Iowa adds home and home with UCONN
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I like that it's a home and home rather than neutral site. Hope I'm wrong but I don't have high hopes for either of these match ups.
Agree with all this. Guards will determine if they have any shot in either match-up. Inside game is capable of competing.
Rub Geno Auriemma’s nose on the CC22 logo until he admits that he was wrong about Clark’s pro basketball career.
From Kyle Huesmann's article "It [game] will either take place at Gampel Pavillion in Storrs or at Peoples Bank Arena in Hartford."
I'm all-in on the 27-28 team, as long as we don't have major portal losses. That group of seniors will have two potential All-Americans (Ava and Dani) and two solid role players, plus a solid junior class, and McKenna will have a year of Big Ten play under her belt. Plus we get them in Carver.
Looking at a map... Storrs is in the middle of nowhere, the campus is pretty much the whole town. I think it is more fan friendly to play games in Hartford. UConns football stadium isn't on campus either... We had a home and home scheduled with them in the early 2000s that got scrapped because all the conference realignment.
Iowa, UConn schedule home-and-home women's basketball series
Iowa and UConn will begin a home-and-home women's basketball series next season, the schools announced Tuesday.
www.espn.com
If you wanna be a legit blue blood, these are the games you need to play, and you need to win some of them. Having UConn @ Carver will be fantastic. Good on Jan, Beth, and Iowa for scheduling these games. Can't wait.Iowa WBB, UConn to Begin Series in 2026-27
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For all the regular posters who are also season ticket holders, renewals started yesterday. Seems like they do this earlier and earlier each year. No increased price on my tickets.
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Those are both considered home arenas. They split their home games between those two arenas. I've been to both. The smaller one is ~10,000 and the bigger one ~15,000
The games they play at the "neutral" site Mohegan Sun also feel like UConn home games too. It's kind of crazy they call that site neutral for them lol
From Wikipedia
"Like several other programs in the Big East, UConn splits their home schedule between on-campus Gampel Pavilion and a larger professional-standard arena, in this case PeoplesBank Arena ian Hartford (roughly 25 miles from the Storrs campus). However, unlike many of these programs who primarily play non-conference games and occasionally some less-popular Big East opponents on campus, the Huskies divide their home games roughly equally between the two arenas and do not reserve marquee games for Hartford. The athletic department sells separate ticket packages for Storrs and Hartford games and runs a free shuttle bus service for students to attend games at PeoplesBank Arena."
Roughly $250 per ticket, no mix. About $15 per game, doesn't seem bad
The exposure is neat and all, and it's nice to say we challenged ourselves in the non-conference, but multiple things can be true.......
A. This isn't Geno and UConn throwing Iowa, or Jan, or the sport of WCBB a bone here out of the kindness of their hearts. Let's make that very f***ing clear from the start here in late May of 2026.
Geno is a vindictive son of a b****, regardless of what people know or may know about him, and this is his opportunity in his own little way to stick it back to Iowa, and Caitlin, for the loss in the Final Four. He wants to embarrass Iowa in both games and prove that UConn is still the place to go for all the top recruits in the country, and not allow Iowa to have the chance to grow themselves by potentially swaying recruits here through upsetting UConn in either of these matchups. He wouldn't risk scheduling this game against a potential rising program like ours that is trying to maintain and grow upon the success from the CC era, unless he felt we weren't a threat to truly gain anything from playing them............and that leads me to my next point.
B. The exposure is great and all. The fans who don't understand a goddam thing and just wanna see helmets and logos smash together like f***ing action figures don't care about the consequences of these games.
Everyone praised Wisconsin for "taking risks" in their football scheduling and playing teams like LSU and Alabama. They're so ballsy and doing things to excite their fanbase etc etc............."why can't Iowa do that?" etc etc.
Yeah, and what came of that? Go look at how impactful scheduling those games actually ended up being for Wisconsin. Go ahead.
Blowout losses. Nothing gained. It just furthered reinforced where Wisconsin and all the teams of their caliber were in the hierarchy of CFB. It did zero to positively impact their recruiting, but hey....I'm sure they got some money out of it, and it gave their fans a chance to throw more parties and drink lots of alcohol before those blowout losses, because that's ultimately why we're doing this amirite!!!!
