(IHSAA) The Board of Control approved recommendations out of the basketball advisory committee to eliminate the early release of substate and district pods and their associated coach seeding meetings starting in 2023. In their place, IHSAA staff will compile and release brackets for the lead-up rounds and the state tournament.

“We appreciate the advisory committee and leadership from the Iowa Basketball Coaches Association being proactive with this adjustment,” IHSAA assistant director and basketball administrator Todd Tharp said. “Pushing back the release dates will allow us to gather as much information as possible from regular season games and complete improved postseason assignments. We want to be responsive to our advisory committee and head coaches with their concerns regarding assignments and seeding meetings.”

Brackets for Class 2A and Class 1A would be slated for release during Week 32 (Feb. 6, 2023) of the NFHS calendar, and Class 4A and Class 3A during Week 33 (Feb. 13, 2023). Last season, district and substate assignments – prior to seeding meetings and brackets – were released starting Jan. 21.

(IHSAA) Following April’s announcement to move wrestling’s State Dual Team Tournament to the weekend previously occupied by Sectional tournaments, IHSAA staff sought statewide site visits and bids for event venues.

On Monday, the Board of Control approved a three-year agreement with Xtream Arena in Coralville to begin on Feb. 4, 2023 and coincide with the weekend currently slated for the Iowa Girls High School Athletic Union’s inaugural wrestling tournament.

“We’re thrilled to take our State Dual Team Tournament to Xtream Arena, which will provide a world-class wrestling venue and event staff for our student-athletes,” IHSAA executive director Tom Keating said.

“In addition to the amenities Xtream Arena can provide, scheduling it alongside the new girls’ tournament will benefit our participating schools, officials, and spectators. We trust the team at Think Iowa City and Iowa City Area Sports Commission will help us grow the dual team tournament as part of an outstanding weekend of Iowa high school wrestling.”

Xtream Arena opened in 2020 in Coralville’s Iowa River Landing, just off of Interstate 80. The venue can seat just over 5,000 spectators and is attached to the GreenState Family Fieldhouse, which will allow for warm-up and team space during the tournament.

IOWA CITY, Iowa — The University of Iowa volleyball team released its complete 2022 schedule, which includes 13 home games at Xtream Arena in Coralville. 

The schedule includes 30 contests, 10 nonconference and 20 conference. Iowa opens the season against Gonzaga, Florida International (Aug. 26) and Oklahoma (Aug. 27) in the Oklahoma Invitational in Norman, Oklahoma, before traveling to Boulder, Colorado, to face Washington (Sep. 3) and Colorado (Sept. 4) in the Pac-12/Big Ten Challenge. The Hawkeyes will compete against Wright State, Iowa State (Sep. 9) and Drake (Sep. 10) in the Iowa Corn Cy-Hawk Series Tournament. 

Iowa’s home opener will be Friday, Sept. 16, versus South Dakota State in the Hawkeye Invitational. The Hawkeyes will also host North Florida (Sept. 16) and Northern Iowa (Sept. 17) that weekend. 

The Hawkeyes will face opponents from the West Coast Conference, Sun Belt, Big 12, PAC-12, Horizon, Missouri Valley, Summit, and Atlantic Sun in nonconference action. 

Iowa will challenge 10 teams that qualified for the 2021 NCAA Tournament (Illinois, Iowa State, Michigan, Minnesota, Nebraska, Ohio State, Penn State, Purdue, Washington, and Wisconsin). 

Iowa will battle Illinois, Michigan, Michigan State, Northwestern, Penn State and Wisconsin once, while taking on Indiana, Maryland, Minnesota, Nebraska, Ohio State, Purdue and Rutgers both home and away. 

The Hawkeyes’ Big Ten home opener falls on Friday, Sept. 23 against the Buckeyes, while their home finale will be on Wednesday, Nov. 23 versus the Wolverines. 

Jim Barnes enters his first season as head coach of the Hawkeyes. Iowa returns eight letterwinners, while adding two freshmen and seven transfers to the roster.

NICEVILLE, Florida — Game matchups for the eighth annual Emerald Coast Classic, which include the University of Iowa, were announced by Global Sports on Tuesday.

Iowa will face Clemson in a semifinal round game at 6 p.m. (CT) on Friday, Nov. 25, while TCU will play Cal at 8:30 p.m. (CT). The third-place game will be played at 3 p.m. (CT) on Saturday Nov. 26, with the championship game scheduled for a 6 p.m. (CT) tip off on that Saturday. All games will be held at Raider Arena on the campus of Northwest Florida State College. Television information will be released later this summer.

