Upper Iowa is approaching a calendar year without losing at home. Cornell’s Mason Dew emerges as starting QB. Wartburg heads to Loras before showdown with Central and more. Here are five storylines in small college football.
Here are five storylines to look for in Eastern Iowa small college football
“This doesn’t have to be it,” Drake’s athletics director Brian Hardin said as the Bulldogs reached new heights in men’s basketball in 2024-25.
See photos as athletes from the local to international level run, jump, and throw at Drake Stadium in Des Moines.
See photos from the 2025 Drake Relays at Drake Stadium in Des Moines.
Women’s basketball: Iowa State’s Audi Crooks, Drake’s Katie Dinnebier earn All-American honors from the Associated Press.
Women’s basketball: Addison O’Grady keeps it rolling; Iowa tops Drake, 86-73. Hawkeyes roll to their 21st win in the last 22 games in this series, despite 40 points from Drake’s Katie Dinnebier.
Coe closes the regular season at home against Simpson. A new playoff field for NCAA Division III. Drake looks to maintain its Pioneer League lead and more storylines in Iowa small college football this weekend.
Bliss Beck of Clear Creek Amana is The Gazette’s 2024 Female Athlete of the Year. The school’s first recipient of the award, the Drake volleyball recruit was a four-sport athlete and helped lead the Clippers to the 4A girls’ state basketball championship
Gazette Female Athlete of the Year 2024 finalists: Bliss Beck of Clear Creek Amana, Skylar Benesh of North Linn, Michaela Goad of Marion, Carly Goodwin of Sigourney and Callie Levin of Solon.
The University of Northern Iowa’s five-month search for its next Director of Athletics ended Monday afternoon when President Mark Nook announced the hiring of Megan Franklin. Franklin arrives at UNI after 12 years at Drake as Senior Associate Athletics Director for Strategic Initiatives and External Operations.
Freshman Audi Crooks scored a career-high 40 points on 18-for-20 shooting in her sensational NCAA Tournament debut, and No. 7-seed Iowa State hit all the big shots in the second half to rally from 20 points down and beat 10th-seeded Maryland 93-86 on Friday night.
The head coach and a starting guard for South Dakota State used the same two words as a possibility for the Cyclones after ISU’s 82-65 first-round NCAA tourney win over the Jackrabbits: National championship
At least four of the state of Iowa’s Division I basketball teams head to the NCAA tournament, and there isn’t a one of them that hasn’t already done big things
A 12-0 run to begin the second half helped Northern Iowa upset Drake at McLeod Center Saturday evening, 91-79.
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