AMES, Iowa – The Iowa State men’s basketball team will play at Mississippi in the 2019 SEC/Big 12 Challenge, the league offices announced Thursday. The game will be played Jan. 26 at The Pavilion at Ole Miss. Time and television information will be released at a later date.

The Rebels will be under the direction of new head coach Kermit Davis after finishing last season 12-20. Ole Miss returns two of its top three scorers from last year’s team.

January’s showdown will mark just the second meeting between the two schools. The only other contest came in 2000, a 73-68 win by Iowa State in Laie, Hawai’i.

Iowa State is 2-3 all-time in the challenge, beating Auburn and Arkansas at home the first two seasons before falling in the last three games (at Texas A&M, at Vanderbilt, vs. Tennessee). The Cyclones are 4-5 all-time in challenge games (2-0 vs. Oregon State, 0-2 vs. California, 1-0 vs. Auburn, 1-0 vs. Arkansas, 0-1 vs. Texas A&M, 0-1 vs. Vanderbilt, 0-1 vs. Tennessee).

The Big 12 has won three of the five challenges with the SEC, with the leagues splitting the 10 games in 2017. The Big 12 owns a 29-21 edge in the series.

2019 SEC/Big 12 Challenge
Iowa State At Ole Miss
Alabama at Baylor
Kansas at Kentucky
Kansas State at Texas A&M
Vanderbilt at Oklahoma
South Carolina at Oklahoma State
Florida at TCU
Texas at Georgia
Arkansas at Texas Tech
West Virginia at Tennessee

The Boys State Tennis Meets begin today and will continue tomorrow for both classes. This portion of State is singles and doubles play, State Team Tennis will be played on Tuesday, May 29th.

Class 1A is being contested at Byrnes Park in Waterloo. Atlantic’s Nile Petersen will be competing in singles play and the duo of Grant Podhajsky and Cooper McDermott will compete in doubles action for the Trojans. Other area competitors in singles play are: Reed Miller, St. Albert; Dustin Merritt, Creston; Tanner Finken, Kuemper Catholic.  Other area doubles teams are: Joel Ibanez and Adam Konfrst, Glenwood; Cam Pille and Jacob Schroeder, Kuemper Catholic; Jaden Heiden and Sean Moran, Denison-Schleswig.

Class 2A competition is at Veteran’s Memorial Tennis Center in Cedar Rapids. No area athletes are competing in 2A.

Hawkeye Ten Conference

Atlantic 6, Red Oak 1 (Game 1) AtlanticatRedOakDH052502018
Atlantic 12, Red Oak 1 (5 inn.) (Game 2)
Denison-Schleswig 15, Boyer Valley 3
Glenwood 10, St. Albert 0 (Game 1)
Glenwood 13, St. Albert 1 (Game 2)
Kuemper Catholic 17, Clarinda 7 (Game 1)
Kuemper Catholic 16, Clarinda 6 (Game 2)
Lewis Central 15, Creston 3 (Game 1)
Creston 8, Lewis Central 7 (Game 2)
Shenandoah 14, Essex 0 (5 inn.)

Western Iowa Conference

AHSTW 4, Riverside 3 (8 inn.)
Griswold 14, Missouri Valley 13
IKM-Manning 12, Tri-Center 0
Logan-Magnolia 5, Underwood 0
Treynor 8, Audubon 4

Corner Conference

Sidney 14, Fremont-Mills 3 (6 inn.)

Pride of Iowa Conference

Bedford 10, Southwest Valley 7
Lenox 10, Nodaway Valley 1

Hawkeye Ten Conference

Atlantic 14, Red Oak 1 (Story here.)
Clarinda 6, Kuemper Catholic 2
Denison-Schleswig 19, Shenandoah 9 (6 inn.)
Nodaway Valley 8, Creston 4
Sioux City North 2, Harlan 0
St. Albert 5, Glenwood 2

Western Iowa Conference

Missouri Valley 14, Griswold 4
Treynor 12, Audubon 0 (5 inn.)
Tri-Center 16, IKM-Manning 0 (4 inn.)
Underwood 3, Logan-Magnolia 1

Corner Conference

Fremont-Mills 4, Sidney 3 (8 inn.)

Pride of Iowa Conference

Southwest Valley 10, Bedford 0 (6 inn.)