IOWA CITY, Iowa – The Fairfield University Women's Basketball team will travel to Iowa City, Iowa to take on the No. 11/14 Iowa Hawkeyes for the first-ever meeting between the two programs. Iowa, who is ranked No. 11 in the latest Associated Press (AP) Top-25 poll and No. 14 in the USA Today Coaches Poll, will be Fairfield's second top-15 opponent in their last three contests. Tip-off at the Carver-Hawkeye Arena is scheduled for Sunday at 1pm EST live on Big Ten Network.
Fairfield enters the game picking up a couple of votes in the latest AP Top-25 Poll after starting the season with a 4-1 mark with their only setback coming against nationally-ranked North Carolina.
The key to Fairfield's success has been their shooting as the squad boasts the nation's best free throw percentage with a .860 mark while also ranking second in Division I with 11.4 3-pointers per game.
The Stags have three players ranked in the top-10 in the country at the charity stripe with
Janelle Brown and
Jillian Huerter combining to go a perfect 25-for-25 from the line. Junior guard
Kaety L'Amoreaux is right behind them, hitting 95 percent of her free throw attempts after a 6-for-7 showing in the win over New Haven.
L'Amoreaux has been one of the biggest playmakers on the team during the early stretch, ranking in the top-50 in the country in three different categories. Aside from her free throw success, she also places near the top in Division I in points (18.4) and assists (5.4) per game. She is also coming off one of the best defensive games in her career, recording a career-high six steals in the victory over the Chargers. Dating back to last season, L'Amoreaux has netted double-figures in seven-straight contests, the longest streak of her career.
The Stags had four student-athletes reach double figures in their last home win with: L'Amoreaux (17),
Meghan Andersen (15),
Janelle Brown (13), and
Milou van Vliet (12) all reaching the mark.
Fairfield also had a feisty defense against New Haven forcing a season-high 28 turnovers, the most by a Fairfield team since Jan. 23, 2025 against Canisius.
Iowa enters the contest as one of 35 unbeaten teams in the country with a 7-0 record. Ava Heiden is the team leader in both points (15.7) and rebounds (9.0) per game.
This will be the start of a three-game road trip that will next take the Stags to Washington D.C., to face Howard on Thursday at 12pm.
