IOWA CITY – A little more than a minute remained when Jaime Printy, Morgan Johnson and Trisha Nesbitt walked off the Carver-Hawkeye Arena court to a standing ovation. Printy stopped and shared an embrace with Iowa coach Lisa Bluder before taking a seat on the bench. “I just told Jaime not to cry,” Bluder said. [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

IOWA CITY — Jaime Printy surprised her teammates, her family and herself during a Senior Night postgame speech. No tears. “I’m a huge crier,” she said. “And I’m sure I will be very emotional when the season is over. “But that night, I wasn’t saying good bye. Not yet.” The Iowa Hawkeyes expect to make [...]

IOWA CITY — Hey, don’t you look familiar? For the second time in less than 96 hours, the Iowa Hawkeyes tangle with Northwestern in a women’s basketball game. This time, it’s in the first round of the Big Ten Tournament. Tipoff is 11:30 a.m. Thursday at the Sears Centre in Hoffman Estates, Ill. “Here we [...]

IOWA CITY — The Iowa Hawkeyes ran out of time Monday night. They might be running out of opportunities. Nebraska’s Jordan Hooper scored 29 points, and the Hawkeyes’ last-ditch effort came up short in a 76-75 Big Ten women’s basketball loss in front of 3,937 at Carver-Hawkeye Arena. It was Iowa’s fourth straight defeat, and [...]

MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. —Iowa shot just 28.6 percent last night and suffered its third straight Big Ten defeat, falling again Thursday night to Minnesota, 72-60, in Williams Arena. The Hawkeyes, who slipped to 16-8 overall and 5-5 in the Big Ten, made just 18of63 shots and were outscored 32-18 on the inside. Minnesota sophomore Rachel Banham [...]