Iowa women’s basketball coach Lisa Bluder says her seventh ranked Hawkeyes won’t take Wisconsin lightly on Wednesday night. The Hawkeyes beat the Badgers 102-71 in Madison back in early December and have won the last 24 games in the series.
Wisconsin is 3-11 in the Big Ten and coming off a win at Minnesota.
Bluder wants to see a solid effort on both ends of the court.
Drake takes a share of the Missouri Valley lead on the road to Northern Iowa Wednesday night. The Bulldogs have won five of the last six in the series but the last three meetings have gone to overtime.
That’s Drake coach Darian DeVries who expects another close game.
Drake won a double overtime thriller in Des Moines back on February first and UNI coach Ben Jacobson says Bulldog point guard Roman Penn was the difference when it counted.
The Panthers enter the contest on a five game losing skid.
Jacobson says in a jumbled Valley race it is the little things that make the difference.
Iowa State looks to regain its winning ways on Wednesday night when the 19th ranked Cyclones host 22nd ranked TCU. The Cyclones have dropped four of their last five and slipped to 7-5 in the Big-12 but coach T.J. Otzelberger says nobody has hit the panic button.
Otzelberger says everybody has gone through some struggles and a tough Big-12 race is the reason.
TCU has battled through some key injuries and the Horned Frogs enter the game on a three game losing skid.
TCU standout junior guard Mike Miles has been out with a knee injury. He could return for the game.
Senior forward Tre King says despite their recent struggles the Cyclones remain confident.
The Cyclones remain in the Big-12 title hunt and senior forward Jaz Kunc says they need to focus on the things that got them to this point.
ISU is coming off its first home loss of the season to Oklahoma State and King says the Cyclones weren’t as tough at crunch time as they needed to be.
(Radio Iowa) – The Iowa Renewable Fuels Association has released an economic study that says using carbon dioxide pipelines at ethanol plants will increase profits and keep most of the industry from leaving the state.
Dave Miller of Decision Innovation Solutions wrote the report which says taking advantage of federal tax credits for reducing carbon in ethanol would dramatically improve margins. “We built the industry on operating margins in the 20 to 30 cents a gallon range on gross operating margins. Our estimate is that with a 45-Z tax credit that gross operating margin basically doubles,” he says.
The carbon dioxide has to be taken out to make ethanol more carbon friendly to compete with other fuels. Miller says without carbon sequestration, the ethanol production in Iowa would move out to another state who would take advantage of the tax credits. “From about 2007 to 11, we built the Iowa ethanol industry, and in about that same period, that whole industry could move, probably not far beyond the borders of Iowa,” Miller says.
Monte Shaw. (IRFA photo)
Iowa Renewable Fuels Association president, Monte Shaw, says Iowa farmers could still sell their corn to ethanol plants but would have to pay to ship it. “When you are shipping corn instead of adding value to it where you are dropping it off — you are not going to get the same money — about ten billion dollars in lost revenues,” Shaw says. Miller says pipelines are the best way to ship the carbon dioxide to keep the costs down and allow the plants to expand.
Dave Miller. (IRFA photo)
“It is an additional $2.16 billion a year that would flow into the state. We have not done an economic impact study on what all the secondary and tertiary effects are of that,” Miller says. But he says the second impact would exist and stimulate substantial economic activity within the state.
Shaw says other carbon capture options for ethanol plants take time to develop and Iowa could lose 75% of its plants without the pipelines. “You know, we’re in a competition to produce low-carbon transportation options. And so this technology — this carbon capture and sequestration technology is the single biggest and best tool we have to keep liquid fuels like ethanol, competitive with electric vehicles going forward,” Shaw says.
Shaw says he understands the concerns about pipelines but says overall pipelines have an incredibly safe track record. And when it comes to payment for easements — Shaw says the pipeline companies are willing to negotiate. “I have yet to run into a landowner who has a pipeline, proposed to go across their land, who has engaged with one of the companies. And then who I’ve talked to, that said, ‘you know, they really just weren’t offering a fair price’.” Shaw says.
Shaw says he’s familiar with one negotiation near his hometown and wishes the pipeline was running across his land because it would have been about the best way for his farm to make money for the next five years. Shaw says landowners should see what they can get for their easements.”We’re not saying hey, ram these things through, we’re saying ‘fair and equitable’. So we urge landowners not to listen to some of the misinformation that’s definitely been put out there about these pipelines. But to sit down and talk, bring your list of questions, bring your list of concerns,” he says.
Shaw says if we can’t have low-carbon biofuels, we’re going to be stuck with no choice other than electronic vehicles, and he says there should be competition and options for consumers.
(Radio Iowa) – Governor Kim Reynolds is asking legislators to pass a bill that would forbid state agencies or pension funds from doing business with investment firms that boycott gun makers or the fossil fuel industry.
“An unfortunate trend has emerged in prominent investment firms that prioritize political agendas and woke ideology above their client’s returns,” Molly Severn, an aide to the governor, said during a Senate subcommittee hearing. “Environmental, Social and Governance or ESG practices are not only legally suspect, they are financially reckless.”
Richard Rogers of the Iowa Firearms Coalition said an international bank recently notified a prominent Iowa gun manufacturer and dealer it would no longer process its credit card sales because it was a gun business.
