IOWA CITY, Iowa – University of Iowa redshirt sophomore Adam Mazur has been named a Collegiate Baseball Second-Team All-American, it was announced Thursday by the collegiate baseball newspaper.

It is the second straight year a Hawkeye starting pitcher has earned All-America distinction (Trenton Wallace).  Mazur is ninth player to earn All-America honors under head coach Rick Heller and the 23rd Hawkeye all-time.

Mazur is one of two players from the Big Ten to earn All-America honors along with Maryland’s Chris Alleyne.

The Woodbury, Minnesota, native had a breakout season in his first year as a Hawkeye, going 7-3 with a 3.07 ERA in 15 starts.  Mazur allowed just 60 hits and 37 runs (32 earned) over 93 2/3 innings, while fanning 98, limiting hitters to a .178 average and walking just 30.

The Big Ten Pitcher of the Year and first-team all-league selection led the league in batting average against, ranked second in innings and strikeouts, third in wins and fourth in ERA.  In league games, the right-hander paced the Big Ten in wins (5), ERA (2.59), innings (55.2), while ranking fourth in strikeouts.

During Big Ten play, Mazur had seven consecutive quality starts from April 2 through May 13, logging eight or more innings in four straight starts.  Mazur, who pitched a complete game shutout in the win at Nebraska, had nine quality starts during the 2022 season.

Mazur ranks 10th nationally, allowing just 5.77 hits per nine innings and is 18th in WHIP (0.96).

For the season, Mazur’s 93 2/3 innings were the 14th most in a single season in program history, while his 98 strikeouts were third-most all-time.

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 and became the first team to win two games on the same day at the Big Ten Tournament.

The Atlantic baseball team is off to a 1-4 start to the 2022 season and are working to fit the pieces together. Like many other seasons, the Trojans had some production to replace from graduating seniors. Grant Sturm, Brendan Atkinson, Zane Vance, Colin Mullenix, Bodie Johnson, Garrett Reynolds, and Gunner Kirchhoff made up a big senior class last season. Despite the turnover Coach Joe Brummer feels like the younger guys throughout the lineup last season are very versatile players.

Coach Brummer said finding consistent pitching is a big priority early in the season. He said you see some big scoring sometimes early in the year and that often comes from miscues on the mound.

A number of underclassmen will need to make an impact throughout the season as well and Coach Brummer said some have shown some good things.

The Trojans are set to host St. Albert tonight and Kuemper Catholic on Friday to close out the week.

Class 1A

#1 Assumption (15-4) vs. #5 Nevada (13-6) 10:00 a.m.
#2 Des Moines Christian (19-1) vs. #6 Underwood 10:15 a.m.

Class 2A

#1 Dallas Center-Grimes (20-0) vs. #5 Xavier (13-3) 12:30 p.m.
#3 Waverly-Shell Rock (17-1) vs. #3 Norwalk (17-3) 12:45 p.m.

Class 3A

#1 Valley (19-0) vs. #5 Ankeny Centennial (17-3) 3:00 p.m.
#2 CB Abraham Lincoln (16-3) vs. Ankeny (18-1) 3:15 p.m.

Former UNI star guard AJ Green has decided to keep his name in the 2022 NBA Draft. After the past season concluded Green put his name in the NCAA Transfer Portal and also started the NBA Draft evaluation process.

Green spent four seasons at UNI and was twice named the Missouri Valley Conference Player of the Year. It was widely speculated that if Green didn’t stay in the draft he would head to Iowa State where his father Kyle is an assistant coach, joining TJ Otzelberger’s staff from UNI last season.

Green has been on multiple workouts for a number of NBA teams including high interest from the Indiana Pacers.

The Board of Regents facilities committee has given approval for the work on the University of Iowa wrestling facility to move forward with a 19 percent increase in cost due to inflation. Iowa Athletic director Gary Barta, talked to the committee, Wednesday.

The revised budget is up around five million dollars to 31-million-550-thousand dollars.

He says other donors are already helping with the increase.

Barta says they always expect some cost increases.

The final approval comes before the full board today (Thursday). This project is a 38-thosaund-500 square foot, two-level practice and operations facility for U-I Wrestling. It would be directly connected by an underground tunnel to Carver-Hawkeye Arena, where men’s and women’s wrestling matches would continue to take place.

