Seventh ranked Iowa State raced out to a 45-16 halftime advantage and crushed Arizona State 91-42 at the Big 12 Tournament in Kansas City.

That’s ISU coach T.J., Otzelberger. Milan Momcilovic led the Cyclones with 21 points. Senior forward Joshua Jefferson scored 20 and also had 12 rebounds.

Junior forward Blake Buchanan had a season high 17 points as Iowa State posted the largest margin of victory in Big 12 Tournament history and beat the Sun Devils for the second time in four days.

The Cyclones will play 16th ranked Texas Tech in Thursday’s quarterfinals. The Red Raiders handed the Cyclones their only home loss of the season 82-73 back on February 28th.

Iowa has advanced at the Big Ten Tournament in Chicago. The Hawkeyes used a 21-0 run early in the second half to take command and beat Maryland 75-64. The Hawkeyes roared back after trailing by 11 midway through the opening half.

That’s Iowa coach Ben McCollum. The Hawkeyes scored 21 points off Maryland turnovers and outscored the Terps in the paint 36-24.

Freshman Cooper Koch led the Hawkeyes with 19 points. He was five-of-eight from three point range.

Koch on what ignited the offense in the second half.

The Hawkeyes are 21-11 and they advance to play eighth seeded Ohio State on Thursday.

4A:

#6 Johnston – 48 vs #3 Waukee Northwest – 42

#2 Waukee – 57 vs #7 Prairie, Cedar Rapids – 51

1A:

#1 St. Edmond – 60 vs #8 Woodbine – 44

#4 Notre Dame – 68 vs #5 Bellevue – 62

#2 MMCRU – 58 vs #7 Boyden-Hull – 39

#6 Marquette Catholic – 58 vs #3 Bishop Garrigan – 55

The Exira-EHK Spartans Girls Basketball team had an excellent 2026 season that was capped off with their first State Tournament appearance in four seasons. They took home the Rolling Valley Conference Title with a perfect 14-0 conference record and finished the regular season with a 19-1 overall record. They took a 19-game win streak into the regional tournament, which they rolled through with ease and won the regional title for the first time since 2022, defeating GTRA 57-38. Despite falling to the reigning state champs St. Albert in the State quarterfinal, Head Coach Tom Petersen is proud of what his girls accomplished this season.

Taryn and Jaelynn Petersen were both named to Class 1A All-State Teams, with Taryn on First Team and Jaelyn on Third Team. Taryn was the leading scorer and one of the captains of this 2026 team who was behind a lot of the success that the Spartans had:

In her four years in the program, Jaelynn represented what it means to put in the work and improve each season:

Harlow Miller went out for basketball her freshman year, then not again until this year as a senior. She earned Second Team All-Conference this season and was one of the key players during the Spartans postseason run:

Exira-EHK had three seniors this season in Jaelyn Petersen, Kadence Sporrer and Harlow Miller. All three contributed largely to the success of the team over the course of the last four years. Coach Petersen knows younger players will have to step up in their absence next season:

Replicating success year over year is something Coach Tom Petersen is used to. He is excited about the younger talent coming back, specifically Zoey Rasmussen, who came off the bench and had multiple big moments during the Regional Tournament:

A conference title, a 22-game win streak and a State Tournament appearance finish off a phenomenal 2025-26 season for the Exira-EHK Girls Basketball Team. They finished the season 22-3 overall as the #6 seed in all of Class-1A.

The seventh ranked Iowa State men will open the Big-12 Tournament on Wednesday against Arizona State. The Cyclones got a couple of practice sessions in on the new glass floor at the T-Mobile Center in Kansas City.

That’s ISU coach T.J. Otzelberger. The tournament will feature five teams ranked in the top 16 in the latest AP Poll.

With a victory on Wednesday the Cyclones will advance to play 16th ranked Texas Tech in Thursday’s quarterfinals.

Otzelberger has built a consistent winner at ISU. This is the third straight season the Cyclones have won 25 games or more.

Arizona State held off a late rally by Baylor for an 83-79 victory in today’s tournament opener. The Cyclones beat the Sun Devils just three days ago in Ames to close the regular season.

IOWA CITY, Iowa  – University of Iowa senior Bennett Stirtz has been named a first-team All-Big Ten selection by the media and a second-team honoree by the coaches, it was announced Tuesday on B1G Today on the Big Ten Network.

