A tough overtime loss for the men and another win for the ranked women accounted for a Sunday split for Iowa basketball squads.
Bryant McIntosh scored 18 points and Northwestern ended a 10-game losing streak with a 66-61 overtime victory over Iowa after the Hawkeyes’ Jarrod Uthoff nailed a 3 at the end of regulation on Sunday afternoon.
Uthoff, who scored a career-high 25 points for Iowa (15-10, 6-6 Big Ten), nailed an off-balance 3 from the wing at the end of regulation even though Vic Law was all over him. But the Wildcats scored seven straight in overtime, ending their longest slide since they dropped 12 in a row in the 1999-2000 season.
Melissa Dixon scored 15 points, including four 3-pointers, and No. 14 Iowa cruised past Indiana 81-64 on Sunday.
Dixon eclipsed 300 career 3-pointers (303) in the win. It was Iowa head coach Lisa Bluder’s 299th win in her 15th season with the program.
Iowa (20-4, 11-12 Big Ten) took control early in the second. Disterhoft started a 15-4 run with a jumper and ended it with a 3-pointer that lifted the Hawkeyes to an 18-point lead.
