Kara Lawson came into her first ACC/Big Ten Challenge with a .900 career winning percentage at Duke.
Of course, that’s misleading. It’s a pretty small sample size, 10 games to be exact. And only one of those nine wins was against a major-college program, a neutral-site win over Alabama a couple of weeks ago. Programs like Dayton and Troy are very good mid-major programs but ACC coaches don’t earn their stripes beating A-10 programs.
What was lacking on her resume was a signature win.
Enter the Iowa Hawkeyes. Iowa came to Cameron undefeated and ranked ninth in the AP poll.