“If financial industries were to redline on the basis of race, creed, color (and) so on it would be both immoral and illegal,” Rogers said. “I don’t think they should be able to redline entire industries that are lawful and moral.”
A spokesman for the state universities as well as managers of the Iowa Public Employees Retirement System and a pension for fund peace officers said they have not invested in companies that are targeted by the governor’s bill.
Similar bills are being considered in other states as Republicans criticize firms making investment decisions based on the way a business approaches issues like climate change. However, Republican lawmakers in Mississippi recently rejected the plan. The Mississippi bill, just like the one Iowa’s governor has proposed, would require publication of a list of financial institutions the state is not to do business with because of their investment policies.
(Radio Iowa) – The University of Iowa will ask the Board of Regents to approve a housing master plan that includes building a new dorm and selling one that it currently owns.
The five-year plan includes building a new residence hall that would accommodate 250 to 400 students and is estimated to cost between 40 and 60 million dollars. The plan calls for funding some of the cost of the new dorm by selling the Mayflower Residence Hall.
Mayflower Residence Hall. (U-I graphic)
Mayflower was built in 1968 and at the time was a private apartment. It is one mile from campus and the U-I says it is the last chosen residence hall and the first one the students transfer from.
The plan the U-I will present to the Board next week also includes continued renovation of the current residence halls.
The 2023 Boys State Individual Wrestling Tournament gets underway on Wednesday in Des Moines. Action will get underway with Class 1A hitting the mats for Session 1 from 9:00am-12:30pm. Class 2A will be in Session 2 from 1:30pm-5:00pm. Class 3A will be head out for Session 3 from 6:00pm-9:30pm. 1st Round matches will be followed by 2nd Round matches and then sessions will finish with 1st Round Consolations.
We’ll have reports throughout the day and throughout the tournament on KJAN. Seth Christensen will have your results the first two days of the tournament and then Jim Field will have reports the final two days and the pair will bring you the finals live on Saturday night.
Our report times will come your way the first three days at 9:45am, 10:45am, 11:45am, 2:45pm, 3:45pm, and 4:45pm. Saturday reports will be at 10:35am, 11:35am, 12:45pm, 1:45pm, and the finals live starting around 5:30pm. You can find updated results online on our sports page throughout as well.
Tri-Center opened up their Class 1A Region 5 Quarterfinal at CAM on a 12-0 run and held the lead the entire night. The Trojans came away with a 59-47 win over the Cougars to advance to the regional semifinals against Westwood. Tri-Center head coach Derek Sonderland said he’s been waiting for a start like that from his team.
The Trojans led 16-8 by the end of the first quarter and took a 12-point edge into halftime. The Cougars would get as close as six late in the third quarter but could never close the gap any further. Taylor Kenkel led the way for the Trojans with 17 points, including a trio of threes in the second quarter. Alexis Flaherty added 14 points for Tri-Center. Coach Sonderland is proud of the growth this team has made to get to this point.
Tri-Center improves to 14-9 on the season and will move on to face Westwood on Friday.
CAM was led by 10 points each from Meredith Rich and Daphna Wahlert as the Cougars struggled to get points without a couple of their top scorers available. CAM ends their season at 16-7.
CLASS 1A
Regional Quarterfinals
Region 4
Remsen St. Mary’s 57, George-Little Rock 32
Kingsley-Pierson 61, Harris-Lake Park 44
Exira-EHK 56, Ar-We-Va 20
Coon Rapids-Bayard 45, River Valley 40
Region 5
Westwood 77, Boyer Valley 11
Tri-Center 59, CAM 47- ON KJAN
Woodbine 67, Riverside 33
Stanton 72, Murray 24
Region 7
St. Albert 65, Lenox 30
East Mills 46, Fremont-Mills 29
Martensdale-St. Marys 74, Melcher-Dallas 32
Earlham 61, Lamoni 18
CLASS 2A
Regional Quarterfinals
Region 7
Panorama 54, West Central Valley 20
Central Decatur 40, Mount Ayr 35
Treynor 72, ACGC 45
Nodaway Valley 54, I-35 40
Region 8
Pocahontas Area 62, East Sac County 26
South Central Calhoun42, Manson-NW Webster 32
Underwood 51, AHSTW 36
Kuemper Catholic 51, Logan-Magnolia 45
[Updated 6:10-a.m.] (Colwell, Iowa) – Six people were injured Tuesday afternoon, when the Amish buggy they were riding in was struck from behind by a pickup truck. The accident happened near Colwell in Floyd County, at around 3:40-p.m. According to the Iowa State Patrol, a 1998 Chevy 1500 pickup driven by 66-year-old Jim Whitmarsh, of Charles City, was traveling east on 140th Street near 3160 140th, when it struck the eastbound buggy driven by 32-year-old Lavern Stauffer, of Charles City.
The impact caused the buggy’s occupants to be ejected. The injured, included Lavern and 27-year-old Teresa Stauffer, and the following children ranging in age from 0 to six-years of age: three females – ages 0, 2 & 6, and 1 male, age 4. All of the injured were transported by ambulance to the Floyd County Memorial Hospital in Charles City.
The accident remains under investigation. The Patrol was assisted by the Floyd County Sheriff’s Office, Colwell Fire, Floyd Fire, AMR Ambulance and Chickasaw EMS.
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