The Iowa Hawkeyes were in for a rude awakening in the first round of the NCAA Tournament.

Ava Heiden scored a career-high 29 points, including 12 straight for Iowa in the fourth quarter, and the No. 2-seeded Hawkeyes survived an upset bid from 15th-seeded Fairleigh Dickinson with a 58-48 victory in an NCAA Tournament first-round game on Saturday.

The Iowa Women’s Basketball team has been pushed to their limits (and upset) at Carver-Hawkeye Arena in the NCAA Tournament before. However, shades of ’19 Mercer, the Hawkeyes were forced to handle tense moments,

There are plenty of reasons to get behind the Iowa Hawkeyes against Fairleigh Dickinson.

The odds were heavily stacked against Fairleigh Dickinson. Entering the 2023 men's NCAA Tournament, No. 16 seeds had an all-time record of 1-147 against No. 1 seeds. And an FDU team that boasts the shortest average height in Division I college basketball ...

Iowa and Farleigh Dickinson face off in the first round of women's March Madness. Here's how to watch the game with start time and TV channel.

The Iowa Hawkeyes can't let FDU's 30-wins fool them.

The first of potentially several games on the docket, is a matchup against the 15th-seeded the Fairleigh Dickinson Knights out of the Northeast Conference. Head coach Jan Jensen spoke with the media on Friday morning to discuss their opening round matchup with FDU,