Lucy Olsen, Iowa Hawkeyes guard, recently opened up about her excitement at the prospect of facing the USC Trojans in the Elite Eight rounds of the upcoming March Madness tournament. Iowa did play against USC in early February and won the game, and will surely hope to repeat the win in their next face-off.
Olsen has been playing for the Iowa Hawkeyes since last year, and before that she played for the Villanova Wildcats from 2021 to 2024. Before that, the 21-year-old basketball center played high school basketball for Spring-Ford in Pennsylvania. In a recent Instagram post by ‘We Need To Talk’, Olsen was recorded remarking that it would be indeed exciting to play another game against the USC Trojans, hinting back to their most recent matchup where Iowa won stunningly.
“Yeah, there are so many teams that made it to the tournament. USC, that would be exciting. I mean, that was a crazy game in general. So to play them again would be really cool,” Lucy Olsen said according to ‘We Need To Talk’.
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The USC Trojans and the Iowa Hawkeyes are in the same region in the NCAA, with both of them being Big Ten competitors. USC is way higher than Iowa in the table and currently reigning in the table with a 17-1 conference score and 28-3 overall.
Lucy Olsen And Iowa Hawkeyes To Meet Murray State Racers In NCAA First Round
Lucy Olsen and the rest of the Iowa Hawkeyes are gearing up to take on Murray State Racers in the first round of the NCAA tournament this weekend. While the Iowa State Hawkeyes finished eighth in the Big Ten with a 10-8 conference score and 22-10 overall, the Murray State Racers finished at the top of the Missouri Valley table with a 16-4 conference score and 25-7 overall.
The Iowa Hawkeyes did quite decently in the Big Ten tournament, winning the first two games against the Wisconsin Badgers 81-54 and then against the Michigan State Spartans 74-61. However, in their third game, Iowa lost to the Ohio State Buckeyes with a very tight 60-59 final score. In that game, Hannah Stuelke, Lucy Olsen and Sydney Affolter each matched 14 points for the team, while Ava Heiden contributed a tenner.
In this college basketball season, the Iowa Hawkeyes are led in offense by Lucy Olen who has an 18.0 point average per matchup, while Hannah Stuelke is the second lead-scorer for the team with a 12.8 point average. Stuelke is also leading the team in rebounds, grabbing 7.9 boards in each matchup played.
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