The No. 2 Ohio State Buckeyes women’s basketball team lost their first game of the season to the No. 10 Iowa Hawkeyes 83-72 on Monday night. Here’s what you need to know:
- With the loss, Ohio State snaps its 19-game winning streak.
- Iowa’s Caitlin Clark recorded her eighth career triple-double, the most in Big Ten history. She recorded 28 points, 10 rebounds and 15 assists in the win.
- Ohio State is now 19-1 while Iowa improves to 16-4. No. 1 South Carolina and No. 4 LSU are the two remaining unbeaten teams.
- Monday’s game was the first sell out for a women’s basketball game at Ohio State since Nov. 16, 2015 against UConn.
Caitlin Clark’s career 8 triple-doubles are the most by a male or female in Big Ten history.
— Scott Dochterman (@ScottDochterman) January 24, 2023
The Athletic’s instant analysis:
This is the best Iowa has looked this season
The big knock on the Hawkeyes this season has been their unbalanced scoring around Clark and Monika Czinano, and while those two still combined for 50 of the Hawkeyes’ 83 points, the contributions elsewhere were notable (and the fact that even OSU’s vaunted defense couldn’t slow Clark and Czinano was notable).
As a team, Iowa assisted on 24 of its 31 field goals, Kate Martin tallied a double-double (13 points, 10…
