Iowa coach Kirk Ferentz says the Hawkeyes turned their season around by focusing on the game in front of them and that can’t change this week. The Hawkeyes host a Black Friday game against Nebraska and with a victory will make a second straight trip to the Big Ten Championship game.

The Hawkeyes were 3-4 and a humiliating loss at Ohio State but have won four straight.

Iowa will be without tight end Sam LaPorta and fullback Monte Pottebaum but Ferentz says both could return before the season is over.

Ferentz says the last two games are why turnovers are the most important stat in a football game. The Hawkeyes won despite being outgained.

Iowa State looks to play the role of spoiler this week with a visit to fourth ranked TCU. The Cyclones are 4-7 and visit a TCU team that is 11-0 after escaping with a last second win at Baylor.

That’s Iowa State coach Matt Campbell who says experience has helped the Horned Frogs in close games. Their last seven wins have been by 10 points or fewer.

Former Lewis Central standout Max Duggan quarterbacks a TCU team that is two wins away from a spot in the College Football Playoff.

Nebraska interim coach Mickey Joseph expects the Huskers to be ready for Friday’s game at Iowa. Joseph took over for Scott Frost after a week three loss to Georgia Southern and the Huskers are 3-8.

Joseph says Iowa’s defense is consistently strong in part because the Hawkeyes don’t rely on the transfer portal.

Joseph hopes he will be considered for the permanent job.

(Radio Iowa) – The Iowa bobcat trapping season is underway and D-N-R wildlife biologist, Vince Evelsizer, says trappers should be able to fill their quotas. “Bobcat populations are doing very well across the southern part of Iowa, the extreme western part of Iowa, and they’re continuing to expand northward up through eastern Iowa,” he says. Evelsizer says it’s one of the positive conservation stories. “The bobcats story is a happy one. Their numbers are stable to increasing in almost all counties of Iowa that have ideal habitat, which is typically early successional forest and in fields, natural grass fields, that sort of thing where there’s a good prey abundance,” Evelsizer says.

The limits on bobcat trapping continue based on the populations for each county. “The north-central part of Iowa is still closed to bobcat harvest. And then there’s several counties across central Iowa that are open to one bobcat bag limit for that county,” he says. “And then the three tiers of southern Iowa counties is open to a three bobcat bag limit.” Evelsizer says the trapping helps keep the populations from getting out of control.”They don’t have many natural predators in the Midwest which you know out in the western U-S — or the far north — they would have to watch out for bigger cats such as mountain lions or even gray wolves with their kittens you know that sort of thing,” Evelsizer says.

You can find out more about bobcat trapping on the Iowa D-N-R’s website.

The Iowa Print Sports Writers Association and the Iowa Football Coaches Association have announced their 2022 all-state football teams.

The captains in each class were Cael Ortmann of Remsen St. Mary’s (8-man); Patrick Brown III of Grundy Center (Class A); Nolan Delong of Durant (Class 1A); Zach Lutmer of CLGLR (Class 2A); Aidan Hall of Harlan (Class 3A); Braylon Kammrad of Lewis Center (Class 4A); and Abu Sama of Southeast Polk (Class 5A).

Here’s a look at area athletes that were honored. Check out the full teams HERE.

IPSWA All-State teams

8-man

First Team

RB/FB Isaac Grundman Senior Lenox
OL Tracye Miller Senior Lenox
OL Tate Dierking Junior Southeast Warren
OL Gavyn Jessen Senior CAM
DL Sam Foreman Senior CAM
LB Paxten VanHouten Senior Fremont-Mills

Second Team

DL Cooper Nielsen Senior Audubon
LB Sage Evans Senior West Harrison
DB Mason King Senior West Harrison

Class A

First Team

RB/FB Jackson Dewald Senior Westwood
RB/FB Michael Turner Senior Tri-Center
OL Grant Brix Junior Logan-Magnolia
DB Nick Denning Junior AHSTW
Def Util Jaydon Knight Senior Mount Ayr

Second Team

RB/FB Luke Sternberg Sophomore AHSTW
WR/TE Brayden Lund Senior AHSTW
Off Util Jaixen Frost Senior Mount Ayr
LB Aidan Martin Senior AHSTW
DB Calvin Wallis Senior Logan-Magnolia
DB Holden Skow Senior Tri-Center

