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Iowa and UConn will start a home-and-home women’s basketball series next season

By The Associated Press

Iowa and UConn will begin a home-and-home women’s basketball series next season, the schools announced Tuesday.

Iowa will travel to Connecticut for a Nov. 8 game in Storrs or Hartford. The Huskies will play at Carver-Hawkeye Arena in 2027-28 on a date to be determined.

UConn has won seven of 11 all-time meetings. The teams split the last two, with the Hawkeyes winning 71-69 in the 2024 NCAA semifinals in Cleveland and the Huskies winning 90-64 in the Women’s Champions Classic in New York in December.

UConn reached the NCAA Final Four last season, losing to South Carolina. Iowa lost to Virginia in the NCAA Tournament second round.

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AP women’s college basketball: https://apnews.com/hub/ap-top-25-womens-college-basketball-poll and https://apnews.com/hub/womens-college-basketball

UNC-Wilmington women’s basketball coach says she’s fortunate to be alive after nearly drowning

By The Associated Press
WILMINGTON, N.C. (AP) — UNC Wilmington women's basketball coach Nicole Woods says she's lucky to be alive after being caught in a rip current while trying to rescue her 8-year-old nephew during a family beach outing last week. Woods told WECT-TV she took her two children as well as her niece and nephew, both 8, to Wrightsville Beach on May 21. Her nephew waded into the Atlantic Ocean when a wave knocked him under the water. Woods says she jumped into help him, only to have the current start dragging both of them out to sea. Woods, 41, pushed her nephew above the surface so he could breathe before she lost consciousness. A rescue team pulled Woods and her nephew to shore. Paramedics performed CPR on Woods, then used a defibrillator to revive her. Woods says she spent at least 24 hours on a ventilator before being able to breathe on her own.
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