Skylar Diggins and two-time national runner-up Notre Dame will be in Iowa City this weekend for the NCAA women's basketball tournament. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill, file)

NCAA women’s tournament: Iowa City subregion

Facts on the teams coming to Carver this weekend, and a schedule for the event

Thumbnails on the teams participating in the Iowa City subregional for the NCAA women’s basketball tournament: TENNESSEE-MARTIN (19-14) Norfolk Region seed: 16th Final AP ranking: Unranked Nickname: Skyhawks How it qualified: Earned an automatic berth by winning the Ohio Valley Conference tournament. Brings an eight-game win streak to Iowa City. Coach: Kevin McMillan (4th year at [...]

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Miami's Shawnice Wilson, right, battles with Florida State's Chelsea Davis, left, for a rebound during the second half of an NCAA college basketball game at the Atlantic Coast Conference tournament in Greensboro, N.C., Friday, March 8, 2013. Florida State won 70-58. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton)

WBB: Miami coach: ‘We have to be 10 points better’

Head coach Meier says Hawkeyes will get Hurricanes' best effort

IOWA CITY – The way Katie Meier sees it, the Miami Hurricanes take a double-digit deficit to Carver-Hawkeye Arena this weekend. “Unfortunately, we have to have the mentality of playing on someone’s home court,” the Hurricanes’ head coach said to the Miami Herald after the NCAA women’s basketball tournament pairings were released Monday night. “That [...]

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The Iowa women's basketball team reacts to the announcement of their first-round game against Miami while watching the NCAA basketball selection show in their locker room theater at Carver-Hawkeye Arena on Monday, March 18, 2013, in Iowa City. (Liz Martin/The Gazette-KCRG)

Hawkeyes draw Miami as first-round NCAA foe

Iowa is a 9 seed; second-ranked Notre Dame likely looms in Round 2

IOWA CITY — The University of Iowa coaching staff began advance scouting on a cluster of about eight teams last week, in preparation for the NCAA women’s basketball tournament. “Miami wasn’t one of them,” head coach Lisa Bluder said. The Hawkeyes (20-12) earned a No. 9 seed and will face the eighth-seeded Hurricanes (21-10) in [...]

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Projected NCAA women’s basketball pairings

Our brackets have ISU as a 6 seed and bound for College Station, Iowa as an 11 and hosting

The NCAA will release its draw for the 2013 Division-I women’s basketball tournament at 6 p.m. Monday. Jeff Linder of The Gazette/KCRG updates his mock bracket: BRIDGEPORT REGION At Storrs, Conn. (9) Oklahoma State vs. (8) Princeton (16) Navy vs. (1) Connecticut At College Park, Md. (12) San Diego State vs. (5) Georgia (13) South [...]

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