IOWA CITY, Iowa — The University of Iowa’s Big Ten Conference football opponents for 2024 and 2025 were announced Thursday by the Big Ten Conference. The two newest members of the Big Ten in 2024, UCLA and USC, both appear on the Hawkeyes’ schedules. Dates for league games have not been released.

In 2024, Iowa will host conference opponents Maryland, Nebraska, UCLA and Wisconsin. The Hawkeyes travel coast to coast, playing at Illinois, Minnesota, Ohio State, Rutgers and USC. In nonconference play Iowa hosts Illinois State, Iowa State in the Iowa Corn Cy-Hawk Series and Troy. The Hawkeyes are one of three teams to face both UCLA and USC in 2024.

In 2025, Iowa’s five league home games include Michigan, Michigan State, Minnesota, Northwestern and Penn State. The Hawkeyes travel to Indiana, Nebraska, Purdue and Wisconsin. Nonconference contests include Florida Atlantic and Massachusetts visiting Kinnick Stadium and the Iowa Corn Cy-Hawk Series game at Iowa State.

The 2024 football season will debut the Flex Protect Plus model, which features a combination of protected opponents. In each of the two seasons the Hawkeyes maintain rivalry games with Minnesota, Nebraska and Wisconsin. Iowa is the only Big Ten team to maintain contests with three protected rivals.

Beginning with the 2024 season, the annual Big Ten Championship Game will feature the top two teams in the overall standings at the end of the regular season.

USC holds a 7-3 advantage over Iowa, while UCLA has defeated the Hawkeyes in six of nine meetings. Iowa last met USC in the 2019 Holiday Bowl in San Diego, earning a 49-24 win. Iowa has not played at USC since 1976. The Hawkeyes last played UCLA in the 1986 Rose Bowl, a 45-28 Bruin win.

Fans can request football season tickets by visiting hawkeyesports.com/footballtickets. Season ticket holders can currently confirm their 2023 order. Fight for Iowa mobile passes and mini plan ticket packages are currently on sale. Group tickets and Hawkeye Village ticket sales begin July 5, while single game tickets go on sale for donors on July 17 and to the general public on July 20.

University of Iowa faculty/staff should contact the University of Iowa Athletics Ticket Office for season tickets. The UI Athletics Ticket Office is open weekdays from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. The office telephone number is 1-800-IA-HAWKS.

For gameday parking information, visit hawkeyesports.com/footballparking.

State Treasurer Roby Smith is having what appears to be a rare Michael Jordan rookie card appraised before including it in an auction. The trading card was in an unclaimed safety deposit box turned over to the state treasurer’s office years ago. Smith says the card is being sent to a California company that determines if sports memorabilia is legit and how much it might be worth.

“It might take a couple of months, then we’ll try to continue to get the owner or will probably put it up for auction,” Smith says. “We’ll see.” A company called Fleer released a set of N-B-A trading cards in 1986 that included a rookie card for future hall of famer Michael Jordan. The state treasurer says experts from the Professional Sports Authenticator company will consider the Jordan card’s condition and come up with a grade.

“If it’s a 10, it’s worth $150,000,” Smith says. “It could be fake, so we want to make sure it’s worth that.” Smith’s office hired a national firm that handles auctions for state and local governments to sell valuables from some of the safety deposit boxes that have been declared unclaimed property and turned over to the state. An online auction currently underway through next Wednesday initially included the Michael Jordan card, but Axios Des Moines was first to report it had been pulled for an appraisal. The proceeds from these auctions will be available just in case someone discovers their name or a relative’s listed on the Great Iowa Treasure Hunt website or comes forward to claim a long-abandoned deposit box.

“We have the right to be able to auction it off after a year, but some of this stuff is over 10 years so we’ve kept it an extra long period of time auction to make sure we can return it to the owners,” Smith says. “When we do sell it, the money still goes back to the owners of the box and there’s no time limit. They can wait 10 more years, 20 more years. They will still get the money.” The state currently has three THOUSAND unclaimed safety deposit boxes and is running out of secure storage. Smith was given a tour shortly after he took over as state treasurer in January and got to see the contents of one of the boxes.

“The one they opened up, it was just a random one. I think it had some bicentennial quarters in there. It had some old credit cards,” Smith says. “…It’s kind of like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re going to get when you open it up, but there’s always a story behind it.”
Last year, someone paid over a million dollars for a rookie Michael Jordan trading card, but it had been signed by Jordan. The value of Jordan trading cards went up in 2020 after the release of a documentary about Jordan’s career and the Chicago Bulls’ last championship season.

