Iowa women get win despite Wisconsin 4th-quarter rally

Iowa narrowly avoided its first three-game losing streak since 2013 as the Hawkeyes beat Wisconsin, 57-54, on Wednesday at the Kohl Center.

The Hawkeyes (13-4, 3-2 Big Ten) led 51-35 after three quarters of play, but the Badgers were able to cut the deficit and make it a ballgame in the fourth. Wisconsin (6-9, 2-3) scored 19 fourth-quarter points to pull within two with under a minute to play.

“We did struggle again in the fourth quarter and something we will have to figure out is keeping that attack mode when everybody else brings their defense up a level,”Iowa head coach Lisa Bluder said. “We have to be able to handle that. We only had 13 turnovers, but too many in the fourth quarter and that’s unfortunate.”

Iowa was led by Ally Distherhot and her team-high 18 points. Whitney Jennings chipped in with 11 points.

The Hawkeyes will travel to East Lansing, Mich., on Saturday to face the No. 18 Michigan State Spartans. That game is scheduled to tip at 3:30 p.m.

IOWA (57)
	MIN	FG	3P	FT	RB	A	TO	TP
Disterhoft	36	8-9	1-1	1-1	5	2	2	18
Peschel	21	2-4	2-4	0-0	5	0	4	6
Coley	25	3-9	0-0	1-2	4	0	0	7
Kastanek	24	1-6	1-6	0-0	1	3	4	3
Jennings	38	4-11	2-4	1-2	0	1	1	11
Till	3	0-0	0-0	0-0	1	0	0	0
Gustafson	15	2-8	0-0	1-2	4	1	0	5
Davis	19	1-4	0-2	0-0	3	2	1	2
Buttenham	19	2-3	1-2	0-0	6	0	1	5
Team					7
Totals	200	23-54	7-19	4-7	36	9	13	57

WISCONSIN (54)
	MIN	FG	3P	FT	RB	A	TO	TP
Johnson	32	4-6	0-0	2-3	6	1	1	10
Young	30	6-9	0-0	0-0	7	0	1	12
Whyte	35	4-10	2-6	4-4	5	4	1	14
Bauman	38	7-15	2-6	0-0	5	3	4	16
McMorris	18	0-4	0-3	0-0	0	0	2	0
Marble	15	0-3	0-2	0-0	2	0	0	0
Howard	10	1-3	0-1	0-0	1	0	1	2
Cichy	14	0-3	0-0	0-0	1	1	0	0
Gambino	8	0-1	0-0	0-0	1	0	0	0
Team					0
Totals	200	22-54	4-18	6-7	28	11	10	54