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

UNDATED (AP) — The NFL’s handling of violence accusations against Kareem Hunt shows the league still reacts heavily based on public perception. The league and Kansas City Chiefs quickly changed their approach toward the star running back after video was released showing Hunt pushing and kicking a woman at a Cleveland hotel. The league has tried to change following its mishandling of the Ray Rice domestic violence case in 2014.

LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — Offensive coordinator Chip Lindsey is leaving Auburn to take the same job at Kansas. New Kansas coach Les Miles has named Lindsey to his staff. Lindsey has been Auburn’s offensive coordinator for the last two seasons. In 2017, Auburn’s offense was just the eighth in SEC history to rush and pass for 3,000 yards. Lindsey also has been offensive coordinator at Southern Miss and Arizona State.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Becca Hittner scored 23 points to lead No. 21 Drake past Clarke College 91-43. Sara Rhine added 22 points, making all 10 of her shots. Tina Ubl led Clarke with 14 points and Makenna Haase added 12 points and 13 rebounds. A record crowd at the Knapp Center of more than 6,000 was on hand for the annual game for elementary and middle school students.

The Atlantic/CAM wrestling team picked up two big Hawkeye Ten dual wins on Tuesday night in Creston. The Trojans beat Red Oak 48-23 and then defeated Creston O-M 40-27. Red Oak edged Creston 37-36 in the other dual of the night.

Atlantic/CAM 40, Creston-Orient-Macksburg 27
106 Garrett McLaren (Atlantic-CAM) over Justin Parsons (Creston) (Fall 5:12)
113 Aybren Moore (Atlantic-CAM) over Chase Lovely (Creston) (Fall 1:35)
120 Joe Weaver (Atlantic-CAM) over Kaden Bolton (Creston) (Dec 10-6)
126 Steele McLaren (Atlantic-CAM) over Beau Thompson (Creston) (Dec 5-1)
132 Garon Wurster (Creston) over Jaxson Bell (Atlantic-CAM) (Dec 5-2)
138 Chase McLaren (Atlantic-CAM) over Brayton Chesnut (Creston) (Fall 2:32)
145 Kadin Stutzman (Atlantic-CAM) over Keaton Street (Creston) (MD 16-6)
152 Connor Pellett (Atlantic-CAM) over Rylan Luther (Creston) (Fall 3:05)
160 Hayden Green (Creston) over Payton Fewson (Atlantic-CAM) (Fall 5:33)
170 Jackson Kinsella (Creston) over Kenny Jimerson (Atlantic-CAM) (Dec 11-8)
182 Beau Barncastle (Creston) over Mitchell Williamson (Atlantic-CAM) (Dec 5-1)
195 Sam Chapman (Creston) over Devin McKay (Atlantic-CAM) (Fall 0:30)
220 Kendall Crawford (Creston) over Unknown (For.)
285 Cale Roller (Atlantic-CAM) over James McDonald (Creston) (Fall 2:00)

Atlantic/CAM 48, Red Oak 23
106 Garrett McLaren (Atlantic-CAM) over Unknown (For.)
113 Jonathon Erp (Red Oak) over Aybren Moore (Atlantic-CAM) (Fall 4:46)
120 Joe Weaver (Atlantic-CAM) over Sandro Vera (Red Oak) (Fall 0:30)
126 Steele McLaren (Atlantic-CAM) over Unknown (For.)
132 Jaxson Bell (Atlantic-CAM) over Bryan Erp (Red Oak) (Fall 2:58)
138 Chase McLaren (Atlantic-CAM) over Cam Vanderhoof (Red Oak) (Fall 1:27)
145 Kadin Stutzman (Atlantic-CAM) over Jake Echternach (Red Oak) (Fall 1:22)
152 Connor Pellett (Atlantic-CAM) over Bruce Lukehart (Red Oak) (Dec 7-1)
160 Payton Fewson (Atlantic-CAM) over Ethan Stewart (Red Oak) (Fall 2:00)
170 Justin McCunn (Red Oak) over Kenny Jimerson (Atlantic-CAM) (TF 16-1 5:55)
182 Carter Maynes (Red Oak) over Mitchell Williamson (Atlantic-CAM) (Dec 7-5)
195 Hunter McMann (Red Oak) over Devin McKay (Atlantic-CAM) (Dec 5-1)
220 Thomas Bentley (Red Oak) over Unknown (For.)
285 Cale Roller (Atlantic-CAM) over Colton Kinnison (Red Oak) (SV-1 7-3)

