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AMES, Iowa – The Iowa State men’s basketball team will return to the Emerald Coast Classic from Nov. 27-29 at The Arena on the campus of Northwest Florida State College in Niceville, Florida. The Cyclones won the tournament in 2015, Steve Prohm’s first season at Iowa State.

The tournament will feature Florida, Illinois and Oregon along with the Cyclones. The Cyclones defeated Illinois in the 2015 championship game.

First and second-round games will be played at on-campus sites with four third-round games played on Nov. 27. Consolation round games are scheduled Nov. 28 with the third-place and championship game set for Nov. 29.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) – Liam Robbins had 19 points and 12 rebounds to lead five Drake players scoring in double figures and the Bulldogs stretched their home win streak to 10 games, defeating Illinois State 84-74. Jonah Jackson and D.J. Wilkins added 13 points apiece for the Bulldogs. Roman Penn chipped in 12 points, and Noah Thomas had 10. Zach Copeland led the Redbirds with a career-high 32 points.

MINNEAPOLIS, MN (AP) – Monika Czinano scored 21 points on 10-of-11 shooting and No. 22 Iowa rallied from a 13-point deficit with eight minutes left to beat Minnesota 76-75. Kathleen Doyle had 17 points, six rebounds and eight assists,for Iowa. The Hawkeyes used 16-4 run that pulled Iowa within a point with 1:10 to play. After Jasmine Brunson missed a layup, Alexis Sevillian hit a 3-pointer with eight seconds left and Iowa held on. Freshman Sara Scalia had her first career double-double with 18 points and a career-high 10 rebounds for the Golden Gophers.

Quad @ Tri-Center

Riverside 64, AC/GC 15
Riverside 59, Woodbine 18
Riverside 52, Tri-Center 18
AC/GC 41, Tri-Center 30
AC/GC 46, Woodbine 18
Tri-Center 54, Woodbine 3

Triangular @ Logan-Magnolia

Bennington, NE 37, Logan-Magnolia 32
Logan-Magnolia 78, Tekemah-Herman, NE 3

Quad @ Panorama

Martensdale-St. Marys 42, Panorama 35
Martensdale-St. Marys 48, East Union 30
Martensdale-St. Marys 48, Southwest Valley 36
Panorama 54, East Union 10
Panorama 54, Southwest Valley 24
Southwest Valley 48, East Union 30

Triangular @ Perry

Creston/O-M 40, Perry 27
Creston/O-M 36, Winterset 32

Dual @ Skutt Catholic NE

Skutt Catholic 39, Lewis Central 37

BOYS BASKETBALL

Hawkeye Ten Conference

Clarinda 58, Sidney 42
Denison-Schleswig 36, Sergeant Bluff-Luton 33
Glenwood 69, Kuemper Catholic 54
Lewis Central 51, Creston 39

Western Iowa Conference

AHSTW 54, Underwood 48
IKM-Manning 62, Riverside 32
Treynor 64, Missouri Valley 20

Rolling Valley Conference

CAM 66, West Harrison 60
Woodward-Granger 70, Coon Rapids-Bayard 51

Corner Conference

East Mills 61, Fremont Mills 46
Griswold 38, Essex 29
Stanton 68, Southwest Valley 49

Pride of Iowa Conference

Martensdale-St. Marys 80, Lenox 36
Mount Ayr 65, Central Decatur, Leon 48
Nodaway Valley 67, East Union 21

Other Scores

ADM, Adel 80, Bondurant Farrar 64
Ballard 62, Winterset 60
Carroll 80, Boone 38
Woodward Academy 84, West Central Valley, Stuart 37

GIRLS BASKETBALL

Hawkeye Ten Conference

Glenwood 76, Kuemper Catholic 36
Lewis Central 53, Creston 49
Sergeant Bluff-Luton 58, Denison-Schleswig 38
Sidney 54, Clarinda 11

