As expected, Davis received a thunderous applause from the passionate Hawkeyes faithful during a first-quarter stoppage, with many fans sharing their appreciation for the role that the Midland, Mich., native played en route to the program's back-to-back national championship game appearances in 2023 and 2024.

Iowa stayed in the same spot as last week's ranking while Iowa State dropped despite both teams going unbeaten.

Anyway, let’s start with this: Senior point guard Bennett Stirtz played all 40 minutes for Iowa Friday in its 77-58 win over Western Illinois. That’s not headline news, but it’s something you just don’t see in these games between major-majors (hat tip to Joseph Heller’s “Catch-22”) and mid-majors.

As Iowa women's basketball hosts Evansville Sunday afternoon, former Hawkeye Molly Davis returns to Carver to coach against her former team.

Iowa basketball defeated Western Illinois at Carver-Hawkeye Arena on Nov. 7. Here are highlights from the win.

Molly Davis, a backup point guard on Iowa's NCAA runner-up teams of 2023 and 2024, serves as a graduate assistant at Evansville.

Following the continuous letdown of the Fran McCaffery era in Iowa City, the Hawkeyes men’s basketball team came into this past offseason with a high-stakes nec