Iowa Hawkeyes forward Keegan Murray (15) during a photo shoot at Carver-Hawkeye Arena in Iowa City, IA on Monday, September 13, 2021. (Stephen Mally/hawkeyesports.com)

IOWA CITY, Iowa — The Atlanta Tipoff Club announced on Tuesday the four finalists vying for the honor of the 2022 Naismith Trophy, which includes University of Iowa men’s basketball sophomore forward Keegan Murray. The prestigious award recognizes the most outstanding men’s college basketball player.

Joining Murray as a finalist for the award are Ochai Agbaji of Kansas, Wisconsin’s Johnny Davis, and Oscar Tshiebwe of Kentucky. The University of Iowa is the only school to have both a men’s and women’s basketball student-athlete represented as a 2022 finalist; Iowa’s Caitlin Clark is a finalist for the women’s trophy.

This marks the third consecutive season that Iowa has had a Naismith Trophy Finalist: Luka Garza (2020 and 2021) and Murray (2022). Garza was the recipient of the award last year.

Hawkeye fans can vote for Murray from March 22-29, by visiting naismithfanvote.com. Fans may also vote on the @NaismithTrophy Twitter page. The fan vote will account for five percent of the overall vote.

The men’s ceremony to award the 2022 Naismith Trophy for Men’s Player of the Year will take place Sunday, April 3, at the Naismith Awards Brunch during the Final Four in New Orleans.

University of Iowa women’s basketball sophomore Caitlin Clark was named a Naismith Player of the Year Finalist, the Atlanta Tipoff Club announced Tuesday.

The list of finalists include Clark, South Carolina’s Aliyah Boston, NC State’s Elissa Cunane and Baylor’s NaLyssa Smith.

Clark, a Des Moines, Iowa, native, led the nation in points per game (27.0), assists per game (8.0), total assists (257), total points (863), free throws made (200), triple doubles (5) and 30-point games (11). Clark is the only women’s basketball player to lead the country in both assists per game and points per game in a single season.

Clark registered five triple-doubles this season, leading the country in most career triple-doubles by an active player with six. Clark’s six career triple-doubles ties former Hawkeye Sam Logic’s Big Ten record (2011-15) for most in a career and ties for the fifth most single season (5) and career (6) triple-doubles in NCAA Division I history.

Clark broke the 1,000-career point barrier against Evansville in early January and became the fastest Division I player (men’s or women’s) to reach 1,500 career points over the last 20 seasons, reaching the feat in 56 games.

Clark was named Big Ten Player of the Year and Big Ten Tournament MVP, while earning unanimous first team All-Big Ten honors and an All-Big Ten Tournament spot. She was named a Nancy Lieberman Point Guard of the Year finalist, Dawn Staley Award finalist, Naismith semifinalist and to the WBCA Wade Trophy Midseason Watch List and John R. Wooden Award National Ballot Top-15. She is a 2021-22 first team AP All-American, USBWA All-American and first team CoSIDA Academic All-American.

JUPITER, Fla., March 22, 2022 – The St. Louis Cardinals announced today that they reached agreement on 2022 contracts with five of their seven salary arbitration eligible players and 20 of their 21 pre-arbitration players.

Pitchers Jack Flaherty, Giovanni Gallegos, Jordan Hicks, Dakota Hudson and Alex Reyes agreed to terms to avoid salary arbitration, while outfielders Harrison Bader and Tyler O’Neill did not.

Of the pre-arbitration players, those agreeing to terms were Génesis Cabrera, Brendan Donovan, Tommy Edman, Junior Fernandez, Ryan Helsley, Ivan Herrera, Andrew Knizner, Lars Nootbaar, Johan Oviedo, Freddy Pacehco, Johan Quezada, Angel Rondón, Ali Sánchez, Edmundo Sosa, Brendon Waddell, Jake Walsh, Kodi Whitley, Jake Woodford, Juan Yepez and T.J. Zeuch.

Outfielder Dylan Carlson had his contract renewed.

The St. Louis Cardinals announced today that they have optioned or re-assigned six players to their minor league camp, reducing the number of players in Major League camp to 55.

The team optioned pitcher Brandon Waddell to the Memphis (AAA) roster and re-assigned pitcher Trent Baker, first baseman Luken Baker, infielders Delvin Perez and Jordan Walker and catcher Pedro Pages to minor league camp.