BOYS BASKETBALL

Hawkeye Ten Conference

Atlantic 61, Red Oak 34
Bedford 74, Clarinda 66
Blair, NE 54, Harlan 49
Creston 60, Shenandoah 56
Denison-Schleswig 74, Carroll 69 OT
Lewis Central 75, Glenwood 59
St. Albert 60, Kuemper Catholic 54

Western Iowa Conference

Audubon 70, Missouri Valley 42
IKM-Manning 41, Logan-Magnolia 36
Treynor 84, Underwood 55
Tri-Center 41, AHSTW 37

Rolling Valley Conference

Ar-We-Va 66, Exira/Elk Horn-Kimballton 65
Coon Rapids-Bayard 48, CAM, Anita 43
West Harrison 68, Glidden-Ralston 39
Woodbine 89, Paton-Churdan 56

Corner Conference

Clarinda Academy 74, Essex 36
East Mills 52, Fremont Mills, Tabor 43
Sidney 65, Heartland Christian 26
Stanton 92, Griswold 27

Pride of Iowa Conference

Mount Ayr 56, Lenox 28
Nodaway Valley 75, Southwest Valley 27

Other Scores

Council Bluffs, Abraham Lincoln 68, Council Bluffs, Thomas Jefferson 42
Norwalk 85, Winterset 60
Sergeant Bluff-Luton 68, Bishop Heelan Catholic, Sioux City 53

GIRLS BASKETBALL

Hawkeye Ten Conference

Red Oak 54, Atlantic 50
Bedford 53, Clarinda 32
Carroll 54, Denison-Schleswig 53
Kuemper Catholic, Carroll 66, St. Albert, Council Bluffs 60
Lewis Central 53, Glenwood 47
Shenandoah 60, Creston 52

Western Iowa Conference

AHSTW 51, Tri-Center 41
Audubon 74, Missouri Valley 28
IKM-Manning 50, Logan-Magnolia 42
Treynor 84, Underwood 55

Rolling Valley Conference

CAM 80, Coon Rapids-Bayard 47
Exira-EHK 47, Ar-We-Va 36
Glidden-Ralston 72, West Harrison 47
Paton-Churdan 61, Woodbine 36

Corner Conference

Essex 62, South Page 44
Fremont Mills, Tabor 47, East Mills 23
Griswold 43, Stanton 38
Sidney 55, Heartland Christian 23

Pride of Iowa Conference

Mount Ayr 56, Lenox 28
Nodaway Valley 68, Southwest Valley 60

Other Scores

Bishop Heelan Catholic, Sioux City 61, Sergeant Bluff-Luton 51
Council Bluffs, Thomas Jefferson 38, Council Bluffs, Abraham Lincoln 37
Des Moines Christian 67, AC/GC 37
Kingsley-Pierson 65, Westwood, Sloan 64, OT
Norwalk 39, Winterset 32
OA-BCIG 57, MVAO-CO-U 37
Panorama, Panora 57, Pleasantville 16
Southeast Warren 47, Wayne, Corydon 34

The Atlantic Trojans boys basketball team picked up a road win over Red Oak on Tuesday night. Atlantic built an early lead but a slight lull in the second quarter let the Tigers hang around until halftime. The Trojans then outscored the Tigers by 9 in the third quarter to put the game out of reach and won it 61-34.

Atlantic led 15-6 at the end of the first and 25-18 at halftime. The third quarter outburst put Atlantic up 41-25 at the end of three.

Chase Mullenix led the scoring for the Trojans with 28 points. Tyler Moen dropped in 9 and Logan Reilly has 8 in the win. The Trojans improved to 2-1 on the season and will travel to Creston on Friday night as part of a girl/boy varsity doubleheader.

Red Oak falls to 0-2 on the season. Isaac Birt was the Tigers’ leading scorer on the night with 15 points. Red Oak will next travel to St. Albert on Friday night.

