Class 5A Semifinals

#1 Waukee 50, #5 Ankeny Centennial 29
#2 Johnston 52, #6 Iowa City West 47

Class 3A Semifinals

#4 West Lyon 52, #1 Cherokee, Washington 39
#3 Unity Christian 58, #2 Clear Lake 42

Class 4A Semifinals

#1 Glenwood 61, #5 North Scott 48
#2 Ballard 32, #3 Dallas Center-Grimes 26

IOWA CITY, Iowa – For the second time in as many days, University of Iowa director of track and field Joey Woody has collected a Coach of the Year honor. Woody has been named United States Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association Midwest Region Men’s Track and Field Coach of the Year. The USTFCCCA announced its regional award winners Thursday. The Big Ten Conference named Woody its Men’s Coach of the Year on Wednesday.

Iowa is ranked No. 1 in the Midwest Region and No. 18 nationally. The Hawkeyes reached as high as No. 9 nationally this season, the best ranking in school history. The Iowa men have four events ranked in the nation’s top 10, including the 400 meters (2), 60-meter hurdles (2), long jump (4) and shot put (7).

Woody led Iowa to its first outright Big Ten Indoor Championships since 1929, scoring a school-record 119 points, 27 more than second-place Indiana. The Hawkeyes had 10 medalists, including Big Ten champions James Carter, Jr., in the long jump and Peyton Haack in heptathlon.

The USTFCCCA honor is the fourth of Woody’s career. He earned head coach honors after Iowa’s 2019 Big Ten Championships, and was named Midwest Region Assistant Coach of the Year in 2013 and 2011.

Four Hawkeye men have qualified for 2021 NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championships hosted by the University of Arkansas on March 11-13 at Randal Tyson Track Center in Fayetteville, Arkansas. They  include Jamal Britt in the 60-meter hurdles, Wayne Lawrence, Jr. in the 400 meters, and Peyton Haack and Austin West in the Heptathlon. Mallory King is also competing in the 800 meters on the women’s side.

For more information regarding the Division I indoor track and field championships is available at hawkeyesports.com/tracklive.

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Drake’s Darian DeVries is the Missouri Valley Conference men’s basketball coach of the year for the second time in his three seasons at the school. The Valley announced DeVries earned 32 of 50 first-place votes and edged out Porter Moser of regular-season champion Loyola in Chicago.

Drake head coach Darian DeVries directs his team during the second half of an NCAA college basketball game against Loyola of Chicago, Sunday, Feb. 14, 2021, in Des Moines, Iowa. Drake won 51-50 in overtime. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)

DeVries has guided the Bulldogs to 24 wins in his third season to tie for the third most in program history along with his 2018-19 team. DeVries also was coach of the year that season. The Bulldogs finished second in the Valley in the regular season with a school record-tying 15 conference wins.

IOWA CITY, Iowa – For the second consecutive season, University of Iowa All-American Luka Garza is one of 10 semifinalists for the Naismith Trophy, which is presented annually to the most outstanding player who achieves tremendous on-court success. The announcement was made on Thursday by the Atlanta Tipoff Club.

Garza (6-foot-11, 265 pounds) has led the fifth-ranked Hawkeyes to 18 victories this season, including wins in five of their last six. He leads the nation in total points (607); player efficiency rating (36.66); 30-point games (7); field goals made (226); and 22-point games (17). Garza is eighth nationally in free throw makes (120) and 14th in double-doubles (11).

The native of Washington, D.C., broke the school’s 32-year old record held by Roy Marble on Feb. 21, 2021. His 2,166 points rank 15th best in Big Ten history. In addition to ranking first in career scoring, Garza is first at Iowa in conference scoring (1,366), total field goals made (815), field goal attempts (1,496), and 40-point games (2); second in 30-point games (12); fourth in double-doubles (32); fifth in rebounding (871); sixth in blocked shots (141); eighth in free throw makes (425); and 14th in 3-pointers made (111).

He is the only men’s basketball player in Big Ten history to accumulate 2,000 points, 850 rebounds, 125 blocked shots, and 100 3-pointers and he is the only player from a major conference with those numbers dating back to the 1992-93 season. Garza is the only Hawkeye in school history to amass four 400-point seasons and two 600-point seasons.

No. 5 Iowa (18-7, 12-6) will host Nebraska (7-17, 3-14) tonight in Iowa City. The game will be televised nationally on the Big Ten Network.

2021 Naismith Trophy Player of the Year Semifinalists

Jared Butler, Butler
Cade Cunningham, Oklahoma State
Hunter Dickinson, Michigan
Ayo Dosunmu, Illinois
Luka Garza, IOWA
Quentin Grimes. Houston
Herbert Jones, Alabama
Corey Kispert, Gonzaga
Evan Mobley, USC
Drew Timme, Gonzaga