THIRD Iowa High School Softball Rankings
Compiled by the Iowa Girls High School Athletic Union
Thursday, June 8, 2023

Class 1A
School Record LW
1 North Linn 13-1 4
2 Martensdale-St. Marys 9-1 8
3 Southeast Warren 12-3 1
4 Newell-Fonda 11-3 2
5 Sigourney 9-1 5
6 Fort Dodge St. Edmond 11-2 10
7 Wayne 9-3 7
8 Remsen St. Mary’s 9-1 3
9 Mason City Newman Catholic 12-2 9
10 Clarksville 12-0 12
11 Collins-Maxwell 9-2 6
12 Logan-Magnolia 7-2 11
13 Earlham 11-4 NR
14 Exira-EHK 9-1 13
15 Twin Cedars 6-2 15
Dropped Out: Woodbine (14)

Class 2A
School Record LW
1 Iowa City Regina 8-3 1
2 Central Springs 11-1 2
3 Lisbon 8-2 3
4 Van Meter 12-3 5
5 Wilton 12-4 4
6 West Monona 12-3 10
7 North Union 10-3 6
8 Cascade 8-6 8
9 Northeast 6-6 9
10 Interstate 35 7-7 14
11 Missouri Valley 15-1 NR
12 Alburnett 11-3 12
13 South Hardin 12-4 7
14 Osage 11-3 11
15 Waterloo Columbus Catholic 13-3 NR
Dropped Out: Louisa-Muscatine (13), Ridge View (15)

Class 3A
School Record LW
1 Williamsburg 13-0 1
2 Davenport Assumption 11-2 2
3 Davis County 11-0 5
4 Dubuque Wahlert 11-2 4
5 Estherville Lincoln Central 15-0 6
6 Mount Vernon 10-2 7
7 Saydel 7-1 3
8 Solon 10-3 8
9 West Lyon 11-0 12
10 Center Point-Urbana 9-3 10
11 Albia 8-3 9
12 Sumner-Fredericksburg 12-2 11
13 Sioux Center 9-3 13
14 Chariton 9-1 14
15 Grinnell 9-3 NR
Dropped Out: Benton (15)

Class 4A
School Record LW
1 Indianola 12-2 5
2 Norwalk 7-2 3
3 Dallas Center-Grimes 9-3 1
4 Fort Dodge 9-3 2
5 Carlisle 10-1 6
6 North Scott 8-4 7
7 North Polk 10-2 8
8 Winterset 10-4 13
9 Burlington 8-1 9
10 Western Dubuque 11-2 10
11 Cedar Rapids Xavier 8-5 4
12 Clear Creek-Amana 9-3 11
13 Sergeant Bluff-Luton 13-2 15
14 Storm Lake 11-0 NR
15 Knoxville 7-2 NR
Dropped Out; Creston (12), ADM (14)

Class 5A
School Record LW
1 Ankeny Centennial 10-1 7
2 West Des Moines Valley 8-3 1
3 Waukee Northwest 11-2 2
4 Ankeny 9-4 6
5 Linn-Mar 10-3 4
6 Southeast Polk 10-6 3
7 Muscatine 10-1 8
8 Pleasant Valley 7-3 5
9 Johnston 7-6 9
10 Bettendorf 6-4 10
11 Cedar Rapids Kennedy 10-3 13
12 Des Moines Lincoln 11-4 11
13 Ottumwa 7-5 NR
14 Dubuque Hempstead 10-5 NR
15 Dubuque Senior 9-3 NR
Dropped Out: Urbandale (12) Ames (14), Sioux City East (15)

The Logan-Magnolia softball team came away with a 15-10 win over Riverside on Thursday night in a game we had on KJAN. It was a game full of some very big swings.

Logan-Magnolia jumped on top 5 nothing right out of the gate in the first. Brooke Johnsen capped off a three-run third for the Panthers with a 2-run blast to right center. The Panthers added another run in the top of the 4th to go up 9-0 and appeared to be running away with the game.

Riverside responded with a monster bottom of the fourth. The Lady Dawgs pounded out 6 hits and scored 10 runs in the frame to rally to take the lead by one. The Panthers committed 4 fielding errors in the inning to assist the Bulldog rally.

Logan-Magnolia responded though with 4 runs in the 5th to grab the lead right back and added 2 more in the 6th to secure the victory.

The Panthers improved to 8-2 on the season. Riverside falls to 5-6.

The Big Ten Conference will end divisional play in football when USC and UCLA join the league in 2024. The conference released a schedule that finds Iowa visiting USC and Ohio State and hosting UCLA. The flex schedule finds Iowa playing every other league team over two years while preserving traditional rivalries with Minnesota, Wisconsin and Nebraska.

That’s Big Ten Commissioner Tony Petitti on the BTN show releasing the schedule.The new schedule included 11 protected rivalries. Iowa has three of them.

The new schedule has been set for two years but Petitti believes the flex schedule format will continue down the road.

