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Hawkins named to USBWA All-District 6 Team

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March 17th, 2022 by admin

Creighton senior and Atlantic alum Ryan Hawkins was honored as a USBWA All-District 6 Player on Wednesday. Hawkins was joined on the District 6 team by Ochai Agbaji of Kansas, Christian Braun of Kansas, Nijel Pack of Kansas State, Izaiah Brockington of Iowa State, AJ Green of UNI, and Keegan Murray of Iowa.

Hawkins has averaged 14 points and 8 rebounds per game this season so far for Creighton. He has shot 44.1% from the field to lead the Jays to the NCAA Tournament where they take on San Diego State tonight at 6:27 p.m. on truTV.

Agbaji was named the District Player of the Year. Bill Self was tabbed as the District Coach of the Year.

Former Drake Coach and current Colorado State Coach Nico Medved was named the District 8 Coach of the Year. Former SWCC Coach and current Wake Forest Coach Steve Forbes was named District 3 Coach of the Year.

Check out all of the honorees HERE.

UNI advances in NIT with big win over SLU

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March 17th, 2022 by admin

The UNI men’s basketball team advanced at the NIT on Wednesday night with an 80-68 win at St. Louis. The Panthers got 21 poitns, 4 rebounds, and 4 assists from star guard AJ Green to lead the way. Noah Carter added 19 points, 5 assists, and 5 rebounds while Trae Berhow chipped in 18 points and 7 boards.

The Panthers improved to 20-11 on the season and will now square off against BYU in the second round on Saturday. That game will be in Provo at 8:00 p.m. Central Time and be televised through ESPN+. The Cougars advanced with an 93-72 win over Long Beach State.

Clark earns First Team USBWA All-America Status

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March 17th, 2022 by admin

IOWA CITY, Iowa — University of Iowa women’s basketball sophomore Caitlin Clark was named a first team USBWA All-American, the U.S. Basketball Writers Association announced Thursday. The honor is the second of her career after earning first team USBWA All-America status as a freshman a year ago.

The USBWA has named a women’s All-America Team since the 1987-88 season. Since the 2017-18 season, the USBWA has expanded the team to honor 15 players on three teams, regardless of position. The All-America Team is selected by the USBWA board after voting from the entire membership and the honor is based on performance during the regular season and conference tournaments.

The Des Moines, Iowa, native leads the nation in assists per game (7.9), total assists (236), points per game (27.4), total points (821), free throws made (189), triple doubles (5) and 30-point games (11).

Clark registered five triple-doubles this season, leading the country in most career triple-doubles by an active player with six. Clark’s six career triple-doubles ties former Hawkeye Sam Logic’s Big Ten record (2011-15) for most in a career and ties for the fifth most single season (5) and career (6) triple-doubles in NCAA Division I history.

In January, Clark joined the likes of Kobe Bryant, LeBron James, Russell Westbrook, James Hardin, Luka Dončić and Giannis Antetokounmpo as the only NBA, WNBA, Division I men’s and women’s basketball to record back-to-back 30-point triple doubles since 2000. She is one of 10 women’s basketball players (15 times) to register back-to-back triple doubles in their careers — the only NCAA player (male or female) to do so with 30-plus points in the pair.

Clark broke the 1,000-career point barrier against Evansville in early January and became the fastest Division I player (men’s or women’s) to reach 1,500 career points over the last 20 seasons, reaching the feat in 56 games.

Clark set a career-high 46 points against No. 6 Michigan, registering her 12th double-double of the season with 10 assists and breaking her third women’s basketball arena scoring record. She now holds the scoring records at Iowa’s Carver-Hawkeye Arena (44), Michigan’s Crisler Center (46) and Nebraska’s Pinnacle Bank Arena (39).

Clark was named Big Ten Player of the Year and Big Ten Tournament MVP, while earning unanimous first team All-Big Ten honors and an All-Big Ten Tournament spot. She was named a Nancy Lieberman Point Guard of the Year finalist, Dawn Staley Award finalist, Naismith semifinalist and to the WBCA Wade Trophy Midseason Watch List and John R. Wooden Award National Ballot Top-15. She is a 2021-22 first team AP All-American and first team CoSIDA Academic All-American.

Joens garners USBWA Second Team All-America Honors

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March 17th, 2022 by admin

AMES, Iowa – Ashley Joens was named a USBWA All-American for the second-consecutive season. Joens earned Second-Team honors on the heels of a Third-Team nod in 2020-21.

Joens put together another standout season at Iowa State. The senior led the Cyclones averaging 20.2 points and 9.5 rebounds per game en route to her third-consecutive unanimous All-Big 12 First Team selection. She also leads the team with a career-best 84 triples and is shooting at a 37.2 percent clip.

