IRVING, Texas – Hallie Christofferson and Seanna Johnson picked up the Phillips 66 Big 12 Player and Co-Freshman of the Week honors, the league announced Monday. This was the fourth honor for Johnson and the second for Christofferson this season.

Christofferson tallied 29 points, eight rebounds and no turnovers leading the Cyclones to a win over Kansas. She shot 42.8 percent from the field, 66 percent from long range and 90 percent from the charity stripe as the game’s top scorer.

Johnson on the other hand, totaled 14 points and eight rebounds in Iowa State’s 72-69 win over Kansas, while shooting 50 percent from the field. The freshman’s 14-point performance was her 12th double-digit scoring game of the season.

Johnson’s honor marks the seventh Freshman of the Week honor for Iowa State this season, as fellow freshman Jadda Buckley earned three weekly honors. The Cyclones have captured a league-best seven Freshman of the Week honors so far this season.

The seven Newcomer of the Week honors also breaks the school record of six, which was set in 1998 when the Cyclones grabbed six Newcomer of the Week honors, with Cyclone greats Stacy Frese and Megan Taylor nabbing six between the two.

Christofferson, Johnson and the rest of the Cyclones will take the court on Wednesday at 7 p.m. to take on No. 6 Baylor in Waco, Texas.

                             Record        Pts              Prv

1. Syracuse (64)   25-0           1,624          1

2. Florida (1)        23-2           1,543          3

3. Wichita St.       27-0           1,489          4

4. Arizona             23-2           1,427          2

5. Duke                   20-5           1,296          8

6. San Diego St.    22-2           1,232          5

7. Cincinnati         23-3           1,157          10

8. Kansas              19-6           1,129          7

9. Villanova          22-3           1,020          6

10. Saint Louis     23-2           1,019          12

11. Creighton        21-4           991             18

11. Louisville         21-4           991            13

13. Michigan St.   21-5           788             9

14. Virginia          21-5           752             17

15. Iowa                19-6           721              16

16. Wisconsin      21-5           609            21

17. Iowa St.          19-5           597             11

18. Kentucky        19-6           579            14

19. Texas               20-5           577           19

20. Michigan        18-7           421           15

21. UConn             20-5           382         24

22. Memphis        19-6           204          20

23. UCLA             20-5           168           —

24. Ohio St.         20-6           133           22

25. Gonzaga         23-4           112           —

Others receiving votes: North Carolina 54, Arizona St. 45, Pittsburgh 21, SMU 21, Stephen F. Austin 8, Oklahoma 7, New Mexico 3, VCU 2, Green Bay 1, Kansas St. 1, Louisiana Tech 1.

Class 1-A District 13

@Anita: on KJAN AM 1220/FM 101.1

• 6:30 PM – Exira-EHK vs. Audubon
• 8:00 PM – Stanton vs.CAM

Class 1-A District 14

@ Nishnabotna:

• 6:30 PM – Essex vs. Riverside
• 8:00 PM – South Page vs. Nishnabotna

Class 1-A District 15

@ Woodbine:

• 6:30 PM – Logan-Magnolia vs. Whiting
• 8:00 PM – Charter Oak-Ute vs. Woodbine

Class 2-A District 15

@ Shenandoah:

• 7:00 PM – Red Oak vs. Shenandoah

@ St. Albert:

• 6:30 PM – Missouri Valley vs. Clarinda
• 8:00 PM – Southwest Valley vs. St. Albert

Class 2-A District 14

@ Stuart:

• 6:30 PM – Panorama vs. Clarke
• 8:00 PM – Interstate 35 vs. West Central Valley

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The firm hired by the Board of Regents to review operations at the University of Iowa, Iowa State University and the University of Northern Iowa to find new “efficiencies” has been directed to examine the university athletic departments, too. I-S-U athletic director Jamie Pollard says he welcomes the process, but he makes it clear cutting the athletic department’s budget won’t save taxpayer dollars.

“We’re self-sufficient, so every dollar that we spend we have to cover through ticket sales, donations, television revenue and anything we can do to save money I’m all ears because in some ways it would make my job easier,” Pollard says. Gary Barta, the athletic director at the University of Iowa, says his department is “100 percent self-sustaining,” as well. “So there’s no tax dollars, no university funds, no student fees,” Barta says. “It’s all generated through the revenue that we are able to bring in and create.”

