IOWA CITY — The Iowa Hawkeyes were primarily a guard-oriented team the last time they were seeded so highly for the women’s NCAA Tournament. Of course, it was just a couple of seasons ago and that guard was Caitlin Clark, college basketball’s all-time leading scorer. The Hawkeyes ...
STORRS, Conn. — An evenly matched pairing headlines the first round of the NCAA Women’s Tournament as No. 8 seed Iowa State meets No. 9 seed Syracuse on Saturday at Gampel Pavilion. Both teams enter with similar résumés. Iowa State is 22-9 overall after a 10-8 finish in the Big 12, ...
All five of T.J. Otzelberger’s Iowa State teams have reached the NCAA Tournament and this one could be his best so far. No. 2 in the Midwest Region, the Cyclones are a top-three seed for a third straight year. After a Big 12 semifinals loss to Arizona at the buzzer, Otzelberger said he ...
There were very few people outside Iowa who thought Ben McCollum could take Drake, a program with sporadic success throughout the years, to the NCAA Tournament last year in his first season moving up from Division II. Well, he did it. Then he did almost the exact same thing with Iowa this ...
OKLAHOMA CITY — Pryce Sandfort and his brother, Payton, achieved two basketball firsts in a whirlwind 24-hour window. First, Payton Sandfort made his NBA debut and scored his first points on a 3-pointer for the Oklahoma City Thunder in a 121-92 win over the Brooklyn Nets on Wednesday ...
PHILADELPHIA — The recent championship trophies suggest that, perhaps, there’s been a shift in the Big East hierarchy. Rick Pitino and St. John’s were the outright regular-season champions each of the past two years and paired those with Big East Tournament titles, too. The latest ...