This past week re-affirmed Iowa women's basketball can hang with anyone, while re-emphasizing the cleaner execution needed to make them stick.

The Iowa Hawkeyes women's basketball team is right there. They are on the cusp of knocking off one of the top teams in America, but they just need to learn how to close games out down the stretch. Such was the case in their 67-65 loss to the No.

Another riveting Carver-Hawkeye Arena moment was there for the taking, but Iowa women's basketball came up just short vs. No. 3 UCLA.

For the second game in a row, the Iowa Hawkeyes women's basketball team had a top ten team in the nation on the ropes, yet couldn't find a way to close it out. Iowa dropped a tight one to the No. 3 UCLA Bruins 67-65 in a game that saw them have a double-digit second-half lead.