Articles Tagged: Penn State Nittany Lions

The Gazette’s Pick ‘Ems for Week 9 of the college football season, including Iowa’s homecoming game against Northwestern and a Division III showdown between Wartburg and Coe in Cedar Rapids.

Though he’s got one now, Cedar Rapids Kernels infielder Jay Harry decided not to hire an agent as he went through the Major League Baseball Draft process last year. The Minnesota Twins selected the former Penn State player in the sixth round, and he made an impression with five hits in big league spring training games.

Iowa State’s David Carr cemented his place in Iowa State history and propelled the Cyclones ahead of rival Iowa. The Hawkeyes brought an end to an irregular season. Northern Iowa’s Parker Keckeisen made a statement in dominance and fashion during the Wrestling Weekend That Was.

Iowa’s Drake Ayala declared the 125-pound weight class “mine” earlier this season. He’s one win away from making that statement reality at the NCAA Division I Wrestling Championships. Iowa State’s David Carr and Northern Iowa’s Parker Keckeisen advanced to the finals for a second straight year after settling for second in 2023.

Iowa defeated Penn State 95-62 in a Big Ten women’s basketball tournament quarterfinal game at Target Center in Minneapolis on Friday.

Follow The Gazette’s live blog from Target Center as No. 3 Iowa (26-4) takes on Penn State (19-11) in a Big Ten women’s basketball tournament quarterfinal game Friday night.

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.

This week’s Pinning Combination podcast takes a look back at Penn State’s one-sided win over Iowa, Iowa State’s Super Bowl Sunday win over Northern Iowa and previews this week’s boys’ state wrestling tournament.

Iowa suffered consecutive losses for the first time since 2018, Iowa State beat UNI, Coe won the Bremner Cup dual against Cornell, Wartburg won the American Rivers Conference again and Tanner Sloan posted a notable win during the Wrestling Weekend That Was.

Top-ranked Penn State won eight matches, including five with bonus points, dominating No. 3 Iowa, 29-6, Friday night at Carver-Hawkeye Arena. Penn State Coach Cael Sanderson earned his 200th career dual win with the Nittany Lions.

Hannah Stuelke scored a career-high 47 points — the most ever by a player, male or female, at Carver-Hawkeye Arena, and one short of the Iowa women’s basketball record — to lead the second-ranked Hawkeyes past Penn State, 111-93, in a Big Ten game Thursday night at Carver-Hawkeye Arena.

Second-ranked Iowa beat Penn State 111-93 in a Big Ten women’s basketball game Thursday night at Carver-Hawkeye Arena.

Iowa’s men’s basketball team lost a seven-point second-half lead, falling to 5-7 in the Big Ten with an 89-79 loss at Penn State despite shooting 56 percent from the field.

A nearly two-hour episode of the Pinning Combination podcast talks all things wrestling in Iowa with Hall of Fame coach Dick Briggs, including the Hawkeye men’s loss to Michigan ahead of this week’s Penn State dual, the upcoming UNI-Iowa State dual, Wartburg’s one-sided win over Coe and recaps of the girls’ state tournament and boys’ state duals.