PROGRAM QUICK HITS
» Iowa broke the WBB all-time attendance record for a single game with 55,646 on hand for the Crossover at Kinnick exhibition against DePaul.
» National Player of the Year candidate, Caitlin Clark, is the first Division-I player to record 3,300+ points, 900+ assists, and 800+ rebounds in a career.
» Gabbie Marshall became the first Iowa women’s basketball player to register 200+ 3-pointers made and 200+ steals in a career.
» Iowa has three AP Top 20 wins this season.
» UI is off to its first 18-2 start under Lisa Bluder.
» Iowa is 14-5 in its last true 19 road games.
» The Hawkeyes won the 2023 Gulf Coast Showcase in Estero, Fla., with three games in three days. Clark was named the Tournament MVP.
» Since 2008, Bluder’s teams own a 238-43 record inside of Carver-Hawkeye Arena. In that stretch, the Hawkeyes have posted three undefeated seasons at home.
» Over the last nine years, Iowa has dropped the second-fewest regular season home games in the Big Ten.
» Iowa’s 2023-24 roster is comprised of two fifth-year, one graduate, one senior, five juniors, three sophomores, and two freshmen. Four Hawkeyes are Iowa natives, four from Illinois, two from Michigan, and one each from Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, Ohio.
» Seven Big Ten regular-season games will be on a nationally broadcast platform (either NBC or FOX), the most in conference history. The Hawkeyes are featured in five of the seven contests.
» Iowa WBB has helped sellout or break an attendance record in 29 of 32 games this season. Tickets are available to catch the Hawkeyes at Nebraska. The other two games in which Iowa did not set a record was the first round and championship of the Gulf Coast Showcase in Estero, Fla.
» Iowa has won 11 of its last 12 against Big Ten foes.
» Clark has scored 20+ points in 105-of-120 career games which is the most in UI history.
» Iowa owns the longest active streak in the AP Top 5 at 13 consecutive weeks.
» Bluder owns a 512-251 (.671) record and a 254-142 (.640) conference mark at Iowa. In her 39 seasons as a head coach, Bluder is 868-393 (.690).
THIS WEEK
The fifth-ranked Hawkeyes will return home to face Nebraska on Jan. 27. Tip-off is set for 1 p.m. (CT) inside a sold-out Carver-Hawkeye Arena.
WATCH/FOLLOW ALONG
» Saturday’s contest will air on BTN and the Hawkeye Radio Network.
AUDIO COVERAGE
» Rob Brooks and Tiff Reedy will call the action on the Hawkeye Radio Network. A link to the broadcast is available on the women’s basketball schedule page on hawkeyesports.com.
» Brooks is in his eighth year as the play-by-play announcer for the Iowa women’s basketball team. He has been Iowa football’s sideline reporter since 2004. Brooks has called seven different Iowa sports on radio or television.
» The Hawkeye Radio Network had over 30,000 listeners on YouTube in Iowa’s win over Kansas State in the GC Showcase Championship, which is a station record.
» Reedy was a four-year letterwinner from 2002-06 at Iowa and is a native of Dysart, Iowa.
THE SERIES
» This is the 38th meeting between the two foes.
» Iowa leads the all-time series, 22-15.
» The Hawkeyes have won 10 out of the last 11 meetings.
» UI has swept Nebraska in three consecutive seasons.
» In seven of the last eight Iowa victories over Nebraska, the Hawkeyes have scored 80+ points.
» Nebraska’s last win over Iowa in Carver-Hawkeye Arena came in the 2017-18 season.
WHAT 2 WATCH 4
» Clark is now tied for seventh on the Big Ten’s all-time list for most career double-doubles in a career (52). She leads active Big Ten players.
» Marshall (147) and Martin (145) are eyeing Monika Czinano’s games played record. (162)
» Iowa is 33-4 in Big Ten Conference action since Feb. 9, 2022.
» Iowa is 7-4 when Clark records 40 or more points.
» Clark has 54 career games with 25+ points, 5+ assists, and 5+ rebounds. (NCAA Best)
» Over the last 25 seasons, no has recorded more 30+ point games in men’s or women’s college basketball than Clark. (48)
» Marshall is 13-of-26 over the last four games from deep.
» Kate Martin has scored 10+ points in 12 of the last 15 games.
» Molly Davis, who has been dangerous over the last 10 days. In the team’s three games against the Buckeyes, Wisconsin, and Indiana, she’s averaged 12.3 PPG on nearly 86% shooting inside the arc. The 37 total points in that span are her most in any 3-game span since transferring to the program from Central Michigan prior to last season.
» Iowa has posted a 14-5 record in their last 19 true road contests played overall.
» Clark has three career triple-doubles of the 35-point variety. All other players in women’s college basketball history have four.
» Caitlin Clark is the NCAA’s fourth all-time leading scorer. She surpassed Baylor’s Brittney Griner last Tuesday against Wisconsin.
» Clark has registered 25+ points, 5+ assists, and 5+ rebounds in 12 out of the last 14 games.
» Clark kept her alive streak of 78 consecutive games making a 3-point basket. (NCAA best)
» Against No. 18 Ohio State, Clark recorded 45 points which one shy of her career-high outburst against Michigan on Feb. 6, 2022.
» Iowa has won 11 of its last 12 against Big Ten foes.
SCOUTING NEBRASKA
» Nebraska holds a 13-6 record this season and is 5-3 in conference play after a 83-72, loss at Penn State on Sunday.
» Two-time Ann Meyers-Drysdale Award candidate Jaz Shelley has added 12.1 points, 4.1 rebounds and team bests of 5.4 assists and 1.6 steals. She owns two double-doubles this season.
» Against PSU, Alexis Markowski produced a huge double-double with 16 points and a career-high 19 rebounds.
» Markowski owns a Big Ten-best 12 double-doubles. A two-time Lisa Leslie Award candidate, Markowski has scored in double figures in all 19 games this season, including five 20-point performances.
» Five-time Big Ten Freshman-of-the-Week Natalie Potts, leads all league freshmen in scoring (11.3 ppg) and rebounding (6.0 rpg), including 17 points and a career-high 13 rebounds in a win over Maryland (Dec. 31).
