No. 22 Iowa women's basketball survives nail-biting close with UNI to win state of Iowa

No. 22 Iowa women’s basketball entered halftime with a 16-point victory, 53-37, over Northern Iowa on Friday. By the 5:16 mark in the third quarter, the Panthers cut that lead down to seven. And with 4:38 left in the fourth quarter, Iowa held a one-point lead.

That made it 78-77 after UNI’s Maya McDermott hit the tough floater, giving her 26 points on the night up to that point. From that point on, though, the Hawkeyes outscored the Panthers, 11-6, to secure the gritty 89-83 victory.

Iowa may have secured its 10th win of the season, but Northern Iowa made the Hawkeyes work every second for it until the clock hit zero.

“I think we’ve seen them through stats and just where they’re ranked across the country in terms of that,” Iowa guard Taylor McCabe said. “You can never let a team like that get too close because they’re always going to be able to shoot their way back into it.”




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