Mike Hlas

Previewing Sunday’s Iowa men’s basketball game against Illinois: The Hawkeyes close the regular season with a banger against the Illinois team that beat them 95-85 in Champaign two weeks ago.

The Iowa men’s basketball team has been playing its best ball of the season the last three weeks, and has a chance for a fourth Quad 1 win in that time when it hosts Illinois Sunday night.

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.

It’s a first for the Hawkeye junior, who followed a 26-point triple-double at Northwestern Wednesday with 23 points at Northwestern Saturday.

Six spots settled for NCAA men’s basketball tournament, 62 to go. In the meantime, the number of survivors in the fight for the national-championship is down to 211 out of 362 teams.

Caitlin Clark and her Iowa women’s basketball team dealt with all the pregame hubbub, then played their game in dealing No. 2 Ohio State a 93-83 defeat

Saturday at the ceremonial start of Alaska’s famed 1,000-mile Iditarod sled dog race across the state’s wilderness, a participant for the day wore an “Iowa 22” shirt/coat/cold-weather something to celebrate women’s basketball star Caitlin Clark.

Iowa took the lead early in the second half and never relinquished it, shooting 63 percent in the second half. The 87-80 win over Northwestern is the Hawkeyes’ fourth win in the last five games. The vanquished include Michigan State and Wisconsin.

Caitlin Clark and four-year teammates Kate Martin and Gabbie Marshall have made a lot of good noise for the Hawkeyes in their careers. They’ll be saluted in Senior Day ceremonies with Molly Davis and Sharon Goodman after Sunday’s Ohio State-Iowa game.

Caitlin Clark made her decision to turn pro in April earlier this week, then joined her Hawkeye teammates in scorching Minnesota, 108-60. Now comes a Sunday regular-season finale with No. 2 Ohio State on Iowa’s Senior Day.

Previewing Saturday’s Iowa men’s basketball game at Northwestern: The Hawkeyes try to climb over .500 in the Big Ten for first time this season, on the road against the Big Ten’s third-place Wildcats.

Reigning National Player of the Year Caitlin Clark leaves Iowa as women’s basketball’s all-time leading scorer and the focal college player in her sport.

Payton Sandfort got Iowa’s first men’s triple-double Tuesday. Caitlin Clark has 16 triple-doubles and counting, and former Hawkeye Samantha Logic had six.

Payton Sandfort has 26 points, 10 rebounds, 10 assists in the Hawkeyes’ 90-81 victory over Penn State

Previewing Tuesday’s Iowa men’s basketball game against Penn State: The Hawkeyes try to return to .500 in the Big Ten against a Penn State team coming off a hugely successful week.