The Liberty, Missouri, native was also named a second-team All-Big Ten selection by The Associated Press and was Iowa’s recipient of the Big Ten Sportsmanship Award.  He is the first Hawkeye to garner first-team All-Big Ten recognition since Kris Murray in 2023.

Stirtz finished third in the Big Ten in league-only games, averaging 22.2 points to go along with 3.8 assists, 2.3 rebounds and 1.4 steals.  He finished with a .500/.373/.839 shooting clip and had 13 20-point and three 30-point contests.

During a four-game stretch in February, Stirtz scored 122 points – the most by a Hawkeye since Luka Garza’s 126 in November 2020 and the most by an Iowa player in Big Ten games since downtown Freddy Brown in 1971.  Stirtz scored 32 points at Oregon, 22 at Washington, 36 vs. Northwestern and 32 at Maryland.

For the season, Stirtz is third in the Big Ten, averaging 20.2 points to go along with 4.4 assists, 2.5 rebounds and 1.5 steals.  He ranks in the top eight in the conference in scoring (third), steals (sixth) and assists (eighth).

Stirtz is the only player in America with 625+ points, 135+ assists, 75+ 3-pointers, 75+ rebounds and 45+ steals. He is also just the second Hawkeye all-time to have a 600+ point, 100+ assist season, joining Andre Woolridge.

The All-Big Ten recognition continues Stirtz’s meteoric rise. He was a second-team Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association (MIAA) selection as a sophomore at Northwest Missouri State at the Division II level before garnering first-team All-Missouri Valley and MVC Player of the Year distinction as a junior at Drake.  He’s now one of the top players in the Big Ten Conference.

Stirtz is joined on the media’s first team by Keaton Wagler (Illinois), Yaxel Lendeborg (Michigan) and Jeremy Fears, Jr. (Michigan State). Nebraska’s Pryce Sandfort was the fifth player on the coaches’ first team.

The ninth-seeded Hawkeyes open Big Ten Tournament play Wednesday, facing the winner of the Oregon/Maryland game at 11 a.m. (CT) at the United Center in Chicago. The game will be televised on the NBC Sports Network/Peacock.

Northern Iowa coach Ben Jacobson expects the Panthers to be a 12-seed in the NCAA Tournament. UNI punched its ticket by winning the Missouri Valley Conference Tournament. It is their first trip to the tournament in 10 years.

Jacobson says they are not spending any time trying to figure out who a first round opponent might be.

Jacobson says he loves having the week off leading up to Selection Sunday.

Jacobson says having an auto bid takes on the pressure off of this week.

UNI won the Valley Tournament as a six seed but Jacobson is not surprised the Panthers have mad it this far.

The Iowa Hawkeye men open the Big Ten Tournament in Chicago Wednesday morning against the winner of today’s late afternoon game between Maryland and Oregon. The ninth seeded Hawkeyes are coming off heartbreaking losses last week to third ranked Michigan and 11th ranked Nebraska.

That’s Iowa coach Ben McCollum who says maximum effort gave the Hawkeyes a chance in those games and that’s what it will take no matter who they play.

The Hawkeyes will play the eight seed Ohio State Thursday morning if they win but McCollum says they will worry about the Buckeyes if they get there.

The Hawkeyes are 20-11 entering the postseason and are a strong candidate for an at-large berth into the NCAA Tournament.

The Hawkeyes split two regular season games against Maryland. They beat Oregon 84-66 in Eugene back on February first but since that game the Ducks have regained the services of injured seven foot center Nate Bittle. He averages nearly 17 points per game.

Iowa State assistant coach JR Blount has been named the new head coach at the University of San Diego. Blount is in his fifth season on T.J. Otzelberger’s staff with the Cyclones.

Blount will remain with the Cyclones until the season is over. The sixth ranked Cyclones open the Big 12 Tournament on Wednesday.

Otzelberger says the hiring of Blount is a positive reflection on the program.

3A-

Ballard – 70 vs Gilbert – 40

Carroll – 50 vs Pella – 49

ADM – 68 vs Xavier – 59

Storm Lake – 68 vs Solon – 60

4A-

Dowling Catholic – 62 vs Dubuque Senior – 45

Cedar Falls – 73 vs Urbandale – 53