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DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Becca Hittner scored 23 points to lead No. 21 Drake past Clarke College 91-43 on Tuesday. Sara Rhine had 22 points, making all 10 of her shots for Drake (8-1). A record crowd of 6,031 at the Knapp Center was on hand for the annual game for elementary and middle school students.

Tina Ubl led Clarke (7-3) with 14 points and Makenna Haase added 12 points, 13 rebounds and two blocks. The Bulldogs led 52-22 at halftime and held Clarke to just nine points in the third quarter.
Drake shot 59 percent from the field and made 9 of 18 from 3-point range.

The Bulldogs, who led the country in assists coming into the game, had 29. Maddie Monahan had seven of them.

AMES, Iowa – Iowa State had three players named to the American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA) All-Midwest Region teams, announced on Tuesday. For the third-straight season, Jess Schaben earned All-Midwest Region team honors, while she was joined by senior middle blocker Grace Lazard. Sophomore setter Piper Mauck earned All-Midwest Region Honorable Mention.

Schaben adds to her lengthy awards collection which now includes a trio of AVCA All-Midwest Region Team and All-Big 12 First Team awards. In 2015, Schaben was named the Midwest Freshman of the Year by the AVCA. Schaben has led the Iowa State attack this season with 4.04 kills per set and is second on the team with 2.93 digs per frame. Her 452 total kills this year ranks ninth in ISU history and she is the sixth player in ISU history to post consecutive 300 kill-300 dig seasons.

Lazard got her first career All-Midwest Region Team honor to go with her first career All-Big 12 First Team recognition received last week. The senior from London ranks second on the team with 2.84 kills per set at a team-best .341 hitting percentage, the fourth-best hitting mark in a season in school history. Lazard currently has 126 total blocks for the season, her second-straight season over 100 blocks and third-straight season with at least 90 block

Mauck earned her first career award from the AVCA. The Cyclone setter has recorded 11.04 assists per set on the season, setting Iowa State to .250 hitting as team, the third-highest team hitting percentage in program history. The Des Moines native has seven double-doubles to her name on the season, posting 202 total digs at 1.94 per set. She also contributes 0.62 kills per set at .273 efficiency and 0.62 blocks per set to help the ISU efforts.

Iowa State will be in action in the quarterfinals of the 2018 National Invitational Volleyball Championship (NIVC) on Wednesday at 6 p.m. against North Texas.

IOWA CITY, Iowa — The University of Iowa men’s basketball team has signed a contract to play the University of Cincinnati as part of the Chicago Legends next season.

The Hawkeyes and Bearcats will play on a neutral court at the United Center in Chicago on Dec. 21, 2019, as part of a four-team men’s college basketball doubleheader. Dayton will face Colorado in the other contest.

“We are excited to return to the United Center and play in front of our tremendous alumni base in Chicago,” said Iowa head coach Fran McCaffery. “We look forward to playing Cincinnati, who is one of the premiere teams in the country.

“If you look at our schedule in 2019-20, we will play 20 Big Ten games, two Challenge contests (ACC/Gavitt), Iowa State, Cincinnati, and an MTE (multi-team event). It will be a challenge, but that’s what you sign up for when you come to play at The University of Iowa.”

Iowa and Cincinnati have played eight previous times, with the last contest coming in the 2005 NCAA Tournament in Indianapolis.

“We are proud to welcome back this impactful basketball event to Chicago,” said Tom Valdiserri, executive vice president of KemperLesnik, a Chicago-based sports marketing, events, public relations and content marketing agency that will produce the event and also manages the Maui Jim Maui Invitational and CBS Sports Classic. “The tradition of basketball in Chicago is second to none. Our goal is to honor the city’s most heralded players while featuring today’s fantastic talent right here at home.”

Each of the 2019 teams has advanced to the NCAA Tournament at least twice in the past four seasons. Tickets will go on sale to the general public in 2019.

IOWA CITY, Iowa – University of Iowa senior Megan Gustafson earned her fourth consecutive Big Ten Player of the Week award, the conference office announced Monday.

