Iowa State whips top-seeded Oklahoma in semifinals and will battle Texas in championship Tuesday night
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Iowa State whips top-seeded Oklahoma in semifinals and will battle Texas in championship Tuesday night
Iowa State won first league title since 2009 with 2 champions and UNI placed fifth in 2 champs
University of Northern Iowa’s Cael Happel didn’t have a win in his first two Big 12 Championships appearances. Happel reversed the trend by winning his first three bouts Saturday to reach the 141-pound finals at BOK Center in Tulsa, Okla.
Iowa State entered Saturday’s Big 12 regular-season finale at Kansas State clinging to hopes of sharing the league title for the first time since 2000-01. Instead, the sixth-ranked Cyclones fell, 65-58, while suffering just their second loss in the past 10 games.
Iowa State went 14-3 in the opening session of the Big 12 Championships Saturday at BOK Center in Tulsa, Okla. The Cyclones have seven semifinalists with six earning automatic NCAA berths. UNI has four semifinalists and was fourth in the team standings.
Audi Crooks scored 23 points including the go-ahead basket with 41 seconds left and Emily Ryan made all eight of her free throws in the fourth quarter to help Iowa State wrap up a 67-62 win over No. 17 Baylor in the quarterfinals of the Big 12 Tournament.
Curtis Jones scored a Big 12-season-high 18 points in Iowa State’s comeback win over BYU — and on Saturday he’ll face the first conference foe he accomplished that feat against when the Cyclones face Kansas State.
Fifth-ranked Iowa State is, on paper, considered the favorite for the Big 12 wrestling championship along with No. 4 Oklahoma State. Tenth-ranked Missouri lurks close behind, as well, which should make for a tightly contested conference meet.
When Iowa State senior point guard Emily Ryan considered whether or not to come back for one more season via a COVID-19 year, let’s just say she didn’t ruminate.
As prospects look forward to their pro days, here is a look at where the four Iowa, one Iowa State and one ex-Iowa players invited to the combine stand after their week in Indianapolis.
Iowa State point guard Tamin Lipsey notched his best game of the Big 12 season in Wednesday’s pulse-pounding 68-63 comeback win over No. 20 BYU on senior night at Hilton Coliseum.
Sixth-ranked Iowa State came from 14 points down to silence No. 20 BYU down the stretch and seal an 18-0 home record in its Hilton Coliseum season finale.
A big weekend is ahead for wrestling fans in the state of Iowa. The National Collegiate Women's Wrestling Championships come to Cedar Rapids and the Iowa, Iowa State and Northern Iowa men compete in their respective conference tournaments. We preview them all on this week’s episode of the Pinning Combination podcast.
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