AMES (AP) — Caleb Grill will transfer back to Iowa State after playing last season at UNLV for new Cyclones coach T.J. Otzelberger.
Otzelberger announced Grill’s move Tuesday. The 6-foot-3 guard started all 27 games for the Runnin’ Rebels last season and averaged 9.1 points, 3.2 rebounds ...
IOWA CITY (AP) — The train that has carried thousands of Iowa football fans from Coralville to Kinnick Stadium on games days will cease operations, the athletic department announced Wednesday.
The Iowa Northern Railway’s Hawkeye Express has made the 10-minute trip on game days since 2004. ...
IOWA CITY — Senior Luka Garza became the University of Iowa’s first winner of the John R. Wooden Player of the Year Award. The announcement was made Tuesday evening by the Los Angeles Athletic Club during ESPN SportsCenter.
Garza, the most dominant player in men’s college basketball, ...
AMES (AP) — Rasir Bolton, Iowa State’s leading scorer this past season, has entered the NCAA transfer portal and will be looking to play at his third school in four years.
Bolton left Penn State in 2019 after then-coach Patrick Chambers made a race-tinged comment to Bolton. Chambers ...
Iowa’s Spencer Lee and Minnesota’s Gable Steveson have been named winners of the Dan Hodge Trophy as the most dominant college wrestlers in 2020-21.
The announcement Monday marked the first time in the award’s 20-year history that two wrestlers shared the honor.
Lee won the Hodge last ...
SAN ANTONIO (AP) — The game was billed as a marquee matchup of uber-talented freshmen Paige Bueckers and Caitlin Clark. While those two didn’t disappoint, it was Christyn Williams and UConn’s other upperclassmen who stepped up and helped the Huskies advance.
Williams scored 27 points and ...
SAN ANTONIO — Iowa freshman Caitlin Clark is stepping up on the big stage of the women’s NCAA Tournament, and really stood out in a small gym to send the Hawkeyes to the Sweet 16.
Clark finished with 35 points on 13-of-21 shooting and six 3-pointers after outscoring Kentucky on her own in ...
SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Ashley Joens scored 33 points on Monday to set an Iowa State record for an NCAA Tournament game but it may have been unsung senior Madison Wise and a couple freshmen who saved the day.
Joens also made the clinching free throw with 3.1 seconds left to give the ...
INDIANAPOLIS — Oregon weaved its way through a pandemic-altered season filled with injuries, pauses and uncertainty to win a conference title.
When another kink surfaced in the NCAA Tournament, the resilient, adaptable Ducks shook it off and soared.
Off to another Sweet 16.
Chris Duarte ...
SAN ANTONIO (AP) — A showdown of two of the nation’s top-10 scorers was nearly over before it really got going.
Central Michigan star Micaela Kelly picked up her third foul with 1:11 left in the first quarter. And the nation’s leading scorer, Caitlin Clark, and her Iowa teammates took ...
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Evan Mobley had 17 points and 11 rebounds, and No. 6 seed Southern California used smothering defense to earn a 72-56 victory over Drake on Saturday in the first round of the NCAA Tournament.
Mobley, a 7-foot freshman forward and AP second-team All-American expected to ...
INDIANAPOLIS — Iowa watched as higher seeds dropped out of the bracket in an opening day of upsets in the NCAA Tournament.
The Hawkeyes avoided joining the list with an impressive shooting night and another dominating performance from their All-American.
Luka Garza scored 24 points and Iowa ...
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Iowa won its first NCAA wrestling team title since 2010, and Hawkeyes star Spencer Lee took his third individual title Saturday night competing on a badly injured knee.
Already one of Iowa’s greats, Lee further burnished his image in the state’s wrestling lore when he ...
T.J. Otzelberger is returning to Iowa State as head coach after two years at UNLV, athletic director Jamie Pollard announced Thursday.
This will be the 43-year-old Otzelberger’s third stint in Ames, his first as head coach. He was an assistant under Greg McDermott, Fred Hoiberg and Steve ...
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Drake’s small, energetic contingent of fans sounded like it had waited forever to let loose.
The several hundred blue-clad supporters who got to see the Bulldogs in person on Thursday night ended up witnessing the team’s first NCAA Tournament win in a ...
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Iowa still leads the team race heading into the final day of the NCAA wrestling championships, but Penn State showed it’s not going to easily loosen the grip it’s had on the title for nearly a decade.
Spencer Lee and two of his Iowa teammates won semifinals Friday night, ...
By ERIC OLSON
The Associated Press
New Iowa State basketball coach T.J. Otzelberger has agreed to a five-year contract that will be loaded with incentive bonuses, athletic director Jamie Pollard said Friday.
Terms were still being worked out, Pollard said, but the deal will be structured ...
DES MOINES (AP) — Drake basketball coach Darian DeVries has agreed to an eight-year contract extension through 2028-29, athletic director Brian Hardin announced Wednesday night.
DeVries has led the Bulldogs to 20-win seasons each of his first three years at the school. Drake, at 25-9, has ...
It has been more than a decade since Iowa, the program that Dan Gable turned into the gold standard in college wrestling, showed the kind of dominance at the NCAA championships that it takes to win a team title.
The drought probably would have ended last season had the tournament not been ...
Iowa State athletic director Jamie Pollard anticipates a quick search to find a new men’s basketball coach after the firing of Steve Prohm.
Pollard on Tuesday released a 10-minute video in which he discusses the reasons for letting Prohm go and why the Cyclones need to move quickly to make a ...