The 25th ranked Iowa men take a 4-0 record to Florida for Friday night’s game in the Emerald Coast Classic against Clemson. The Tigers are 4-1 and their only loss was on the road at South Carolina.

That’s Iowa coach Fran McCaffery. The Hawkeyes will play either Cal or TCU in their second game on Saturday.

Iowa State women’s basketball coach Bil Fennelly says his players wanted the challenge of taking part in the Phil Knight Invitational. The fifth ranked Cyclones take a 4-0 record to Portland and open on Thursday night against Michigan State.

The Cyclones will play either North Carolina or Oregon in their second game.

The Iowa State men take a 4-0 record to Portland for today’s start of the Phil Knight Invitational. The Cyclones play Villanova this afternoon. Under first year coach Kyle Neptune the Wildcats are 2-2 and coming off a loss to Michigan State.

That’s ISU coach T.J. Otzelberger. The Cyclones will play either top ranked North Carolina or Portland in their second game.

It was a year ago in Brooklyn where the Cyclones burst onto the national scene with wins over Xavier and Memphis.

A day after finding out it would host the 2031 Women’s Final Four, the Big 12 Conference was awarded the 2030 Men’s Final Four by the NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Committee. Games will be played on April 6 and 8 at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas. The event was also held in North Texas in 2014.

“This is indeed a festive week for the Big 12,” said Commissioner Brett Yormark. “We are thrilled with the news that we will host the 2030 Men’s Final Four in Arlington in addition to the 2031 Women’s Final Four in Dallas. As home to the last two men’s basketball national champions, we look forward to staging this marquee event along with hosting men’s preliminary rounds three of the next four seasons and the 2023 Women’s Final Four.”

AT&T Stadium owns a clean sweep of Final Four attendance records, having drawn 79,444 fans to the 2014 national semifinals and 79,238 more to the championship game for a two-session total of 158,682.

IOWA CITY, Iowa — University of Iowa defensive coordinator Phil Parker is one of 15 coaches named as a semifinalist for the Broyles Award, which honors college football’s top assistant coaches. The announcement was made Monday by the Frank & Barbara Broyles Foundation. This marks the second straight season Parker has been named a semifinalist.

Parker is in his 24th season on the Iowa coaching staff, serving his 11th season as defensive coordinator. He also coaches the defensive secondary. He is the longest tenured defensive coordinator in the nation.

Iowa has posted a 7-4 record to date, winning its last four contests. The Hawkeyes are third nationally in defensive touchdowns (four), while also recording two safeties. Iowa’s 4.01 yards allowed per play ranks as the best in the nation since 2011 (Alabama).

In overall defense, the Hawkeyes are fourth in pass efficiency (103.10), fifth in scoring (13.5), sixth in total defense (273.3), sixth in passing yards allowed (164.4), 14th in first down defense (176), 15th in interceptions (13), 17th in rushing defense (108.9), and 20th in third-down defense (.322).

Iowa has held eight opponents to 10 points or less, the best for an Iowa defense since 1929. Five opponents have gained less than 200 yards total offense and seven have gained less than 100 rushing yards. Ten of 11 opponents have not reached their season scoring average and all 11 have failed to reach their total offense season average.

IOWA CITY, Iowa — University of Iowa senior linebacker Jack Campbell is one of five finalists for the Dick Butkus Award. The Butkus Foundation made the announcement Tuesday.

The 2022 Butkus Award winner will be announced the first week in December. Campbell was a semifinalist for the Butkus Award in 2021. He is joined as a finalist by Jamon Dumas-Johnson of Georgia, Davian Henley of Washington State, Ivan Pace, Jr. of Cincinnati and Drew Sanders of Arkansas.

Campbell (6-foot-5, 246-pounds) has led Iowa’s defense all season. He has totaled 110 tackles, leading the Big Ten and ranking 12th nationally. Campbell also has two interceptions, one recovered fumble and one caused fumble, along with 3.5 tackles for loss. He has 287 career tackles to rank 20th in program history.

