Iowa Takes Home Two B1G Weekly Awards

Last week, Stuelke took home this honor. This week, Stuelke was honored in a different way. After taking home the Naismith National Player of the Week, the B1G focused their attention on Heiden. It's not like Stuelke couldn't win both, but it's great to see Heiden have some more attention thrown her way.

Heiden leads the team with 16.4 points per game and is a focal point of the offense. Her rebounds total continues to climb, currently at 7.7 per game. She has at least five rebounds in her last nine games. In that stretch, she's grabbed eight or more five times.

Coming off back-to-back games with nine made field goals, Heiden is doing her part to make sure this offense operates as smoothly as possible. She's shooting an impressive 63.5% from the field, which is up over seven percent from her freshman campaign.

B1G Freshman Of The Week: Addie Deal

Speaking of freshman, this is quite a big deal. Iowa's freshman forward has won this award back-to-back after not winning it at all in her young career. Deal is far from the team's leading scorer, but a 20-point effort against the No. 12 team in the nation will help turn some heads.

Deal set her career high in points against a strong Buckeyes team, one that increased in the AP Poll despite losing to Iowa by 21 points. Now that McCabe is out, head coach Jan Jensen will have plenty more minutes to come Deal's way.

Fresh off winning this award the week prior, Deal is looking for a three-peat. Seeing as she's dropped 20 and 18 points in two of her last four games, the sky truly is the limit for this California native. One can only imagine what she'll do in her home state against the No. 2 team.