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By ERIC OLSON AP College Football Writer
One college football season just ended and another one starts in just over a month. All but a few teams in the Football Championship Subdivision shut down in the fall because of the pandemic. They will play a spring season culminating with the NCAA playoffs in April and May. The Ivy League has scrapped football until the fall. The Missouri Valley is among the leagues re-configuring schedules because of schools deciding to opt out. The NCAA playoffs are April 18 through May 15 with 16 teams instead of 24.

No. 6 Kansas’ scheduled home game Saturday against Iowa State has been postponed because of positive COVID-19 tests and contacting tracing within the Cyclones’ program.

The schools said late Friday that they intend to work with the Big 12 to reschedule the game.

The Jayhawks (10-3, 4-2) are coming off a 75-70 loss to Oklahoma State and now visit second-ranked Baylor on Monday night. The Cyclones (2-7, 0-5) also had their previous game against Kansas State postponed and are scheduled to play No. 4 Texas on Wednesday night.

Basketball

• Atlantic vs. Harlan (G/B) have been postponed to Thursday, January 21^st. – Was our scheduled broadcast games on KJAN.
• Clarinda @ Shenandoah (G/B) have been postponed to Saturday, January 16^th.
• Red Oak @ St. Albert (G/B) have been postponed to Saturday, January 16^th.
• Glenwood @ Kuemper Catholic (G/B) postponed to Saturday, January 30^th.
• Lewis Central @ Creston (G/B) postponed to date TBD.
• Essex @ Clarinda Academy (B) postponed to date TBD.
• Fremont-Mills @ East Mills (G/B) postponed to date TBD.
• Griswold @ Stanton (G/B) postponed to date TBD.
• Treynor @ Missouri Valley (G/B) postponed to Monday, January 18^th.
• Tri-Center @ Underwood (G/B) postponed to date TBD.
• IKM-Manning @ Logan-Magnolia (G/B) postponed to date TBD.
• Southeast Warren at Bedford (G/B) postponed to date TBD.
• Martensdale-St. Marys at Lenox (G/B) postponed to date TBD.
• Wayne at Southwest Valley (G/B) postponed to date TBD.
• Nodaway Valley at East Union (G/B) postponed to date TBD.
• West Harrison at CAM (G/B) postponed to Monday, January 18^th.
• Paton-Churdan at Glidden-Ralston (G/B) postponed to date TBD.
• Coon Rapids-Bayard at Exira/Elk Horn-Kimballton (G/B) postponed to date TBD.
• Boyer Valley at Ar-We-Va (G/B) postponed to date TBD.
• Bishop Heelan Catholic at Abraham Lincoln (B) postponed to Saturday, January 16^th.
• Thomas Jefferson at Sergeant Bluff-Luton (G/B) have been postponed to Saturday, January 16^th.
• Riverside @ AHSTW (G/B) have been postponed to a date TBD.

Wrestling

• Mount Ayr Ron Scott Duals for Friday 1/15 and Saturday 1/16 have been cancelled.

Swimming

• Atlantic boys swimming team dual at CB Abraham Lincoln on 1/14 has been postponed to Thursday, January 21st at 5:00 p.m. at Kirn Middle School in Council Bluffs.

Harlan alum Joel Osborn has been tabbed as the new head football coach at Benedictine College in Kansas. Osborn will take over for Larry Wilcox, who announced his retirement in November.

Osborn has been a longtime member of the Northwest Missouri State football coaching staff after playing football for the Bearcats as well. He has spent time as co-offensive coordinator, recruiting coordinator, running backs coach, and wide receivers coach at Northwest.

In his two seasons as co-offensive coordinator, he helped guide the Bearcats to a record of 22-5 with two MIAA Co-Championships and 2 berths in the NCAA Division II National Playoffs. His teams averaged 41.9 points per game during the 2019 season and 36.6 ppg in 2018.

Osborn was the 2008 MIAA Offensive Player of the Year as quarterback of the Bearcats and played in two NCAA Division II Championships in his tenure.

He will be formally introduced as coach on Tuesday during a special Facebook live event. He takes over a very successful Benedictine Ravens program. Coach Wilcox won 304 games between 1979 and 2020.

@ Riverside

Riverside 46, Tri-Center 30
Riverside 69, Woodbine 6
Tri-Center 41, Woodbine 18

@ Plattsmouth, NE

Logan-Magnolia 42, Bennington, NE 37
Logan-Magnolia 62, Plattsmouth, NE 17

The 7:20-a.m. Sportscast with Jim Field.

