Iowa State will try to hand BYU a rare home loss at night when the teams collide in Provo Saturday night. Both teams are 5-4 overall but the Cougars are 4-0 at home.
That’s sophomore safety Malik Verdon who says the coaches have emphasized BYU’s success at home.
With two road wins already in the Big 12 senior linebacker Gerry Vaughn says the Cyclones look forward to the challenge.
Iowa linebacker Jay Higgins says depth on the defensive line has been a big factor for the Hawkeyes improving run defense. That unit will be tested on Saturday by a Rutgers ground attack that ranks second in the Big Ten by averaging nearly 185 yards per game.
Higgins says the defensive line is allowing the linebackers to run free.
With three games remaining the Hawkeyes control their own destiny in the Big Ten West. Senior linebacker Kyler Fisher.
The Iowa Hawkeye men return to action Friday night by hosting Alabama State. The Hawkeyes opened with a 110-68 victory over North Dakota while Alabama State dropped a 69-59 decision at Ole Miss.
That’s Iowa coach Fran McCaffery. Ten players saw 17 minutes of playing time against North Dakota and McCaffery says they are still in the process of defining roles.
After spending most of their life as teammates the Murray twins squared off as foes last night in the NBA. Keegan Murray played 31 minutes and scored nine points in Sacramento’s 121-118 overtime victory against Portland. Kris Murray went scoreless in nine minutes of action for the Trail Blazers.
The stakes are high for the Drake football team as the Bulldogs get set to host Presbyterian this weekend. At 6-0, Drake needs a win to maintain at least a share of the Pioneer Football League lead and it will be the final home game for a senior class that endured a COVID shutdown as well as three straight losing seasons.
That’s Drake coach Todd Stepsis. A win on Saturday and next week at Butler would clinch the PFL title and Drake’s first trip to the FCS playoffs.
Drake needed a goal line stand last week to preserve a 10-3 win at Marist. The Bulldogs are giving up a shade over 12 points per game in the PFL and only 74 yards on the ground per game. They also lead the league in turnover margin.
(Red Oak, Iowa) – Police in Red Oak, today (Thursday), arrested a man wanted on a warrant for Motor Vehicle Theft, a Class-C Felony. Authorities say 33-year-old Kiley Brian Caron, of Red Oak, was arrested at around 10-a.m. in the 300 block of E. Valley Street. He was being held in the Montgomery County Jail on a $5,000 bond.
AMES, Iowa – Iowa State (1-0, 0-0 Big 12) opened the season with the 82-55 win over Butler (0-1, 0-0 Big East) Monday. The Cyclones broke away in the third quarter and never looked back to notch the 27-point victory. It marks the 29th-straight season Iowa State has secured a victory in its regular season opener.
The Cyclones shot at 50 percent from the field while holding Butler to 33 percent shooting. Iowa State also shot at 42.9 percent from deep with nine made 3-pointers by five different Cyclones.
Nyamer Diew led the game with a dominant showing of 19 points and nine rebounds. Isnelle Natabou brought in the next-highest total of 14 on 5-of-7 shooting from the field. Kelsey Joens and Addy Brown rounded out the double-figure scorers in their collegiate debuts, putting up 13 and 11, respectively.
How it Happened
After an 8-8 tie midway through the first, Diew fought through her defenders to muscle in the layup and draw the foul, proceeding to make her awarded free throw. Diew then stretched the scoring run to 7-0 on her next trip down the court to bring ISU’s lead to 13-8. With 16 seconds to go, Joens drained the 3-pointer to put the scoreboard at 16-12 through one quarter.
Jalynn Bristow grabbed the offensive rebound and put in the layup to stretch the lead to 10 (22-12). Hannah Belanger then sunk the Cyclones’ second shot from deep to make the score 25-15 with 5:41 to go in the second. Butler made the final two shots of the quarter off ISU turnovers, but the Cyclones remained with the lead of 29-23.
Out of the break, Diew made Iowa State’s first shot of the half, a 3-pointer to make it 34-29. Butler would battle back within one at 34-33, but the Cyclones answered with a 7-0 run capped with a Diew triple to put the Cyclones up 41-33. Brown then became the fourth Cyclone to net a shot from beyond the arc as ISU went ahead by 12. Joens would follow to make her third 3-pointer to take a 57-42 lead to the final quarter.
Natabou opened scoring for ISU with a layup following a Bristow steal, while Belanger hit a 3-pointer next to extend an 18-point lead (62-44). Arianna Jackson would total five Cyclones to hit a shot from deep as ISU ran out to a run of 10 with under three minutes of play remaining. The Cyclones continued to roll, ending the game ahead 82-55.
Top Performance
Nyamer Diew led the Cyclones with 19 points in her first outing of the season, shooting at 46 percent from the field, while nearly securing a double-double with nine rebounds. It was Diew’s 14th-career 10-plus point game, while the forward also added three assists, a block and a steal to her stat line.
Up Next
Iowa State heads to Des Moines to meet Drake this Sunday, Nov. 12 at 2 p.m. The game will be broadcasted on ESPN+.
