{"id":497646,"date":"2026-02-22T23:06:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T23:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/497646\/"},"modified":"2026-02-22T23:06:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T23:06:09","slug":"iowa-stymies-michigan-moves-into-tie-for-2nd-in-big-ten","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/497646\/","title":{"rendered":"Iowa stymies Michigan, moves into tie for 2nd in Big Ten"},"content":{"rendered":"

IOWA CITY, Iowa — Ava Heiden<\/a> had 24 points and 10 rebounds to help No. 13 Iowa<\/a> beat sixth-ranked Michigan<\/a> 62-44 on Sunday.<\/p>\n

Hannah Stuelke<\/a> added 11 points, 12 rebounds and seven assists for the Hawkeyes (22-5, 13-3 Big Ten), who held the Wolverines (22-5, 13-3) to their lowest point total of the season and moved into a second-place tie in the Big Ten with Michigan heading into the final week of the regular season.<\/p>\n

Michigan came in ranked fifth nationally in scoring offense at 86.6 points per game, but shot just 30.5% from the field for the game and committed 24 turnovers.<\/p>\n

Heiden, who ranks fourth in the nation in field goal percentage at 64.4%, was 11 of 17 from the field. Iowa led for the final 28 minutes, making shots to answer any run by the Wolverines.<\/p>\n

Michigan got within 39-35 with 15 seconds left in the third quarter on a 3-pointer by Syla Swords<\/a>, but Iowa’s Kylie Feuerbach<\/a> banked in a 3-pointer before the buzzer sounded.<\/p>\n

Then, in the fourth quarter, after the Wolverines got to within 46-40 with 6\u00bd minutes to play, Iowa went on a 12-2 run, with Heiden scoring eight points.<\/p>\n

The Hawkeyes shot 60.7% in the second half, including 71.4% in the fourth quarter, to pull away from the Wolverines. Michigan shot 31% for the half, making just three field goals in the fourth quarter.<\/p>\n

Olivia Olson<\/a> led Michigan with 13 points. Mila Holloway<\/a> had 11.<\/p>\n

Iowa led 27-20 at halftime, taking advantage of Michigan’s shooting struggles and turnovers. The Wolverines were just 9 of 30 from the field in the first half, including 4 of 17 in the second quarter when they were outscored 15-8. Michigan also had 16 turnovers, 11 in the first quarter, which Iowa converted into 11 points.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"IOWA CITY, Iowa — Ava Heiden had 24 points and 10 rebounds to help No. 13 Iowa beat…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":497647,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-497646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=497646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497646\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/497647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=497646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=497646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=497646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}