PITTSBURGH — With swollen foreheads and bloody lips, 20 of the NCAA’s toughest athletes huffed and puffed Friday night as they tried to describe their journey through March’s other grueling tournament. “I worked my whole life since I was 4 years old starting to wrestle for an ...
CEDAR CITY, Utah — Despite a valiant effort from a depleted roster, the Drake men’s basketball season came to an end Friday in an 80-73 overtime loss at Southern Utah in the CollegeInsider.com Tournament. The loss ended the Bulldogs’ historic season with 24 wins, the third-most in ...
MINNEAPOLIS — The Minnesota women’s basketball team made nine of its first 10 shots and built a 26-6 lead on its way to a 91-75 win over Northern Iowa on Friday in the first round of the Women’s National Invitational Tournament. The Gophers built a 52-28 lead at the half, but the ...
ALLEN PARK, Mich. — The Detroit Lions have re-signed offensive lineman Andrew Donnal. The Lions announced the move Friday. Donnal appeared in two games last season for Detroit. He previously spent time with the Ravens and Rams. Donnal was a fourth-round draft pick out of the University of ...
For all that Iowa star Megan Gustafson has accomplished, she has yet to win an NCAA Tournament game with the Hawkeyes. Expect that to change on Friday. Gustafson and the second-seeded Hawkeyes (26-6) will open tournament play when they host 15th-seeded Mercer (25-7). Iowa, which won the Big ...
COLUMBUS, Ohio — The University of Iowa men’s basketball team arrived to Columbus with one thing on its mind: winning. The 10th-seeded Hawkeyes face seventh-seeded and 22nd-ranked Cincinnati of the American Athletic Conference. The Bearcats come into Friday’s contest against the ...
TULSA, Okla. — The Iowa State men’s basketball team gets its run in the NCAA Tournament underway tonight with a first-round meeting against Ohio State. The Cyclones (23-11) enter the game ranked No. 24 in the latest Associated Press poll and as the No. 6 seed in the Midwest Region, while ...
PITTSBURGH — Penn State rolled through the first two sessions of the NCAA Wrestling Championships on Thursday and is poised to capture its eighth team championship in nine seasons. Like they’ve done in past years, the Nittany Lions jumped out to an early lead in the opening round and ...
IOWA CITY — University of Iowa women’s basketball head coach Lisa Bluder has been named one of four finalists for the 2019 Naismith College Coach of the Year, the Atlanta Tipoff Club announced Thursday. Bluder has led the Hawkeyes to a 26-6 overall record and its first Big Ten Conference ...
DES MOINES — It seems as though coach Tom Izzo has Michigan State poised to make a Final Four run nearly every year. The Spartans need to focus on surviving the first weekend this time around. It has been four years since Michigan State (28-6) made it to the Sweet Sixteen, the longest such ...
OKLAHOMA CITY — Nick Collison’s No. 4 jersey was retired by the Oklahoma City Thunder during a ceremony before their game against the Toronto Raptors on Wednesday night. It’s the first number the Thunder have retired since the franchise moved to Oklahoma City in 2008. The Seattle ...
PITTSBURGH — Penn State is poised to send out another senior class as four-time national champions and cement its status as the college powerhouse of the past decade. The Nittany Lions (14-0) are the prohibitive favorites to claim the team title at this weekend’s NCAA Championships for ...
Marshalltown Community College freshman Taylor Hipsley was named the Iowa Community College Athletic Conference Division I Player of the Week, the ICCAC announced Tuesday. Hipsley went 7-for-20 for a .350 average in eight games last week. She hit her first three home runs of the season in ...
AMES — Both the Marshalltown and BCLUW boys track teams were in attendance at the Iowa State Boys High School Classic. Comet senior Jack Garber won the 60-meter hurdles over 95 other competitors with a time of 8.21, nudging by Southeast Polk’s Jace Christensen by two tenths of a second. ...
IOWA CITY — The NCAA Division I women’s basketball brackets were announced on Monday and the University of Iowa women were selected as the No. 2 seed in the Greensboro Regional and will host the first two rounds of the tournament at Carver-Hawkeye arena. It’s the first time the Hawkeye ...
AMES — The Iowa State University women’s basketball team knew it had done enough to earn a bid to the NCAA Division I Tournament, but where it would be seeded was still a mystery. That riddle was solved on Monday, earlier than expected, as the brackets were revealed and the Cyclone women ...
DES MOINES — For the third time in the last three seasons, the Drake University is going dancing after being selected as the No. 10 seed in the Greensboro Region for the NCAA Division I Tournament. Each of the last two seasons the Bulldogs have been a lock on Selection Monday after winning ...
DES MOINES — The Drake University men’s basketball team has accepted an invitation to the CollegeInsider.com Postseason Tournament (CIT). The Bulldogs open postseason action Friday at Southern Utah, with tipoff set for 7:30 p.m. This is the second-straight CIT appearance for Drake and ...
AMES — The Iowa State men’s basketball team is heading to the NCAA Tournament for the seventh time in the last eight years. After beating Kansas for a Big 12 Conference Tournament win on Saturday, the Cyclones (23-11) were awarded the sixth seed in the Midwest Region, and they will face ...
IOWA CITY — The University of Iowa men’s basketball team received an at-large berth for the NCAA Tournament on Sunday, the 26th overall appearance in the NCAA Tournament for the Hawkeyes and fourth under head coach Fran McCaffery. “We are just really thrilled for our players and the ...