Iowa captured the 2022 Big Ten Conference Tournament championship, tied for fourth in the conference standings and won 26 overall games, the second most wins in a season in program history. Fran McCaffery has coached Iowa to 20-plus wins eight of the last 10 seasons, including four straight years. 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.

This year will mark the second appearance for the Hawkeyes in the Emerald Coast Classic. Iowa previously competed in the 2016 tournament versus Virginia and Memphis.

Returning starting forwards Hunter Tyson and PJ Hall will key the fortunes for Clemson, which won five of its last six games to close out the 2021-22 campaign. Brad Brownell is the winningest coach in Clemson history, earning 218 victories in 12 years while guiding the Tigers to the 2021 NCAA Tournament, 2018 Sweet 16, 2011 NCAA Tournament and three NIT appearances.

The Horned Frogs’ second NCAA Tournament bid under coach Jamie Dixon was their fourth postseason appearance in the five seasons that postseason was held, the best in program history. TCU has all five starters returning from its 2021-22 team which finished 21-13, its fourth 20-win season in six years under Dixon with a program-record five wins over AP Top 25 teams. TCU surged late with consecutive victories over top-10 opponents in Texas Tech and Kansas to secure a NCAA Tournament berth.

Mark Fox will enter his fourth season as the head men’s basketball coach at Cal and has averaged nearly 19 wins each year in his 17-year coaching career. In previous stops at Nevada and Georgia, Fox has guided teams to five appearances in the NCAA Tournament. Cal boasts 28 postseason appearances, including 19 NCAA Tournament appearances.

On campus first-round games start Nov. 17 with TCU hosting Louisiana Monroe. Cal hosts Southern on Nov. 18 and Omaha travels to Iowa and Loyola Maryland visits Clemson on Nov. 21.  

Tickets will go on sale later this summer. For more tournament information visit emeraldcoastclassic.com.

SOFTBALL

Hawkeye Ten Conference 

Shenandoah 1, Atlantic 0 (A: Zoey Kirchhoff 12 K’s, 4 hits and 1 run allowed)
Atlantic 8, Shenandoah 1 (A: Jada Jensen 3-4 with 2 doubles. Madison Huddleson bases loaded 3 RBI triple. Riley Wood 2 RBI double and 9 K’s in the circle)
Denison-Schleswig 5, Clarinda 2
Clarinda 7, Denison-Schleswig 4
Creston 15, Kuemper Catholic 14 (10 innings)
Creston 9, Kuemper Catholic 1
Glenwood 5, Harlan 0
Harlan 9, Glenwood 8
St. Albert 23, Red Oak 8
St. Albert 15, Red Oak 0

Western Iowa Conference 

AHSTW 4, Tri-Center 2
Audubon 14, Riverside 1
Riverside 6, Audubon 5
Logan-Magnolia 12, Treynor 1
Underwood 5, Missouri Valley 4

Rolling Valley Conference 

CAM 8, Ar-We-Va 7
Boyer Valley 15, Whiting 1
Exira-EHK 13, Coon Rapids-Bayard 1
Woodbine 10, West Harrison 0

Corner Conference

Fremont-Mills 12. Essex 2
Griswold 11, Stanton 1 (G: Karly Millikan 9 K’s, 2 hits allowed. Makenna Askeland 3-3 with two doubles, 3 RBI, 2 runs. Brenna Rossell 3-3 with 2 RBI and 3 runs.)
Sidney 15. East Mills 5

Pride of Iowa Conference

Bedford 6, Lamoni 4
Central Decatur 10, Moulton-Udell 3
East Union 10, Orient-Macksburg 0
Twin Cedars 3, Martensdale-St. Marys 0
Southeast Warren 12, Melcher-Dallas 0
Wayne 10, Murray 0

Other Scores

West Central Valley 15, Panorama 5
Winterset 10, Carroll 0

BASEBALL

Hawkeye Ten Conference 

Atlantic 15, Shenandoah 2
Atlantic 12, Shenandoah 3
Clarinda 15, Denison-Schleswig 0
Clarinda 13, Denison-Schleswig 3
Creston 6, Kuemper Catholic 5
Kuemper Catholic 12, Creston 2
Harlan 7, Glenwood 3
Harlan 19, Glenwood 12
St. Albert 17, Red Oak 5
St. Albert 7, Red Oak 3

Western Iowa Conference 

Audubon 10, Riverside 5
Treynor 15, Logan-Magnolia 0
Tri-Center 16, AHSTW 3
Underwood 8, Missouri Valley 1

Rolling Valley Conference 

CAM 10, Ar-We-Va 0 (C: Joe Kauffmann 3 hits, 2 RBI, 2 runs. Cade Ticknor 2 RBI, 1 run, 8 K’s)
Coon Rapids-Bayard 16, Exira-EHK 3
Woodbine 2, West Harrison 0