The Iowa City, Iowa native has helped Iowa State to a 26-6 overall record, while the Cyclones’ 25 regular season victories set a new program record. Iowa State has also been ranked in the AP Top-10 for much of the 2021-22 season, climbing as high as No. 6.

Joens also cemented herself as the most prolific scorer in Iowa State history with 2,307 career points and counting, holding Iowa State’s top mark in the record book and ranking ninth in the Big 12 record book. She also ranks third in school history with 1,052 career rebounds.

Joens’ was also named a second Team All-American by the Associated Press earlier this week. Last season, Joens was also named the Cheryl Miller Award winner, honoring the nation’s best small forward.

No. 16 Iowa plays Richmond this (Thursday) afternoon in NCAA Tournament

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March 17th, 2022 by Ric Hanson

The 16th ranked Iowa Hawkeyes look to continue a late season run this (Thursday) afternoon by taking on Richmond in the opening round of the NCAA Tournament. The Hawkeyes are the fifth seed in the Midwest Regional after winning the Big Ten Tournament and coach Fran McCaffery’s team has been a trendy pick to make a deep tournament run.

After playing Big Ten teams for the past two and a half months the challenge now is to get ready for an unfamiliar opponent.

Richmond senior guard Jacob Gilyard is the all-time NCAA leader in steals and triggered a Richmond defense that stepped up last week in winning the Atlantic-10 Tournament.

McCaffery says Richmond’s experience is a concern. The Spiders have six players who used an extra year provided by COVID and four of them have topped more than a thousand points in their career.

After winning a Big Ten title senior guard Jordan Bohannon would like to cap his career with a deep tournament run.

Bohannon on Iowa being tabbed as a team that could make a deep tournament run.

The Hawkeyes have won nine of their last 10 games, including four straight last week in Indianapolis to win the Big Ten Tournament.

The Spiders are the 12 seed and are riding the momentum of a run to the Atlantic-10 Tournament championship. Hawkeye All-American forward Keegan Murray.

Tipoff is 2:10p.m., Iowa time. Our coverage on KJAN begins with the pre-game show at 1 o’clock,

Defense a focus as Richmond prepares to play Iowa

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March 17th, 2022 by Ric Hanson

Richmond coach Chris Mooney says his team will need to limit Iowa’s fast break points this (Thursday) afternoon. The 11th seeded Spiders play the fifth seeded Hawkeyes in the opening round of the NCAA Tournament in Buffalo.

Mooney says the Hawkeyes will shoot threes off the break.

Mooney says they need to find a way to contain Iowa sophomore Keegan Murray.

Richmond six-10 center Grand Golden says Murray can score in a number of different ways.

Cardinals announce revised 2022 MLB regular season schedule

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March 16th, 2022 by admin

ST. LOUIS, Mo., March 16, 2022 – The St. Louis Cardinals, in conjunction with Major League Baseball’s league-wide release this afternoon, announced their revised 2022 regular season schedule.  The team’s Home Opener versus the Pittsburgh Pirates on Thursday, April 7, at 3:15 PM CT remains unchanged.

Under the revised schedule, which features re-scheduled dates for five Cardinals road games originally slated between March 31-April 6, the regular season has been extended by three days with the final day of the season now scheduled for Wednesday, October 5.

The Cardinals originally scheduled three-game series at Pittsburgh on March 31-April 3 will now take place during the additional three days of the MLB regular season on October 3-5 at 5:35 PM (October 5th game time to be determined).

The Cardinals originally scheduled two-game series at Wrigley Field against the Chicago Cubs on April 4-6 will be made up as split-doubleheaders on two previously scheduled Cubs road dates; the first on Saturday, June 4, at 12:20 PM and the second on Tuesday, August 23, at 1:20 PM.

Additionally, start times for Cardinals home games vs. the Pirates on Monday, April 11 (previously 6:45 PM) and Sunday, October 2 (previously 2:15 PM), have changed to 1:15 PM.

An updated 2022 regular season schedule can be viewed at cardinals.com/schedule

Clark, Czinano earn AP All-America nods

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March 16th, 2022 by admin

IOWA CITY, Iowa — University of Iowa sophomore Caitlin Clark was named a first team AP All-American and senior Monika Czinano was named an AP All-America honorable mention, the Associated Press announced on Wednesday.

Clark and Czinano are two of nine Hawkeyes to be named AP All-Americans. Clark’s first-team honor is the second AP All-America recognition of her career after earning second-team honors as a freshman, and Czinano’s honorable-mention nod is the first of her career. They sit among Hawkeye greats Kathleen Doyle, Megan Gustafson, Samantha Logic, Jaime Printy, Kachine Alexander, Cara Consuegra, and Amy Herrig. P. Sue Beckwith, MD, Head Coach Lisa Bluder has coached eight of the nine AP All-Americans.

