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 23-3 start under Lisa Bluder.
• Caitlin Clark broke the CHA/program record with 49 points against Michigan.
• 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 241-43 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 16 of its last 18 against Big Ten foes.
• Clark has scored 20+ points in 111-of-126 career games which is the most in UI history.
• Iowa owns the longest active streak in the AP Top 5 at 17 consecutive weeks.
• Bluder owns a 517-252 (.672) record and a 259-143 (.641) conference mark at Iowa. In her 39 seasons as a head coach, Bluder is 873-394 (.691).
THIS WEEK
The fourth-ranked Hawkeyes will hit the road to take on No. 14 Indiana on Feb. 22. Tipoff is set for 7 p.m. (CT) inside a sold-out Assembly Hall.
WATCH/FOLLOW ALONG
• Thursday’s contest will air on Peacock (subscription required) 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 is in 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 will be the 79th meeting between the two programs.
• Iowa leads the all-time series, 56-22.
• The Hawkeyes and Hoosiers split games last season. ESPN’s College GameDay made its first ever appearance in Iowa City for the regular season finale, when Clark hit the game-winner to propel Iowa to a, 86-85 victory.
• Iowa has won five out of the last six matchups.
• Iowa beat IU, 87-54, on Jan. 15, 2024.
WHAT 2 WATCH 4
• Clark is one 3-point field goal from breaking the Big Ten single season record she set a year ago, and 15 from the NCAA’s all-time record in a single season.
• Marshall (153) and Martin (151) are eyeing Monika Czinano’s games played record. (162)
• Iowa is 38-5 in Big Ten Conference action since Feb. 9, 2022.
• Iowa is 8-4 when Clark records 40 or more points.
• Clark has 60 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. (53)
• Kate Martin has recorded 15+ points in 14 games this year which is a career-best.
• Martin has netted 20+ points for the first time in back-to-back games in her career.
• 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 18 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 18 out of the last 20 games.
• Clark kept her alive streak of 83 consecutive games making a 3-point basket. (NCAA best)
• Clark is 11 3FGs and 37 FTs from the career B1G crowns in both categories.
• Among active players whom didn’t transfer, Marshall (118) and Martin (115) are third and fourth nationally for most active wins in a career
SCOUTING INDIANA
• The Hoosiers fell to 21-4 overall and 12-3 in the Big Ten, falling to Illinois, 88-66, on Monday afternoon in Champaign.
• IU is undefeated inside Assembly Hall this season. (13-0)
• Mackenzie Holmes recorded her 15th game this season scoring 20 points or more with a team-high 24 points. She has scored in double figures in 24 of 25 games.
• Yarden Garzon added 17 points and a team-high eight rebounds along with three assists and a steal. Sara Scalia joined her in double figures with 10 points.
• The Hoosiers have lost to Iowa, Illinois, Ohio State and Stanford. Three of which are ranked inside the AP Top 5 this week and have all been on the road.
• IU’s average margin of loss is 21.0 ppg.
• Sydney Parrish returned to action from missing a few games due to an injury. Parrish played nearly six minutes.
