(Radio Iowa) – Drake coach Darian DeVries says senior point guard Roman Penn will try to play the rest of this season with an injured foot. Penn returned to the lineup this week after missing nearly a month after suffering as small fracture in his left foot.

DeVries says Penn’s conditioning is a question because he will be limited in practice.

Penn’s injury is one of the factors that has seen Drake under achieve this season. The preseason Valley favorites are 11-5 overall and 2-1 in conference play.

Drake hosts Illinois State Wednesday night.

(Radio Iowa) Northern Iowa coach Ben Jacobson says Noah Carter will remain the starter at center tonight (Tuesday night), when the Panthers host Indiana State. Junior center Austin Phyfe is still dealing with the long term effects of COVID and his playing time has been limited.

Jacobson says Phyfe’s minutes have varied from game to game.

The Panthers are riding a three game winning streak and Jacobson credits improved defense.

Jacobson says three point defense has made strides since the Panthers lost twice in Hawaii.

Indiana State has not played since January second due to a COVID pause and coach Josh Schertz says they will have a limited number of players.

Schertz says the Sycamores will be limited to seven players.

Schertz says with a short bench the Sycamores will be challenged on defense.

(Radio Iowa) – The 15th ranked Iowa State Cyclones look for a rare win in Allen Fieldhouse tonight (Tuesday night), with a visit to ninth ranked Kansas. The Cyclones have dropped 15 of their last 16 in Lawrence with the lone victory in 2017. ISU coach T.J. Otzelberger is more concerned about how his team plays than where it is played.

Otzelberger says the Cyclones can’t get caught up in the atmosphere.

After opening 12-0 the Cyclones have lost two of their last three.

The Atlantic boys swim team came up short in a dual against Lewis Central on Monday night 105-58.

Jack Robbins (200 Freestyle, 100 Freestyle) and Patrick Chase (200 IM, 100 Backstroke) were two time winners on the night to lead the Titans.

Atlantic had a pair of wins in relay events. The Trojans won the 200 Yard Medley (Brayden Atkinson, Alex Sampson, Abe Schechinger, Bryan York) in a time of 1:59.39. The Trojans also won the 200 Freestyle Relay (Atkinson, Sampson, Keaten Rieken, Kyler Rieken) with a time of 1:44.11.

Full results here: AtlanticLCBoysSwim01102022

GIRLS BASKETBALL

Hawkeye Ten Conference

St. Albert 56, Atlantic 33 – ON KJAN
Des Moines Christian 49, Kuemper Catholic 34
Shenandoah 63, Griswold 26

Western Iowa Conference

Audubon 57, AHSTW 39

Pride of Iowa Conference

Mount Ayr 59, Southwest Valley 33
Nodaway Valley 73, Clarke 18
Southeast Warren 50, I-35 41

Other Scores

Panorama 68, Greene County 15
Diagonal 42, Essex 33

BOYS BASKETBALL

Hawkeye Ten Conference

Des Moines Christian 66, Kuemper Catholic 64 – 2OT
Shenandoah 61, Griswold 34

Western Iowa Conference

AHSTW 73, Audubon 38

Rolling Valley Conference

Boyer Valley 50, Logan-Magnolia 44
Coon Rapids-Bayard 67, Woodward Academy 42

Pride of Iowa Conference

Mount Ayr 41, Southwest Valley 29
Nodaway Valley 62, Clarke 56

Other Scores

Diagonal 61, Essex 33

St. Albert turned a 4 point halftime lead into a 16 point lead by the end of the third quarter and picked up a road win over Atlantic on Monday night. The Saintes won the game 56-33 to improve to 7-4.

The Saintes jumped on top early 12-4 by the end of the first quarter, with the Trojans failing to score a field goal in the period. A 7-0 run by Atlantic got them right back in the game but the Saintes did enough to hold the lead at the break 20-16. Lena Rosloniec and Grace Manz scored 6 each in the third to help the Saintes pull away. Atlantic Coach Dan Vargason thought his team got sped up and unsettled by the Saintes.

Coach Vargason called multiple timeouts in the third quarter, upset with the effort and energy his team had. He said the energy was just lacking.

