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, 1,000+ 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 22-3 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 17 against Big Ten foes.
• Clark has scored 20+ points in 110-of-125 career games which is the most in UI history.
• Iowa owns the longest active streak in the AP Top 5 at 16 consecutive weeks.
• Bluder owns a 516-252 (.672) record and a 258-143 (.641) conference mark at Iowa. In her 39 seasons as a head coach, Bluder is 872-394 (.691).
THIS WEEK
The fourth-ranked Hawkeyes will return home to square off with Michigan on Feb. 15. Tip-off is set for 7 p.m. (CT) inside a sold-out Carver-Hawkeye Arena.
WATCH/FOLLOW ALONG
• Thursday’s contest will air on Peacock (subscription required) and the Hawkeye Radio Network.
AUDIO COVERAGE
• Rob Brooks and Jamie Cavey-Lang 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.
• Lang lettered at Iowa from 2002-05.
• Lang finished her Hawkeye career with 1,265 points and 506 rebounds. She was a two-time All-Big Ten selection.
THE SERIES
• This is the 74th meeting between the two foes.
• Iowa leads the all-time series, 53-20.
• The Hawkeyes are 6-4 against the Wolverines in the last 10 matchups.
• This is the only reglar season meeting between UM and UI.
• Iowa has scored 89+ points in the last four meetings against Michigan.
• Caitlin Clark recorded her career-high in points (46) against UM on Feb. 6, 2022.
WHAT 2 WATCH 4
• Clark is eight 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 (57). She leads active Big Ten players.
• Marshall (152) and Martin (150) are eyeing Monika Czinano’s games played record. (162)
• Iowa is 37-5 in Big Ten Conference action since Feb. 9, 2022.
• Iowa is 7-4 when Clark records 40 or more points.
• Clark has 59 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 17 of the last 21 games.
• Martin has recorded 15+ points in 13 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 17 out of the last 19 games.
• Clark kept her alive streak of 83 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 17 against Big Ten foes.
• Clark is 20 3FGs and 45 FTs from the B1G crown in both categories.
SCOUTING MICHIGAN
• Michigan improved to 16-9 overall and 7-6 in the Big Ten, while dropping Rutgers on Saturday.
• The Wolverines are 4-4 in road games.
• Cameron Williams led the Wolverines’ scoring efforts with a career-best 23 points, shooting an efficient 10-for-14 from the field while adding three rebounds and three assists. Jordan Hobbs (16), Lauren Hansen (12) and Chyra Evans (11) joined Williams in double-figure scoring.
• Against Rutgers, Michigan shot 61.8 percent (34-for-55) from the floor in the contest, hitting 12 three-pointers on 57.1 percent shooting.
• Is 1-2 against AP Top 25 foes this season.
• Is averaging just 56.9 points per game in its nine losses, down from its season average of 70.0 ppg. Michigan also has allowed 73.2 ppg in its losses, up from its season average of 61.3 ppg. In wins, UM is up to 77.0 ppg while allowing just 54.6.
