Keegan Murray was introduced as the newest member of the Sacramento Kings. The former Iowa All American was taken by the Kings with the fourth pick in the NBA Draft. Murray thought Sacramento was a potential landing place.

Murray joins a roster that includes Ames native Harrison Barnes.

The IGHSAU has released the 2022 Regional Softball brackets. Here is a look at the area match-ups and date schedules for each class.

CLASS 1A
First Round July 1. Regional Quarterfinals July 6th. Semifinals July 8th. Finals July 11th.

Region 2
First Round
Storm Lake St. Mary’s @ Ar-We-Va (@ Emmetsburg)
North Iowa @ Bishop Garrigan
West Harrison @ Audubon
Boyer Valley @ Glidden-Ralston

Teams with byes to Quarterfinals: Newell-Fonda, GTRA, Woodbine, Coon Rapids-Bayard.

Region 3
First Round
Essex @ Orient-Macksburg
Tri-Center @ St. Albert
Sidney @ Riverside
East Mills @ Fremont-Mills
Stanton @ CAM

Teams with byes to the Quarterfinals: Southeast Warren, Griswold, Exira-EHK.

Region 5
First Round
Melcher-Dallas @ Grand View Christian
Bedford @ East Union
Murray @ Lenox
Moulton-Udell @ Seymour
Mormon Trail @ Moravia

Teams with byes to the Quarterfinals: Martensdale-St. Marys, Wayne, Lamoni.

CLASS 2A
First Round July 1. Regional Quarterfinals July 6th. Semifinals July 8th. Finals July 11th.

Region 3
First Round
Lawton-Bronson @ IKM-Manning
Underwood @ Missouri Valley

Quarterfinals
Lawton-Bronson/IKM-Manning@ Logan-Magnolia
Treynor @ AHSTW
Underwood/Missouri Valley @ West Monona
East Sac County @ MVAOCOU

Region 4
First Round
Panorama @ ACGC
Nodaway Valley @ Central Decatur

Quarterfinals
Panorama/ACGC @ I-35
Southwest Valley @ Mount Ayr
Nodaway Valley/Central Decatur @ West Central Valley
Earlham @ Kuemper Catholic

CLASS 3A
Quarterfinals July 6th. Semifinals July 9th. Finals July 12th.

Region 2

Quarterfinals
Pocahontas Area @ Saydel
Greene County @ Southeast Valley
Cherokee Washington @ Sergeant-Bluff Luton
OABCIG @ Harlan

Region 4

Quarterfinals
Clarke @ Wiliamsburg
Mid-Prairie @ Chariton
Shenandoah @ Atlantic
Red Oak @ Clarinda

CLASS 4A
Quarterfinals July 7th. Semifinals July 9th. Finals July 12th.

Region 1

First Round
Denison-Schleswig @ LeMars
Boyden-Hull/Rock Valley @ Spencer

Semifinals
Denison-Schleswig/LeMars @ Dallas Center-Grimes
Boyden-Hull/Rock Valley/Spencer @ Bishop Heelan

Region 2

First Round
Des Moines Hoover @ North Polk
Lewis Central @ Glenwood

Semifinals
Des Moines Hoover/North Polk @ Indianola
Lewis Central/Glenwood @ Creston

Region 3

First Round
Boone @ Perry
Storm Lake  @ Carroll

Semifinals
Boone/Perry @ ADM
Carroll/Storm Lake @ Humboldt

CLASS 5A
Quarterfinals July 7th. Semifinals July 9th. Finals July 12th.

Region 1

First Round
Des Moines North @ Des Moines Roosevelt

Semifinals
Des Moines North/Des Moines Roosevelt @ Waukee Northwest
CB Thomas Jefferson @ CB Abraham Lincoln

SOFTBALL

Hawkeye Ten Conference
LeMars 14, Denison-Schleswig 2
Denison-Schleswig 5, Boyden-Hull/Rock Valley 1
Glenwood 3, AGWSR 2

Western Iowa Conference
Audubon 5, Tri-Center 0 (AUD: Alexis Obermeier 11 K’s)
AHSTW 10, IKM-Manning 0
Treynor 5, Missouri Valley 1

Rolling Valley Conference
CAM 7, Glidden-Ralston 2
Boyer Valley 16, West Harrison 6
Woodbine 4, Coon Rapids-Bayard 0

Corner Conference Tournament Championship
Griswold 10, Stanton 0

Pride of Iowa Conference
Southwest Valley 4, Lenox 3 (SWV: Mackenzie Richards walk-off HR)
Martensdale-St. Marys 13, East Union 1

Other Scores
Carroll 8, Boone 7
Winterset 6, Waukee 5

BASEBALL

Hawkeye Ten Conference
Lewis Central 12, Atlantic 1
Denison-Schleswig 15, MVAOCOU 3
Glenwood 2, CB Abraham Lincoln 0
Underwood 10, Creston 4