The University of South Dakota hosted the Dan Lennon Indoor Invitational on Monday and Tuesday. Here’s a look at some of the results.

Class A Monday, March 21st

GIRLS

60M Hurdles
7th- Abby LaSale, CB Abraham Lincoln 10.68a

Shot Put
3rd- Kierra Schmiedling, Lewis Central 11.44m

High Jump
5th- Emily Madison, Fremont-Mills 4-11.00

BOYS

60M Dash
7th- Jonathan Humpal, Lewis Central 7.24

1600M
7th- Ethan Eichhorn, Lewis Central 4:49.04

3200M
8th- Kade Diercks, Lewis Central 11:03.04

4x200M Relay
9th- CB Abraham Lincoln 1:39.66

4x400M Relay
3rd- Lewis Central (Lucciano Fidone, Ethen Fishell, Jonathan Humpal, Luke Woltmann) 3:40.18

Shot Put
3rd- Hunter Deyo, Lewis Central 14.98m
6th- Parker Matiyow, Lewis Central 14.41m

Long Jump
1st- Jonathan Humpal, Lewis Central 6.26m

Class B Tuesday, March 22nd

Girls

400M
2nd- Isah VanArsdol, Tri-Center (1:05.87)
8th- Kyla Corrin, Tri-Center (1:08.31)

800M
5th- Madison Sporrer, Logan-Magnolia (2:36.55)

1600M
4th- Courtney Sporrer, Logan-Magnolia (5:43.29)
9th- Quincey Schneckloth, Tri-Center (6:11.60)

3200M
4th- Madison Sporrer, Logan-Magnolia (12:27.99)
9th- Mya Moss, Logan-Magnolia (13:21.60)
10th- Ryleigh Thomas, Treynor (13:24.59)

60M Hurldes
1st- Clara Tiegland, Treynor (9.62)
6th- Kiera Hochstein, Logan-Magnolia (10.15)

4x200M Relay
4th- Treynor (Jozie Lewis, Racehl Kinsella, Clara Tiegland, Olivia Larsen) 1:25.44
8th- Harlan 2:00.01

4x400M Relay
4th- Harlan (Lilly Metzger, Ella Plagman, Dani Smith, Kaia Bieker) 4:25.04

Sprint Medley Relay
1st- Harlan (Lilly Metzger, Ella Plagman, Lauren McLaughlin, Kaia Bieker) 4:26.51
5th- Logan-Magnolia 4:42.57

Shot Put
5th- Jadyn Huisman, Treynor 11.04m

High Jump
7th- Clara Tiegland, Treynor 4-08.00

Long Jump
8th- Haley Bladt, Harlan 4.40m

BOYS

60M Dash
1st- Chase Ryan, Underwood 7.05a
5th- Will Nueharth, Harlan 7.26a
7th- Mikey Dose, Underwood 7.31a

400M
1st- Scott Pearson, Underwood 52.17
9th- Matthew Benedict, Sidney 57.24

800M
2nd- Raymond Patomson, Underwood 2:12.52a
4th- Tyler Shelton, Harlan 2:13.79
5th- Luke Seidler, Underwood 2:15.94
9th Payton Chapman, Treynor 2:17.44

1600M
6th- Payton Chapman, Treynor 5:09.89a

60M Hurdles
4th- Carter Davis, Underwood 8.71a

4x200M Relay
2nd- Underwood (Chase Ryan, Joey Anderson, Mikey Dose, Ty Strutton) 1:38.29
9th- Harlan

4x400M Relay
2nd- Underwood (Alex Ravlin, Mason Boothby, Bryce Patten, Scott Pearson) 3:44.34
6th- Harlan (Bret Van Baale, Josef Reisz, Wil Neuharth, Jacob Birch) 3:51.62

Sprint Medley Relay
2nd- Underwood (Joey Anderson, Ty Strutton, Alex Ravlin, Scott Pearson) 3:54.61
3rd- Harlan (Lukas Francis, Will Arkfeld, Josef Reisz, Tyler Shelton) 4:00.76
7th- Underwood
8th- Treynor

Shot Put
1st- Thomas Huneke, Underwood 15.40m
5th- Easton Eledge, Underwood
6th- Walter Ausdemore, Underwood
9th- Jameson Bieker, Harlan

High Jump
3rd- Matthew Benedict, Sidney 6-02.00
T7th- Mason Boothby, Underwood 5-08.00

Full results can be found HERE