The Wartburg women’s basketball team travels to Providence, Rhode Island, for the Sweet-16 of the NCAA Division III Tournament. They will take on Bates College in Friday night’s opener.

That’s Wartburg coach Bob Amsberry. The Knights are 27-2 and advanced to the rounds of 16 after home wins over Wisconsin Lutheran and Illinois Wesleyan.

It is Wartburg’s second straight trip to the Sweet Sixteen.

Rhode Island College plays Washington & Lee in Friday night’s second game. The winners meet Saturday for the right to advance to the Final Four.

Drake’s Tucker DeVries has been named the Missouri Valley Conference Player of the Year for the second straight season. DeVries was the top scorer in conference play at 23 and-a-half points per game and finished in the top 10 in rebounding and steals and feels his role changed this season.

DeVries led a Drake team with 10 new players to a 25-6 regular season record.

Drake is the number two seed in the Missouri Valley Conference Tournament in St. Louis and opens Friday night against the winner of today’s (Thursday’s) game between Illinois State and Evansville. The Bulldogs won the tournament a year ago as the two seed.

Sixth ranked Iowa State rallied from a 14-point second half deficit, Wednesday night, to edge BYU 68-63 as the Cyclones finished 18-0 at Hilton Coliseum.

That’s ISU coach T.J. Otzelberger. The Cyclones limited BYU to 23 second half points on seven-of-30 shooting in the second half.

The Cyclones are 24-6 overall and 13-4 in the Big 12. They close the regular season on Saturday at Kansas S

Class 2A – Quarterfinals 

#1 Western Christian (21-3) vs #5 Treynor (22-3) @ 10:15 a.m.

#2 Hudson (24-2) vs #6 Unity Christian (21-4) @ 12:15 p.m.

Class 3A – Quarterfinals 

#1 Decorah (23-2) vs Assumption (17-8) @ 2:00 p.m.

#2 Waverly -Shell Rock (21-3) vs #3 MOC-Floyd Valley (22-3) @ 3:45 p.m.

Class 4A – Quarterfinals

#1 Cedar Rapids Kennedy (24-0) vs Ankeny (18-6) @ 5:30 p.m.

#2 Valley (19-5) vs #6 Bettendorf (18-6) @ 7:15 p.m.

AMES, Iowa – No. 6 Iowa State (24-6, 13-4) reached into its bag of Hilton Magic tricks Wednesday night in a 68-63 come-from-behind win over No. 20 BYU (21-9, 9-8 Big 12).

Down by 14 points early in the second half, the Cyclones shut down the hot-shooting Cougars to just 7-of-30 shooting (23.3%) after intermission to record their fifth perfect home mark in Hilton Coliseum at 18-0. ISU’s 18 home wins ties the school record for most victories in season with the 1999-2000 team.

With 15:56 left in the game, BYU owned total control with a 46-32 lead. But Curtis Jones and Tamin Lipsey rallied the troops with 12 and 10 points, respectively, after intermission en route to the largest second-half comeback victory in the T.J. Otzelberger era. It also marked the 18th AP Top-25 win under Otzelberger.

BYU had plenty of chances at the end, but the Cyclones kept coming up with stops, holding the Cougars scoreless the final 4:24 minutes. Keshon Gilbert, who scored eight points and a team-high five assists, secured the victory with four-straight charity shots with under 10 seconds remaining.

Lipsey led all Cyclones with 19 points and five steals, padding his season steal total to 82, the second-most in school history. Curtis Jones added 18 points (7-of-13 FG), his 12th consecutive double-digit scoring game from off the bench.

Richie Saunders led the Cougars with 20 points.

Up Next

Iowa State travels to Manhattan on Saturday (March 9) to face Kansas State in the Big 12 regular-season finale. Tipoff is at 1 p.m. CT on ESPN2.

Iowa forward Patrick McCaffery says he has not made a final decision but he does not plan on using his COVID season to return for a sixth season. The son of Iowa coach Fran McCaffery is averaging just under nine points per game and will take part in Senior Day ceremonies on Sunday when the Hawkeyes host Illinois.

McCaffery says he could always change his mind and there is no immediate timetable for a final decision.

McCaffery says his immediate goal is to play professionally.

The CAM Cougars boys basketball team ended their season with 51-37 loss to the Madrid Tigers in the second round of the Class 1A-Region 8 bracket. CAM was led in scoring by sophomore Collin Bower who had 12 points in that game. The Cougars finished the season with a 12-10 overall record and went 8-8 in the Rolling Valley Conference.

CAM was led in scoring on the season by Sophomore Collin Bower who had 301 points and averaged 14 points per game this season.

The Cougars will be losing three seniors to graduation this season: Brody Paulsen, Ryan Bower and Ryan Oglesbee.

CAM head coach Ian Hunt said his team played pretty good defense a very good Madrid team in the post season.

Coach Hunt commented on how well sophomore Collin Bower stepped up and improved his game this season for the Cougars.

Coach Hunt said he really is going to miss the three seniors who have been part of the Cougar program over the years.

Coach Hunt talked about the team playing in a summer league and wanted the guys to get into the gym to work on their game over the summer.

If hard work is put in over the summer like it was during the year, the Cougars expect to be competitive next season.

Freshman forward Kevin Overton has been a big part of Drake’s 25-6 regular season. The native of Oklahoma City is third on the team in scoring at 12 points per game and is second in three pointers made. Early on he had to adjust to the physical nature of college basketball.

Overton says it takes a lot of work to survive the grind of a season.

Overton broke out and became a consistent weapon during a November trip to the Cayman Islands Classic.

The Bulldogs are the two seed in this week’s Missouri Valley Conference Tournament in St. Louis ands open Friday night against the winner of Thursday’s game between Illinois State and Evansville.

The Northern Iowa women open the final week of the regular season at Indiana State on Thursday night. The Panthers are 12-6 and tied for fourth in the Missouri Valley race with Indiana. They will close the regular season Saturday at Evansville.

That’s UNI coach Tanya Warren. The Sycamores are 6-12 in the Valley.

The Panthers opened the season 1-9 due to a rash of injuries but with two wins this week would finish the regular season with a 15-14 overall mark.