The Iowa Hawkeyes take on Ohio State this morning in women’s college basketball. The Hawks are 9-and-5 on the season, 1-and-0 in the Big Ten Conference, while the Buckeyes are 14-0 & 1-0. Top point makers for the Hawkeyes inlcude: Jaime Printy, 17.4 ppg; Morgan Johnson 14.1 ppg; and, for the Buckeyes: Tayler Hill 21.1 ppg, Samantha Prahalis 17.5 ppg, Kalpana Beach 6.3 rpg. Iowa will have to limit Hill, a 5-foot-10 junior guard from Minneapolis who was Minnesota’s all-time leading high school scorer with 3,888 points.
The Hawks have improved their 3-point shooting by 20 percentage points over the past two games to 34.2 percent. They drained 14 for a school record against Mississippi Valley State and 12 against Northwestern. Ninth-ranked Ohio State beat Wisconsin 77-61 in its Big Ten Conference opener. Hill shoots 50 percent from the field. Ohio State has won 15 of the last 17 meetings against Iowa.
Tip-off for today’s game at the Value City Arena, in Columbus, Ohio, is 11-a.m., and will be televised on the Big 10 Network.