No. 4 Hawkeyes Hold Off Drake in OT

DES MOINES, Iowa – The fourth-ranked Iowa girls’s basketball crew got here away with a 92-86, additional time win towards the Drake Bulldogs on Sunday afternoon inside a sold-out Knapp Heart. There have been eight lead adjustments and 7 ties, with the most important lead being 9.

All-American Caitlin Clark and Monika Czinano mixed for 64 of the groups’ factors. Czinano registered her seventh profession double-double, scoring a season-high 36-points and grabbing 11 rebounds. She was simply two factors shy of her profession greatest.

Iowa was scrappy, ending with 11 steals and knocking down 14 offensive rebounds. Gabbie Marshall, McKenna Warnock, and Molly Davis all completed with three and Clark had two.

The Hawkeyes had an enormous third quarter, outscoring the Bulldogs, 21-14. Marshall had clutch back-to-back threes to realize momentum and provides Iowa a four-point lead. Warnock stored it going, making one other three to finish the afternoon, three-of-five, from behind the arc.Iowa scored the primary 4 factors in additional time to outscore Drake, 10-4, and are available away with the street win. It’s believed to be the primary time the Knapp Heart has bought out for a girls’s basketball sport.

POSTGAME NOTES
• All-American Caitlin Clark has scored 20 or extra factors in all three video games this week. She set a brand new season-high with 28 factors on Sunday.
• McKenna Warnock surpassed Chase Coley for many profession rebounds in class historical past. Warnock is now No. 23 on the all-time rebounding record.
• Warnock now stands alone at 14th on the all-time profession 3-pointers made record. (128)
• Warnock has registered double-figures in back-to-back video games.
• The Hawkeyes have began 3-0 beneath Bluder for the fifteenth time in her tenure.
• Throughout Bluder’s time at Iowa, she is now 19-3 towards the Bulldogs.
• Iowa is the highest-ranked crew to have ever performed on the Knapp Heart.
• Iowa now leads the all-time collection, 29-25.
• Iowa has received 10 out of the final 11 conferences.
• The Hawkeyes have scored 90 or extra in all of its video games this season.
• First additional time sport since March 1, 2020, vs. Rutgers, and the primary additional time win since Jan. 12, 2020, vs. Indiana.

QUOTING P. SUE BECKWITH, MD, HEAD COACH LISA BLUDER

“To come back right here on the street and win, I’m extraordinarily pleased with that. Allison is doing an ideal job with this program, and I’m so blissful for her. Katie Dinnebier performed extraordinarily properly immediately. We have been pleased with our 21 assists on 11 turnovers. I used to be blissful that we got here out and bought 21 offensive rebounds within the second half. Gabbie had some clutch three-pointers for us and performed nice protection. For us, this was a particular sport due to Lisa Brinkmeyer, and simply needed to honor her. I feel each groups performed so properly in honoring Lisa immediately.”

UP NEXT
The fourth-ranked Hawkeyes return to motion on Nov. 17, once they journey to Kansas State. Tipoff is scheduled for 8 p.m. (CT). The sport will probably be broadcasted on ESPN+ and on the Hawkeye Radio Community.