Iowa women's basketball to host Love Lei Best for Thursday visit

Iowa women's basketball will host Oregon prospect Love Lei Best for an unofficial visit on Thursday before the team hosts Northern Iowa. Best, a 5-foot-6 point guard out of Tualatin High School, was named the 2025-26 Gatorade Oregon Girls Basketball Player of the Year. She averaged 14.9 points, 5.1 assists, and 3.9 steals per game during her senior season.

Iowa offered Best in August. Best's former coach Eric Knox described her as a player who opponents game plan for more than any other in Oregon, and whose impact touches every possession of the game. The game against Northern Iowa is scheduled for 7:30 p.m. CT and will be broadcast on the Big Ten Network.