By ANDREW LOGUE Associated Press
AMES, Iowa (AP) — Taz Sherman hit two free throws with 6.4 seconds remaining and finished with 18 points as No. 17 West Virginia held on to beat Iowa State 76-72. Sherman was 5 of 7 from the floor and made 7 of 8 shots from the line to lead the Mountaineers. Solomon Young returned after missing two games due to COVID-related issues and scored 15 points. Tyler Harris also scored 15 points for Iowa State.
By JOHN BOHNENKAMP Associated Press
IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — Luka Garza scored 27 points to reach another milestone and No. 8 Iowa beat Michigan State 84-78. Garza, who came into the game as the nation’s leading scorer at 26.4 points per game, became the second 2,000-point scorer in program history. Garza, who has 2,009 points, is 107 points behind all-time leading scorer Roy Marble. The Hawkeyes (13-4, 7-3 Big Ten) led 79-70 before the Spartans (8-7, 2-7) went on an 8-1 run. Michigan State had a chance to tie the game after forcing a shot-clock violation, but Joshua Langford missed a jumper with 24 seconds left. Iowa’s Jordan Bohannon closed the game with four consecutive free throws.
(MVC) ST. LOUIS -The Missouri Valley Conference has postponed the Evansville-UNI women’s basketball series (Feb. 4-5) at the McLeod Center in Cedar Falls, Iowa, due to positive COVID-19 test results among Evansville’s Tier I personnel, which consists of student-athletes, coaches, managers and staff. The Conference will announce make-up dates for the series/games at a later date.
The Panthers are next scheduled to play Bradley on Feb. 12-13 in Peoria, Ill.
(BearcatSports.com) JOPLIN, Missouri – The No. 3 -ranked Northwest Missouri State University men’s basketball team extended the nation’s longest road winning streak to 15 in a row with a 84-74 victory over the Missouri Southern Lions Tuesday at the Leggett and Platt Athletic Center. Northwest extended its overall win streak to eight and moved to 13-1 on the season. Missouri Southern drops to 8-7 overall.
The contest featured a shootout between a pair of the MIAA’s top scorers in Northwest’s Ryan Hawkins and Missouri Southern’s Cam Martin. The duo did not disappoint as Hawkins poured in a game-high 33, while Martin carried the Lions’s load with 30 points. It’s the ninth career 30-point game for Hawkins.
Hawkins went 12-of-19 from the field, including 6-of-11 from three-point range. Hawkins also tied Diego Bernard for team-high rebounding honors with seven each.
Bernard secured his ninth career 20-point game. Bernard did his usual stat staffing with 20 points, seven rebounds, six assists and a steal.
The Bearcats rode the hot hand of Hawkins in the opening six minutes of the contest. Hawkins drained his first six shots from the field, including a trio from beyond the three-point arc. Hawkins scored 15 of Northwest’s first 19 points and helped the ‘Cats to an early 19-6 advantage.
Missouri Southern battled back behind Martin’s offensive attack. Martin equaled Hawkins for first-half scoring honors with 16. The Lions knotted the contest at 22-22, 24-24 and 27-27, but could not overtake the Bearcats for a lead in the opening 20 minutes.
Northwest used a 10-3 spurt to open up a 37-30 on the strength of the play of freshman Daniel Abreu. Abreu scored five of his first-half seven points in that 10-3 run. The Bearcats would close the half leading the Lions by seven, 44-37. Both teams shot the ball well in the first half with Northwest at 57.7% and Missouri Southern at 53.6%.
Hawkins helped the Bearcats extend the lead on the strength of a trio of second-half three-pointers. Senior Trevor Hudgins’s triple pushed the Bearcat advantage to 16 at 69-53 with 9:33 to play.
Missouri Southern used a 10-2 run to trim the Northwest lead to 75-69 with 3:32 to play. A Winston Dessesow three-pointer with 2:01 left cut the Bearcat advantage to five at 77-72.
