West Lafayette, Ind. — Sophomore Samantha Logic scored a career-high 26 points on 10-of-13 shooting to help Iowa snap a five-game losing streak with a 72-52 victory over No. 18 Purdue Sunday in Big Ten Conference women’s basketball. Box Score The victory marks the first time the Hawkeyes have won at Mackey Arena since Feb. [...]
MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. — Tony Ramos and Nick Moore couldn’t quite top off bonus-point victories Saturday afternoon that would’ve taken calculators and criteria lists out of play inside Williams Arena. But both were big winners and their one-sided victories gave fourth-ranked Iowa the extra push it needed to top No. 3 Minnesota 16-15 on criteria in [...]
Nick Moore recorded the meet’s only pin as No. 4 Iowa improved to 14-1 with a 27-12 win over Michigan State Sunday in East Lansing, Mich. Tony Ramos (133), Mark Ballweg (141) and Mike Evans (174) earned major decisions for the Hawkeyes. Top-ranked Matt McDonough (125) extended his win streak to 40 matches by opening [...]
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — The Iowa women’s basketball team fell 83-69 Wednesday night against Florida State in the ACC-Big Ten Challenge. Morgan Johnson led the Hawkeyes with 20 points on 8-for-15 shooting, while Samantha Logic added 14 but committed 10 turnovers. Florida State took advantage of Iowa’s 24 total turnovers, turning a 33-30 halftime lead into [...]
CANCUN, Mexico (AP) – Mike Gesell scored 19 points, including three 3-pointers, to help Iowa beat Western Kentucky 63-55 on Tuesday night in the Cancun Challenge semifinals. Melsahn Basabe added 11 points, eight of them after halftime, for the Hawkeyes, who shot 47 percent from the floor and improved to 5-0 for the first time [...]
UNIVERSITY OF IOWA PRESS RELEASE IOWA CITY, Ia. – More than 800 fans filed into the Dan Gable Wrestling Complex to watch the final round of the 2012 University of Iowa wrestle-offs Saturday morning. Sophomore Bobby Telford headlined and closed the event with a pair of first period pins in the 285-pound bracket. Telford flattened [...]
Iowa City, Ia. Melissa Dixon led Iowa with 28 points as the Hawkeyes beat Quincy (Ill.) 86-51 Sunday afternoon in women’s exhibition basketball. The sophomore guard was 7-of-11 in 3-pointers. Iowa opens its regular season Friday at 5:30 p.m., hosting Northern Illinois in the preseason WNIT. QUINCY (51)—Buresh 1-7 2-2 5, Weedman 4-7 0-0 8, [...]
A Kansas City Chiefs lineman and former University of Iowa football player was allegedly assaulted in downtown Des Moines early Sunday morning. Robert Bruggeman, 26, was walking down Court Avenue around 1:50 a.m. near Erwin Arturo Castro-Cortez, 28, police said. Officers said they saw Castro-Cortez shove Bruggeman. When Bruggeman turned around, Castro-Cortez allegedly punched him [...]
Four Iowa women’s basketball players were chosen to the All-Big Ten Conference teams Monday. Junior center Morgan Johnson was selected to the second team by both the coaches and media. The 6-foot-5 Johnson leads the Big Ten and is 14th nationally in field-goal percentage at 54.2 percent. She is averaging 15 points and 2.1 blocks [...]
Ferentz now dean of Big Ten coaches Iowa’s Kirk Ferentz becomes the dean of Big Ten Conference coaches after Joe Paterno’s firing at Penn State: Here’s the new list: Ferentz became the Iowa coach in 1999, and he is followed by Illinois’ Ron Zook (2005), Wisconsin’s Bret Bielema (2006), Northwestern’s Pat Fitzgerald (2006), Michigan State’s Mark Dantonio [...]
