The Iowa Hawkeyes (28-4, 15-3) will try for their third-straight Big Ten Tournament championship when they play the Nebraska Cornhuskers (22-10, 11-7) this Sunday, Mar. 10. Tip-off is scheduled for 12 p.m. ET, and the game will be broadcast nationally on CBS.
Though the 2024 Big Ten Tournament has been full of surprises, Iowa advancing to the title game isn’t one of them. The Hawkeyes finished the regular season ranked No. 3 in NCAA Division I by the Associated Press and, as the tournament’s No. 2 seed, have made short work of their end of the bracket, defeating No. 7-seed Penn State 95-62 and No. 6-seed Michigan 95-68. Iowa guard Caitlin Clark set another individual record along the way, passing Kelsey Mitchell to become the tournament’s all-time leading scorer (293 points).
In Nebraska, the Hawkeyes will encounter a familiar foe—and one they’ve probably been itching to give some payback. On Feb. 11, Nebraska stunned Iowa with an incredible comeback, outscoring the Hawkeyes (then ranked No. 2 in Division I) 12-2 in the final three minutes of regulation in one of the NCAA season’s most shocking upsets.
Nebraska has gotten hot at the right time, too, earning three wins in as many days over No. 12-seed Purdue, No. 4-seed Michigan State and No. 8-seed Maryland….