Campbell, a Cedar Falls, Iowa native, led the defense in the final minutes of Iowa’s most recent win at Minnesota as the Hawkeyes won their eighth straight game with Floyd of Rosedale on the line. Campbell forced a Minnesota fumble inside the Iowa 10 with 5:07 left to play, which was recovered by teammate Deontae Craig.

On Minnesota’s next possession, Campbell intercepted a pass that was broken up by cornerback Riley Moss. Campbell returned his second interception of the season to the Minnesota 45 with 2:06 remaining. The Iowa offense turned the theft into a Drew Stevens game-winning field goal with 28 seconds to play. Campbell appeared to have a 75-yard return for a touchdown, but it was ruled that he stepped out of bounds at the 45.

For the game he recorded 10 tackles, including six solo stops, as the Hawkeye defense held the Gophers to 10 points.  Iowa’s defense has held eight opponents to 10 points or less in 11 games.

Campbell is also a finalist for the William V. Campbell Trophy. He was named a semifinalist for the Bednarik Award and Rotary Lombardi Award.

Iowa (7-4, 5-3) closes out the regular season Friday, hosting Nebraska (3-8, 2-6) in the battle for the Heroes Trophy (3:01 p.m. CT, BTN).

The CAM girls basketball team picked up a road win over AHSTW 58-43 to open their season. The Cougars led most of the night but had to fight back from a run by the Lady Vikes to start the second half. CAM led 33-24 at the break but AHSTW opened the second half with an 11-0 run to grab a momentary lead. CAM responded by scoring the next 8 points in the period to seize control again. Some late forced turnovers and transition buckets helped the Cougars pull away.

CAM head coach Joe Wollum said it was a good game to start the season with.

The Cougars got some balanced scoring production with 12 each from Eva Steffensen and Kiera Nichols and 11 each from Meredith Rich and Reese Snyder. Bree Bower also added 7. Coach Wollum was happy they could produce as a group.

The Cougars were able to force 24 Lady Vike turnovers on the night and after a sloppy first half took better care of the ball themselves in the second.

CAM starts the season at 1-0 and will prepare to host Woodbine next Tuesday. AHSTW was led by 20 points from Delaney Goshorn and they start the season at 0-2. The Lady Vikes will head to Riverside next Tuesday.

Fort Dodge hosted a big East/West Dual Girls Wrestling Tournament on Tuesday and Riverside and SWAT both competed.

Riverside beat Anamosa 37-36, lost to East Buchanan 54-24, and fell to Decorah 60-18. Danika Feigenbutz had two fall victories for the Bulldogs and Macy Woods notched a pin against Decorah.

SWAT got a 45-24 win against Central Community (Elkader). They took four losses on the day as well to Anamosa (39-30), Crestwood (48-36), Decorah (48-30), and East Buchanan (48-30). Adyson Lundquist picked up 3 victories by fall on the day. Maddie McCoy had two fall wins.

The UNI men’s basketball team came up a bucket short against Grand Canyon 69-67 in the consolation game of the Hall of Fame Classic in Kansas City on Tuesday. Grand Canyon grabbed a 41-27 lead at half and UNI’s rally in the second came up short. The Panthers got close in the final minute, but the Antelopes iced the game at the foul line.

Bowen Born led UNI with 19 points and Tytan Anderson had 18 points and 12 rebounds.

UNI falls to 1-3 on the young season and will next up host Northern Illinois on Saturday at 1:00 p.m.

Atlantic 57, Denison-Schleswig 49 (A: Paytn Harter 18pts, Maddie Richter 14pts, Jada Jensen 13pts)
ADM 64, Van Meter 31
CAM 58, AHSTW 43 (C: Eva Steffensen and Kiera Nichols 12pts each, Reese Snyder and Meridith Rich 11pts each.)
CB Abraham Lincoln 66, Shenandoah 45
Clarinda 60, Lenox 55
Grand View Christian 51, West Central Valley 27
Lewis Central 60, Underwood 39
Mormon Trail 29, Diagonal 26
Mount Ayr 63, Lamoni 24
MVAOCOU 75, Boyer Valley 37
Wayne 59, Melcher-Dallas 38
St. Albert 56, Tri-Center 28
Treynor 48, Harlan 44