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Northern Iowa’s pass catchers are largely back this season. Day will have six of his top eight receivers at his disposal in 2023.

Transfers Cartez Crook-Jones (Kansas State), Warren Peeples (Memphis) and Malik Stewart (Butler Community College) give a UNI defensive line that struggled last season more depth.

The season hasn’t kicked off yet, but Northern Iowa football coach Mark Farley is already having fun.

Ahead of Northern Iowa football’s annual media day it’s time to look at three keys for the Panthers to reach higher than usual expectations this season.

The UNI volleyball team is coming off one of the program’s best seasons — finishing 27-8 overall and 17-1 in the MVC — winning the conference’s regular season and tournament championships and defeating Florida State in the first round of the NCAA tournament.

Northern Iowa women’s basketball coach Tanya Warren said Thursday that her veteran team has displayed a lot of development.

While optimism was everywhere on the first day of August, MVFC voters almost unanimously picked South Dakota State — the reigning national champions — to repeat as the conference’s top team.

The MVC held its annual summer men’s basketball teleconference Tuesday and the challenge of maintaining and building programs in this relatively new era of college sports was a popular topic.

The Missouri Valley Football Conference will announce its preseason poll on August 1. Here is the where and why of Cole Bair’s preseason MVFC poll.

Typically July doesn’t provide much in the way of college basketball news, but the Northern Iowa men’s basketball team has a lot more than just summer workouts going on right now.

This summer is defensive lineman Khristian Boyd’s last opportunity to polish his skills and help push UNI back to the FCS playoffs and himself to a professional career.

A record-setting rookie season in the NBA hasn’t changed AJ Green. The Cedar Falls native and former two-time Missouri Valley Conference player of the year at Northern Iowa remains as tirelessly committed to his craft and as plain spoken as he was when he was living in his hometown and playing for the Panthers.

Former Solon prep Erin Kerkhoff will compete in the World Championships next month in Paris, hoping for a return in 2024 for the Paralympics.

While the majority of college basketball programs have been fretting over their roster’s instability the past couple months, the Northern Iowa men’s basketball team has been one of only six Division I teams to not have a student-athlete enter the transfer portal.

Northern Iowa’s record-setting softball regular season is now in the rearview mirror. Its focus now is on a high-stakes Missouri Valley Conference tournament that presents the Panthers their only path to an NCAA regional bid.