Class 1A

First Team

Off Util Alex Ravlin Senior Underwood
Ret Austin Kunkle Senior ACGC

Second Team

WR/TE Mason Boothby Junior Underwood
WR/TE Karson Elwood Junior Treynor
OL Payton Jacobe Junior ACGC
Off Util DJ Vonnahme Junior Kuemper Catholic
LB Kaedon Lindsay Senior West Central Valley
DB Boston DeVault Senior Nodaway Valley/O-M
P Braedon Draper Senior Panorama

Class 2A

First Team

LB Dawson Bond Senior Red Oak
LB Griffin Diersen Senior OABCIG
DB Richard Daugherty Senior Greene County

Second Team

QB Beckett DeJean Senior OABCIG
RB/FB Riley Fouts Senior Red Oak
WR/TE Gabe Winterrowd Senior OABCIG

Class 3A

First Team

QB Teagon Kasperbauer Senior Harlan
WR/TE Cade Sears Junior Harlan
WR/TE Colton Rasmussen Junior Atlantic
OL Ben Gard Senior ADM
OL Jace Gubbles Senior Harlan
K Stephen Leinen Senior Harlan
Off Util Aiden Flora Junior ADM
DL Vince Benetti Senior ADM
DL Gunner Schmitz Senior Harlan
LB Garrett Assmann Senior Harlan
DB Aidan Hall Senior Harlan
P Sam Holloway Senior ADM

Second Team

RB/FB Brennan Hayes Junior Creston
WR/TE Jacob Birch Senior Harlan
OL Drew Hickey Junior ADM
OL Austin Schumacher Senior Harlan
OL Colton Wieland Senior Carroll
DL Zane Bendorf Senior Harlan
LB Christian Madison Senior ADM
LB Matthew Sorfonden Senior Harlan
DB Cade Morse Senior ADM

Class 4A

First Team

QB Braylon Kammrad Senior Lewis Central
RB/FB Jonathan Humpal Senior Lewis Central
OL Parker Matiyow Senior Lewis Central
K Boston Hensley Senior Lewis Central
LB Payton Ludington Senior Lewis Central
DB Curtis Witte Junior Lewis Central

Second Team

WR/TE Cody Krause Senior Glenwood
OL Sam Chadwick Senior Lewis Central
OL Logyn Eckheart Senior Glenwood
P Kayden Anderson Junior Glenwood

Ankeny Christian 57, Southeast Warren 49 (AC: Riese Gjerde 19pts)
Carroll 61, Webster City 39
Nodaway Valley 55, ACGC 37 (NV: Lindsey Davis 27pts. Izzy Eisbach 15pts.)
Woodbine 67, AHSTW 53 (W: Nicole Hoefer 20 pts. Charlie Pryor 15pts. A: Delaney Goshorn 18pts.)

UNI lost to San Francisco 75-69 on Monday at the Hall of Fame Classic at the T-Mobile Center in Kansas City.

The Panthers jumped out to a 43-32 lead at half but were outscored 43-26 the rest of the way. James Betz had 19 points but fouled out late in the game. Bowen Born tallied 16 points, 6 rebounds, and 5 assists in the loss.

UNI falls to 1-2 on the season. They’ll be back in action on Tuesday at 10:30 a.m. against Grand Canyon on CBS Sports Network. Wichita State defeated Grand Canyon 55-43 in the other contest on Monday.

Kris Murray had 25 of his career high 30 points in the opening half as 25th ranked Iowa cruised to a 100-64 win over Omaha in Iowa City. The Hawkeyes shot 56 percent and had 24 assists to improve to 4-0.

Murray finished 13 of 17 from the field, including four three pointers.

Iowa played without junior guard Tony Perkins who is nursing an injured thigh. Iowa coach Fran McCaffery.

The Hawkeyes play Clemson Friday night in the Emerald Coast Classic in Florida.

The Iowa State women are ranked fifth in the latest AP Poll. The Cyclones are 4-0 after a win over Columbia and it matches the highest ranking in program history.

That’s coach Bill Fennelly who says it is good exposure for ISU.

Senior forward Ashley Joens on being ranked in the top five.

The Cyclones play Michigan State Thursday night at the Phil Knight Invitational in Portland.

Drake weathered a second half rally to beat Tarleton State 71-64 to win the Paradise Jam in the Virgin Islands. The Bulldogs never trailed and iced the game by making 25 of 31 from the foul line as they improve to 5-0. It was the 100th career win for Bulldog coach Darian DeVries in just his fifth season at the helm.

Tucker DeVries was five of five from the field and made all eight of his free throws to finish 22 points. He was named the tournament MVP.