{"id":659873,"date":"2026-03-15T17:25:20","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T17:25:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/659873\/"},"modified":"2026-03-15T17:25:20","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T17:25:20","slug":"iowa-womens-basketball-announced-as-ncaa-tournament-host","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/659873\/","title":{"rendered":"Iowa women&#8217;s basketball announced as NCAA Tournament host"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While the news certainly was not a surprise to many Iowa women&#8217;s basketball fans, the No. 9 <a href=\"https:\/\/hawkeyeswire.usatoday.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Hawkeyes;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Hawkeyes&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Hawkeyes<\/a> (26-6, 15-3 Big Ten) have earned the right to serve as one of 16 hosts for the upcoming NCAA Tournament.<\/p>\n<p>While the actual <a href=\"https:\/\/hawkeyeswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/college\/hawkeyes\/womens-basketball\/2026\/03\/15\/watch-iowa-womens-basketball-selection-sunday-ncaa-tournament\/89164329007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:seeds will be announced during Selection Sunday;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;seeds will be announced during Selection Sunday&quot;}\" class=\"link \">seeds will be announced during Selection Sunday<\/a>, the significance of this news is that the Hawkeyes will host the first and second rounds of the NCAA Tournament at Carver-Hawkeye Arena.<\/p>\n<p>The Hawkeyes are projected as a No. 2 seed in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/espn\/feature\/story\/_\/id\/30423107\/ncaa-women-bracketology-2026-women-college-basketball-projections\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:ESPN&#039;s latest bracketology;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;ESPN&#039;&quot;}\" class=\"link \">ESPN&#8217;s latest bracketology<\/a>. Games will be held at Carver-Hawkeye Arena on either March 20 and 22 or March 21 and 23. Iowa announced that a limited number of tickets will go on sale on Monday at 9 a.m. CT.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Contact\/Follow us\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/HawkeyesWire\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:@HawkeyesWire;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;@HawkeyesWire&quot;}\" class=\"link \">@HawkeyesWire<\/a>\u00a0on X (formerly Twitter) and like our page on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/@HawkeyesWire\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Facebook;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Facebook&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Facebook<\/a>\u00a0to follow ongoing coverage of Iowa news, notes, and opinions.\u00a0Follow Scout on X:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SpringgateNews\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:@SpringgateNews;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;@SpringgateNews&quot;}\" class=\"link \">@SpringgateNews<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on Hawkeyes Wire: <a href=\"https:\/\/hawkeyeswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/college\/hawkeyes\/womens-basketball\/2026\/03\/15\/iowa-womens-basketball-ncaa-tournament-host\/89162222007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Iowa women&#039;s basketball announced as NCAA Tournament host;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Iowa women&#039;&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Iowa women&#8217;s basketball announced as NCAA Tournament host<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While the news certainly was not a surprise to many Iowa women&#8217;s basketball fans, the No. 9 Hawkeyes&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":659874,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3724],"tags":[7,8187,3735,3734,1400],"class_list":["post-659873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-basketball","tag-carver-hawkeye-arena","tag-hawkeyes","tag-iowa","tag-ncaa-tournament"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116234372092057999","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659873","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=659873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659873\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/659874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=659873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=659873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=659873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}