The Iowa Hawkeye women’s basketball team picked up a 73-59 win over Oregon State at the Phil Knight Legacy tourney in Portland on Friday night.

The Hawkeyes led by 7 at half and outscored the Beavers by 7 in the second half as well to pick up the win. Caitlin Clark led the way with 28 points and 8 assists. Monica Czinano had 17 points and 7 rebounds and Makenna Warnock added 12 points for the Hawkeyes.

Iowa improved to 5-1 on the season. They advance to face third-ranked UCONN on Sunday at Noon. We’ll have that game on KJAN with pregame at 11:45 a.m.

Junior Patrick McCaffery scored 21 points to help lead No. 25 Iowa to a 74-71 win over Clemson on Friday night to reach the Emerald Coast Classic championship game.

The Hawkeyes had a 14-point lead with just under eight minutes left to play, but Clemson put together a 16-2 run to tie the game at 62. The Hawkeyes got back on top and held off the Tigers. A Tiger three cut the Iowa lead to 72-71 with 4.1 seconds left but Tony Perkins helped seal the game by running some time off on a nice inbounds play and then knocking down two free throws with 1.5 seconds left.

Perkins finished with 11 points and Kris Murray added 10 points and 12 rebounds for the Hawkeyes. Iowa improved to 5-0 and will now face TCU in the title game of the tournament on Saturday. TCU beat Cal 59-48 in the other semifinal.

We’ll have that game on KJAN with pregame at 5:00 p.m. and tip-off at 6:00 p.m.

For the third time in school history the Iowa State men’s basketball team beat the No. 1 ranked team in the country with a 70-65 win over North Carolina in the Phil Knight Invitational semifinals in Portland on Friday.

Caleb Grill delivered a career performance with 31 points, going 7 for 11 from the three-point line. Entering the game Grill was 4 for 24 from 3 but he got hot on Friday. Iowa State was down 7 with 3:57 left in the game but Grill hit a three that sparked a 17-5 run to end the game for the Cyclones.

St. Bonaventure transfer Jaren Holmes was big in the win as well with 22 points, 4 rebounds, 3 assists, and 2 steals. Robert Jones delivered 10 points off the bench and the Cyclones successfully steered through some foul trouble as well.

It was the program’s first win over a No. 1 team since Jan. 18, 2016 over Oklahoma. The Cyclones improved to 5-0 and will play in the Phil Knight Invitational Championship on Sunday night against UCONN. That game is set for a 9:00 p.m. start on ESPN.

The Nebraska Cornhuskers spoiled the Iowa Hawkeye’s hopes of solidifying a spot in the Big Ten Championship game with a 24-17 win on Friday afternoon in Iowa City.

The Huskers took advantage of Iowa turnovers to jump out to an early lead. Iowa starting quarterback Spencer Petras was hit and lost a fumble that lead to a Nebraska 21-yard field goal. Petras was injured and Alex Padilla took over the position for the rest of the game. He gave up a fumble that led to Nebraska’s second touchdown.

Nebraska quarterback Casey Thompson threw touchdown passes of 87 and 18 yards to Trey Palmer in the first half to put Nebraska up 17-0 at the break. Thompson then hit Marcus Washington on a 14-yard score in the third to build the lead to 24-0. Iowa rallied back within a score with a couple of long touchdown drives and a Drew Stevens field goal with 5:41 left. The Hawkeyes got the ball twice in the final minutes to try to drive to tie the game but Alex Padilla threw incomplete on 4th down both possessions to seal the Nebraska win.

Nebraska won the Heroes trophy for the first time in 8 seasons and finish the year at 4-8.

Iowa falls to 7-5 and will now wait and see their Big Ten West fate. The Hawkeyes now need losses by Purdue and Illinois on Saturday to have a chance at back-to-back west division titles.