By LUKE MEREDITH AP Sports Writer DES MOINES — Drake has hired longtime Creighton assistant Darian DeVries as its basketball coach. The Bulldogs announced Thursday that DeVries will replace Niko Medved, who last week left after one season at Drake to take over at Colorado State. DeVries, ...
By LUKE MEREDITH AP Sports Writer IOWA CITY — The dismantling of Iowa’s underperforming roster began Tuesday, as reserves Brady Ellingson and Ahmad Wagner announced that they were leaving the program. The school says Ellingson, a redshirt junior, will graduate in May and seek to play a ...
By LUKE MEREDITH AP Sports Writer IOWA CITY — For years, Iowa didn’t have much to worry about at linebacker. The Hawkeyes head into spring workouts with question marks at all three spots after losing a veteran trio keyed by All-American Josey Jewell. Iowa (8-5 in 2017) knew for the past ...
By LUKE MEREDITH AP Sports Writer IOWA CITY — Judging by her stats, Hawkeyes junior center Megan Gustafson might be the best player in America. Unfortunately for Gustafson, not many people outside of Iowa see it that way. Gustafson leads the nation with 25.6 points a game for the ...
By LUKE MEREDITH AP Sports Writer AMES— After losing its offensive coordinator to the NFL, Iowa State is taking a wait-and-see approach to finding a replacement. The Cyclones shuffled their offensive coaching staff Friday, moving three assistants into new positions to compensate for ...
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Carlie Wagner and Kenisha Bell combined for 53 points and Minnesota defeated Iowa 90-89 on Friday despite a school and Big Ten Tournament record 48 points by the Hawkeyes’ Megan Gustafson. Wagner had 27 points and Bell 26, but the fourth-seeded Golden Gophers (23-7) ...
By CLIFF BRUNT AP Sports Writer NORMAN, Okla. — Trae Young had 15 points and six assists in what might have been his final home game, and Oklahoma defeated Iowa State 81-60 on Friday night. Young, a freshman who leads the nation in scoring and assists, is projected to be a high draft pick ...
By LUKE MEREDITH AP Sports Writer After each of coach Fran McCaffery’s first seven seasons at Iowa, it felt as though the program was in position for better things in the future. This year was an unexpected disaster, and no one seems to know where the Hawkeyes are headed this ...
By RALPH D. RUSSO AP College Sports Writer NEW YORK — With Michigan’s stars saddled with foul trouble, and the shots just not falling, the 15th-ranked Wolverines got a lift from their senior sixth man to survive their Big Ten Tournament opener. Duncan Robinson made Michigan’s only ...
By RALPH D. RUSSO AP College Sports Writer NEW YORK — The first Big Ten tournament game at Madison Square Garden featured a couple of teams that were a combined 1,655 miles — give or take — away from home and a kid from Iowa having a blast on the big stage. The Big Ten opened a ...
By LUKE MEREDITH AP Sports Writer AMES — After years of getting owned by Iowa State, Oklahoma State exacted some payback in 2018. Jeffrey Carroll scored 21 points, Cameron McGriff had 19 and Oklahoma State cruised past Iowa State 80-71 on Tuesday, sweeping the season series with the ...
By LUKE MEREDITH AP Sports Writer IOWA CITY — Jordan Bohannon’s tremendous 3-point shooting — and the respect he showed in preserving a record held by Iowa legend Chris Street — gave Hawkeyes fans a rare reason to smile at the tail end of a dismal season. Jordan Bohannon scored 25 ...
IOWA CITY (AP) — Iowa coach Kirk Ferentz and his neighbors settled a bitter legal dispute over the private road they share just hours before trial was set to begin Tuesday, attorneys for both sides confirmed. The deal settles a years-long case in which the nation’s longest-tenured college ...
By LUKE MEREDITH AP Sports Writer IOWA CITY — Jordan Bohannon led six Hawkeyes in double figures with 20 points and Iowa rolled past Minnesota 94-80 on Tuesday night, its second straight home win. Tyler Cook scored 17 points with 10 rebounds and Isaiah Moss had 16 for the Hawkeyes (12-12, ...
By LUKE MEREDITH AP Sports Writer AMES — West Virginia’s losing skid keeps getting bigger, and coach Bob Huggins isn’t quite sure what to do about it. Donovan Jackson scored 25 points, Lindell Wigginton added 22 and Iowa State, on the strength of 62 percent shooting, rolled past ...
By ERIC OLSON AP Sports Writer LINCOLN, Neb. — James Palmer Jr. scored 28 points, Isaac Copeland added 23 points and 11 rebounds and Nebraska pulled away from Iowa in the second half for a 98-84 win Saturday night. Nebraska (16-8 overall, 7-4 in the Big Ten) scored its most points in a ...
By LUKE MEREDITH AP Sports Writer AMES — In search of a spark, Tennessee looked to its bench — and reserves Lamonte Turner and James Daniel III were more than ready to give the Volunteers the boost they needed. Turner scored 20 points, Daniel had 16 and 22nd-ranked Tennessee rolled past ...
By LUKE MEREDITH AP Sports Writer IOWA CITY — For once, Iowa was the aggressor. The result was a much-needed win over a long-time rival and, finally, some hope that the next six weeks might not be so bleak after all. Freshman Luka Garza scored 17 points with a career-high 16 rebounds, ...
AMES — Iowa State senior linebacker/quarterback Joel Lanning is one of seven finalists for the Lombardi Award, announced today by the Lombardi Foundation. The Lombardi Award, formerly given to defensive linemen of linebackers, is presented to a college football player, regardless of ...
By JIM VERTUNO AP Sports Writer AUSTIN, Texas — Mo Bamba was mad when he ripped down a rebound and went back for a two-handed dunk punctuated by a yell and a fist pump. Mad about getting blocked a minute earlier, and still mad about a humiliating loss at No. 7 West Virginia two days ...