In 2024 the Hawkeyes will also host Maryland, Nebraska and Wisconsin while playing at Minnesota, Illinois and Rutgers.

SOFTBALL

Hawkeye Ten Conference

Atlantic 1, Lewis Central 0 (A: Ava Rush 3 hits, 1 run. Lila Wiederstein 2 hits, 1 RBI)
Clarinda 8, Glenwood 3
Creston 6, Shenandoah 1
Red Oak 10, Sidney 0
St. Albert 9, Harlan 4
St. Albert 8, Harlan 7

Western Iowa Conference

AHSTW 13, IKM-Manning 1
Audubon 9, Tri-Center 0
Logan-Magnolia 15, Riverside 10 – ON KJAN (LM: Campbell Chase 4 hits, 3 RBI, 2 runs. Macanna Guritz 4 hits, 2 RBI, 2 runs. Brooke Johnsen 2-run homer. R: Madison Kelley 2 hits. All 10 runs scored in the fourth.)

Rolling Valley Conference

CAM 9, Lenox 8 (C: Scored 6 runs in the top of the 7th to rally)
Woodbine 8, Westwood 0 (W: Charlie Pryor 2-hit shutout with 14 K’s)

Corner Conference

Fremont-Mills 21, West Harrison 1
Griswold 7, Nodaway Valley 1 (G: Karly Millikan school record 18 K’s, allowed 3 hits, no walks. Marrissa Askeland 3 hits, 3 runs, 1 RBI.)

Pride of Iowa Conference

East Union 15, Stanton 3
Martensdale-St. Marys 10, Central Decatur 5

Other Scores

Ballard 10, Carroll 1
CB Thomas Jefferson 11, Sioux City West 1
CB Thomas Jefferson 7, Sioux City West 0
I-35 5, ACGC 0
I-35 11, ACGC 0
Orient-Macksburg 12, Mormon Trail 8
Sioux City North 4, CB Abraham Lincoln 1
Sioux City North 13, CB Abraham Lincoln 1
Van Meter 9, West Central Valley 1

BASEBALL

Hawkeye Ten Conference

Lewis Central 8, Atlantic 4 (LC: Luke Wolmann 3 RBI. A: Sawyer Tarrell 2 hits, 2 runs)
Clarinda 5, Glenwood 1
Creston 12, Shenandoah 2
Red Oak 4, East Mills 0
St. Albert 12, Harlan 4
St. Albert 3, Harlan 1

Western Iowa Conference

IKM-Manning 2, AHSTW 1
Riverside 11, Logan-Magnolia 5 (R: Scored all 11 runs in final 2 innings. Garrett Hough 2 hits, 3 RBI, 2 runs.
Treynor 16, Missouri Valley 1
Tri-Center 11, Audubon 3

Rolling Valley Conference

Coon Rapids-Bayard 7, Nodaway Valley 2
Exira-EHK 10, Panorama 5 (E: Jaiden Pettepier 3 for 4 with two singles, a double, 1 RBI)
Woodbine 8, Fremont-Mills 5

Corner Conference

Stanton 6, East Union 3

Pride of Iowa Conference

Bedford 11, Sidney 1
Lenox 6, CAM 3
Lynville-Sully 5, Southeast Warren 0

Other Scores

Ballard 12, Carroll 3
CB Thomas Jefferson 5, Sioux City West 3
CB Thomas Jefferson 9, Sioux City West 8
Sioux City North 9, CB Abraham Lincoln 2
CB Abraham Lincoln 7, Sioux City North 4
I-35 13, ACGC 3
I-35 2, ACGC 4
Van Meter 16, West Central Valley 1

Former Iowa State quarterback Brock Purdy says he is right on track following following offseason elbow surgery. Purdy replaced injured quarterbacks Trey Lance and Jimmy Garoppolo and led the San Francisco 49ers to five straight regular season wins before suffering the injury early in a loss in the NFC Championship game. It is the first time in his career he has had to rehab after surgery.

Purdy underwent surgery in March and hopes to be ready for the start of next season.

Purdy has resumed throwing a few times each week and hopes to make steady progress.

In eight starts last season Purdy threw for 16 touchdowns and just four interceptions.

Gio Scelzi says he considers it a return home this weekend when the World of Outlaws make their first appearance at the Knoxville Raceway for a two night event beginning Friday. Scelzi is in his first season as a full-time Outlaws driver and his race team is based in Des Moines.

Scelzi has 16 top ten finishes this season on the World of Outlaws circuit but is still in search of his first feature win. He has seven all-time feature wins at Knoxville.

Scelzi says Knoxville is a demanding track and his ultimate goal is to win the Knoxville Nationals in August.

AUSTIN, Texas – The University of Iowa track and field team opened day one of the NCAA Championships by breaking the 4×100 school record to secure a spot in the finals on Friday.

