The Iowa Hawkeyes women’s basketball team isn’t going anywhere in this new era under Jan Jensen. The Hawkeyes are 9-0 and staring down a seismic Cy-Hawk matchup against the Iowa State Cyclones in a showdown of ranked teams.
This year, the question isn’t if Iowa will make the NCAA Tournament, barring a catastrophic slide, but how high a seed it can earn and if the always-electric Carver-Hawkeye Arena can be a host site for the first two rounds.
With it all in front of them, Iowa is showing talent, and that has it climbing in ESPN’s latest NCAA women’s basketball bracketology update.
Iowa Hawkeyes’ seed
- Seed: No. 3 seed
- Opponent: Charleston Cougars
Bracket
- No. 1 UCLA vs. No. 16 Fairleigh Dickinson
- No. 8 Stanford vs. No. 9 Mississippi State
- No. 5 Oklahoma State vs. No. 12 Troy
- No. 4 Vanderbilt vs. No. 13 Army
- No. 6 Princeton vs. No. 11 Indiana/Syracuse
- No. 3 Iowa vs. No. 14 Charleston
- No. 7 Michigan State vs. No. 10 Richmond
- No. 2 LSU vs. No. 15 UTEP
Top Seeds
- No. 1 seeds: Texas, UConn, UCLA, South Carolina
- No. 2 seeds: TCU, Oklahoma, Michigan, LSU
- No. 3 seeds: North Carolina, Iowa, Maryland, Iowa State
- No. 4 seeds: Tennessee, USC, Kentucky, Vanderbilt
Bubble Watch
- Last Four Byes: Oregon, Villanova, Richmond, Miami
- Last Four In: Virginia, Seton Hall, Indiana, Syracuse
- First Four Out: BYU, Fairfield, Texas A&M, Kansas
- Next Four Out: Arizona State, Columbia, Virginia Tech, Florida
Conference Breakdown
- Big Ten: 13
- SEC: 11
- ACC: 8
- Big 12: 6
- Big East: 3
- Atlantic 10: 2
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