Iowa and UConn will start a home-and-home women’s basketball series next season

By The Associated Press
May 26, 2026 | 2:23 PM

Iowa and UConn will begin a home-and-home women’s basketball series next season, the schools announced Tuesday.

Iowa will travel to Connecticut for a Nov. 8 game in Storrs or Hartford. The Huskies will play at Carver-Hawkeye Arena in 2027-28 on a date to be determined.

UConn has won seven of 11 all-time meetings. The teams split the last two, with the Hawkeyes winning 71-69 in the 2024 NCAA semifinals in Cleveland and the Huskies winning 90-64 in the Women’s Champions Classic in New York in December.

UConn reached the NCAA Final Four last season, losing to South Carolina. Iowa lost to Virginia in the NCAA Tournament second round.

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AP women’s college basketball: https://apnews.com/hub/ap-top-25-womens-college-basketball-poll and https://apnews.com/hub/womens-college-basketball

A trailblazing women’s class enters the Hall: 1996 US Olympic team, Parker, Delle Donne, Holdsclaw

By The Associated Press
August 14, 2026 | 5:22 PM

UNCASVILLE, Conn. (AP) — Dawn Staley and the 1996 Olympic women's basketball team paved the way for the WNBA and players such as Candace Parker, Elena Delle Donne and Chamique Holdsclaw. The team that started the Americans' 30-year Olympic dominance will be enshrined in the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame on Saturday along with Parker, Delle Donne and Holdsclaw They will be joined by NBA player Amar’e Stoudemire, longtime NBA official Joey Crawford, NBA coaches Doc Rivers and Mike D’Antoni and Gonzaga coach Mark Few in the Hall of Fame. “It's taken a long time for that particular team that set the stage for everything that's happened since,” Staley said. “There were players that came before us that didn't strike while the iron was hot. I thought we struck when the iron was hot and provided a way for us to see professional basketball come into existence after. Then for the last 30 years we've had it. ” Parker and Delle Donne were young, but remembered that Olympic team and its importance.

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