Western Iowa Conference

AHSTW 67, Underwood 53
IKM-Manning 96, Riverside 29
Treynor 52, Missouri Valley 14

Rolling Valley Conference

CAM 78, West Harrison 44
Woodward-Granger 45, Coon Rapids-Bayard 23

Corner Conference

Griswold 49, Essex 33
Stanton 49, Southwest Valley 34

Pride of Iowa Conference

Martensdale-St. Marys 65, Lenox 37
Mount Ayr 53, Central Decatur, Leon 39
Nodaway Valley 77, East Union, Afton 21

Other Scores

ADM, Adel 56, Bondurant Farrar 53
Bishop Heelan Catholic, Sioux City 56, Council Bluffs, Abraham Lincoln 38
Carroll 69, Boone 53
Prairie, Cedar Rapids 62, Council Bluffs, Thomas Jefferson 43
West Monona 57, Lawton-Bronson 40
Westwood, Sloan 65, River Valley, Correctionville 23

Here is the latest Mid-America sports news from The Associated Press

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) – Liam Robbins had 19 points and 12 rebounds to lead five Drake players scoring in double figures and the Bulldogs stretched their home win streak to 10 games, defeating Illinois State 84-74. Jonah Jackson and D.J. Wilkins added 13 points apiece for the Bulldogs. Roman Penn chipped in 12 points, and Noah Thomas had 10. Zach Copeland led the Redbirds with a career-high 32 points.

MINNEAPOLIS, MN (AP) – Monika Czinano scored 21 points on 10-of-11 shooting and No. 22 Iowa rallied from a 13-point deficit with eight minutes left to beat Minnesota 76-75. Kathleen Doyle had 17 points, six rebounds and eight assists,for Iowa. The Hawkeyes used 16-4 run that pulled Iowa within a point with 1:10 to play. After Jasmine Brunson missed a layup, Alexis Sevillian hit a 3-pointer with eight seconds left and Iowa held on. Freshman Sara Scalia had her first career double-double with 18 points and a career-high 10 rebounds for the Golden Gophers.

UNDATED (AP) — Of the coaches in the NFL’s Final Four, Andy Reid is the outlier. Only Kansas City’s coach has been the head man in a Super Bowl. Only Reid is close to having a Hall of Fame-worthy resume. Only Reid has been around for a couple of decades. So while Tennessee’s Mike Vrabel, Green Bay’s Matt LaFleur and San Francisco’s Kyle Shanahan might look up to Reid and his career achievements, they also recognize that whichever of them wins the NFL title will be doing so for the first time as a coach.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes has been among the best bargains in professional sports, leading his team to back-to-back AFC title games on his rookie contract. He’s largely flown under the radar this season, too, thanks to a series of injuries and the ascendance of Baltimore quarterback Lamar Jackson. But with the end of the season drawing near, all that is about to change. Mahomes is lining himself up for a payday unlike anything the NFL has ever seen.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The Kansas City Chiefs will host the Tennessee Titans in the AFC championship game. For Chiefs coach Andy Reid it’s one more opportunity to return to the Super Bowl. That’s something he’s accomplished only once in his long career. For Titans counterpart Mike Vrabel it’s an opportunity to make it back as a coach after winning three Lombardi Trophies as a player in New England. The game features the power running of the Titans’ Derrick Henry and the aerial assault of the Chiefs’ Patrick Mahomes in an intriguing matchup for a spot in Miami.

UNDATED (AP) — Sunday’s game between the Kansas City Chiefs and Tennessee Titans is the first AFC championship since 2002 that doesn’t feature Tom Brady or Peyton Manning or Ben Roethlisberger. Brady and the New England Patriots are missing from the conference championship weekend for the first time since 2010. Brady has been to 13 AFC title games and won nine of them. John Elway’s Denver Broncos defeated the Cleveland Browns in two of the most famous AFC title game showdowns and the Cincinnati Bengals beat the San Diego Chargers in 1982 in minus-59 degrees wind chill that left Dan Fouts with icicles hanging from his beard.

