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This Weekend’s NCAA/ NIT/ WNIT Games with Iowa Teams

This Weekend’s NCAA/ NIT/ WNIT Games with Iowa Teams

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The NCAA, NIT, and WNIT Tournaments are underway. Here is the schedule for Iowa teams this weekend:

Our teams (in order of play date and time) in the NCAA Tournament: 
Drake Women vs. Colorado – Friday at 6:00 p.m. – ESPNN
Iowa State Women vs. Maryland – Friday at 6:30 p.m. – ESPN2
Iowa Women vs. Holy Cross – Saturday at 2 p.m. – ABC
Iowa State Men vs. Washington State – Saturday at 5:10 p.m. – TNT – Round 2
NIT: 
Iowa Men vs. Utah – Sunday at 8 p.m. on ESPN2/ ESPN+ – Round 2
WNIT:
UNI Women vs. St. Louis – Sunday at 5 p.m. – ESPN+

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