Desmond King To Serve As Honorary Captain
IOWA CITY, Iowa — Former University of Iowa All-America defensive back Desmond King will serve as honorary captain when the Hawkeyes host Rutgers on Saturday on Duke Slater Field at Kinnick Stadium. Kickoff is slated for 2:40 p.m. (CT) and the game will be televised on Big Ten Network.
King has played for four teams in six seasons in the NFL, most recently with the Pittsburgh Steelers in 2023. He earned first-team All-America recognition in 2015 and 2016. As a junior, King was the recipient of the Jim Thorpe Award as the top defensive back in the nation and earned unanimous consensus All-America honors. He was the Tatum-Woodson Big Ten Defensive Back of the Year and one of five finalists for the Walter Camp Player of the Year.
King holds Iowa records for career starts (51) and games played (53), helping Iowa win 35 games from 2013-16. He tied the Iowa single-season record with eight interceptions in 2015 and ranks fourth in career interceptions (14). King is one of four Hawkeyes to have three interception returns for a touchdown. He totaled 263 career tackles, and his 88-yard touchdown return versus Maryland is the eighth-longest in school history.
A native of Detroit, King was the Chargers’ fifth-round selection in the 2017 NFL Draft. He earned Associated Press first-team All-Pro honors at defensive back in 2018 and second-team All-Pro honors as a punt return specialist.
King will accompany the Iowa captains to midfield for Saturday’s pregame coin toss. He will also be with the Hawkeyes in the locker room before and after the game.
(Atlantic, Iowa) – Atlantic Special Education Instructor Jill Miller, Wednesday, updated the School Board on the status of the Therapeutic Classroom. She mentioned she currently has 10 students with significantly varied special needs.
She said all-in-all, “It is a lot to manage and keep track of.” Miller said she spoke with the other SPED (Special Education) Teachers in grades K-through 4, to see what their needs were, especially for Level 2 students in particular. Those students, she said, need a Level 2 Program that would better meet their needs and their ability level.
Miller said while they can shuffle some of the Level 1 and Level 2 teachers to serve Level 2 students, they are currently short to Para-educators, and another teacher committed to Level 2, “Would be beneficial.”
Following her report, the School Board received an update on the Atlantic School District’s Special Education Program (SPED) teachers Melanie Fell, Mary McBride and Oran Perkins.
(Radio Iowa) – Iowa Congressman Randy Feenstra says he remains hopeful Congress will act on a new Farm Bill before the end of the year. Feenstra and some colleagues sent a letter to House Speaker Mike Johnson, urging action on the measure, what could end up being the first trillion-dollar Farm Bill. Feenstra also spoke with Pennsylvania Congressman G-T Thompson, chair of the House Ag Committee, regarding the need to act. Feenstra says the bill’s critical components are hanging in the balance.”We’ve got to open new export markets,” Feenstra says. “We’ve got to strengthen crop insurance, we’ve got to fight against animal disease. These are some big things. Ban China from buying our farmland. This farm bill’s critical. We’ve got to get it passed. So, we’re trying to figure out any way that we can try to get it done in late December yet, but it sounds like it may dip into January. So, we might have to do a two-month C.R. on this.”
A C-R is a continuing resolution, or a stopgap measure that extends the deadline. Feenstra, a Republican from Hull, says the flap over the House Speaker’s position delayed work on the Farm Bill and other important issues. “All of a sudden, we did no work for three weeks,” Feenstra says. “We didn’t pass any budget bills. So, that’s taken the forefront right now, is doing all the budget appropriation bills, to try and create a budget that was due September 30th that we haven’t got to yet. That’s all the floor time, that’s all we’re doing is debating right now–which is unfortunate.”
Feenstra says a one-year extension of the 2018 Farm Bill — which expired in late September — would be harmful to Iowa farmers and to certain programs. “Our farmers need certainty,” he says. “They need certainty in the programs. These programs have all lapsed since September 30th. I’m just fearful if we go another year with some of the old programs, that’s going to be a problem. I really think about what’s happening with fighting against an animal disease. We cannot have African swine fever get into your hog production.”
Last week, Iowa Congressman Zach Nunn expressed confidence the House would avoid a one-year extension of the old farm bill.
(Radio Iowa) – The head of Iowa’s law enforcement training academy says its facilities, processes and training are “unacceptable” and a group of state lawmakers plans to recommend more funding. Brady Carney became director of the Iowa Law Enforcement Academy in March. On Wednesday, Carney told a statehouse committee there’s a crisis in the recruitment of law enforcement officers, and the state’s training resources have been inadequate. “Ultimately, when it comes down to brass tacks,” Carney says, “about what is your training product, what is ILEA doing for new hires, and what is it creating and supplying for training content across the state of Iowa — unacceptable.”
Carney says the academy lacks proper training facilities. State Representative Steven Holt, a Republican from Denison, co-chairs the study committee. Holt says he went through law enforcement training in another state, and he was shocked to hear about some of the problems with Iowa’s police academy. Holt says, “It is very clear that we are not properly funding the ILEA and the things that they need to do to train, to have the most professional training possible and to do it as efficiently as possible.”
Carney says the curriculum is being updated, as it was up to two decades old in some cases. He says the academy council worked through a major decertification backlog that meant some police officers continued to work when they should’ve been suspended.
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