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Former Iowa basketball player Joe Wieskamp will play in Australia next season. Wieskamp spent three years in the NBA and NBA G League after leaving Iowa in 2021.

Iowa City West senior-to-be Jack McCaffery has verbally committed to play basketball at Butler University in 2025. Months after Patrick McCaffery’s playing career ends at Butler, his younger brother will join the Big East program.

Two former Iowa State men’s basketball teammates meet on opposite teams Wednesday at the Olympics in Paris. Marial Shayok will be on the South Sudan team that will try to throw a second scare into Tyrese Haliburton’s United States squad within two weeks.

Fourteen years after their other state baseball championship, another Bret Hoyer-coached Cedar Rapids Kennedy baseball team finishes off another season of excellence with the title trophy.

Veterans Memorial Stadium has what the bigger schools’ Iowa high school state baseball tournaments need and in all the right sizes.

Of top seven teams in the Big Ten media preseason football poll, Iowa is the only team to face just two of the other six.

Seydou Traore, Chris Tadjo and Cooper Koch are new names to Iowa men’s basketball fans who could fill all sorts of roles for Fran McCaffery in the season ahead.

Summer’s too short to surrender your time to insane endeavors, so here are some remarkably useful things to note.

Iowa’s Brock Harding will be joined by a point guard who did a lot of winning at Morehead State, Drew Thelwell.

It was made official Tuesday. Former Iowa National Player of the Year center Megan Gustafson was named to Spain’s Olympic women’s basketball team that will start play in Paris on July 28.

At 25 with quite an amateur pedigree, Davis Thompson left no doubt Sunday afternoon about who was going to win the John Deere Classic.

Megan Gustafson, the 2019 National Player of the Year at Iowa, is on a WNBA juggernaut in Las Vegas, and has a good chance of playing for Spain in this month’s Olympics.

Caitlin Clark and her Indiana Fever endured 88-69 loss to reigning-champion Las Vegas Aces, but the rookie guard from Iowa got the news she’ll play in WNBA July 20 All-Star game against the U.S. Olympic team.

Kate Martin wasted no time earning a spot in the two-time defending WNBA championship Las Vegas Aces’ rotation on a team loaded with talent.

Luka Garza, the consensus men’s basketball National Player of the Year as an Iowa senior in 2021, has signed a two-year contract with the NBA’s Minnesota Timberwolves. He could have opted for free agency.