UNDATED (AP) — Derrick Henry has just about carried Tennessee’s offense to the AFC championship game. The Titans have been stellar on defense as well. Now they take on Patrick Mahomes and the potent Kansas City Chiefs for a trip to the Super Bowl. Here’s how the teams match up.
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — Aliyah Boston and Victaria Saxon each had 10 points and 10 rebounds to lead No. 1 South Carolina to a 78-45 victory over Missouri. Zia Cooke and Mikiah Herbert Harrigan scored 14 each for the Gamecocks, who played their first game since taking over the top spot in the AP Top 25. Aijha Blackwell scored 13 points to lead the Tigers.

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) — New Missouri State football coach Bobby Petrino says he knew he wouldn’t stay retired. Petrino made the comment at his introductory news conference Thursday. Petrino’s string of embarrassing foibles at previous coaching stops made him a high-risk proposition at the big schools. He says he is glad to have a job again, even if it’s at one of the bottom programs in the second tier of college football. Petrino says one of the things he can teach players is that they always have obstacles to overcome.

UNDATED (AP) — Rutgers hosts Minnesota in one of the top games in the Big Ten this weekend. The Scarlet Knights have won seven of their last eight games, are off to their best start since 1982-83 and sit one game behind first-place Michigan State. Rutgers is 12-0 at home entering the game against Minnesota (10-7, 4-3). The 6-foot-11, 250-pound Myles Johnson figures to get tested by the Gophers’ 6-10, 240 Daniel Oturu. Oturu has seven games with 20 points and 10 rebounds, most in the country. Minnesota comes in 0-5 on the road.

IOWA CITY, Iowa – Standouts Fred “Duke” Slater, who played for the University of Iowa from 1918-21, and Alex Karras (1956-57) have been named to the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Slater and Karras are members of the 2020 Centennial Class.

Slater joined the Iowa program following a prep career at Clinton (Iowa) High School. He earned first-team All-Big Ten honors in his final three seasons. Slater earned first-team All-America honors in 1921, becoming the first African-American at Iowa to earn the distinction.

In his four seasons, Slater helped Iowa post a 23-6-1 record. Iowa had a perfect 7-0 Big Ten record in 1921 to claim the conference title, and was named by more than one media outlet as national champion.

Slater played 10 seasons of professional football. He was the first African-American lineman in NFL history and the only African-American to play in the NFL in 1927 and 1929. Slater was a six-time All-Pro.

During the NFL off-season, Slater took classes and earned a law degree from Iowa in 1928. He served as a Chicago assistant district attorney and in 1960, became the first black member of the Chicago Superior Court. He moved to the Circuit Court of Cook County in 1964. Slater passed away in 1966 at the age of 67.

Slater was one of five members of the inaugural Iowa Sports Hall of Fame in 1951 and was a member of the inaugural National Football Foundation College Football Hall of Fame that same year. Slater Residence Hall on the University of Iowa campus bears his name and is the only Iowa residence hall named after a student-athlete.

As part of the 100-year celebration of Iowa football in 1989, Slater and Karras were named to Iowa’s all-time football team.

Karras was a defensive tackle for the Hawkeyes in 1956 and 1957. The native of Gary, Indiana, earned All-America honors as a junior and was a consensus All-American as a senior. He earned the Outland Trophy in 1957 as the top lineman in the nation, and was second in voting for the 1957 Heisman Trophy.

Karras and the Hawkeyes posted a 16-2-1 record in two seasons, concluding the 1956 season at 9-1 after a 35-19 win over Oregon State in the Rose Bowl. The Hawkeyes won the Big Ten title and were named national champions by at least one national media outlet.

Karras was the 10th player selected in the 1958 NFL Draft. He played his entire NFL career (1958-70) for the Detroit Lions, earning first- or second-team All-Pro nine times and being selected for the Pro Bowl four times.

