Iowa star Lucy Olsen sent a powerful message about Hawkeyes fans as she prepares for the WNBA Draft.

Iowa Hawkeyes guard Lucy Olsen (33) gets introduced Thursday, March 6, 2025, in a round two game at the 2025 TIAA Big Ten Women's Basketball Tournament between the Iowa Hawkeyes and the Michigan State Spartans at Gainbridge Fieldhouse in Indianapolis. Iowa Hawkeyes guard Lucy Olsen (33) gets introduced Thursday, March 6, 2025, in a round two game at the 2025 TIAA Big Ten Women’s Basketball Tournament between the Iowa Hawkeyes and the Michigan State Spartans at Gainbridge Fieldhouse in Indianapolis. / Grace Smith/IndyStar / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images

The Iowa Hawkeyes women’s basketball team’s 2024-25 season concluded in the second round of the 2025 NCAA Tournament with their defeat to the No. 3-seeded Oklahoma Sooners, who eventually went on to lose to the UConn Huskies.

While losing in the tournament in the second round can’t compete with the two consecutive NCAA championship appearances the Hawkeyes had in the 2023 and 2024 NCAA Tournaments, it was still a successful season. Not only was Jan Jensen named the 2025 NCAA Division I Rookie Coach of the Year, but star guard Lucy Olsen put together a fantastic campaign after transferring from Villanova that made losing Caitlin Clark to the WNBA easier to bear.

Olsen is taking part in a pro combine on April 4, ahead of the WNBA Draft. And at one point, she spoke about her season with Iowa.

“The fans were amazing. Every game they showed out, home or away,” Olsen said, per an X post from @EJayArrow. “I tried to imagine it before I got there, like ‘Carver is gonna be sold out, it’s gonna be so loud in there.’ But you never know what it feels like until you’re actually there.

“On the court, every game I took it in, because you only get so many of these. And the fans, they’re just so loud and so amazing… so I just want to thank them all for embracing me and letting me have a wonderful one year and making me a part of the family,” she added.

Now Olsen will have that Hawkeyes family along the ride with her as she tries to enter the WNBA.

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Unless this is your first day in America, then you know race relations in this country dominate just everything, and that includes NBA and NFL drafts

 

During the most recent NFL Draft in Detroit, social media was buzzing as athletes showed up to the red carpet event with their girlfriends and family. Many of the incoming NFL rookies were African-American and were spotted with white women, which has become the usual theme for years.

The same thing happens with the NBA Draft.

This year, the discourse on the NFL Draft and NBA Draft has gotten even louder as African-American women openly pondered why so many of the players never have a partner that is the same race as them.

 

 

One guy on TikTok decided to answer that question by revealing that the vast majority of his division-1 friends in college or headed to the league are dating or married to white women and explained why.

He stated that some of them had told him that their white girlfriend looked up to Taylor Swift while their girlfriend looked up to Megan The Stallion. He then states the guy asks how many white women he has seen doing the Megan Thee Stallion challenge as opposed to Black women.

He then dove into another story of a friend who relayed that his Black girlfriend started to request money from him as soon as she found out about his NIL money. She wanted her hair and nails done. He then added that the Black women would be upset if they went to places like Chipotle, and she demanded steak houses.