Corner Conference

Fremont-Mills 16, Essex 0
Fremont-Mills 30, Essex 3
Sidney 9, East Mills 8
Stanton 23, Griswold 2

Pride of Iowa Conference

Bondurant-Farrar 3, Martensdale-St. Marys 1
Central Decatur 25, Moulton-Udell 1
Roland-Story 5, Lenox 2
Roland-Story 13, Lenox 10
Southeast Warren 21, Melcher-Dallas 3
Wayne 23, Murray 8

Other Scores

ACGC 5, Woodward-Granger 1
Winterset 9, Carroll 1

The Des Moines attorney whose group owns the winner of the Belmont Stakes says he could be in the running for Horse of the Year. Mo Donegal became the first Iowa-owned horse to win a Triple Crown race.

Jerry Crawford says the plan is for Mo Donegal to run the Travers Stakes in latest August and the Breeders’ Cup in November.

Crawford on getting ready for the Travers Stakes and the Breeders’ Cup.

Former Iowa star tight end T.J. Hockenson says he is focused on this season and not his future. Hockenson is entering his fourth season with the Detroit Lions and the final year of his rookie contract. Hockenson is allowing his agent to handle negotiations.

Hockenson says he is only concerned with getting ready for the season.

Hockenson says he just wants to win and prefers to do so in Detroit.

Hockenson hopes to stay in Detroit.

IOWA CITY, Iowa – University of Iowa outfielder Keaton Anthony has been named to the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association (NCBWA) First-Team Freshman All-America Team, the organization announced Monday.

It is the second freshman All-America nod for Anthony this season as he was also named to Collegiate Baseball’s Freshman All-America team last week.  He is the only Big Ten player named first team and is one of three players from the league to be honored.

The Hoschton, Georgia, native earned the distinction after putting together an impressive redshirt freshman season, hitting .361 (73-of-202) with 22 doubles, 14 home runs, 55 RBIs and 46 runs scored. He hit safely in 44 games, reached safely in 50 contests and had a team-best 22 multi-hit games.

Anthony was named Big Ten Freshman of the Year — the second Hawkeye all-time to earn the distinction — second-team All-Big Ten and Big Ten All-Freshman team honors. During the regular season, he was named Big Ten Freshman of the Week a program and league-record six times.

Anthony finished the season ranking fourth in the Big Ten with 22 doubles – the second-most in a single season in program history – and was third in slugging (.678) and OPS (1.133) and sixth in batting average (.361). His 14 home runs were the most by a Hawkeye freshman since 1999.

The Hawkeyes finished the 2022 season with a 36-19 overall record with the 36 wins ranking eighth in program history. Iowa finished in a tie for second in the Big Ten regular season standings, advanced to the Big Ten Tournament semifinals and the team became the first team to win two games on the same day at the Big Ten Tournament.

CLASS 1A

1. Remsen St.Mary’s
2. Newman Catholic
3. New London
4. Kee
5. North Linn
6. Lisbon
7. Don Bosco
8. Ankeny Christian
9. Sigourney
10. Coon Rapids-Bayard

CLASS 2A

1. Van Meter
2. Estherville Lincoln Central
3. Cascade
4. Clarinda
5. Beckman Catholic
6. Dike-New Hartford
7. Davis County
8. Mid-Prairie
9. West Marshall
10. Columbus Catholic

CLASS 3A

1. Grinnell
2. Assumption
3. Cedar Rapids Xavier
4. Wahlert Catholic
5. Western Dubuque
6. Lewis Central
7. Clear Creek Amana
8. Independence
9. Marion
10. Gilbert

CLASS 4A

1. Johnston
2. Waukee
3. Dowling Catholic
4. Cedar Falls
5. Urbandale
6. Iowa City High
7. Waukee Northwest
8. Sioux City East
9. Cedar Rapids Prairie
10. Ankeny

The Big 12 Conference will officially bring in four new schools in 2023. Cincinnati, Houston, and UCF reached an exit agreement at the end of last week with the American Athletic Conference.

Those three schools and BYU will join the Big 12 next year. Texas and Oklahoma are currently set to depart the Big 12 for the SEC in 2025, but that timeline could also change. If they were to stay the Big 12 would have 14 schools for two competition seasons.

According to terms released Cincinnati, Houston, and UCF will each pay $18 million to exit the AAC. They had already been paying on a $10 million exit fee in four annual payments but they agreed to each pay an additional $8 million in 12 payments to leave in 2023.

The American has already announced that they are adding UAB, FAU, Charlotte, North Texas, Rice, and UTSA from Conference USA next year.