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

Per 247Sports' Dushawn London, Iowa women's basketball is welcoming in blue-chip 2028 prospect Love Lei Best for a Thursday unofficial visit as the Hawkeyes play host to Northern Iowa. Iowa offered Best in August . Now, the Hawkeyes get the talented point guard on campus to see all that Carver-Hawkeye Arena, Iowa City, and Iowa's program have to offer. A 5-foot-6 point guard out of Tualatin High School in Oregon, Best was honored as the 2025-26 Gatorade Oregon Girls Basketball Player of the Year . Best averaged 14.9 points, 5.1 assists and 3.9 steals per game at the time of her selection. Source: Love Lei Best, a four-star point guard in the class of 2028, will take an unofficial visit to Iowa on Thursday, source tells @247Sports pic.twitter.com/r4RRvtEFQy — Dushawn London (@DushawnLondon1) November 10, 2026 "I’m not sure there’s a player in Oregon who opponents game plan for more than Love Lei Best," her former head coach Eric Knox said of Best. "She’s the best player on the best team in the state. Everything runs through her and her impact touches just about every possession of the game." Tipoff between the Hawkeyes and UNI is set for 7:30 p.m. CT