{"id":519616,"date":"2026-01-06T05:50:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T05:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/519616\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T05:50:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T05:50:14","slug":"ava-heiden-scores-23-no-14-iowa-women-beat-northwestern-67-58","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/519616\/","title":{"rendered":"Ava Heiden scores 23, No. 14 Iowa women beat Northwestern 67-58"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">EVANSTON, Ill. (AP) &#8211; Ava Heiden scored 23 points on 9-of-11 shooting Monday night to help No. 14 Iowa beat Northwestern 67-58 and hand the Wildcats their ninth straight loss. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Chit-Chat Wright had 12 points, seven assists, five rebounds and three steals for Iowa (13-2, 4-1 Big Ten). Hannah Stuelke had eight points on 2-of-11 shooting, 4 of 8 from the free-throw line. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Heiden made two free throw, a layup, and a jumper at the buzzer that gave Iowa 50-44 lead at the end of the third quarter and Northwestern trailed the rest of the way. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Hawkeyes have won six straight against Northwestern and lead the all-time series 63-18.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Grace Sullivan, who went into the game leading the Big Ten in scoring (23.0 per game), led Northwestern (6-9, 0-4) with 28 points, and Casey Harter scored 11. Sullivan made 11 of 22 from the field, hit 6 of 8 the free-throw line and finished with seven rebounds and four steals. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Harter and Carolina Lau made back-to-back 3-pointer that cut the deficit to 62-58 with 59 seconds to play, but Northwestern didn\u2019t score again. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Iowa: Plays Sunday at Indiana. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Northwestern: Visits Minnesota on Thursday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 KCRG. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EVANSTON, Ill. (AP) &#8211; Ava Heiden scored 23 points on 9-of-11 shooting Monday night to help No. 14&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3723],"tags":[72029,7,7641,3474,72030,217,19541,3735,3734,231,772,1544,5288,235,6112],"class_list":["post-519616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-ncaa-basketball","tag-ava-heiden","tag-basketball","tag-big-ten","tag-big-ten-conference","tag-chit-chat-wright","tag-college-basketball","tag-hannah-stuelke","tag-hawkeyes","tag-iowa","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-basketball","tag-ncaab","tag-northwestern","tag-wildcats","tag-womens-basketball"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115846592869261941","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=519616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519616\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=519616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=519616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=519616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}