Pearl Reisz led the Saintes with 15 points, hitting a couple of threes in the fourth. Manz scored 11 and Rosloniec had 10.

Atlantic was led by 9 from Aubrey Guyer and 8 each from Paytn Harter and Jada Jensen. The Trojans fall to 3-9 on the season. They will host Clarinda on Tuesday night.

Others receiving votes: Florida Gulf Coast 52, Iowa 38, Ohio St. 31, Missouri St. 15, DePaul 12, Missouri 12, Nebraska 10, Mississippi 6, Virginia Tech 3.

1. Baylor (15-0)
2. Gonzaga (12-2)
3. UCLA (10-1)
4. Auburn (14-1)
5. USC (13-0)
6. Arizona (12-1)
7. Purdue (13-2)
8. Duke (12-2)
9. Kansas (12-2)
10. Michigan State (13-2)
11. Houston (14-2)
12. LSU (14-1)
13. Wisconsin (13-2)
14. Villanova (11-4)
15. Iowa State (13-2)
16. Ohio State (10-3)
17. Xavier (12-2)
18. Kentucky (12-3)
19. Texas Tech (11-3)
20. Seton Hall (11-3)
21. Texas (12-3)
22. Tennessee (10-4)
23. Providence (14-2)
24. Alabama (11-4)
25. Illinois (11-3)

Others receiving votes: Oklahoma (122), Loyola Chicago (96), Miami (65), West Virginia (20), Connecticut (17), Indiana (12), Colorado State (10), San Diego State (9), Davidson (5), BYU (2), Iowa (2), San Francisco (2)

AMES, Iowa – Emily Ryan’s outstanding work leading No. 9 Iowa State to a 2-0 week was recognized this week as the Cyclone point guard was named the Big 12 Women’s Basketball Player of the Week, the conference announced Monday. This marks the first time Ryan has been named Player of the Week, and the second honor of the season for the Cyclones, with Ashley Joens getting one in November.

Ryan, a sophomore from Claflin, Kansas, had started to gain notoriety for her prowess distributing the basketball, but it was her work in the scoring column that stood out across the past week. At No. 23 Oklahoma last Wednesday, Ryan recorded a career-high 22 points on 9-of-14 shooting while also dishing out eight assists and four rebounds to lead the Cyclones to an 81-71 win in Norman. Ryan got 15 of her 22 points in the second half and played all but 36 seconds of the game.

She followed that up with another high-scoring outing against TCU Saturday at Hilton Coliseum, posting 16 points which included going 6-of-8 from the charity stripe.

For the week, Ryan averaged 19.0 points per game (third-best in the Big 12) and 5.5 assists per game (second in the league). Her work has helped ISU out to a 3-0 start in Big 12 play for the first time since 2013-14.

Ryan and the No. 9 Cyclones are back in action on Tuesday night at No. 25 Kansas State. Tip between ISU and K-State will be at 6:30 p.m. on Big 12 Now on ESPN+

IOWA CITY, Iowa – University of Iowa sophomore Caitlin Clark was named Big Ten Women’s Basketball Player of the Week, the conference announced Monday.

Clark has tallied 26-career Big Ten weekly honors – 13 freshman, eight player and five honor roll. This is her third Big Ten Player of the Week honor this season — Dec. 6, Jan. 3 and Jan. 10.

In two games last week, Clark, a Des Moines, Iowa, native averaged 30.5 points, 8.5 assists, and 5.5 rebounds. In both games, she filled her stat line, adding two blocks and three steals on the week.

Clark drew 18 fouls, making it to the free-throw line 22 times. Against Northwestern, she was a perfect 13-for-13 — her second perfect game over with 10-free throws or more — and missed just one of her nine free throws at Nebraska.

At Pinnacle Bank Arena in Lincoln, Nebraska, Clark registered her sixth double-double of the season and the 16th of her career.

Clark and the Hawkeyes return to action Thursday, Jan. 13 in West Lafayette, Indiana, as they take on the Purdue Boilermakers inside Mackey Arena. Tip is set for 6 p.m. (CT) on B1G+.