A rotation change — albeit in a small sample size — has proved productive as UNI has since recorded two double-digit wins. An 86-67 win at Valparaiso last Wednesday and 74-63 win at home against third-place Bradley on Sunday have the Panthers feeling good.
Dominant first half led by from Bown Born, Nate Heise and Landon Wolf leads Panthers to key MVC win
After being picked second in the Missouri Valley Conference’s preseason poll, peak moments for the UNI men’s basketball team continue to be more fleeting than was anticipated this season.
Wednesday’s Iowa high school boys’ state wrestling notebook: Cedar Rapids Xavier’s Ngoma advanced to the Class 2A 215-pound quarterfinals. No matter how the rest of the state meet turns out, he’s set himself up for even bigger gains heading into next season.
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.
Iowa State won six of 10 bouts and notched its fifth straight win over Northern Iowa.
Kevin Dresser kept the funny flashcards and the usual pre-dual barbs to a minimum. Instead, Iowa State’s head wrestling coach went bout-by-bout to help highlight how competitive and fun — from a fan’s perspective, especially— his fourth-ranked team’s dual at 1 p.m. Sunday against No. 17 Northern Iowa should be at Hilton Coliseum.
Northern Iowa’s dual win against then-No. 17 West Virginia last Sunday was the type that can have a lasting effect. A last-second, match-winning takedown from Jared Simma at 174 pounds and sudden victory by Tyrell Gordon at heavyweight headlined a dramatic dual that the Panthers won, 26-12.
Northern Iowa football coach Mark Farley has had an offseason that’s been busier than usual. Farley announced Thursday the hiring of three new assistants, headlined by former Washington State quarterback Luke Falk, who was named the Panthers offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach.
A strong second half sent Northern Iowa past Missouri State in a Missouri Valley Conference men’s basketball game at McLeod Center Wednesday night, 72-65
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.
As the national collegiate athletics landscape continues to shift in the coming years, Bob Bowlsby is “really concerned” about the future of Olympic nonrevenue sports.
Explaining Saturday’s lopsided home loss to Murray State wasn’t any easier for Northern Iowa men’s basketball coach Ben Jacobson on Monday. The 71-43 loss to the Racers left Jacobson and his players scratching their heads.
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