What to know about Wednesday’s Iowa women’s basketball game at Iowa State.
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What to know about Wednesday’s Iowa women’s basketball game at Iowa State.
Women’s basketball: Wednesday’s Cy-Hawk battle marks the first time since 2004 that both teams are undefeated on game day.
Iowa State, University of Northern Iowa won tournaments last weekend. Iowa had four champions in Wisconsin. Competition for the boys’ high school season has started, while the girls’ season has hit full throttle, including the annual Dan Gable Donnybrook.All this and more in the Wrestling Weekend That Was.
Rogers never intended to leave Pullman, but ISU had always been a dream destination, so when the Cyclones’ athletics director, Jamie Pollard, called him Friday as outgoing head coach Matt Campbell took the same job at Penn State, it was simply an offer he couldn’t refuse.
Crooks scored 30 points in 19 minutes and Brown stuffed the stat sheet with 10 points, nine assists, and eight rebounds as No. 10 ISU cruised past Northern Illinois, 105-52, on Sunday before a crowd of 9,538 at Hilton Coliseum.
Because of that decision, the Big 12 Conference announced that ISU and Kansas State — which also declined a bowl bid as it transitions into the Collin Klein era — would each be fined $500,000 for “opting out of their participation” in the league’s bowl pool.
ISU turned a 35-31 halftime lead into the most lopsided home setback for Purdue in a non-conference game in its nearly 130-year history.
As it became increasingly likely that Iowa State head coach Matt Campbell would be leaving to accept the Penn State job, the Cyclones’ athletics director, Jamie Pollard, had one simple, but important fast-paced plan to implement.
No. 10 ISU will face top-ranked Purdue at 11 a.m. Saturday in West Lafayette, Ind. CBS will broadcast the game to a national audience. The Cyclones will compete in their 16th top-10 matchup in program history, with nine coming under fifth-year head coach T.J. Otzelberger.
Gazette sports writer K.J. Pilcher talks with Dick Briggs about the Iowa Hawkeyes vs. Iowa State match, the upcoming 2025-2026 season for Iowa, Iowa State and UNI as well as the upcoming 2025-2026 Iowa High School girls’ and boys wrestling season.
The Cyclone shot 70.8 percent from the field and 73.3 percent from beyond the arc. Star forward Joshua Jefferson scored 13 of his team’s first 17 points and finished with 24 points, 10 assists and zero turnovers.
The tempestuous nature of the transfer portal along with the relatively recent shake-up of the recruiting calendar has made it more difficult to apply those hands-on, personal touches Campbell and many other coaches enjoy providing to incoming prospects.
Alcorn State started the season on a seven-game skid before notching an 81-74 win over Indiana State last Friday in Ruston, La.
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