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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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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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 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 [...]
continue »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, [...]
continue »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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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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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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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 [...]
continue »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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