WBB Game Notes: Nebraska

WBB Game Notes: Nebraska

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.
• Clark is the Big Ten’s all-time leader in points and assists.
• 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 22-2 start under Lisa Bluder.
• Hannah Stuelke broke the CHA record with 47 points against Penn State.
• 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 240-43 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 30 of 32 games this season. 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 15 of its last 16 against Big Ten foes.
• Clark has scored 20+ points in 109-of-124 career games which is the most in UI history.
• Iowa owns the longest active streak in the AP Top 5 at 15 consecutive weeks.
• Bluder owns a 516-251 (.672) record and a 258-142 (.641) conference mark at Iowa. In her 39 seasons as a head coach, Bluder is 872-393 (.691).

THIS WEEK
The second-ranked Hawkeyes will hit the road to square off with Nebraska on Feb. 11. Tip-off is set for Noon (CT) inside a sold-out Pinnacle Bank Arena.

WATCH/FOLLOW ALONG
• Sunday’s contest will air nationally on FOX and the Hawkeye Radio Network.

AUDIO COVERAGE
• Rob Brooks and Tiff Reedy will call the action on the Hawkeye Radio Network.
• 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 will begin her first full season providing color for radio with the Iowa women’s basketball program.
• Reedy was four-year letter winner from 2002-06 at Iowa and is a native of Dysart, Iowa.

THE SERIES
• This is the 39th meeting between the two foes.
• Iowa leads the all-time series, 23-15.
• The Hawkeyes are looking to sweep the Huskers for the fifth consecutive season.
• Iowa and Nebraska met on Jan. 27, and UI prevailed, 92-73.
• In eight of the last nine Iowa wins over Nebraska, the Hawkeyes have scored 80+ points.
• The Hawkeyes have won 11 out of the last 12 meetings against the Huskers.

WHAT 2 WATCH 4
• Clark is 39 points from the NCAA’s all-time scoring title (Kelsey Plum, Washington).
• Clark is fifth on the Big Ten’s all-time list for most career double-doubles in a career (56). She leads active Big Ten players.
• Marshall (151) and Martin (149) are eyeing Monika Czinano’s games played record. (162)
• Iowa is 37-4 in Big Ten Conference action since Feb. 9, 2022.
• Iowa is 7-4 when Clark records 40 or more points.
• Clark has 58 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. (52)
• Kate Martin has scored 10+ points in 16 of the last 20 games.
• Martin has recorded 15+ points in 12 games this year which is a career best.
• Lisa Bluder owns eight straight 20-win seasons. It is the longest streak in her career, C. Vivian Stringer had 10 consecutive 20+ win seasons from 1984-94.
• Martin has six career double-doubles and a career-best four this season.
• Clark has 17 games in her career with 35+ points, 5+ assists, 5+ rebounds which is the most in women’s college basketball since 2009-10.
• Clark has three career triple-doubles of the 35-point variety. All other players in women’s college basketball history have four.
• Clark has registered 25+ points, 5+ assists, and 5+ rebounds in 16 out of the last 18 games.
• Clark kept her alive streak of 82 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 15 of its last 16 against Big Ten foes.

SCOUTING NEBRASKA
• Nebraska improved to 15-8 overall and 7-5 in the Big Ten, while dropping Michigan on Tuesday.
• The Huskers are 10-3 in home games.
• Alexis Markowski owns a Big Ten-best 13 double-doubles, including seven in league play. The 6-3 center from Lincoln ranks fourth on Nebraska’s career list with 34 – just two behind 1993 Wade Trophy winner Karen Jennings. Markowski ranks second in the Big Ten in rebounding (10.1 rpg) and sixth in scoring (16.4 ppg) A two-time Lisa Leslie Award candidate, Markowski has scored in double figures in all 23 games this season.
• Against Michigan, Nebraska finished at 46.9 percent (23-49) from the field, including 5-of-19 (.263) from three-point range. The Huskers also went 14-of-23 (.609) at the free throw line. • Is 0-3 against AP Top 25 foes this season.