IOWA CIY — After a productive trip to Florida brought back two significant wins, No. 11 Iowa women’s basketball returns to the friendly confines of Carver-Hawkeye Arena for another mid-major showdown.

Up next for Jan Jensen’s Hawkeyes is a date with Western Illinois, scheduled for 6:30 p.m. on BTN+. The Nov. 26 affair will give Iowa one more chance to squeeze in productivity before the Thanksgiving holiday. With the Hawkeyes already getting their November MTE ( multiple teams event) out of the way, this will be the first time since 2006 that Iowa isn’t out of town for Thanksgiving.

Western Illinois will try to keep this matchup closer than any of Iowa’s first four mid-major foes did, as the Hawkeyes throttled Southern, Evansville, Drake and UNI with little resistance. The Leathernecks do

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