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Iowa Hawkeyes
2021–22 Iowa Hawkeyes women's basketball team
University	University of Iowa
Head coach	Lisa Bluder (21st season)
Conference	Big Ten
Location	Iowa City, Iowa
Arena	Carver-Hawkeye Arena (Capacity: 15,400)
Nickname	Hawkeyes
Student section	Hawks Nest
Colors	Black and gold[1]
Uniforms
Table of Contents Show History[edit] NCAA tournament results[edit] Retired numbers[edit] National award winners[edit] References[edit] External links[edit] Home Away Alternate
NCAA Tournament Final Four
1993
NCAA Tournament Elite Eight
1987, 1988, 1993, 2019
NCAA Tournament Sweet Sixteen
1987, 1988, 1989, 1993, 1996, 2015, 2019, 2021
NCAA Tournament Appearances
1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2001, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022
Conference tournament champions
1997, 2001, 2019, 2022
Conference regular season champions
1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1992, 1993, 1996, 1998, 2008, 2022

Members of Iowa's women's basketball team celebrate their 2008 regular season Big Ten championship on March 2, 2008.

The Iowa Hawkeyes women's basketball team represents the University of Iowa in Iowa City, Iowa, United States. The team is a member of the Big Ten Conference as well as the National Collegiate Athletic Association. The team plays its regular season games at 15,400-seat Carver-Hawkeye Arena, along with men's basketball, wrestling, and volleyball teams.

History[edit]

Iowa women's basketball began in 1974, under head coach Lark Birdsong. The first Iowa team finished 5–16 in 1974-75, its first victory over the Minnesota Golden Gophers. Birdsong coached Iowa until 1978-79, which marked Iowa's first winning season.[2] Birdsong was subsequently replaced by Judy McMullen, who led the program for the next four years. McMullen was succeeded in 1983 by former Cheyney University coach C. Vivian Stringer. Prior to her stay at Iowa, Stringer led the Cheyney Wolves to the 1982 NCAA championship.[3]

Beginning with the 1983–84 season, Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame inductee Stringer coached at Iowa for 12 seasons. In that time, the Hawkeyes won six Big Ten championships, played in nine NCAA Tournaments, and reached the Final Four in 1993. Unprecedented attention was shown to the Hawkeyes under Stringer, as evidenced by the record-setting 22,157 fans that watched Iowa play Ohio State on February 3, 1985, in Carver-Hawkeye Arena.[4] Stringer, however, left Iowa to coach at Rutgers in 1995, following the death of her husband, Bill.[5]

Angie Lee replaced Stringer, and led the Hawkeyes to a Big Ten championship in her first season. Under Lee, Iowa won another Big Ten title in 1998. In 2000, Lee's successor as head coach was Lisa Bluder. Bluder is Iowa's current women's basketball coach. Under Bluder, the Hawkeyes have won two regular season Big Ten championship and four Big Ten Tournament championships.

From 2015 to 2019, Megan Gustafson has played for Coach Bluder and the women’s basketball program at Iowa. Gustafson was named the 2019 National Player of the year, after averaging a double-double of 27.8 points and 13.4 rebounds on 69.9% shooting. The 2018–19 Iowa Hawkeyes women's basketball team had a 29-7 regular season record, winning the Big Ten Conference Tournament Championship and advancing to the Elite Eight of the 2019 NCAA Division I women's basketball tournament.[6][7] The 2021-22 Iowa Women's Basketball team finished the season 24-8 sharing the regular season title with the Ohio State Women's Basketball team. They also won the 2022 Big Ten women's basketball tournament a week later winning games over #7 Northwestern, #6 Nebraska, and 5th seeded Indiana in the Big Ten Championship 74-67. Caitlin Clark was the Big Ten Women's Basketball Tournament's MOP.[citation needed]

NCAA tournament results[edit]

Iowa has appeared in 28 NCAA Tournaments with a record of 26-28.

Retired numbers[edit]

National award winners[edit]

• Megan Gustafson – 2019

• Megan Gustafson – 2019

• Megan Gustafson – 2019

• Lisa Bluder – 2019

• Ally Disterhoft – 2016, 2017

• Megan Gustafson – 2019

• Caitlin Clark – 2022

• Caitlin Clark – 2021, 2022

• Caitlin Clark – 2021 (shared with Paige Bueckers of UConn)

• Caitlin Clark – 2021 (shared with Bueckers)

References[edit]

1. ^ "Branding Guide 2020". HawkeyeSports.com. Retrieved March 14, 2022.
2. ^ "Hawkeye Sports Official Athletic Site - Women's Basketball". Hawkeyesports.cstv.com. Archived from the original on 2013-01-21. Retrieved 2016-01-13.
3. ^ "C. Vivian Stringer". Archived from the original on March 25, 2009. Retrieved July 13, 2009.
4. ^ Carver-Hawkeye Arena: Celebrating 25 Years. Iowa Sports Information, 2008.
5. ^ Smith, Claire (1995-12-10). "COLLEGE BASKETBALL - A Coaching Legend Comes Home - Personal Loss Spurs Stringer's Move to Help Rutgers Rebuild - NYTimes.com". New York Times. Retrieved 2016-01-13.
6. ^ "Women's college basketball player of the year: Iowa's Megan Gustafson". 2019-03-15.
7. ^ "Women's NCAA tournament 2019: Megan Gustafson's double-double delivers Iowa to Sweet 16". 2019-03-24.

External links[edit]

• Official website