IOWA CITY – Iowa will face SE Louisiana in an NCAA Tournament First Round game Friday afternoon inside Carver-Hawkeye Arena in Iowa City.
Tip-off for Iowa’s game versus 15-Seed Southeastern Louisiana in the First Round of the NCAA Tournament is scheduled for 3 p.m. (CT) inside Carver-Hawkeye Arena. The game will broadcast ESPN, Sirius XM (channel 137) and the Hawkeye Radio Network.
Iowa (26-6, 15-3) has its highest AP Ranking last week (No. 2) since 1994. The SE Louisiana Lady Lions (21-9, 14-4) are unranked.
SCOUTING SOUTHEASTERN LOUISIANA:
• First NCAA Tournament appearance after winning the Southland Conference Championship.
• Boasts four all-conference selections and the coach of the year in the Southland, Ayla Guzzardo.
• Lost to Alabama and LSU on the road by a combined 18 points. Both NCAA automatic qualifiers.
• Lady Lions only give up 54.5 points per game on the defensive end of the floor.
• Boasts two scorers in double figures: Alexius Horne and Hailey Giaratano.
• Giaratano was the Southland Tournament MVP with a 15-point performance over Lamar, rallying from 11 point
deficit. Taylor Bell was an SLC All-Tournament Selection.
Iowa won its third Big Ten Tournament title since 2019, over Ohio State which was the largest marging of victory in BTT
Championship history.
Caitlin Clark was named the Big Ten Player of the Year for the second consective season.
Monika Czinano and Clark were unanimous All-Big Ten selections.
Lisa Bluder and Clark were named to both Naismith Semifinalists Lists. (COY/POY)
Since 2008, Bluder’s teams own a 228-42 record inside of Carver-Hawkeye Arena. In that stretch, the Hawkeyes have posted
three undefeated seasons at home. Over the last eight years, Iowa has dropped the second-fewest regular season home
games in the Big Ten.
Iowa welcomes four new players to the 2022-23 roster: Molly Davis, Jada Gyamfi, Taylor McCabe, and Hannah Stuelke. Gyamfi,
McCabe, and Stuelke are all true freshmen, hailing from Johnston, Cedar Rapids and Fremont, Nebraska, respectively. Davis is a
fourth-year transfer from Central Michigan.
Clark was named The Athletic National Player of the Year and a unanimous AP First Team All-American.
Czinano was tabbed as a Lisa Leslie Center of the Year Semifinalist.
Iowa set a program record against Evansville scoring 115 points earlier this season.
Iowa has had five out of the last six Big Ten Players of the Year.
The Hawkeyes have a nation’s best five wins against AP Top 10 opponents.
Clark was the Big Ten Tournament MVP for the second straight season which has only happened three times in conference
history.
For the first time in the Lisa Bluder era, the Hawkeyes won 15 Big Ten regular season conference games.
This is Iowa’s 29th trip in school history to the Big Dance.
Over the last nine games, Gabbie Marshall is shooting 61% from 3-point range.
Bluder owns a 489-248 (.663) record and a 247-141 (.637) conference mark at Iowa. In her 38 seasons as a head coach, Bluder
is 846-389 (.684).