The Bearcats then closed out the victory by making seven of eight free throws in the final 2:59.
Northwest shot 29-of-58 (50%) from the field, while Missouri Southern shot 28-of-52 (53.8%) for the game.
Northwest will be back action again Saturday in the friendly confines of Bearcat Arena against the Missouri Western Griffons. Tip is set for 3:30 p.m., following the women’s contest that will get underway at 1:30 p.m.
(godrakebulldogs.com) Drake University junior forward Darnell Brodie has been named the Missouri Valley Conference Men’s Basketball Newcomer of the Week, the league announced Tuesday, Feb. 2.
Brodie, a Newark, N.J. native, had his first two career double-doubles on the week and three games with double-figure rebounds for the No. 25 Bulldogs. The transfer from Seton Hall averaged 10.8 points and 10.5 rebounds per game with career-best performances in scoring and rebounding.
Brodie opened the week with his first career double-double with a then career-high 16 points and career-high 15 rebounds at Missouri State. He followed that with a 14-rebound night in the series finale at Missouri State.
He then opened the Illinois State series with a career-high 20 points on 10-of-10 shooting and 10 rebounds. In Monday night’s 35-point win, he was needed for just 23 minutes to help the Bulldogs improve to 17-0 this season.
The honor is the third for the Bulldogs this season as ShanQuan Hemphill was twice named Newcomer of the Week in December.
Brodie and the rest of his teammates return to action this weekend for a two-game series at Valparaiso.
(UNI) IRVING, Texas – Northern Iowa redshirt freshman Parker Keckeisen was tabbed the Big 12 Wrestler of the Week after picking up a ranked victory over Oklahoma State’s Dakota Geer.
Keckeisen earned a sudden-victory win over returning All-American and 2020 Big 12 third-place wrestler Geer. He earned a takedown in a wild scramble in the overtime period to give Geer his first loss of the season.
Keckeisen is 6-0 on the year and 2-0 in duals. He has two major decisions and a tech fall on the year. This is the first weekly award for Keckeisen.
He is the second Panther wrestler to earn Wrestler of the Week honors joining Brody Teske.
The Panthers travel to Northern Illinois Friday evening for the final dual outside the state of Iowa.
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Iowa conservation officials say four people in Linn and Buchanan counties have been convicted of dozens of wildlife violations. The Iowa Department of Natural Resources said Monday that a routine inspection of taxidermy operations led authorities to issue search warrants, leading to the arrest of Jason Webster, of Quasgueton, and Jeremiah Pillard, of Troy Mills. Webster was charged with more than 20 violations.
Under a plea deal, Webster will pay $15,500 in civil damages plus criminal costs. Pillard pleaded guilty to illegal taking of animals and must pay $6,750 in civil damages and criminal fines. Two women from Quasgueton pleaded guilty to violations related to hunting tags and licenses.
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Democrats in Nevada are making a play to bump Iowa and New Hampshire from their early spots on the presidential primary calendar. If the move is successful, it would upend decades of political tradition and give a more urban and racially diverse group of voters a greater say in picking the party’s nominee. The behind-the-scenes lobbying seeks to capitalize on the party’s discontent with Iowa’s and New Hampshire’s performances last year. Iowa’s first-in-the-nation caucuses devolved into a technological and logistical mess, leaving the winner unclear.
New Hampshire’s first-in-the-state primary wound up a near tie between two candidates who ultimately lost, while the eventual nominee, now-President Joe Biden, came in fifth.
DUBUQUE, Iowa (AP) — Police say the ex-boyfriend of an Illinois woman whose body was found at an arboretum in Iowa is charged with her death. Twenty-year-old Jennifer Lopez, of Galena, Illinois, was found dead Monday on the grounds of the Dubuque Arboretum & Botanical Gardens.
Her ex-boyfriend, 21-year-old Richard Forsythe, of Galena, is charged with first-degree murder in her death. He is being held on $1 million bond in Galena awaiting extradition to Dubuque. No further information has been released.
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