The Iowa women’s basketball team deserved a better fate than what it received on Sunday.

INDIANAPOLIS — The Iowa women’s basketball team deserved a better fate than what it received on Sunday.
As a No. 3 seed in the Big Ten tournament, the Hawkeyes put together a remarkable run to the championship game against top-seeded and 10th-ranked Ohio State.
After leading for most of the contest — as well as holding a [...]

The Iowa wrestling team captured their third straight Big Ten title on Sunday at the Crisler Arena in Ann Arbor, Mich.
The Hawkeyes finished with 156.5 team points, throttling second place Minnesota, who ended with 119.5. Wisconsin finished third with 109 points.
The Hawkeyes had six grapplers in the finals, but only two – 174-pounder Jay Borschel [...]

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INDIANAPOLIS — No. 10 Ohio State has defeated Iowa, 66-64, in the Big Ten Tournament championship game.
Buckeye senior Jantel Lavender hit two game-winning free throws with 1.9 seconds remaining after being fouled.
Sophomore Kamille Wahlin paced the Hawkeyes with 20 points on 7-of-14 shooting from the floor. Wahlin was able [...]

The Iowa women’s basketball team leads No. 10 Ohio State, 41-33, at halftime of the Big Ten championship game.

ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Iowa won all three of its NCAA championship tie-in matches Sunday Morning.
Sophomore Montell Marion (141), junior Jake Kerr (157), and senior Ryan Morningstar (165) will all vie for third place at the Big Ten championships later today.
Both Marion and Kerr needed to win their first consolation bouts, while Morningstar only needed [...]

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ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Iowa’s 34th Big Ten championship is still in the works after the second session inside Crisler Arena.
Despite the Hawkeyes possessing 32.5-point lead with six wrestlers in the hunt for an individual title, Minnesota, sitting in second place with 104.5 team points, remains in contention.
And after [...]

ANN ARBOR, Mich. – The Big Ten Wrestling Championships: More dramatic than The Notebook.
More dramatic than that time you broke up with your girlfriend for the fourth time, and she didn’t want to let you go.
The drama reached its peak, fittingly, in Iowa’s final match of the day.
Hawkeye heavyweight Dan Erekson was nursing a 2-1 [...]

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INDIANAPOLIS — For just the third time in school history, the Iowa women’s basketball team (19-12) is heading to the Big Ten championship game.
The third-seeded Hawkeyes defeated second-seeded and 23rd-ranked Michigan State (22-9), 59-54, in Conseco Fieldhouse on Saturday.
Iowa scored less than 60 points for the first time in [...]

The term “warrior” is sometimes diluted by its overuse in the sporting realm.

Kachine Alexander has officially earned the title after an inspiring performance in Iowa’s 59-54 Big Ten Tournament semifinal win against Michigan State on Saturday.