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Third-Quarter Rally Unable to Lift Michigan Past Iowa
2/26/2025 10:34:00 PM | Women's Basketball
ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- The University of Michigan women's basketball team fell to Iowa 79-66 on Wednesday evening (Feb. 26) at Crisler Center. Iowa hit nine first-half three-pointers on 75 percent shooting, taking control of the contest. Michigan trimmed a 21-point deficit to six points in the third quarter but did not get any closer in the contest.
Syla Swords recorded her second double-double of the season, with 22 points and 10 rebounds -- both team highs. Four other Wolverines scored at least seven points, with Brooke Quarles Daniels going for eight points and seven rebounds off the bench. Iowa hit 10 three-pointers on the contest and shot 52.5 percent from the field, while the Wolverines shot 42.2 percent from the floor.
After Iowa jumped out to an 8-2 lead and doubled up the Wolverines at 14-7, U-M responded with an 8-0 run capped by a Mila Holloway layup for a 15-14 lead. Iowa countered with eight straight of its own for a 22-15 lead. The run was stopped by a Swords triple, but Iowa cashed in on another triple for a 25-18 lead after 10 minutes.
Iowa put up another 24 points in the second quarter, hitting 4-of-6 shots from deep en route to a 49-32 halftime lead. Quarles Daniels corralled an offensive rebound on Michigan's last possession, converting the layup to pull the Wolverines within 17 at the break.
Michigan slowly chipped away at the Iowa lead, with a banked three-pointer from Holloway with 5:10 remaining to ignite the run. Back-to-back layups from Quarles Daniels followed, with a triple from Macy Brown cutting the Iowa lead to 60-49 with 3:57 left in the third.
A Yulia Grabovskaia layup on Michigan's next possession pulled Michigan within single digits, and a triple from Swords at the 2:37 mark capped a 15-2 run for Michigan. With Iowa's lead down to 60-54, the Hawkeyes answered on the ensuing possession. U-M again cut it to six on a layup from Brown, but a turnover on the next Michigan possession led to a Hawkeye layup for a 64-56 Iowa lead after 30 minutes.
Iowa pushed the lead to double figures in the early stages of the fourth quarter. A layup from Olivia Olson with 7:30 left again pulled U-M within eight, but the Wolverines got no closer the rest of the way.
Michigan concludes the regular season on Sunday (March 2), heading to Champaign to face Illinois at 12:30 p.m. CST on Big Ten Network.