In 30 games this season, Clark, a Des Moines, Iowa, native leads the nation in assists per game (7.9), total assists (236), points per game (27.4), total points (821), free throws made (189), triple doubles (5) and 30-point games (11).

Clark registered five triple-doubles this season, leading the country in most career triple-doubles by an active player with six. Clark’s six career triple-doubles ties former Hawkeye Sam Logic’s Big Ten record (2011-15) for most in a career and ties for the fifth most single season (5) and career (6) triple-doubles in NCAA Division I history.

In January, Clark joined the likes of Kobe Bryant, LeBron James, Russell Westbrook, James Hardin, Luka Dončić and Giannis Antetokounmpo as the only NBA, WNBA, Division I men’s and women’s basketball to record back-to-back 30-point triple doubles since 2000. She is one of 10 women’s basketball players (15 times) to register back-to-back triple doubles in their careers — the only NCAA player (male or female) to do so with 30-plus points in the pair.

Clark broke the 1,000-career point barrier against Evansville in early January and became the fastest Division I player (men’s or women’s) to reach 1,500 career points over the last 20 seasons, reaching the feat in 56 games.

Clark was named Big Ten Player of the Year and earned unanimous first team All-Big Ten honors and also was named a Nancy Lieberman Point Guard of the Year Finalist and to the WBCA Wade Trophy Midseason Watch List, John R. Wooden Award National Ballot Top-15 and a Dawn Staley Award Finalist.

In 30 games this season, Czinano averaged 21.1 points, 6.1 rebounds and led the country, shooting 67.8 from the field.

The Watertown, Minnesota, native registered two double-doubles. She ranks seventh in field goals made (259), 13th in points per game (21.1) and 14th in total points (611). Czinano also earned the third All-Big Ten honor of her career.

ISU’s Ashley Joens earns AP All-America accolade

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March 16th, 2022 by admin

AMES, Iowa – Ashley Joens continues to make history, earning Second Team All-America honors by the Associated Press, the organization announced on Wednesday. Joens becomes the fourth Cyclone to make an AP All-America team, joining all-time greats Bridget Carleton (2018-19), Angie Welle (2000-01, 2001-02) and Stacy Frese (1999-00).

Joens had another strong campaign for Iowa State. The senior led Iowa State averaging 20.2 points and 9.5 rebounds per game en route to her third-consecutive unanimous All-Big 12 First Team selection. She also leads the team with a career-best 84 triples.

Joens’ appearance on an AP All-America team is the first of her career, earning honorable mention honors the last two seasons.

The Iowa City, Iowa native has helped Iowa State to a 26-6 overall record, while the Cyclones’ 25 regular season victories set a new program record. Iowa State has also been ranked in the AP Top-10 for much of the 2021-22 season, climbing as high as No. 6.

Joens also cemented herself as the most prolific scorer in Iowa State history with 2,307 career points and counting, holding Iowa State’s top mark in the record book and ranking ninth in the Big 12 record book. She also ranks third in school history with 1,052 career rebounds.

Last season, Joens was also named the Cheryl Miller Award winner, honoring the nation’s best small forward.

Iowa utility play Keaton Anthony earns 2nd Big Ten Weekly Honor

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March 16th, 2022 by admin

IOWA CITY, Iowa – University of Iowa utility player Keaton Anthony has been named the Big Ten Co-Freshman of the Week, it was announced Wednesday by the league office.  It is Anthony’s second honor of the season.

The Hoschton, Georgia, native earned the distinction after hitting .500 (5-for-10) with five runs and four RBIs during Iowa’s three-game road series at UC Irvine.  Anthony posted a .571 on-base and .800 slugging percentage on the weekend.

Anthony hit safely (and had a double) in all three games, running his hitting streak to 11 games and his on-base streak to 14 contests.  He had multi-hit games in two of the three games, his sixth and seventh such games this season.

In game one, Anthony went 2-for-3 with two runs and two RBIs and he finished 2-for-4 with three runs and two RBIs in the Hawkeyes’ 12-10 win over the Anteaters in the series finale.

Anthony is leading the team in doubles (9) and is tied for the top on-base percentage (.507), while ranking second in batting average (.396), runs (15), RBIs (13), slugging percentage (.679), hits (21) and home runs (2).

Anthony was previously honored as the Big Ten Freshman of the Week on Feb. 23.

The Hawkeyes (8-7) return to action Friday, hosting No. 12/17 Texas Tech in the first of a three-game series at Duane Banks Field.  The game is the first of a season-long eight game homestand.