*Fart noises*
Now I'll wait for someone to take exception to this and ask what I would want done. 🫠🫠🫠🫠🫠ðŸ«
The exposure is neat and all, and it's nice to say we challenged ourselves in the non-conference, but multiple things can be true.......
A. This isn't Geno and UConn throwing Iowa, or Jan, or the sport of WCBB a bone here out of the kindness of their hearts. Let's make that very f***ing clear from the start here in late May of 2026.
Geno is a vindictive son of a b****, regardless of what people know or may know about him, and this is his opportunity in his own little way to stick it back to Iowa, and Caitlin, for the loss in the Final Four. He wants to embarrass Iowa in both games and prove that UConn is still the place to go for all the top recruits in the country, and not allow Iowa to have the chance to grow themselves by potentially swaying recruits here through upsetting UConn in either of these matchups. He wouldn't risk scheduling this game against a potential rising program like ours that is trying to maintain and grow upon the success from the CC era, unless he felt we weren't a threat to truly gain anything from playing them............and that leads me to my next point.
B. The exposure is great and all. The fans who don't understand a goddam thing and just wanna see helmets and logos smash together like f***ing action figures don't care about the consequences of these games.
Everyone praised Wisconsin for "taking risks" in their football scheduling and playing teams like LSU and Alabama. They're so ballsy and doing things to excite their fanbase etc etc............."why can't Iowa do that?" etc etc.
Yeah, and what came of that? Go look at how impactful scheduling those games actually ended up being for Wisconsin. Go ahead.
Blowout losses. Nothing gained. It just furthered reinforced where Wisconsin and all the teams of their caliber were in the hierarchy of CFB. It did zero to positively impact their recruiting, but hey....I'm sure they got some money out of it, and it gave their fans a chance to throw more parties and drink lots of alcohol before those blowout losses, because that's ultimately why we're doing this amirite!!!!
*Fart noises*
Now I'll wait for someone to take exception to this and ask what I would want done. 🫠🫠🫠🫠🫠ðŸ«
1) They've already beaten Iowa since losing to them in the FF.
2) This is not the 1st time the 2 teams are playing in the regular season.
3) Comparing football scheduling and basketball scheduling is asinine.
And that means what to Geno? Try again.....
That serves no relevance to what I'm talking about. I'm sure you thought it was relevant in some way, shape, or form or maybe you think I wasn't aware that Iowa hasn't played UConn before.............and that was your fault.
It's honestly not that hard to understand my comparison. It really isn't. Just because you don't like it doesn't mean you need to "old man cry" about it.
Hope that helps!
Just what he needs to do. Nit pick every little thing, like he's the home room teacher. Maybe getting a life would help, but who knows.And that means what to Geno? Try again.....
That serves no relevance to what I'm talking about. I'm sure you thought it was relevant in some way, shape, or form or maybe you think I wasn't aware that Iowa hasn't played UConn before.............and that was your fault.
It's honestly not that hard to understand my comparison. It really isn't. Just because you don't like it doesn't mean you need to "old man cry" about it.
Hope that helps!
I have no idea if revenge is what is motivating Geno in scheduling Iowa, To me the series makes sense for both teams, Geno needs strong OOC games for NET value since once he gets into conference play he gets little NET value. It’s a game that UConn should win, It will likely be a National TV game and Iowa still has name value.
For Iowa, Great for NET and S.O.S., Jan really wants to try to elevate the program, It’s a challenge, National exposure and a chance (likely not great) for a significant win. IMO a good selling point on the recruiting trail as well. If you want to elevate the program games like this are a better selling point than a 30 point win over some directional team.
For Iowa, Great for NET and S.O.S., Jan really wants to try to elevate the program, It’s a challenge, National exposure and a chance (likely not great) for a significant win. IMO a good selling point on the recruiting trail as well. If you want to elevate the program games like this are a better selling point than a 30 point win over some directional team.
correct about Geno. That man isn't about the womens game, he is about his own glory.