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BOYS BASKETBALL

Clarinda 58, Sidney 33

Stanton 60, Southwest Valley 53

GIRLS BASKETBALL

Sidney 52, Clarinda 23

Stanton 54, Southwest Valley 22

Class 1A
School Record LW
1 Bishop Garrigan 13-0 1
2 Newell-Fonda 10-1 2
3 St. Ansgar 10-0 3
4 Kingsley-Pierson 13-0 4
5 MMCRU 9-1 5
6 Exira-EHK 11-0 7
7 Collins-Maxwell 10-0 8
8 Montezuma 13-1 9
9 Springville 11-2 6
10 Winfield-Mount Union 11-0 11
11 Burlington Notre Dame 9-1 13
12 North Mahaska 8-1 14
13 Logan-Magnolia 9-3 12
14 Turkey Valley 10-4 NR
15 Woodbury Central 11-3 NR
Dropped Out: CAM (10), AGWSR (15)

Class 2A
1 Maquoketa Valley 12-0 1
2 Dike-New Hartford 10-0 2
3 West Branch 9-1 3
4 North Linn 10-1 4
5 Nodaway Valley 10-0 5
6 West Hancock 10-1 6
7 Treynor 12-1 8
8 Denver 8-3 7
9 Central Lyon 11-1 11
10 Bellevue 12-1 13
11 Grundy Center 8-2 9
12 Underwood 12-1 14
13 Sioux Central 8-3 NR
14 Jesup 10-2 12
15 Cascade 10-4 NR
Dropped Out: South Central Calhoun (10), MFL-Mar-Mac (15)

Class 3A
1 Cherokee 12-0 1
2 Des Moines Christian 12-1 2
3 Unity Christian 9-1 3
4 Center Point-Urbana 10-2 4
5 Clear Lake 10-1 5
6 Osage 9-1 6
7 West Burlington 12-0 7
8 West Lyon 9-1 8
9 West Liberty 7-3 9
10 Panorama 9-2 10
11 Roland-Story 7-3 11
12 Solon 9-3 13
13 Sioux City Bishop Heelan 7-1 NR
14 Estherville-Lincoln Central 10-2 14
15 Vinton-Shellsburg 11-2 15
Dropped Out: Clarion-Goldfield-Dows (12)

Class 4A
1 Glenwood 9-1 1
2 Ballard 10-0 2
3 Gilbert 11-1 3
4 Dallas Center-Grimes 10-2 5
5 Central DeWitt 8-1 4
6 North Scott 7-1 7
7 Waverly-Shell Rock 9-2 6
8 Creston 9-3 12
9 Cedar Rapids Xavier 6-3 14
10 Bondurant-Farrar 7-3 9
11 Denison-Schleswig 8-2 8
12 Harlan 9-3 11
13 Dubuque Wahlert 5-4 10
14 Clear Creek-Amana 8-2 NR
15 Winterset 6-4 NR
Dropped Out: Grinnell (13), Benton (15)

Class 5A
1 Johnston 4-0 2
2 Waukee 3-1 1
3 Waterloo West 8-1 3
4 Cedar Falls 9-1 6
5 Southeast Polk 6-2 5
6 Ankeny Centennial 6-1 4
7 Iowa City West 3-3 7
8 Iowa City High 4-2 8
9 Davenport North 2-0 9
10 Des Moines Roosevelt 2-0 10
11 Cedar Rapids Washington 7-1 11
12 Dowling Catholic 6-2 12
13 West Des Moines Valley 2-3 13
14 Indianola 10-1 14
15 Cedar Rapids Prairie 5-2 NR
Dropped Out: Dubuque Senior (15)

IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — Caitlin Clark already is a star for the Iowa women’s basketball team. The freshman guard from West Des Moines, Iowa, is third in the nation with just under 26 points a game. She’s been named Big Ten player of the week three times and conference freshman of the week six times.

Iowa guard Caitlin Clark, right, celebrates with coach Lisa Bluder during the first half of the team’s NCAA college basketball game against Ohio State, Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2021, in Iowa City, Iowa. Clark is fourth in the nation in scoring, fourth in the nation in assists and ninth in assists per game. She is also second on the team in rebounds and tied for the team lead in blocked shots. “She’s not one-dimensional,” Bluder said. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)

Teammates say Clark has picked up where 2020 Big Ten player of the year Kathleen Doyle left off. Clark has had four games with 30 or more points and she leads the Big Ten in assists.