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Junior Patrick McCaffery scored 21 points to help lead No. 25 Iowa to a 74-71 win over Clemson on Friday night to reach the Emerald Coast Classic championship game.
The Hawkeyes had a 14-point lead with just under eight minutes left to play, but Clemson put together a 16-2 run to tie the game at 62. The Hawkeyes got back on top and held off the Tigers. A Tiger three cut the Iowa lead to 72-71 with 4.1 seconds left but Tony Perkins helped seal the game by running some time off on a nice inbounds play and then knocking down two free throws with 1.5 seconds left.
Perkins finished with 11 points and Kris Murray added 10 points and 12 rebounds for the Hawkeyes. Iowa improved to 5-0 and will now face TCU in the title game of the tournament on Saturday. TCU beat Cal 59-48 in the other semifinal.
We’ll have that game on KJAN with pregame at 5:00 p.m. and tip-off at 6:00 p.m.
For the third time in school history the Iowa State men’s basketball team beat the No. 1 ranked team in the country with a 70-65 win over North Carolina in the Phil Knight Invitational semifinals in Portland on Friday.
Caleb Grill delivered a career performance with 31 points, going 7 for 11 from the three-point line. Entering the game Grill was 4 for 24 from 3 but he got hot on Friday. Iowa State was down 7 with 3:57 left in the game but Grill hit a three that sparked a 17-5 run to end the game for the Cyclones.
St. Bonaventure transfer Jaren Holmes was big in the win as well with 22 points, 4 rebounds, 3 assists, and 2 steals. Robert Jones delivered 10 points off the bench and the Cyclones successfully steered through some foul trouble as well.
It was the program’s first win over a No. 1 team since Jan. 18, 2016 over Oklahoma. The Cyclones improved to 5-0 and will play in the Phil Knight Invitational Championship on Sunday night against UCONN. That game is set for a 9:00 p.m. start on ESPN.
The Nebraska Cornhuskers spoiled the Iowa Hawkeye’s hopes of solidifying a spot in the Big Ten Championship game with a 24-17 win on Friday afternoon in Iowa City.
The Huskers took advantage of Iowa turnovers to jump out to an early lead. Iowa starting quarterback Spencer Petras was hit and lost a fumble that lead to a Nebraska 21-yard field goal. Petras was injured and Alex Padilla took over the position for the rest of the game. He gave up a fumble that led to Nebraska’s second touchdown.
Nebraska quarterback Casey Thompson threw touchdown passes of 87 and 18 yards to Trey Palmer in the first half to put Nebraska up 17-0 at the break. Thompson then hit Marcus Washington on a 14-yard score in the third to build the lead to 24-0. Iowa rallied back within a score with a couple of long touchdown drives and a Drew Stevens field goal with 5:41 left. The Hawkeyes got the ball twice in the final minutes to try to drive to tie the game but Alex Padilla threw incomplete on 4th down both possessions to seal the Nebraska win.
Nebraska won the Heroes trophy for the first time in 8 seasons and finish the year at 4-8.
Iowa falls to 7-5 and will now wait and see their Big Ten West fate. The Hawkeyes now need losses by Purdue and Illinois on Saturday to have a chance at back-to-back west division titles.
(Des Moines, Iowa) – Iowa’s most popular deer hunting seasons are just around the corner, when roughly 100,000 blaze orange clad hunters take to the timber and wildlife experts are forecasting another good year. “Our deer population is stable to slightly increasing statewide, so hunters should expect to see numbers similar to last year,” said Tyler Harms, with the Iowa Department of Natural Resources (DNR).
The two shotgun seasons see the highest numbers of hunters participating, which also leads to significant deer harvest, all condensed into less than three weeks in December. “About half of our annual deer harvest statewide each year occurs during these two seasons,” Harms said. Shotgun one is Dec. 3-7; shotgun two is Dec. 10-18.
While seasonal weather is finally arriving, the mild, dry fall has benefited hunters in the earlier deer seasons. “Hunters have reported harvesting more than 23,000 deer so far, which is about 8 percent higher than last year, so we’re on track to harvest more than 100,000 deer statewide again this year,” Harms said.
Last year, hunters reported harvesting nearly 103,000 deer, down from 109,600 in 2020. The Iowa DNR has a goal to manage the herd to provide an annual harvest of 100,000-120,000 deer. A key piece to the population management plan is harvesting antlerless deer. “We encourage folks in counties where antlerless licenses are available to use them to help us to effectively manage the deer herd,” Harms said. The Iowa DNR has a listing of counties with antlerless licenses in real-time. To check the number of licenses in each county, visit www.iowadnr.gov, then click on the “available tags, quota information” tab on the hunting page and select “Resident Antlerless Deer by County” in the drop-down box. 
New this year is the Excess Tag January Antlerless Season. Any county with unsold county specific antlerless licenses on Jan. 11, is eligible for this season. “This is an opportunity to harvest late season deer, but this new season has a limited method of take – only centerfire rifles from .223 to .500 caliber may be used,” said Harms. Counties that typically have unsold licenses at the end of the season in the past were those with higher quotas, in the southern and northeastern parts of the state.
“We also have the Population Management January Antlerless-only Season to manage the herd in localized areas. This season will be available in Allamakee, Appanoose, Decatur, Monroe, Wayne and Winneshiek if the county has more than 100 antlerless tags available on Dec. 19,” Harms said. “Although this season is only available in those six counties, it allows all legal methods of take, in addition to the .223 to .500 centerfire rifles.”
The Population Management January Antlerless-only Season is in select counties where chronic wasting disease has been confirmed. The season, if open, will be Jan. 11-22, 2023.
