{"id":2366,"section":"sports","section_label":"Sports","url":"https://www.brokenews.co/sports/2366","headline":"Iowa hosts Northern Iowa looking to tighten up defense","dek":"The No. 10 Hawkeyes face the in-state Panthers at Carver-Hawkeye Arena after giving up 91 points in a loss at UConn.","body":"Iowa gets a chance to clean things up defensively on Thursday, Nov. 12, hosting Northern Iowa at Carver-Hawkeye Arena in Iowa City at 8:30 p.m. ET. The No. 10 Hawkeyes had allowed 45 or fewer points in each of their first two games before UConn hung 91 on them in a loss on Nov. 8, so this in-state matchup doubles as a reset at home.\n\nNorthern Iowa comes in having split its first two games while shooting 36.7 percent from the field, and the Panthers will need a significantly better offensive showing if they hope to pull off the upset against a top-10 team on the road. Jenna Twedt leads the Panthers at 15.5 points a game and went 8 for 8 from the free-throw line in the season opener against St. Thomas, after averaging 14.7 points last season.\n\nFor Iowa, the game is less about the opponent on paper and more about answering questions raised by the UConn loss. A home environment against a team still finding its offensive footing gives the Hawkeyes a reasonable spot to tighten things up before tougher competition arrives.","published_at":"2026-11-13T00:34:32.675934+00:00","source_count":3,"written_from":[{"outlet":"The Athletic","publisher":"The Athletic","title":"How to watch Northern Iowa vs. Iowa women's basketball: TV channel and streaming options for November 12","url":"https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7776631/2026/11/12/northern-iowa-vs-iowa-stream-how-to-watch-nov-12/"},{"outlet":"Fox Sports","publisher":"Fox Sports","title":"How to Watch Northern Iowa vs. Iowa Women's Basketball: TV Channel, Live Stream, Time","url":"https://www.foxsports.com/stories/womens-college-basketball/how-watch-northern-iowa-vs-iowa-womens-basketball-tv-channel-live-stream-time-nov-12-2026"},{"outlet":"Yahoo Sports","publisher":"Yahoo Sports","title":"How to watch Iowa State women's basketball vs Howard today","url":"https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/watch-iowa-state-womens-basketball-114216412.html"}],"more_coverage":[{"outlet":"Yahoo Sports","publisher":"Yahoo Sports","title":"Iowa women's basketball vs UNI live updates, score, highlights","url":"https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/iowa-womens-basketball-vs-uni-233028742.html"},{"outlet":"Yahoo Sports","publisher":"Yahoo Sports","title":"Iowa women's basketball vs. UNI: Live updates, score","url":"https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/iowa-womens-basketball-vs-uni-003056169.html"}],"image":null,"embed":null,"license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/","attribution":"Analysis data is licensed CC BY 4.0. Credit brokenews and link to the story page you took it from. Source headlines, story titles taken from a source headline, and quoted passages remain the property of their publishers and are quoted for comparison, not licensed onward.","terms":"https://www.brokenews.co/about#reuse"}