No. 13 Maryland women’s basketball earned its seventh straight victory in impressive fashion on Monday, defeating the No. 22 Iowa Hawkeyes, 81-69.
With Indiana’s upset loss to Nebraska earlier in the night, the winner of Monday’s tilt would be only one game back in the loss column of first place in the Big Ten with plenty of basketball left to play. Both teams were without key players, as Maryland was missing junior guard Ashley Owusu (ankle) for the third straight game and Iowa was without junior guard/forward McKenna Warnock.
In front of her family and friends, head coach Brenda Frese earned an emotional victory in her home state of Iowa.