Region 7 –

Exira-EHK – 57 vs GTRA – 38

Region 1 – 

Newell-Fonda – 71 vs George-Little Rock – 37

Region 2 – 

Bishop Garrigan – 55 vs Lake Mills – 33

Region 3 – 

St. Albert – 68 vs Coon Rapids-Bayard – 48

Region 4 –

Kee High – 55 vs Springville – 43

Region 5 –

Lynnville-Sully – 56 vs North Union – 33

Region 6 –

Dunkerton – 67 vs Edgewood-Colesburg – 44

Region 8 – 

Saint Ansgar – 52vs Gladbrook-Reinbeck – 49

The Iowa men used a 28-3 first half run to take command and rolled to a 74-57 win over Ohio State last night (Wednesday). The Hawkeyes are now 10-7 in the Big Ten and 20-8 overall. It is their first 20 win season in four years.

That’s Iowa coach Ben McCollum who says the defense picked up after the Buckeyes led 14-2 at the outset.

Bennett Stirtz led the Hawkeyes with 22 points while Alvaro Folgueiras (fool-gair-us) came off the bench to finish with 20.

J.T. Pettigrew’s three pointer with two seconds remaining lifted Valparaiso to a 74-71 win over Drake, Wednesday night. The Bulldog’s missed seven of their final eight shots and had two crucial turnovers in the final minute in suffering their eighth straight loss.

That’s Drake coach Eric Henderson. It was the latest in a string of losses in which the Bulldogs crumbled at crunch time.

Drake is now 6-13 in the Valley.

Johnny Kinziger’s basket with 12 seconds remaining was the game winner as Illinois State edged UNI 71-69 in the McLeod Center, Wednesday night. The Panthers fall to 10-9 in the Missouri Valley after suffering their second straight loss at home.

That’s UNI coach Ben Jacobson. The loss means the Panthers will be in the play-in round at next week’s Valley Tournament in St. Louis.

The Panthers close the regular season Sunday at Drake.

Oklahoma State outscored the Iowa State women 28-17 in the fourth quarter, Wednesday, and spoiled Senior Night with an 88-77 win.

That’s ISU coach Bill Fennelly. Oklahoma State guard Stailee Heard had 22 points and added 14 rebounds.

The Cyclones fall to 9-8 in the Big 12.

The ninth ranked Iowa Hawkeye women close the regular season home slate on Thursday night by hosting Illinois. Iowa coach Jan Jensen says the Illini will be a challenge for the Hawkeyes to defend.

At 9-7 in the Big Ten and 19-8 overall the Illini are looking to boost the NCAA hopes.

The Hawkeyes are 13-3 in the Big Ten and 22-5 overall. They enter the final week of the regular season with the inside track to the two seed in the Big Ten Tournament and hosting the first two round of the NCAA Tournament.

The Northern Iowa women close the home schedule Thursday night by hosting Valparaiso. The Panthers are fifth in the Missouri Valley at 9-7. Valparaiso is 0-27 on the season but is a concern for Panther coach Tanya Warren.

Warren says the Panthers are still seeking consistency.

IOWA CITY, Iowa – University of Iowa’s Jordan Gross, Dymonde Nave and Lovisa Ulvenstam earned Big Ten Athlete of the Week honors, the conference announced on Wednesday.

Gross, a native of Vandalia, Ohio, was named the Big Ten Men’s Freshman of the Week following his performance at the Iowa Open. Gross placed second in the 60 meters, finishing just off of his personal best in 6.66. He won his preliminary heat in 6.71. Gross is the third-ranked freshman in the Big Ten in the 60 meters and heads to the Big Ten Championships ranked fourth all-time at Iowa. He opened the season as the Big Ten Freshman of the Week on Dec. 17.

Nave, a junior from Sioux Falls, South Dakota, was named the Big Ten Women’s Track Athlete of the Week after winning the 60-meter hurdles at the Iowa Open. Nave posted two times that improved her standing on the program’s top-10 list. She opened with a lifetime best of 8.34 that moved her to eighth in school history. In the finals, Nave shaved a tenth of a second from her time and finished in 8.24 to climb to seventh on the program’s record book. She concludes the regular season with her second conference award after winning Big Ten Women’s Track Athlete of the Week on Dec. 17.

Ulvenstam doubled as the Big Ten Women’s Field Athlete and Freshman of the Week after two podium finishes in the triple jump and long jump. The freshman from Ostersund, Sweden, won the triple jump at 12.39 meters at the Iowa Open. She completed a career weekend with a second-place mark of 5.94 meters in the long jump. Ulvenstam’s long jump leap was a personal record and pushed her to eighth on Iowa’s all-time list. She is ranked fourth among freshman in the Big Ten in the event. Ulvenstam is Iowa’s first women’s field athlete of the week recipient this season. She joins Izzy Zahn as one of Iowa’s women’s freshmen of the week award winners in the 2025-26 campaign.

The Hawkeyes begin the 2026 Big Ten Indoor Track and Field Championships on Thursday in Indianapolis.

A slow start made all the difference as the Audubon Wheelers fell to the Coon Rapids-Bayard Crusaders 74-48 in the district 15 championship game Tuesday night. Despite neither team grabbed the reigns out of the gate, the Crusaders outscored the Wheelers 22-8 over the final five minutes of the opening quarter. Coon Rapids-Bayard’s offense was extremely efficient; however, it was Audubon’s turnovers, both forced and unforced, that made the biggest difference. Although the Wheelers played much better in the second and third quarters, the deficit was just too much to overcome against a solid team as Audubon’s postseason run came to an end.

Austin Christensen and Carson Wessel were Audubon’s best players Tuesday. Wessel led the team in scoring with 13, while Christensen picked up 8. Head coach Darran Miller was proud of their effort and how they put everything out on the court.

Despite some bright spots, Miller knew that the biggest difference in the game was the first quarter.

The Wheelers are losing seven seniors, and although Miller is very optimistic about the direction of the program, he expressed his gratitude for what this senior class was able to accomplish.

The wheelers finish the season with a record of 15-10, and although they came up two wins short of the state tournament, it was by far their best season in more than five years.

• Iowa State has now won 46 straight games when leading by ten-plus at half
• Tamin Lipsey appeared in his 128th game, tied with assistant coach Diante Garrett for the sixth-most in program history.
• Milan Momcilovic broke Dedric Willoughby’s single-season 3-point record, as he now sits at 104 (the record was 102.
• Nate Heise canned his 150th career 3-pointer.
• Joshua Jefferson eclipsed 900 points as a Cyclone.