MILWAUKEE (AP) — Mississippi’s senior-dominated roster understood how much was at stake this season. The Rebels responded by doing something this program hadn’t accomplished in over two decades. Sean Pedulla scored 20 points, Jaemyn Brakefield had 19 and Ole Miss beat Iowa State 91-78 ...
NORMAN, Okla. (AP) — Skylar Vann scored 17 points, Payton Verhulst added 16 and No. 3 seed Oklahoma cruised into the Sweet 16 of the women’s NCAA Tournament, dispatching No. 6 seed Iowa 96-62 on Monday. Raegan Beers had 11 points, 13 rebounds and four blocks in just 18 minutes for the ...
By ERIC OLSON The Associated Press Ben McCollum, who led Drake’s dominating run through the Missouri Valley Conference and a win in the NCAA Tournament in his only season with the Bulldogs, was named head coach at Iowa on Monday. Athletic director Beth Goetz announced McCollum’s hiring ...
By DANA BECKER dbecker@messengernews.net PHILADELPHIA — A city known for making history could see even more this coming week from the Northern Iowa wrestling program. The Panthers, under head coach Doug Schwab, qualified in all 10 weight classes for the NCAA Championships, which begin here ...
By DANA BECKER dbecker@messengernews.net PHILADELPHIA — Led by returning national runner-up Drake Ayala, the Iowa wrestling team will bring nine athletes to the NCAA Championships inside the Wells Fargo Center. Ayala, a former three-time state champion for Fort Dodge Senior High, has ...
SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) — Audi Crooks scored 12 of her 27 points in the fourth quarter, Addy Brown added 22 points and Iowa State rallied from a 15-point second-half deficit then held off Princeton 68-63 in the opening game of the NCAA Tournament on Wednesday night. The First Four victory in ...
By MICHAEL MAROT The Associated Press Darian DeVries grew up in Iowa, an admirer of the Indiana Hoosiers. Now he’s in charge of the program. Just two days after his West Virginia team and the Hoosiers were both left out of the NCAA Tournament, Indiana athletic director Scott Dolson ...
By ERIC OLSON The Associated Press Ben McCollum had a job offer from Drake in hand last spring and was close to taking it when he stopped himself and decided he should sleep on it. Clarity came to him at 3 a.m. “I woke up,” he said, “and I’m like, ‘Man, I want to make the NCAA ...
By ERIC OLSON The Associated Press The best reserve in the country might be a starter for the NCAA Tournament. Iowa State’s Curtis Jones wouldn’t necessarily consider it a promotion. Jones is the leading scorer in the nation among players who primarily come off the bench. It’s a role ...
Iowa State and Drake received their men’s NCAA Tournament assignments during the “Selection Sunday” reveal process, with the Cyclones receiving a No. 3 seed in the South Region and the Bulldogs landing in the West as an 11 seed. The Cyclones (25-9) open tourney action on Friday at 12:30 ...
By ERIC OLSON The Associated Press Iowa fired coach Fran McCaffery on Friday after the Hawkeyes won their fewest games and had their lowest Big Ten regular-season finish in seven years. The 65-year-old McCaffery, who was under contract through 2028, had said last week that he intended to ...
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Iowa coach Fran McCaffery would have preferred bid farewell to his seniors in front of the crowd Thursday night. Instead, his second-half ejection forced that scene to play out in the privacy of the Hawkeyes’ locker room. McCaffery drew two technical fouls for arguing ...
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Richie Saunders scored 23 points, hitting a crucial 3-pointer with less than a minute to go, and No. 17 BYU overcame a big game from Curtis Jones in a 96-92 victory over No. 12 Iowa State in the quarterfinals of the Big 12 Tournament here on Thursday afternoon. Fousseyni ...
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Brock Harding scored 15 points that included a clutch 3-pointer to help 15th-seeded Iowa pull away from No. 10 seed Ohio State for a 77-70 victory on Wednesday in a Big Ten Tournament opener. Bruce Thornton converted a three-point play and then added a pullup jumper ...
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Lucy Olsen scored 14 of her 19 points in the first half on 8-for-12 shooting and 11th-seeded Iowa beat No. 14-seed Wisconsin 81-54 in a first-round matchup in the Big Ten Tournament on Wednesday night. Sydney Affolter, Kylie Feuerbach and Taylor McCabe each scored nine ...
AMES (AP) — Richie Saunders scored 23 points and No. 23 BYU outlasted No. 10 Iowa State 88-85 in double overtime Tuesday night for its seventh consecutive victory. Dallin Hall had 22 points off the bench for the Cougars (22-8, 13-6 Big 12), who recovered after blowing a 21-point lead in the ...
AMES (AP) — Another top-25 team goes down in Hilton Coliseum. No. 9 Iowa State led by as many as 24 points in the second half in a convincing 84-67 victory over No. 22 Arizona Saturday night in Hilton Coliseum. The win avenged a heartbreaking loss the Cyclones (22-7, 12-6 Big 12) suffered ...
AMES (AP) — Audi Crooks put Iowa State on her shoulders in the third quarter, scoring 14 of her career-high 36 points as the Cyclones blew past No. 14 Kansas State 85-63 in their regular season finale on Sunday. With a one-point lead to start the second half, Crooks, a 6-foot-3 sophomore ...
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (AP) — Tomislav Ivisic scored 15 of his 22 points in the first half and Illinois recovered from its beat down at the hands of Duke by beating Iowa 81-61 on Tuesday night. Kylan Boswell and Will Riley each scored 15 points and Tre White had 14 for Illinois (18-11 overall, 10-8 ...
STILLWATER, Okla. (AP) — Abou Ousmane scored 25 points and Oklahoma State beat No. 9 Iowa State 74-68 on Tuesday night. Arturo Dean had 14 points and seven steals, and Bryce Thompson added 11 points for the Cowboys (14-14, 6-11 Big 12). A crowd that grew as the game progressed celebrated by ...