After coming out of the gates red hot and getting off to an 8-0 start, the Iowa Hawkeyes women’s basketball team has seen some ups and downs as the season has carried on.
Sitting at 12-3, the Hawkeyes dropped three of their last seven games, two of which came in Big Ten play to Michigan State and Maryland.
Despite the losses, the Hawkeyes have notched Big Ten victories over Purdue and Penn State to get to 2-2 in conference play, which puts them at ninth in the Big Ten standings.
Those two wins still have Iowa in the USA TODAY Sports Women’s College Basketball Coaches Poll at No. 23.
In this week’s CBS Sports Top 25 Women’s College Basketball Power Rankings, Iowa held steady without any slippage.
Iowa is coming in at No. 22 in these power rankings, the same spot that they held last week.
The Hawkeyes have a chance to make up some ground in the Big Ten and climb the rankings in the coming weeks as their schedule has a nice run of unranked teams ahead of them.
Up next for Iowa is a date on the road against the Illinois Fighting Illini on Thursday, Jan. 9 at 6 p.m. CT followed by a Sunday afternoon tipoff at home against the Indiana Hoosiers on Sunday, Jan. 12 at 2 p.m. CT.
Iowa follows these games with games versus Nebraska, at Oregon, at Washington, and home against Northwestern before they host the current No. 4 team in America, the USC Trojans.
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