IOWA CITY, Iowa -- While the names change, Iowa women's basketball's high expectations remain.
The Hawkeyes have won at least 20 games in nine straight seasons. Winning is a part of the program's culture.
The preseason Big Ten media poll has Iowa outside of the top five, but these Hawkeyes aren't afraid of a challenge.
"It doesn't feel like pressure. It just feels like an expectation from ourselves. We expect to be a winning program, we expect to be a winning team, we expect to be a threat at every level, and against anyone we are playing against," said Taylor McCabe, an Iowa senior guard. "I think we can sometimes set our expectations a little too high and then be disappointed but that only makes us better and makes us want to compete every day in practice, so I think that's also a goo