SOFTBALL

Hawkeye Ten Conference

Atlantic 9, Denison-Schleswig 3
Clarinda 11, Red Oak 10
Harlan 7, Lewis Central 6
Kuemper Catholic 6, Ogden 4
Shenandoah 8, Glenwood 5

Western Iowa Conference

AHSTW 11, CB Thomas Jefferson 8
Logan-Magnolia 15, Tri-Center 1
Treynor 12, Riverside 2
Underwood 12, East Mills 2

Rolling Valley Conference

Boyer Valley 4, CAM 2
Coon Rapids-Bayard 13, Whiting 3
Exira-EHK 10, Glidden-Ralston 0
Woodbine 16, Ar-We-Va 4

Pride of Iowa Conference

I-35 10, Central Decatur 0
Martensdale-St. Marys 8, Des Moines Christian 3
Murray 15, Lenox 0
Southeast Warren 16, Earlham 4
West Central Valley 14, Southwest Valley 1

Other Scores

Lamoni 6, Orient-Macksburg 0

BASEBALL

Hawkeye Ten Conference

Clarinda 4, Red Oak 0
Denison-Schleswig 3, Atlantic 2
Glenwood 19, Shenandoah 3
I-35 7, Creston 4
Lewis Central 11, Harlan 6
St. Albert 17, Logan-Magnolia 4
Underwood 12, Kuemper Catholic 1

Western Iowa Conference

Audubon 3, West Central Valley 0
AHSTW 10, East Mills 0
Des Moines Christian 16, Treynor 3

Rolling Valley Conference

CAM 11, Boyer Valley 1
Coon Rapids-Bayard 4, IKM-Manning 0
Glidden-Ralston 5, Exira-EHK 3
West Harrison 16, Whiting 1
Woodbine 3, Ar-We-Va 1

Pride of Iowa Conference

Ankeny Christian 10, Central Decatur 0
Martensdale-St. Marys 13, Madrid 4
Murray 13, Lenox 2
Southeast Warren 15, Earlham 4
West Central Valley 5, Woodward-Granger 1

Class 1A Quarterfinals

#1 Western Christian 1, #8 Burlington Notre Dame 0
#4 West Liberty 3, #5 Nevada 2
#6 Assumption 2, #3 North Fayette Valley 1
#2 Beckman Catholic 2, #7 West Central Valley 1

Class 2A Quarterfinals

#1 Pella 2, #8 Spencer 1 (OT)
#5 Gilbert 1, #4 Marion 0
#3 Lewis Central 2, #6 Humboldt 0
#7 Newton 2, #2 Bondurant-Farrar 1 (2OT)

Class 3A Quarterfinals

#8 Waukee Northwest 2, #1 Ankeny 1
#5 Ankeny Centennial 3, #4 Urbandale 2
#6 Pleasant Valley 2, #3 Iowa City West 0
#7 Prairie 1, #2 Johnston 0

Ames, Iowa—After leading the Iowa State men’s basketball program to the NCAA Sweet 16 for the first time since 2015-16 and the third-best turnaround in NCAA history in his debut season on the Cyclone bench, head coach T.J. Otzelberger has been rewarded with a contract extension and salary increase, ISU Director of Athletics Jamie Pollard announced today.

“T.J. Otzelberger and his staff orchestrated arguably the greatest turnaround in college basketball history this past year, inheriting a two-win program and leading it to 22 victories and the Sweet 16 in their first season, and I’m grateful that we are able to reward that success with this extension,” Pollard said. “I believe T.J. is building a championship culture within our program that fosters academic excellence, on-court success and accountability, and I believe that the momentum our program enjoys will lead to future success under his direction.”

Otzelberger’s contract now runs through June 30, 2027, and his additional guaranteed compensation will increase from $700,000 annually to $1.2M effective immediately with an annual increase of $100,000 starting on July 1, 2023. All other terms of his original contract are unchanged.

Otzelberger’s debut season in Ames produced a 22-13 overall record, the school’s 21^st NCAA Tournament bid and sixth Sweet 16 appearance en route to a season-ending ranking of No. 23 in the coaches poll. ISU registered the third-best improvement in NCAA history, a +20-win improvement over the program’s 2020-21 record. That 20-win improvement trailed only Towson (+21) and Middle Tennessee (+21) on the all-time charts.

Unanimously picked last in the Big 12 Conference preseason poll, the Cyclones defied all odds in making the NCAA Tournament and finishing seventh in the nation’s toughest conference. ISU climbed as high as No. 8 in the Associated Press Top 25 and was ranked for a total of 10 weeks during the season as it was one of the nation’s last two undefeated teams before falling to an unbeaten Baylor squad in the conference opener for both teams.

Otzelberger became the eighth head coach in school history to lead the Cyclones to the NCAA Tournament, and just the third coach in NCAA Tournament history to lead his program to the Sweet 16 in the first season after taking over a team with a losing record the previous year. The 11^th-seeded Cyclones advanced to the Sweet 16 with wins over LSU and Wisconsin before falling to Miami, Fla., in the Sweet 16.

Iowa Hawkeyes forward Kris Murray (24) during a photo shoot at Carver-Hawkeye Arena in Iowa City, IA on Monday, September 13, 2021. (Stephen Mally/hawkeyesports.com)

IOWA CITY, Iowa — University of Iowa men’s basketball student-athlete Kris Murray announced on Wednesday that he is returning for his junior season.

“These past two months have been a tremendous learning process for me,” said Murray. “By going through the NBA Draft process, I believe that it will help me in the long run and this upcoming season at Iowa. I can’t wait to get back to work with my teammates and coaches to play for the best fan base in the world. Go Hawks!”