Iowa’s athletic department paid the university over 10-million dollars ($10 million) this year to cover tuition costs for all Hawkeye student athletes in 24 varsity sports. Iowa State has 18 varsity sports. “I think we run, at least within the athletics department, a very streamlined organization and work extremely hard to try to be as efficient as possible,” Pollard says. Barta says he can’t foresee the future, but the last thing he wants to do is cut a sport. He, like Pollard, says he welcomes the efficiency review the Regents have ordered. “Anytime someone comes in and looks at your operation from a different perspective, it’s very healthy so I’m very comfortable with that,” Barta says.

Pollard and Barta made their comments during a weekend appearance on Iowa Public Television’s “Iowa Press” program. The University of Northern Iowa uses about four-million dollars from general university operations to finance its athletic department. That’s 44 percent of the total U-N-I athletic department budget, but that’s also the lowest level of tuition and taxpayer support for Panther athletics in more than a decade. The university plans to reduce that even more by increasing student fees and using those extra funds to finance U-N-I athletics. Seventeen varsity sports are currently offered at U-N-I.

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WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. (AP) – Courtney Moses scored 25 points, including the game-winning free throws with seven seconds left as No. 23 Purdue defeated Iowa 74-73 on Sunday. Moses had the last seven points for the Boilermakers (18-7, 8-5 Big Ten). Her 3-pointer broke a 70-70 tie at the 1:57 mark. After Samantha Logic made two free throws and then the go-ahead bucket for the Hawkeyes (20-7, 8-5) at 38 seconds, Moses knocked down a jumper 8 seconds later.

Logic, who had her third triple-double of the year with 18 points, 11 assists and 10 rebounds, scored again at 19 seconds but her foul set up Moses’ heroics. Liza Clemons added 11 points for Purdue and Whitney Bays and Dee Williams had 10 each. Bays also had 10 rebounds. Theairra Taylor led Iowa, which had a 44-28 lead at the half, with 19 points, Bethany Doolittle had 15 and Ally Disterhoft 10.

Jim Field and Chris Parks have the call of the first round playoff game played at Red Oak High School.

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SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) — Seth Tuttle scored 21 points and hit a go-ahead layup with 2 seconds left to lift Northern Iowa over Missouri State 60-58 on Saturday night. Tuttle was the only Panther to score in double digits after shooting 75 percent (9 of 12) from the floor, and led with a team-high nine rebounds.

Missouri State (17-9, 7-7 Missouri Valley Conference) trailed all the way through, but climbed back to tie up the score after a 7-0 run capped by two Jarmar Gulley free throws with 38 seconds to go. The Bears had closed in on a seven-point deficit after Austin Ruder sank two free throws and Dorrian Williams hit a 3-pointer.

Northern Iowa (13-13, 7-7) combined to commit just nine turnovers in the game, and finished with five steals. Ruder finished with 15 points and Gulley added 14 to lead the Bears in Springfield, Missouri.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Richard Carter scored 20 points to lead Drake to a 70-62 win over Loyola of Chicago on Saturday night. Drake (13-13, 4-10 Missouri Valley) led most of the game, extending its lead to 16 on a 3-pointer by Jordan Daniels that made it 52-36 with 11:22 remaining but had to thwart a Loyola rally in the final minutes. The Ramblers (9-17, 4-10) drew to within striking distance on a Milton Doyle layup that made it 65-62 with 27 seconds left but couldn’t score again as the Bulldogs put the game away at the free-throw line.

Daniels finished with 12 points and Seth VanDeest had 12 rebounds for the Bulldogs, who shot 51 percent from the field to snap a four-game losing streak. Loyola outscored Drake 40-36 in the second half and was led by Doyle, who had 16 points and 10 rebounds in the loss.

CLASS 3-A   

• Red Oak 56, Atlantic 53
• Kuemper Catholic 49, Gilbert 40
• Shenandoah 48, Clarinda 33

CLASS 2-A

• Audubon 62, Prairie Valley 37
• Riverside 43, A-H-S-T 38
• Saint Albert 54, Underwood 27
• Earlham 46, Nodaway Valley 43
• Missouri Valley 57, Logan-Magnolia 26
• Mount Ayr 47, Southwest Valley 36