Gustafson averaged 29.0 points and 11.0 rebounds in a pair of games this week, shooting 77.4 percent from the field and 90.9 percent from the free throw line. In an ACC/Big Ten Challenge matchup against No. 1 Notre Dame, Gustafson netted 26 points on 11-for-16 shooting (68.8 percent). She also registered 10 rebounds to collect her 60th career double-double.

On Sunday, Gustafson scored a season-high 32 points on 13-of-15 shooting (86.6 percent) from the field in just 23 minutes action against Robert Morris. The Port Wing, Wisconsin, native was a perfect 6-for-6 from the free throw line. She pulled down 12 rebounds to notch the 61st double-double of her career.

Gustafson is three rebounds shy of tying Iowa’s all-time career rebounding record of 1,067 (Cindy Haugejorde, 1980). She is 23 points away from reaching 2,000 career points.

The conference award is the 14th of Gustafson’s career and fourth of the season. She broke a Big Ten single-season record last season with nine Player of the Week honors. She was also named to the conference’s weekly honor roll six times.

Gustafson and the No. 16/15 Hawkeyes return to Carver-Hawkeye Arena on Wednesday, hosting Iowa State in the Iowa Corn Cy-Hawk Series. Tipoff is at 7 p.m. (CT). Tickets are $12 for adults and free for youth (18 & younger) and UI students.

The Atlantic boys basketball team is off to a 1-1 start after a thrilling home win over St. Albert last Friday night. The Trojans will now go on the road twice this week for Hawkeye Ten Conference match-ups. The first trip is to Red Oak tonight and we’ll have coverage on KJAN.

The Tigers are 0-1 after an opening loss to Lewis Central this past Friday. Carter Bruce led the Tigers with 6 points in that opener. The Tigers were just 2-20 last season and lost top scorer Owen VonDielingen to graduation.

Atlantic has been led by senior Chase Mullenix, who is averaging 21 points per game in the two outings. Tyler Moen is averaging 11 points in the early season.

The Tigers and Trojans will square off at the Red Oak Middle School Gym tonight at 7:30pm. The venue is due to ongoing construction at the Red Oak High School. Our pregame coverage on KJAN will start at approximately 7:15pm. You can catch the game on-air, online, on the web app, and live video through our facebook page.

EAST LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Nick Ward used his power to gain position and his touch to score, putting together a perfect game from the field.

Ward made all 10 of his shots, scored a career-high 26 points and grabbed nine rebounds to lead No. 10 Michigan State to a 90-68 win over No. 18 Iowa on Monday night.

“There’s not a lot I can yell at him about,” coach Tom Izzo said. “He did miss some free throws.”

The 6-foot-9, 245-pound Ward, who was 6 of 11 from the line, was simply too much for the Hawkeyes to handle.

“He’s real physical down there and they were getting him on the high-low,” Iowa center Luka Garza said.

That type of offensive attack against a zone may have helped the Spartans when they lost to Syracuse in the second round of the 2018 NCAA tournament.

“We’ve been working on it all season,” Ward said. “Since the Syracuse game, we’ve done that every day.”

The Spartans (7-2, 2-0 Big Ten) trailed for more than six minutes in the first half and were behind by as much as six points before a Ward-led surge gave them a 43-33 lead at halftime.

The Hawkeyes (6-2, 0-2) had no hope for a comeback because they missed 19 of 20 shots to open the second half.

What went wrong?

“Pretty much everything,” Iowa coach Fran McCaffery said.

Michigan State’s Xavier Tillman scored a career-high 14 points and had eight rebounds off the bench. Kenny Goins scored a career-high 19, surpassing his combined points from the previous five games, had a career-high seven assists and grabbed 12 rebounds. Joshua Langford added 14 for the Spartans.

Iowa’s Tyler Cook scored 15 points, Isaiah Moss had 13 points and Jordan Bohannon added 11.

The Hawkeyes, who came into the game averaging 82.6 points, made just 33 percent of their shots and allowed the Spartans to connect on 52 percent of their shots.

“We made it really difficult for them inside and out,” Tillman said.

UP NEXT
Iowa: Host the rival Cyclones on Thursday night.
Michigan State: Plays at Florida on Saturday.