Crusaders superior with a 72-45 First 4 victory over Tennessee-Martin on Thursday
What: No. 2 Iowa (29-4) vs. Holy Cross (21-12), NCAA girls’s basketball event first spherical
When/the place: 2 p.m. Saturday, Carver-Hawkeye Area, Iowa Metropolis
TV: ABC
Reside stream: ESPN3
Radio: Hawkeye Radio Community associates
Iowa’s subsequent sport: Winner faces West Virginia or Princeton within the second spherical Monday (time TBA)
What to know: Saturday’s sport will likely be Iowa’s first in 13 days (the Hawkeyes beat Nebraska in additional time within the Massive Ten championship sport March 10 at Minneapolis).
Holy Cross whipped Tennessee-Martin, 72-45, in a First 4 sport Thursday night time at Carver. The Crusaders acquired out to a 45-24 lead by halftime and cruised behind 12 3-pointers.
Cara McCormick hit 7-of-10 3-pointers in that sport and led all scorers with 23 factors.
Bronagh Energy-Cassidy leads Holy Cross at 16.7 factors per sport.
The Crusaders gained the Patriot League regular-season championship (with an 11-7 league mark), then adopted that with the league event title.
Iowa is a 1-seed within the Albany-2 Area. The Hawkeyes’ earlier two 1-seeds got here in 1988 and 1992.
One-seeds have a 115-1 report in opposition to 16-seeds for the reason that NCAA expanded to 64 groups in 1994.
Caitlin Clark leads the nation in scoring (31.9 factors per sport) and assists (8.9 per sport). She has totaled 3,771 factors in her profession.
A win would ship Iowa to its second consecutive 30-win season. Final 12 months’s workforce earned a school-record 31 victories.
The Hawkeyes are making their thirtieth NCAA look and have an all-time event report of 33-29. Holy Cross is in its 14th event and owns a 2-13 all-time mark.
That is the primary assembly between the 2 packages.
West Virginia (24-7) and Princeton (25-4) play at 4:30 p.m. Saturday.
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