In a fight for first place in the Missouri Valley Conference women’s basketball race, Illinois State edged Northern Iowa, 72-70, at McLeod Center Thursday night.
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In a fight for first place in the Missouri Valley Conference women’s basketball race, Illinois State edged Northern Iowa, 72-70, at McLeod Center Thursday night.
The added energy of a rivalry game did not outweigh defensive miscues as Northern Iowa lost its sixth straight game, 82-74, to Drake Wednesday night at McLeod Center.
Five-game losing streaks are never timely, but Northern Iowa’s recent run of poor play elicited the word “weird” from men’s basketball coach Ben Jacobson ahead of the Panthers’ rivalry game against Drake Wednesday night.
Northern Iowa’s men’s basketball struggles continued Saturday afternoon at McLeod Center as it lost its fifth consecutive game, 80-62, to Indiana State.
In front of a Northern Iowa wrestling record crowd of 5,754 at McLeod Center, third-ranked Iowa State spoiled the evening for No. 14 UNI with a 19-12 win.
A loss to last-place Evansville Wednesday night was the fourth straight for UNI men’s basketball, and Coach Ben Jacobson said it’s one of those games you better move on from.
No. 3 Iowa State seeks a fourth straight win against No. 14 Northern Iowa in a dual Friday. The coaches played up the intense in-state rivalry as usual this week.
Bad intentions: that’s the mentality new Iowa State offensive line coach Ryan Clanton expects his linemen to showcase from every snap to what he calls the echo of the whistle.
Xtream Arena hosted an energetic three days of championship events, the Iowa women dominated and Northern Iowa and Iowa State each went 2-0 leading into their showdown Friday. This is the Wrestling Weekend That Was.
An 18-4 first half scoring run proved too much to overcome as Northern Iowa suffered its third-straight loss, 77-69, to Bradley on Saturday at McLeod Center.
Six-foot-8 sophomore forward Davis Kern is third in the Mississippi Valley Conference in scoring at 19 points per game. He already has scholarship offers from Northern Iowa and South Dakota State, the latest in a long line of kids from Linn-Mar who will play Division I college basketball.
Bowen Born forced two overtime periods with buzzer-beating 3-pointers, but his Northern Iowa men’s basketball team still came up short at Drake, 88-81, Wednesday at Knapp Center.
UNI guard Maya McDermott — who made a game-winning floater against the Bulldogs at Knapp Center on January 11 — once again sent the Bulldogs home with a loss with another floater at the buzzer for a 49-47 win.
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