IOWA CITY — As ill-timed as Lucy Olsen’s freak accident on the Cancun Problem was, Iowa ladies’s basketball has seemingly dodged all long-term bullets.
The Hawkeyes‘ place to begin guard is predicted to return Saturday when Iowa faces Tennessee within the Champions Traditional at Brooklyn’s Barclays Middle. Olsen missed each Cancun Problem video games after tripping whereas leaving the raised court docket on the Laborious Rock Riviera Lodge Maya, which precipitated an enormous gash on her knee that required a number of stitches.
“It is extra probably than not (Olsen returns), trigger she’s so robust, proper,” Iowa coach Jan Jensen mentioned Tuesday. “I feel we simply need to see the way it responded immediately with much more reps and see what it appears like tomorrow… I am optimistic about it, however I am going to really feel even higher tomorrow after I hear the report that it responded fairly effectively.”
For all of the chaos abruptly injected into the Hawkeyes’ Mexico keep, Iowa (8-0) dealt with the adversity effectively. Jensen’s group pulled out a 69-62 win over Rhode Island on Thanksgiving, then adopted up with a 68-48 drubbing of BYU the next day. Though Iowa had 20-plus turnovers in every contest, the Hawkeyes pieced collectively their point-guard manufacturing with a pair of freshmen gaining confidence by the sport.
Taylor Stremlow began rather than Olsen, with Aaliyah Guyton helping the bench in her first prolonged motion of the season. Guyton, who figures to be Iowa’s backup level guard transferring ahead now that ACL restoration is behind her, had 18 factors and 5 treys over 39 minutes in Cancun.
Iowa, although, is actually completely satisfied to have its offensive chief again. Olsen has been every little thing the Hawkeyes hoped she’d be after they scooped her out of the switch portal for one final season. The Villanova switch is averaging 17.3 factors, 5.3 assists and 4.5 rebounds per sport whereas taking pictures 49% from the ground.
Dargan Southard is a sports activities trending reporter and covers Iowa athletics for the Des Moines Register and HawkCentral.com. E mail him at [email protected] or observe him on Twitter at @Dargan_Southard.
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