Deer donation program
The Iowa Deer Exchange is in its third year of connecting participants willing to provide deer meat with those willing to accept it. Heading in to the shotgun deer hunting seasons, the Iowa DNR is encouraging Iowans to sign up for the program. Participants who signed up previously are encouraged to review their profile to make sure they are still considered active and the offer good until date hasn’t passed. “We’re encouraging hunters who are making their plans now to consider picking up another doe tag and registering with the deer exchange to donate venison,” said Harms.
To sign up for the Iowa Deer Exchange, go to www.iowadnr.gov/deer then scroll down to Iowa’s Deer Exchange Program link and fill out the required fields. The database creates a map and table with information deer donors and deer recipients can use to get connected. There is no cost to participate. It is illegal to sell wild fish and game in Iowa.
The deer exchange, along with the Help us Stop Hunger (HUSH) program, allows hunters an opportunity to provide high quality lean protein to their neighbors, while continuing to do what they enjoy – hunting deer. Hunter who prefer to use the HUSH program are encouraged to contact a participating locker before they harvest a deer to see if the locker has any additional drop off instructions. The list of participating lockers is available at www.iowadnr.gov/deer the scroll down to the Help Us Stop Hunger link. The HUSH program is a partnership between the Iowa DNR, the Food Bank of Iowa and participating meat lockers.
Online hunting atlas
Hunters have an online tool that may improve their in-field experience, even before opening day. The Iowa hunting atlas is an interactive map that shows all available public hunting land that is managed by the state, county or federal governments. The atlas is online at www.iowadnr.gov/hunting. A mobile version is also available. A click on an area will show basic information like size, habitat type and likely species available.
Report your harvest
Hunters who harvest a deer are required to report their harvest by midnight on the day after it is tagged or before taking it to a locker or taxidermist. The hunter whose name is on the transportation tag is responsible for making the report. If no deer is harvested, no report is necessary.
Options to report your harvest include texting the registration number on your deer tag to 1-800-771-4692 and follow the prompts, online, by phone, through a license vendor during normal business hours, or using the Go Outdoors Iowa app. Reporting using the app is straight forward, fast and easy. Hunters have their confirmation right on their phone and also receive it as an email.
Deer harvest numbers are an important component of Iowa’s deer management plan.
Changes to deer seasons
The Iowa State women’s basketball team rolled to an 80-49 victory over Michigan State on Thanksgiving evening at the Phil Knight Invitational in Portland. Stephanie Soares had nine points in the first half and the Cyclones jumped out to a 37-17 lead by halftime.
Soares finished with a career-high 6 blocks to go along with 23 points and 11 rebounds. Emily Ryan had 17 points and 8 assists and Denae Fritz had 10 points for the Cyclones.
No. 5 Iowa State improves to 5-0 and will now get a top-ten matchup against No. 8 North Carolina on Sunday night at 6:30 p.m. on ESPN2.
Iowa State gave up a second half lead but made some big plays in overtime to take down Villanova 81-79 in the first round of the Phil Knight Invitational in Portland on Thanksgiving Day.
Gabe Kalscheur hit five three-pointers on the day, including a big one in the overtime session to lead the Cyclone offense with a game-high 23 points. Caleb Grill hit a three to start the overtime session and Osun Osunniyi had a big basket and block in back-to-back possessions to help the cause.
Villanova had a chance to tie or take the lead at the end of overtime but ISU freshman guard Tamin Lipsey stepped in a passing lane and got a big steal and followed with two free throws to help seal the win.
ISU improved to 4-0 on the season and advance to the semifinals to face top-ranked North Carolina on Friday at 2:30 p.m. on ESPN.
(Radio Iowa) – The Iowa Racing and Gaming Commission is reviewing two proposals to conduct a study of the horse racing industry in the state. Racing and Gaming administrator, Brian Ohorilkoh says they hope to make a selection in January. “That study will last will be conducted throughout the rest of the winter in spring, and be presented in the summer of 2023,” he says. Ohorilkoh says the study has a simple goal.
“Trying to identify and answer certain questions related to horse racing and in to give the commission and really all stakeholders, an idea of what may help the industry improve,” Ohorilkoh says. He says a lot has changed in the industry and they want to stay on top of that.
“We hope that we’ll get a lot of good information from this. And the timing is really important too, as we’re facing some new federal regulation,” he says. The new federal law essentially turns over the regulation for drug testing of thoroughbred animals over to the federal government. Ohorilkoh says they hope the study will help the state answer some of the questions it will face with this new regulation.
Third ranked Northwestern hosts number seven Marian of Indiana Saturday afternoon in the quarterfinal round of the NAIA football playoffs. Northwestern coach Matt McCarty says Marian does not have any weaknesses.
Marian is only giving up 62 yards of rushing per game and only allowed two rushing touchdowns all season.
McCarty says the wildcard in the run game for the Raiders is quarterback Jalyn Gramstad.
Also in the NAIA playoffs this weekend top ranked Morningside hosts Keiser of Florida and second ranked Grand View is at home against Lindsey Wilson of Kentucky.
Iowa State closes the regular season on Saturday at fourth ranked TCU. The Horned Frog offense averages nearly 40 points per game.
That’s Iowa State coach Matt Campbell. TCU quarterback and Council Bluffs native Max Duggan is second in the Big 12 in total offense.
The Iowa Hawkeyes will win the west with a Black Friday victory over Nebraska. The Hawks have won seven straight in the series but the last four have gone to the wire. Iowa’s average margin of victory is five points.
That’s Iowa coach Kirk Ferentz who says the Huskers have battled through adversity. Interim coach Mickey Joseph took over after Scott Frost was fired following a week three loss to Georgia Southern.
Listen for the game this afternoon on KJAN. We’ll have the pre-game beginning at 1 o’clock and the kick-off at 3.
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