Karras was inducted into the Iowa Varsity Club Hall of Fame in 1989 and was inducted into the National Football Foundation College Football Hall of Fame in 1991. Karras passed away in 2012 at the age of 77.

Slater and Karras join three other Hawkeyes as members of the Pro Football Hall of Fame: safety Emlen Tunnell (inducted in 1967), safety Paul Krause (1998) and defensive end Andre Tippett (2008).

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WACO, Texas (AP) — Second-ranked Baylor has won its 13th game in a row. The 14-1 Bears beat Iowa State 68-55 and are the only Big 12 team to make it through the first four conference games without a loss. Davion Mitchell had 17 points for Baylor. He hit three free throws in the final second of the first half, then made two 3-pointers early in the second half as the Bears started stretching the lead. Prentiss Nixon and Rasir Bolton both had nine points for Iowa State, which is 8-8 overall.

CEDAR FALLS, Iowa (AP) — AJ Green scored 22 of his 29 points in the second half and Northern Iowa rallied to beat Valparaiso 88-78. The Panthers had 10 turnovers in the first half that Valparaiso, which shot 53%, turned into 16 points, to trail 42-36. Northern Iowa, which closed the first half with a 3-pointer, scored the first 17 points of the second half, hitting every shot – six field goals, including three 3-pointers, and two free throws. Valparaiso clawed back, getting within one point on two occasions but in the last minute the Panthers made 7 of 8 free throws for their fourth-straight win. Javon Freeman-Liberty led Valpo with 28.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Omer Yurtseven had 20 points and 13 rebounds, Mac McClung scored 19 points and Georgetown beat No. 25 Creighton 83-80. The Hoyas went on a 13-2 run early in the second half and never looked back as coach Patrick Ewing picked up his first win over the Bluejays in five tries. Georgetown snapped a five-game losing streak to Creighton and beat its second ranked opponent this season. Marcus Zegarowski led the Bluejays with 20 points while Denzel Mahoney added 19 off the bench. Creighton lost for the first time this season when scoring at least 70 points

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The Kansas City Chiefs gave Tyrann Mathieu and Frank Clark huge contracts in the offseason as part of a massive overhaul of their defense. Both have lived up to expectations. Ball-hawking safety Mathieu and star pass rusher Clark have helped the Chiefs return to the AFC title game. The pair are rare success stories for a franchise that has lavished big contracts on a series of players in what turned out to be wastes of money. The Chiefs will face the Tennessee Titans on Sunday.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The Tennessee Titans benched Marcus Mariota in mid-October. That doesn’t mean the Titans aren’t making sure to tap the quarterback for help during their playoff run. Mariota has been busy in practice mimicking the upcoming quarterback from Tom Brady to Lamar Jackson and now Patrick Mahomes as the Titans prepare to play the Chiefs in the AFC championship game. Mariota also has gotten into each of the past three games, completing a pass in two and going out as a receiver in last week’s win in Baltimore. Mariota says he’ll do whatever he can to help the Titans.

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Quinton Rose scored 19 points and Temple used a strong defensive performance to upset No. 16 Wichita State 65-53. Jake Forrester and Monty Scott each chipped in 11 points for the Owls (10-6, 2-3 American Athletic Conference), who on Wednesday night snapped a three-game losing streak while defeating a ranked opponent for the 13th consecutive seasons. Shockers leading scorer Erik Stevenson went scoreless, missing eight shots and five from 3-point range. Tyson Etienne, who entered tops in the conference with 37 3-pointers made, also was scoreless and missed three 3-point tries.

UNDATED (AP) — Derrick Henry has the Tennessee Titans one step away from an unlikely trip to the Super Bowl. They got this far because their running back has been unstoppable. Henry has led the Titans to a pair of upset wins on the road, becoming the first player with two games of 175 yards rushing or more in the same postseason. He rushed for 182 yards and a touchdown in a win at New England in the wild-card game and followed up with a franchise-record 195 yards rushing in Tennessee’s win over No. 1 seed Baltimore in the divisional round.