For Christen Inman and her teammates, this win was personal.
“It means a lot that we get to play tomorrow, but our senior class hadn’t beaten Iowa...it’s an even bigger win in that way for us.”
Over the past four years, the “golden generation” of Northwestern women’s basketball repeatedly came up short against the Hawkeyes. For Joe McKeown, thoughts of playing Iowa immediately took him back to Iowa’s 102-99 win at Welsh-Ryan two years ago. In that game, Nia Coffey scored a career-high 35 points, the teams combined for 32 three-pointers, and yet Northwestern still came up just short.