No. 12 Iowa vs. Rutgers women’s basketball glance: Time, TV, game notes (Dec. 6, 2025)

What: No. 12 Iowa (8-0, 0-0) vs. Rutgers (7-2, 0-0), Big Ten women’s basketball

When/where: 5 p.m. (CT) Saturday, Jersey Mike’s Arena, Piscataway, N.J.

TV: FS1

Radio: Hawkeye Radio Network affiliates

Iowa’s next game: At Iowa State, 6 p.m. Wednesday.

What to know: Iowa has won five straight in the series, 14 of the last 15. The only setback during that stretch was an overtime loss in New Jersey in 2020.

The Hawkeyes are 8-0 for the second straight year and the fifth time overall.

With Thursday’s news that Jada Gyamfi is out for three months due to a medical procedure on her knee, Iowa is expected to have only 10 players available.

Chit-Chat Wright, Emely Rodriguez and Teagan Mallegni have missed multiple games, and had not practiced this week as of Thursday.

Ava Heiden leads the Hawkeyes at 16.0 points and 9.9 rebounds per game, and is shooting 64.1 percent from the floor.

Taylor McCabe has hit 12 of 25 3-pointers (.480) in the past three games.

Kylie Feuerbach matched career highs in points (17) and 3-pointers (four) in the Hawkeyes’ win over Fairfield on Sunday.

Addie Deal averaged 4.7 points in her first six games, 13.0 in her last two.

Since making the NCAA tournament in 2021, Rutgers has gone 3-14, 5-13, 2-16 and 3-15 in Big Ten play in the last four seasons.

Nene Ndiaye, a 6-foot-1 junior and a transfer from Boston College, leads the Scarlet Knights at 16.9 points per game.

Shannon (Perry) LeBeauf is an associate head coach. She played at Iowa from 1994 through 1998.

After Saturday’s game, the Hawkeyes will conclude their non-conference slate at Iowa State (Wednesday), at home against Lindenwood (next Saturday) and against UConn (Dec. 20, at Brooklyn) before resuming Big Ten play for good Dec. 28 at home against Penn State.

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