Murray (6-foot-8, 211 pounds) posted single season bests in every statistical category last season. He improved his scoring average by +9.1 points per game and rebounding average by 3.7 per outing.

Murray was Iowa’s leading scorer (9.7 ppg) and rebounder (4.3 rpg) off the bench, which ranked fourth and third overall, respectively. His 31 blocks and 43 3-point field goals rank seventh and eighth most, respectively, by a Hawkeye sophomore. He ranked second on the squad in 3-point accuracy (.387, 43-of-11), blocked shots per game (0.9) and field goals made (124), third in offensive (1.6) and defensive (2.7) rebounds, and fourth in steals (0.8). He made at least one 3-pointer in a team-best 17 consecutive games (Jan. 22-March 13) and recorded multiple steals in 10 games and multiple blocks in nine contests.

“Everyone in our program is very excited to have Kris back,” said Iowa head coach Fran McCaffery. “We are happy that Kris had a positive experience going through the NBA process. He gained valuable feedback through workouts and conversations with NBA personnel. Kris will be awesome next year.”

IOWA CITY, Iowa – The Iowa Letterwinners Club and the University of Iowa Athletics Department announced its 2022 Hall of Fame Class on Wednesday.

The 33rd Hall of Fame Class includes Dallas Clark (football), Amy Fowler (field hockey), Dan Holm (wrestling), Kari Knopf (softball), Keith Noreen (baseball), George Roddy (men’s golf) and Nancilea Underwood (women’s swimming & diving).

The seven-person class will be inducted into the Iowa Athletics Hall of Fame on Friday, Sept. 2, 2022 – the evening prior to the Iowa football team’s season opener against South Dakota State.

The induction ceremony, which is open to the public, will be held in the Feller Club Room at Carver-Hawkeye with doors opening at 5 p.m. (CT) and the ceremony will follow at 6:30 p.m. Cost for the evening is $25 and includes heavy appetizers and a cash bar will be available. Reserve your spot today! (https://bit.ly/3PUnJ2Y)

All Iowa athletes who have earned at least one varsity letter at Iowa are eligible for the Iowa Athletics Hall of Fame. Athletes must have completed their eligibility 10 years and coaches/administrators five years prior to their induction.

2022 Hall of Fame Class

Dallas Clark, Football (2000 – 2002)

Dallas Clark was a consensus first-team All-American, first-team All-Big Ten, and John Mackey Award recipient in 2002. Clark was selected by Indianapolis with the 24th pick of the first round in the 2003 NFL Draft. An All-Pro selection in 2009, Clark appeared in two Super Bowls, including the Colts’ victory over Chicago in 2007.

Amy Fowler, Field Hockey (1989 – 1992)

Amy Fowler was a three-time All-American, earning first-team honors in 1991 and 1992. Fowler was an All-Region and first-team All-Big Ten honoree in 1990, 1991, and 1992. In 1991, Fowler was selected as the Big Ten Defensive Player of the Year, and she participated in the U.S. Olympic Sports Festival.

Dan Holm, Wrestling (1972 – 1975)

Dan Holm won the 158-pound NCAA championship in 1975, leading Iowa to its first ever NCAA title. Holm was a three-time All-American and led Iowa to back-to-back Big Ten championships in 1974 and 1975.  He was the runner-up at 158-pounds both years.

Kari Knopf, Softball (1994 – 1997)

Knopf was a three-time All-American and a four-time All-Region and first-team All-Big Ten selection from 1994-1997.  She was named Big Ten Freshman of the Year in 1994 and led Iowa to three-straight Women’s College World Series appearances. Knopf holds school records for games played (254), at bats (802), hits (305) and RBIs (163).

Keith Noreen, Baseball (1987 – 1990)

Keith Noreen was a three-time first-team All-Big Ten selection and an ABCA All-Region honoree in 1989. Noreen led the Hawkeyes to the 1990 Big Ten Championship and NCAA Regional appearance. He still holds school records for hits (267), RBIs (193), total bases (441) and game-winning RBI (27), while ranking second in games played (216), and runs (200).

George Roddy, Men’s Golf (1930 – 1931)

George Roddy was the first Black Hawkeye golfer and the first Black athlete inducted to the Indiana Golf Hall of Fame. He was a two time All-University of Iowa champion in 1929 and 1930. Roddy was team captain in 1930 and 1931. He finished his career with an undefeated individual match record and set the Finkbine course record of 72 in 1930. Roddy was a member of State Championship and State Collegiate Championship Teams in 1931.

Nancilea Underwood, Women’s Swimming and Diving (2001-03, 2004-06)

Nancilea Underwood was a five-time All-American in the diving well. She earned All-America status off the 3-meter in 2003 and the 1-meter and 3-meter in 2005 and 2006. Underwood was the Big Ten Medal of Honor recipient in 2006 and she competed in the 2008 Olympics in Beijing.