There are multiple reasons why the University of Iowa women’s basketball team needs a win on Thursday at home against the Michigan Wolverines (11-8 overall, 3-5 Big 10).
Thursday night’s game marks the halfway point of the conference season for the Hawkeyes (13-7, 3-5). It would be bad for the team’s psyche to enter the second half of the Big 10 schedule on a four-game losing streak, having already dropped five of the last six contests entering Thursday night.
Additionally, another conference loss would make Iowa’s chances of coming back to win the Big 10 regular-season title very slim.