IOWA CITY — When the Iowa women’s basketball non-conference schedule became official way back in late August, it was easy to envision how these first few weeks would go.

Four mid-major foes to start offered the perfect entrance for a group still building toward its best self. Blowout victories over Southern, Evansville, Drake and UNI saw the Hawkeyes’ margin of victory average out to 46.5 points, delivering the early confidence injections Jan Jensen knew her young team needed.

Now, the training wheels come off.

A venture right outside Orlando to the ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex will provide two tests that No. 20 Iowa believes it can pass. But the Hawkeyes won’t have the wiggle room they operated with the first two weeks as part of a solid WBCA Showcase field. The Nov. 20 matchu

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