{"id":680543,"date":"2026-06-02T21:13:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T21:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/680543\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T21:13:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T21:13:09","slug":"iowa-is-set-to-play-vanderbilt-in-a-november-womens-basketball-game-in-sioux-city-iowa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/680543\/","title":{"rendered":"Iowa is set to play Vanderbilt in a November women\u2019s basketball game in Sioux City, Iowa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SIOUX CITY, Iowa \u2014 Vanderbilt and Iowa, both ranked in the top 10 late last season, will meet in a women\u2019s basketball game early next season in northwest Iowa, the schools announced.<\/p>\n<p>The neutral-site game is set for Nov. 15 at the Tyson Events Center, which is 290 miles from Carver-Hawkeye Arena in Iowa City.<\/p>\n<p>Vanderbilt is 4-0 all-time against the Hawkeyes. This will be the teams\u2019 first meeting since 1997.<\/p>\n<p>The Commodores are expected to return national scoring leader Mikayla Blakes. She averaged 27 points per game and was Southeastern Conference player of the year. Vanderbilt was ranked as high as No. 5 and finished No. 10 with a 29-5 record after reaching the NCAA Sweet 16.<\/p>\n<p>The Hawkeyes were ranked a season-high No. 7 entering the NCAA Tournament and finished No. 16 with a 27-7 record after losing in the second round.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SIOUX CITY, Iowa \u2014 Vanderbilt and Iowa, both ranked in the top 10 late last season, will meet&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":680544,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[99,434],"class_list":["post-680543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-sports","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=680543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680543\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/680544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=680543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=680543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=680543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}