Juniors Kalen Walker, Austin Kresley, Gratt Reed and Damoy Allen set a new school record running a 38.64 to finish eighth and clinch a spot in the finals on Friday night. The quartet broke their own school record that was set back at the Texas Relays on April 1 (38.70).

“I’m really proud of how our 4×1 set the tone early and had a great performance,” Iowa Director of Track and Field Joey Woody said. “If you look at what it takes to make a final at this meet, it’s pretty remarkable.”

Kresley cruised to a 20.26 finish in the 200-meter race, tying his own school record from earlier this season. The Hawkeye sprinter finished 11th overall and was named a second team All-American.

Reed turned in a nice performance in the 110-meter hurdles, taking 10th place in 13.55 and finishing as a second team All-American.

“Gratt had a really good start, he clipped a few hurdles at the end that probably cost him a shot at the finals, but finishing 10th at this meet is really impressive,” Woody added.

Gillum completed his individual career, earning honorable mention status with a 51.57 finish in the 400-meter hurdles.

“I know it wasn’t the way Julien wanted to go out, but he’s been a tremendous competitor for our program and I’m really proud of how he puts his best self out there when he steps on the track,” Woody said.

Junior Austin West sits in fourth place halfway through the decathlon competition with 4,266 points. West’s day was highlighted by the 400-meter dash title, crossing the line in 46.56. He followed that up with a career best in the shot put, tossing 14.17 meters (46’ 6”) and matched a personal best in the high jump (1.95 meters | 6’ 4.75”). West is 325 points behind the leader, Leo Neugebauer from Texas.

“Austin had a really good first day in the decathlon,” Woody said. “He really got things rolling in the shot put and got some momentum that carried him through the high jump. He dominated the 400 and has a lot of confidence heading into day two tomorrow.”

The Championships continue Thursday at noon (CT) with West continuing his decathlon with the 110-meter hurdles. The women’s competition begins on day two, beginning with Amanda Howe in the hammer throw at 3:30 p.m. Paige Magee and Myreanna Bebe are set to compete in the semifinals of the 100-meter hurdles on Thursday at 8:30. Mariel Bruxvoort joins Magee in the semifinals of the 400-meter hurdles at 9:30 p.m., while the women’s 4×400 team caps the night at 10:45 p.m.

HAWKEYE RESULTS

4×100 relay
8. Walker, Kresley, Reed, Allen – 38.64, finals qualifier, school record

110-meter hurdles
10. Gratt Reed – 13.55, 2nd team All-American

400-meter hurdles
22. Julien Gillum – 51.57, honorable mention

200 meters
11. Austin Kresley – 20.26, 2nd team All-American, tied school record

4×400 relay
21. Stapleton Jr., Richards, Jefferson, Gillum (3:06.59)

Decathlon
4. Austin West (4,266 points)
11. 100 meters – 10.82 (901 points)
7. Long Jump – 7.31 meters (23’ 11.75”) (888)
8. Shot Put – 14.17 meters (46’ 6”), PR (739)
T-9. High Jump – 1.95 meters (6’ 4.75”) (758)
1. 400 meters – 46.56 (980)

BASEBALL

Hawkeye Ten Conference

Glenwood 5, Sioux CIty West 4

Western Iowa Conference

Underwood 4, St. Albert 0

Rolling Valley Conference

Boyer Valley 11, Exira-EHK 6
Coon Rapids-Bayard 9, Glidden-Ralston 0
West Harrison 8, CAM 0

Pride of Iowa Conference

Central Decatur 5, Pleasantville 1
Earlham 11, Nodaway Valley 1
Lenox 11, Riverside 1
Southeast Warren 17, Murray 0
Southwest Valley 5, Tri-Center 4
Wayne 13, Melcher-Dallas 3

Other Scores

Central Decatur 5, Pleasantville 1
Martensdale-St. Marys 13, Panorama 12

Softball

Hawkeye Ten Coferenece

Kuemper Catholic 7, Atlantic 0
Dowling Catholic 12, Clarinda 0
Dowling Cathlic 7, Clarinda 3
Missouri Valley 2, St. Albert 1
Underwood 19, Harlan 9

Western Iowa Conference

ACGC 12, AHSTW 9
IKM-Manning 10, Ar-We-Va 5
Riverside 15, Lenox 6
Missouri Valley 2, St. Albert 1
Underwood 19, Harlan 9

Rolling Valley Conference

CAM 12, West Harrison 0
CAM 14, West Harrison 2
Glidden-Ralston 5, Coon Rapids-Bayard 4
IKM-Manning 10, Ar-We-Va 5

Pride of Iowa Conference

Earlham 10, Nodaway Valley 0
Martensdale-St. Marys 11, Panorama 1
Southeast Warren 13, Murray 3
Southwest Valley 7, Tri-Center 6