Mike Hlas

Juju Watkins, second to Iowa’s Caitlin Clark last year in NCAA scoring, is the sophomore sensation who will lead Big Ten preseason favorite USC in its first year in the conference.

Iowa’s Payton Sandfort is on the preseason All-Big Ten men’s basketball team. The 6-foot-8 senior forward averaged 16.4 points, 6.6 rebounds and 2.7 assists last season.

Johnson didn’t get a scholarship offer from Ohio State, but he had plenty of other opportunities. He took one from Iowa after de-committing from Cal, and his high school coach says “The rest is history.”

Caitlin Clark’s rookie-season impact on the WNBA was phenomenal in multiple ways, and she’s only just begun.

At the one-third pole of the season, Hawkeye running back Kaleb Johnson would be considered a darkhorse at the very least .

It wasn’t this way with 11 or 12 or 14, but now that the Big Ten has 18 football teams I find all my waking thoughts are about the conference. USC is a punting paradise so far this season, while Illinois is throwing a bunch of touchdown passes.

It’s a late-night (well, more like early-morning) edition of The Final Score podcast after Kaleb Johnson trampled Minnesota in a 31-14 Iowa victory. Tune in for our postgame thoughts.

The difference between the 2023 Hawkeye running game and the 2024 version? Ask Minnesota, which stymied Iowa a year ago and got run over by the Hawkeyes Saturday.

A closer look at Iowa’s 31-14 win over Minnesota Saturday night at Huntington Bank Stadium. This game turned the moment Iowa ran its first play of the second half.

If nothing else, the invalid fair catch signal call against the Hawkeyes in last year’s Minnesota-Iowa football game sure sold a lot of T-shirts.

The WNBA playoffs are set. Caitlin Clark’s Indiana Fever face two games at Connecticut in best-of-3 series that starts Sunday.

The Iowa men’s basketball schedule for 2024-25 has been filled in, with Thursday’s announcement of its 20 Big Ten conference games.

Fun Facts for Saturday’s Iowa football game against Minnesota. The two starting quarterbacks have a total of 12 college seasons between them and the Gophers’ offensive coordinator used to coach for the Hawkeyes’ offensive coordinator.

Former Iowa women’s basketball coach Lisa Bluder has had quite a summer, surrounded by celebrities and doing things she never previously had the time to experience.

Navon Shabazz is the Iowa men’s basketball team’s first commitment from the Class of 2026. He’ll play for a prep school in Des Moines after helping Davenport Assumption to the Class 3A state title last March.