PROGRAM QUICK HITS<\/span>
\u2022 Iowa broke the WBB all-time attendance record for a single game with 55,646 on hand for the Crossover at Kinnick exhibition against DePaul.
\u2022 Iowa advanced to its first National Championship appearance in program history in 2023.
\u2022 Iowa netted a program best 31 victories in a single season in 2023.
\u2022 Iowa won its third Big Ten Tournament title since 2019, over Ohio State which was the largest margin of victory in BTT Championship history. It was also the first time in program history that the Hawkeyes won the tournament championship in back-to-back years.
\u2022 The Hawkeyes led the country in field-goal percentage (51.1), scoring offense (87.3), and assists per game (20.9). They ranked in the top-10 in three additional categories, fourth in assist to turnover ratio (1.46), seventh in 3-point field goal percentage (38.0), and seventh 3-pointers per game (9.2).
\u2022 Since 2008, Bluder\u2019s teams own a 230-42 record inside of Carver-Hawkeye Arena. In that stretch, the Hawkeyes have posted three undefeated seasons at home.
\u2022 Over the last nine years, Iowa has dropped the second-fewest regular season home games in the Big Ten.
\u2022 Iowa was 17-1 last season at CHA.
\u2022 Iowa\u2019s 2023-24 roster is comprised of two fifth-year, one graduate, one senior, five juniors, three sophomores, and two freshmen. Four Hawkeyes are Iowa natives, four from Illinois, two from Michigan, and one each from Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, Ohio.
\u2022 Six Big Ten regular-season games will be on a nationally broadcast platform (either NBC or FOX), the most in conference history. The Hawkeyes are featured in four of the six contests \u2013 Indiana (Jan. 13\/FOX), at Ohio State (Jan. 21\/NBC), at Maryland (Feb. 3\/FOX), Ohio State (March 3\/FOX).
\u2022 Iowa has had five out of the last six Big Ten Players of the Year.
\u2022 The Hawkeyes had a nation\u2019s best six wins against AP Top 10 opponents last season.
\u2022 For the first time in the Lisa Bluder era, the Hawkeyes won 15 Big Ten regular season conference games in 2022-23.
\u2022 Bluder owns a 494-249 (.665) record and a 247-141 (.637) conference mark at Iowa. In her 39 seasons as a head coach, Bluder is 850-391 (.685).
THIS WEEK<\/span>
The Hawkeyes are set to host the FDU Knights inside Carver-Hawkeye Arena for its season opener on Monday. Tip-off is set for 6:30 p.m. (CT) on BTN+ and will air on the Hawkeye Radio Network.
THE SERIES<\/span>
\u2022 This will be the first meeting between the two programs.
SCOUTING FDU<\/span>
\u2022 The Knights were picked fourth in the 2023-24 Northeast Conference Preseason Coaches Poll.
\u2022 FDU looks to continue their reign of the NEC as the back-to-back regular season conference champions.
\u2022 FDU returns five from last season\u2019s squad with Mia Andrews, Abaigeal Babore, Abby Conklin, Dominique Garc\u00eda Blackwood and Allie McGinn.
\u2022 Stephanie Gaitley enters her first season leading the women\u2019s basketball program at FDU.
\u2022 The Knights went 24-8 last season, including 14 NEC victories en route to the pro-gram\u2019s second WNIT bid in as many seasons.
\u2022 After an offseason coaching change, Gaitley\u2019s staff went right to work to bring in nine new faces to the program, including three transfers with a combined six years of collegiate experience.
\u2022 Among the transfers is Teneisia Brown who spent one year on Merrimack\u2019s roster and was named to the Preseason All-NEC squad last season.
COURT OF DREAMS<\/span>
\u2022 Season tickets for the 2023-24 University of Iowa women\u2019s basketball team are officially sold out.
\u2022 Seven of Iowa women\u2019s basketball nine sellout crowds inside Carver-Hawkeye Arena have happened in the last three seasons, with the other two coming in 1985 and 1988.
\u2022 Iowa has been ranked in the national attendance top 10 each of the past four seasons
with fans (2023, 2022, 2021, 2019). The No. 2 ranking last season is the highest in the Lisa Bluder era. (11,143)
\u2022 Iowa City\u2019s first round attendance last year was higher than nine of the 16 sites\u2019 first\/second round combined attendance figure.
\u2022 Iowa City owns four of the top 10 second round, single session attendance numbers in NCAA Division I Women\u2019s Basketball Championship history.
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