Western Iowa Conference
AHSTW 3, IKM-Manning 0 (A: Nick Denning one-hitter)
Riverside 1, Logan-Magnolia 0
Treynor 4, Missouri Valley 3
Tri-Center 16, Audubon 6

Rolling Valley Conference
Ar-We-Va 11, Whiting 3
CAM 12, Glidden-Ralston 0 (C: Chase Spieker allowed 1-hit, Cade Ticknor HR)
Coon Rapids-Bayard 10, Woodbine 0
West Harrison 14, Boyer Valley 3

Corner Conference Tournament Championship
Stanton 8, Fremont-Mills 5

Pride of Iowa Conference
Mount Ayr 12, Nodaway Valley/O-M 0
Wayne 11, Bedford 0

Other Scores
ACGC 13, Madrid 9
ACGC 11, Madrid 5
Knoxville 2, Winterset 1
Sioux City West 19, CB Thomas Jefferson 7
Sioux City West 14, CB Thomas Jefferson 2

IOWA CITY, Iowa — The University of Iowa men’s basketball team will host Georgia Tech on Tuesday, Nov. 29, as part of the 2022 ACC/Big Ten Men’s Basketball Challenge.

The Hawkeyes have won seven of their last nine Challenge games, including their last four: Virginia (75-74) in 2021; North Carolina (93-80) in 2020; Syracuse (68-54) in 2019; and Pitt (69-68) in 2018. Iowa has also won its last four Challenge home games inside Carver-Hawkeye Arena: Notre Dame (2013); Florida State (2015); Pitt (018); and North Carolina (2020).

This will be the third overall meeting between the two programs. The Hawkeyes cruised to an 85-67 victory over the Yellow Jackets at Carver-Hawkeye Arena in the second year of the Challenge in 2000. Georgia Tech edged Iowa (79-78) in the second round of the postseason NIT in Iowa City.

The Hawkeyes return five of their top seven scorers from last year’s Big Ten Tournament championship team. Iowa won 26 games, second most in a single season in program history, and tied for fourth in the conference standings last season. The Hawkeyes have competed in the last three NCAA Tournaments and have been ranked in the final Associated Press Poll each of the last three years: No. 16 in 2020, No. 8 in 2021 and No. 25 in 2022. Patrick McCaffery (10.5 ppg; 3.6 rpg), Kris Murray (9.7 ppg; 4.3 rpg) and Filip Rebraca (5.8 ppg; 5.6 rpg) are Iowa’s three returning starters.

Georgia Tech is coached by Josh Pastner, who just completed his sixth season in Atlanta. He guided the Yellow Jackets to 12 victories and a 14th-place finish a year ago in the ACC. In 2021, Pastner and Georgia Tech won the ACC Tournament. The Yellow Jackets return two starters from last season’s team: guard Kyle Sturdivant (7.6 ppg; 2.5 rpg) and center Rodney Howard (6.5 ppg; 5.1 rpg).

Game times and television information will be announced at a later date. ESPN, ESPN2, and ESPNU will combine to televise all 14 games of the three-day event matching top college basketball programs playing for conference supremacy and the Commissioner’s Cup. The Big Ten won last season’s Challenge, 8-6. 

Iowa’s complete 2022-23 men’s basketball schedule will be announced later this summer.

The 2022 Challenge schedule is listed below:

Monday, Nov. 28
Minnesota at Virginia Tech
Pitt at Northwestern 

Tuesday, Nov. 29

Syracuse at Illinois
Penn State at Clemson
Virginia at Michigan
Georgia Tech at Iowa
Wake Forest at Wisconsin 

Wednesday, Nov. 30
Rutgers at Miami
Boston College at Nebraska
Ohio State at Duke
Purdue at Florida State
North Carolina at Indiana
Michigan State at Notre Dame

The Harlan Cyclones completed a suspended game win 8-6 over Atlantic on Thursday night and then took advantage of some Trojan mistakes in the regularly scheduled game to follow to win 14-4 in 6 innings.

Atlantic scored 4 runs in the 7th inning of the first game and seemed to carry a bit of that momentum into the second game, scoring two runs in the first on a double by Wyatt Redinbaugh. Harlan answered back though with two runs of their own on a Alex Monson double in the bottom of the first. The game stayed 2-2 until Harlan jumped ahead with 2 runs in the 3rd and 1 in the 4th. Atlantic got back within one in the top of the 5th with an RBI ground-out from Garrett McLaren and an RBI single from Redinbaugh. After that the tide turned in favor of Harlan.

The Cyclones piled on 5 runs in the bottom of the fifth taking advantage of a host of Trojan mistakes. Atlantic had an errant throw and wild pitch cost them two runs. There was also a dropped strikeout that let a Cyclone runner get aboard and a hit batter in the frame. Stephen Leinen delivered the big hit of the inning for the Cyclones with a two-run homer to left field that put the Cyclones up by three. The Cyclones piled on four more runs in the 6th to end the game by the ten-run rule.

