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Collier
Dylan Heuer
103
Winner Iowa Iowa 2-0,0-0 Big Ten
97
Drake DRA 1-2,0-0 MVC
Winner
Iowa Iowa
2-0,0-0 Big Ten
103
Final
97
Drake DRA
1-2,0-0 MVC
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 F
Iowa Iowa 22 20 23 38 103
Drake DRA 27 19 22 29 97

Game Recap: Women's Basketball | | Drake Athletic Communications

Iowa Outlasts Women’s Basketball, 103-97

Collier scores 25 points with 10 assists for her first double-double

Despite 20-point performances from Kierra Collier, Grace Berg and Maddie Monahan, the Drake University women's basketball team could not hold off a late rally by Iowa in a 103-97 loss Wednesday evening at the Knapp Center. 

Collier led the way for the Bulldogs with 25 points and a career-high 10 assists for her first career double-double, with 22 of those points coming in the second half. Berg added 26 points, nine boards and four assists while Monahan added a career-best 23 points in the loss. As a team, Drake (1-2) shot 14-of-29 from the three-point arc with Collier connecting on seven of her nine attempts to tie for the third-most three-pointers in a game in school history.
However, Iowa(2-0) got 30 points and 13 assists from Caitlin Clark while Monika Czinano added 27 points. McKenna Warnock had 20 points to keep pace in the exciting, high-scoring game that saw Iowa erase a third-quarter deficit. 

Iowa pulled within two points, 48-46, in the first two minutes of the third quarter before Collier hit a trio of three-pointers to stretch the Bulldogs' advantage back out to nine points. However, Clark continued to keep pace for Iowa, scoring 12 third-quarter points as part of a 15-7 charge by the Hawkeyes to trim the Bulldogs' lead to three, 68-65, heading into the final 10 minutes of action.

The quarter break wasn't enough to squelch Iowa's momentum. The Hawkeyes used an 8-0 run early in the fourth quarter to take their first lead since the opening quarter at 77-76 with just under seven minutes left, forcing the Bulldogs to take a timeout. 

Shortly after the timeout, Collier came through again for Drake with a three-pointer to tie the game at 79-79 with 6:12 remaining, but Iowa answered with five-straight points.

Collier, Monahan and Berg kept firing for the Bulldogs, trimming the margin to two points four times in the final two minutes, the last coming on a Monahan layup with 22 seconds left. Drake was forced to foul in hopes of extending the game while Iowa made all six ensuing free-throw attempts to seal the win. 

Drake took an early lead on a Berg three-pointer followed by a drive to the basket from Allie Wooldridge, who made her first career start, to go up 7-4 two minutes into the game. Minutes later, the Bulldogs began a 10-2 run, fueled by a pair of three-pointers by Maggie Bair to take a 20-12 lead with three minutes left in the opening quarter. 

The run forced the Hawkeyes to take an early timeout from which they started to erase the deficit behind 10 first-quarter points from Clark. However, the Bulldogs were 5-of-8 from the arc in the first quarter, including Bair's pair to hold a 27-22 lead to open the game. Bair entered the game with just two career three-pointers but was limited due to early fouls.

The Bulldogs stretched that lead to 10 points, 38-28, early in the second period on a Berg drive off a dazzling no-look assist from Maggie Neegard during a span that saw the Bulldogs convert on 4-of-5 shots. Berg also scored on three-straight possessions to help the Bulldogs stay up by at least two possessions until both teams went scoreless for more than two minutes. 

However, Iowa continued to score while Drake, which opened the game shooting nearly 70 percent, went 2-of-10 from the field to close the half and take a 46-42 lead into halftime. Berg finished the half with 15 points on 7-of-8 shooting, while Clark had 22 of her points in the first half for the Hawkeyes.

Drake returns to the road next to face its second-straight Big Ten opponent, Minnesota, Dec. 6. Tipoff against the Gophers is set for 2 p.m. on BTN+.
 
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