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UW women?s basketball: Recruit backs out, chooses Iowa

The University of Wisconsin women?s basketball team suffered another future personnel loss stemming from the Badgers? coaching change. Nicole Smith, a 6-foot-4 center from Rockton (Ill.) Hononegah who was to join UW in 2012, has opted to play for Iowa, according to the Iowa City Press-Citizen. Smith is the second recruit to defect after Lisa Stone was fired this spring.