Jayden Proehl took the loss on the hill for the Trojans working through the first five innings. Carter Pellett came on in the 6th. Brayden Ernst picked up the win, going the distance for Harlan. Ernst kept the ball around the plate and was pretty solid on the mound, limiting Atlantic to 6 hits.

Harlan improved to 17-6 with the two wins. Atlantic drops to 6-14. The Trojans finish out the week with a home game tonight against Lewis Central. That game has been moved up to a 5:30 p.m. first pitch.

Watch the game replay HERE.

The Ole Miss Rebels picked up a 2-0 win over the Arkansas Razorbacks in an elimination game on Thursday at the College World Series in Omaha. The Rebels earned a trip to the Championship Series against Oklahoma this weekend.

Dylan DeLucia threw a complete game shutout for the Rebels. He had 7 strikeouts and allowed just four hits. Ole Miss got RBI hits from Kevin Graham and Calvin Harris.

Arkansas ends their season with a record of 46-21. Ole Miss improved to 40-23.

The best of three Championship series between Ole Miss and Oklahoma will begin with a 6:00 p.m. game on Saturday on ESPN. They will play again Sunday at 2:00 p.m. and then if necessary a final game Monday at 6:00 p.m.

Iowa’s Ahron Ulis is expected to step up his game at the point guard spot next season. With Jordan Bohannon out of eligibility and Joe Toussaint off to West Virginia the junior from Chicago is expected to have an expanded role.

Improved shooting is a goal. Ulis played in 35 games last season but shot just 34 percent from the field and made only four of 12 from three point range.

Ulis says Iowa coach Fran McCaffery talked to him about his expanded role.

Iowa’s Keegan Murray is a Sacramento King. Murray was taken by the Kings with the fourth pick in the NBA Draft after an All-American sophomore season. He is Iowa’s highest draft pick ever. He joins a Kings franchise that has missed the NBA playoffs for a record 16 straight seasons.

Murray likes the nucleus the Kings have put together.

Murray says the Kings are a good fit for him.

SOFTBALL

Hawkeye Ten Conference
Harlan 2, Atlantic 1 (Completion of previously suspended game)
Atlantic 16, Harlan 10
Creston 11, Clarinda 1
Glenwood 11, Red Oak 5
Lewis Central 3, Denison-Schleswig 0
Riverside 11, Shenandoah 10

Western Iowa Conference
Audubon 15, IKM-Manning 3
Audubon 13, IKM-Manning 1 (A: Alexis Obermeier threw a no-hitter)
Missouri Valley 9, Tri-Center 0
Treynor 14, Underwood 4

Rolling Valley Conference
CAM 12, West Harrison 0
East Sac County 15, Ar-We-Va 3

Corner Conference Tournament

First Round
Stanton 11, Sidney 7
Essex 9, East Mills 7

Semifinals
Griswold 4, Essex 0 (G: Brenna Rossell no-hitter, 13 K’s)
Stanton 9, Fremont-Mills 6

Pride of Iowa Conference
Central Decatur 8, East Union 3
Central Decatur 8, East Union 6
Lenox 8, Nodaway Valley 3
Martensdale-St. Marys 11, Mount Ayr 4
SW Valley 18, Bedford 11 (SWV: Camryn Johnston 5-5 with a grand slam)
Wayne 5, SE Warren 2

Other Scores
Carlisle 10, Carroll 2
LeMars 12, CB Thomas Jefferson 2
LeMars 13, CB Thomas Jefferson 3
SC East 8, CB Abraham Lincoln 1
SC East 13, CB Abraham Lincoln 3
Van Meter 12, ACGC 0
Van Meter 19, ACGC 0

BASEBALL

Hawkeye Ten Conference
Harlan 8, Atlantic 6 (Completion of previously suspended game)
Harlan 14, Atlantic 4
Clarinda 5, Creston 2
Glenwood 4, Red Oak 2
Lewis Central 15, Denison-Schleswig 3

Western Iowa Conference
IKM-Manning 5, Audubon 0
Tri-Center 7, Missouri Valley 5
Underwood 10, Treynor 2

Rolling Valley Conference
CAM 7, West Harrison 1

Corner Conference Tournament

First Round
Sidney 19, Essex 4
East Mills 14, Griswold 4

Semifinals
Stanton 8, Sidney 7
Fremont-Mills 8, East Mills 0

Pride of Iowa Conference
Bedford 8, SW Valley 2
Central Decatur 11, East Union 0
Mount Ayr 5, Martensdale-St. Marys 4
Nodaway Valley/O-M 4, Lenox 0 (NV: Caelen DeVault 16 K’s)

Other Scores
Carlisle 18, Carroll 5
DM Christian 17, West Central Valley 0
DM Christian 11, West Central Valley 1
Earlham 11, Panorama 1
LeMars 10, CB Thomas Jefferson 6
LeMars 16, CB Thomas Jefferson 3
Van Meter 16, ACGC 7