Story byJosh Helmer, Hawkeyes WireSun, December 7, 2025 at 11:45 AM UTC·2 min readIowa women's basketball (9-0, 1-0 Big Ten) cruised past Rutgers (7-3, 0-1 Big Ten) in its conference opener, 79-36. The 12th-ranked Hawkeyes have now won seven straight over the Scarlet Knights and improved to 15-3 all-time against Rutgers. While just about everything went right for the Hawkeyes in the blowout victory, Iowa sophomore guard Chit-Chat Wright's return to play was an abbreviated one. Wright, who hadn't played since exiting with an upper-body injury in the second half of the Hawkeyes' Nov.