{
  "id": 19489554,
  "title": "Iowa women's basketball to host Love Lei Best for Thursday visit",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/11/iowa-womens-basketball-to-host-love-lei-best-for-thursday-visit",
  "topic": "culture",
  "section": "Culture",
  "published": "2026-11-11T11:45:34.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Yahoo Sports",
    "slug": "yahoo-sports",
    "url": "https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/iowa-womens-basketball-host-love-114534636.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "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.",
  "summary": "Iowa women's basketball is welcoming in one of the top players in the 2028 class for a Thursday visit.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}