IOWA CITY, Iowa — An overly brisk, crisp, and cold evening led the Hawkeye faithful to Carver Hawkeye Arena for refuge and to watch a much-anticipated match up between No. 22 Iowa and their Big Ten rival, the outranked but venerable Northwestern Wildcats.
This marked the second Big Ten contest of 2021-22 for the Hawkeyes and they were coming in wanting to prove themselves worthy of contention in conference play.
After a postponement of their originally scheduled contest against Illinois on Jan. 2, the Hawkeyes dominated their makeup contest against Evansville, with Cailtin Clark putting on a stellar performance. She scored a career-high 44 points and became the Big Ten’s fastest player to achieve 1,000 career points.
Overall, Iowa is putting up amazing numbers as the Hawkeyes lead the country in free-throw percentage (83.7) and are ninth in field-goal percentage (47.2), 10th in assists per game (18.8), 11th in defensive rebounds per game (30.6), 16th in scoring offense…
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