No. 11 Iowa vs. Lindenwood women’s basketball glance: Time, TV, game notes (Dec. 13, 2025)

What: No. 11 Iowa (9-1) vs. Lindenwood (7-2), women’s basketball

When/where: 2 p.m. Saturday, Carver-Hawkeye Arena, Iowa City

TV: B1G+

Radio: Hawkeye Radio Network affiliates

Iowa’s next game: vs. Connecticut, noon Dec. 20, at Brooklyn, N.Y.

What to know: This is the first meeting between the teams.

Located in Saint Charles, Mo., and a member of the Ohio Valley Conference, Lindenwood is in its fourth year as an NCAA Division-I program. The Lions have made rapid growth, from 2-24 in its first D-I season to 7-21 in 2023-24, to 23-11 last season.

The Lions advanced to the third round of the WNIT last year.

There is one common opponent: Iowa defeated Drake 100-58; Lindenwood handled the Bulldogs at Des Moines, 68-52, in its most recent game.

Iowa is coming off of its first loss of the season, 74-69 at No. 10 Iowa State on Wednesday. The Hawkeyes were 6 of 12 at the free throw line, continuing a season-long pattern of middling foul shooting (65.4 percent).

Chit-Chat Wright scored a career-high 21 points Wednesday.

Ava Heiden leads the team at 15.3 points per game.

Lindenwood is led by a trio of double-digit-scoring guards: Aleisha Jones averages 15.9 points per game, Ellie Bruegemann 13.4, Brooke Coffey 12.6.

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