The Iowa women’s basketball team accomplished quite the feat on Sunday when they took down fifth-ranked Michigan in front of a sold-out Carver-Hawkeye Arena.
The Hawkeyes‘ 62-44 win over the Wolverines was the team’s seventh victory this season over an AP Top 25 opponent, which ties the program record for most such wins in a regular season. The last time Iowa did this was in the 2012-13 season, according to Bailey W. Turner of Iowa’s Strategic Communications department.
This is a particularly impressive feat for this team because they accomplished something that no team during the Caitlin Clark era was able to do. That’s not to disparage that era of Iowa women’s basketball, which was the most successful stretch of hoops in the history of the program and provided so many lifelong memories. It’s more so a credit to this year’s team and what they’ve done to keep the program at an elite level.
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Six of those seven wins against AP Top 25 teams have come in Big Ten play, with the other win coming against a top-ten Baylor team in November. The Big Ten is an incredibly strong conference, so having that much success against those teams goes to show how good this team is in year two under Jan Jensen. She’s consistently pressed the right buttons all season long and has done a great job leading this program after Lisa Bluder’s retirement.
The Hawkeyes have two games left in the regular season before postseason play begins. If their record against ranked teams so far is any indication, they’re going to be a tough out for whoever they match up with in March.
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