Left-handed starter Cade Obermueller threw seven four-hit shutout innings, striking out 10 to lift Iowa past Rutgers, 4-3, in a Big Ten Conference Baseball Tournament pool game Wednesday night. The Hawkeyes have clinched a spot in Saturday night’s semifinals against UCLA
The University of Iowa baseball team went 1-8-1 in its final 10 games of the regular season, swept last week by Oregon in a series that determined the Big Ten Conference winner. The Hawkeyes begin play Wednesday at the Big Ten Conference tournament in Omaha, Neb. It’s a tournament that has expanded to 12 teams and employs a unique new format.
Women’s basketball: Former player Tania Davis has departed the Iowa coaching staff.
Women’s basketball: Iowa lands Emely Rodriguez in the transfer portal. The 6-foot forward averaged 11.9 points per game last season at UCF, and was a member of the all-Big 12 freshman team
Offensive lineman Bryce George received plenty of portal interest after winning three Division II national championships and being named a 2024 first-team All-American. He explains to The Gazette why the Hawkeyes were “high up there” from Day 1.
“Hopefully we’ve got an environment that’s healthy,” Kirk Ferentz said this month, as Iowa has faced less transfer portal attrition than its Big Ten peers. The roster retention has been a key factor in the Hawkeyes going 18-9 in Big Ten play since 2022.
Photo gallery of action from Iowa Hawkeye Baseball vs. Oregon Ducks at Duane Banks Field Saturday, May 17, 2025
Oregon smacks five homers, wins 13-4 to finish 3-game sweep in Iowa City to pass Hawkeyes and finish first in the Big Ten standings.
University of Iowa seemed to be in control with a four-run lead with four innings left but Oregon battled back for a 9-6 victory Friday night at Duane Banks Field in Iowa City. Wins by Oregon and UCLA forced a three-way tie with the Hawkeyes for first in the Big Ten baseball standings with one game remaining.
South Dakota transfer Shahid Barros has “immediate familiarity with what we do defensively,” assistant head coach Seth Wallace told reporters after a Linn County I-Club event on Thursday.
This big Big Ten Conference regular-season ending series in Iowa City this weekend went the way of Oregon on Thursday night. The fifth-ranked Ducks hit four home runs and got stellar pitching in a 10-0, 7-inning pounding of Iowa.
Iowa women’s wrestling associate coach Gary Mayabb talks with host John Steppe, recaps Iowa’s second consecutive national title and talks about upcoming expectations and what’s next for the Iowa women’s wrestling.
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