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Iowa women’s basketball sells out the entire home schedule for the second-straight year

Despite the loss of superstar Caitlin Clark to the WNBA and the retirement of head coach Lisa Bluder, much enthusiasm and excitement remains around the program.
Jack Birmingham, Sports Reporter
September 25, 2024
Emily Nyberg
The Iowa women’s basketball team is introduced before a womenโ€™s basketball game between Iowa and Michigan at Carver-Hawkeye Arena on Thursday, Feb. 15, 2024. Within the first three minutes of the game, Iowa guard Caitlin Clark broke the NCAA all-time scoring record for womenโ€™s basketball hitting 3,528 points recorded at Iowa. The Hawkeyes defeated the Wolverines 106-89.

Despite the loss of superstar Caitlin Clark to the WNBA, momentum surrounding the Iowa womenโ€™s basketball program continues.ย 

On Wednesday, the program announced that it sold out its general public seating inside Carver-Hawkeye Arena for the second consecutive season. Student tickets will be available for purchase beginning Oct 1.ย 

An email sent out earlier in the afternoon gave information about when to purchase student tickets, simultaneously encouraging fans to meet the team at โ€œHawkeyes From Downtown,โ€ on Oct. 11.ย 

โ€œIowa is coming off a school-record 34-win season,โ€ the university said in an email to fans.โ€œThe Hawkeyes claimed the Big Ten tournament title and advanced to the NCAA Championship game for a second consecutive season. Iowa returns a pair of starters in 2024-25 under P. Sue Beckwith, MD, Head Womenโ€™s Basketball Coach Jan Jensen, who is in her first season as head coach.โ€

โ€œIโ€™m just excited about the changes this year and going through a reset, and now we say weโ€™re going to do it the old-fashioned way,โ€ Jan Jensen, the teamโ€™s new head coach, told David Eickholt of 247 Sports. โ€œNow we donโ€™t have someone that shoots from the parking lot. They actually shoot from the three-point line. Weโ€™re going to go figure that out all over again.โ€

The team will begin play with an exhibition game against Missouri Western on Oct. 30, before facing Northern Illinois in the season-opener on Nov. 6. Tip-off times and TV schedules will be announced at a later date.

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