Georgia faces No. 2-seed Iowa in Hawkeyes home arena hunting first Sweet 16 appearance in 10 years

Georgia ladies’s basketball will take the ground immediately in Iowa trying to grow to be nationally related as soon as once more.

The Girl Bulldogs would want to upset mighty No. 2-seed Iowa — within the Hawkeyes’ house enviornment — for this system to succeed in the Candy 16 for the primary time since 2013.

“Each D1 athletes lives for this second whether or not they’re cheering for you or cheering in opposition to you,” mentioned Battles, certainly one of three UCF gamers who accompanied their her head coach from Orlando to Athens after final season.

“You get to play in font of a sold-out enviornment, who wouldn’t need to try this? The lights are on and it’s time to point out up. I believe our staff is locked and loaded and we’re prepared to point out up and placed on a present.”

The Girl Bulldogs know that with the intention to try this, they might want to comprise one of the vital elite gamers in Iowa ladies’s basketball historical past, sophomore Caitlin Clark.

Clark is “the largest present in school hoops” based on at the least one ladies’s basketball author.

Certainly, Clark scored 26 factors on 9-of-14 taking pictures and dished out 12 assists with seven rebounds and two steals as Iowa beat Southeastern Louisiana 95-43 final Friday in first-round motion.

Battles, a member of the SEC’s All-Defensive Staff, acknowledges the duty forward.