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After a New Year’s Day win over Penn State, the Iowa women’s basketball team has been in a freefall. The Hawkeyes have lost three in a row, including a pair of home matchups to Maryland and Indiana. Now Iowa looks to turn things around as they play host to our rivals west of the Missouri River as the Nebraska Cornhuskers come to Carver for a must-win game.

Division I men’s basketball teams will be able to play two exhibitions against any other four-year schools without needing a waiver that required game proceeds be donated to charity under a change approved at the NCAA convention.

In a move to help close the pay gap between men and women in college sports, the NCAA will now pay Division I women's basketball teams who play in March Madness games starting this year.