Youth-filled Iowa women's basketball absorbs loss, lessons | Leistikow

Hawkeyes 'came out on our heels' in loss against USC, Ava Heiden said The sophomore center had 13 points and eight rebounds against the Trojans, who led by as many as 22 in an 81-69 defeat of the Hawkeyes. LOS ANGELES — The loss of senior Taylor McCabe for the season was still fresh, and now seniors Hannah Stuelke and Kylie Feuerbach were summoned to the bench with two first-quarter fouls apiece inside USC’s Galen Center. In seemingly a flash … the eighth-ranked Iowa women’s basketball team felt and looked much, much younger in what would become a humbling 81-69 loss. Bad performances happen. But a loss just hadn’t happened for Iowa for a while, not since Dec. 20 against No. 1 UConn. The...