By Pat Harty IOWA CITY, Iowa – Raise your hand if you predicted before the season that Northwestern and Purdue would deserve to be ranked ahead of Michigan and Penn State at this stage of the college football season, because I sure didn’t. But that is certainly the case in my latest Big Ten football […]
By hawkeyesports,com DYERSVILLE, Iowa – The University of Iowa baseball team closed out its fall exhibition schedule with a 15-10 victory over Kansas in a scheduled 16-inning contest Saturday afternoon at the Field of Dreams. Iowa tallied 10 hits and drew 14 walks in the win. Myles Davis led the offensive attack, going 2-for-4 with […]
By Pat Harty IOWA CITY, Iowa – How a team responds to adversity says a lot about its resilience, grit and potential. The Iowa football team showed all three of those strengths in Friday’s 41-24 victory over Washington in Seattle. Don’t be misled by the 17-point margin of victory because the game wasn’t even that […]
By Hawk Fanatic Remember that so-called brutal three-game stretch to start Big Ten play on the Iowa’s football team’s 2026 schedule? The three games against Michigan on the road, at home against Ohio State and at Washington that many assumed would knock Iowa out of playoff contention midway through the regular season. Well, Iowa just […]
By Pat Harty There is a part of the Iowa fan base, or so it seems, that believes Jeremy Hecklinski is Iowa’s best option at quarterback. This observation is based on personal feedback, and on fan chatter on social media. Ever since Hecklinski lit it up at the Kids Day practice with four touchdown passes […]
By Hawk Fanatic At this time a year ago, the Iowa men’s basketball team was basically starting over under new head coach Ben McCollum. The roster had pretty much been gutted with only two players from the Fran McCaffery coaching era choosing to stay at Iowa after he was fired. Iowa also had failed to […]
By John Bohnenkamp IOWA CITY, Iowa – Punting is all about perspective, Boston Everitt said. It’s a message that the Iowa punter has received from a couple of important voices, and it’s one that has gotten him through the first five games of his first season of playing American football. Everitt, from Hope Island, Australia, […]
By Hawk Fanatic Jan Jensen enters her third season as the Iowa women’s basketball coach with an impressive 50-18 overall record. Her Big Ten record is an equally impressive 25-11, helped by last season’s 15-3 mark and second-place finish. For Jensen to have averaged a program-record 25 wins over her first two seasons as Lisa […]
By Pat Harty IOWA CITY, Iowa – While one game certainly doesn’t make or break a college football team’s season, Friday’s matchup between Iowa and Washington in Seattle could go a long way in determining how both teams handle the rest of their schedule. Iowa is trying to avoid losing back-to-back Big Ten games before […]
IOWA CITY, Iowa – Second-year University of Iowa men’s basketball assistant coach Luke Barnwell has been named to the 2026 Silver Waves Media 100 Most Impactful/Influential High Major Assistant Coaches List and the 2026 Roots 66 List ahead of the 2026-27 season. The Silver Waves Media list is the most prestigious in college basketball as […]
By hawkeytesports.com IOWA CITY, Iowa – Iowa women’s basketball has sold out season tickets for the fourth consecutive season. While season ticket inventory is no longer available, student season tickets remain on sale and a limited number of mini-plan and single-game tickets will be released for select games. Iowa is coming off a 27-7 season […]
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By Pat Harty IOWA CITY, Iowa – Kirk Ferentz could have taken the bait at his weekly press conference on Tuesday and whined about having to play at Washington on a Friday night. Because Ferentz has made it abundantly clear over the years that he is no fan of playing games on the West Coast, […]
By hawkeyesports.com IOWA CITY, Iowa — The University of Iowa announced start times and television information for the 2026-27 women’s basketball season. The Hawkeyes will make 14 national television appearances during the regular season, including four games on FOX, six on BTN and four on FS1. Iowa will also appear four times on Peacock, giving […]
IOWA CITY, Iowa – KIRK FERENTZ: Good afternoon, everybody. So just to look back real quickly on Saturday’s game, certainly had a lot of respect for Ohio State going into the game, and it’s only been really reinforced since that time. We knew it was going to be a big challenge, and I think two […]
By hawkeyesports.com IOWA CITY, Iowa – The University of Iowa, in conjunction with the Big Ten Conference, announced Tuesday start times and television information for men’s basketball games for the 2026-27 season. Thirty of Iowa’s 32 regular season games will be televised. The Hawkeyes will appear on BTN 11 times, FS1 nine times, Peacock/NBCSN five […]
By Pat Harty IOWA CITY, Iowa – Hank Brown is listed as Iowa’s starting quarterback on this week’s depth chart. He was also among eight Iowa players that were made available to the media on Tuesday, and that would usually suggest that he is on course to start the next game, which is Friday at […]
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By hawkeyesports.com IOWA CITY, Iowa — James Malechek has been named the assistant athletic performance coach for the University of Iowa men’s wrestling program, the announcement was made Monday by head coach Tom Brands. Malechek comes to Iowa City after serving as a strength and conditioning specialist at Tyndall Air Force Base in Florida. Prior […]
By hawkeyesports.com IOWA CITY, Iowa — The University of Iowa women’s soccer team defeated Rutgers, 1-0, on Sunday at the Iowa Soccer Complex. Iowa improved to 6-3-4 overall and 1-2-3 in Big Ten play, while Rutgers moved to 3-5-3 overall and 2-4-0 in conference play. The Hawkeyes broke through in the 36th minute when Berit Parten […]
By hawkeyesports.com EAST LANSING, Mich. — The sixth-ranked University of Iowa field hockey team rallied with two fourth-quarter goals to earn a 4-3 victory over Michigan State on Sunday afternoon at Ralph Young Field. The comeback was fueled by late goals from Amber Millard-Smith and Dionne van Aalsum. Fréderique van Cleef opened the scoring for […]
By Pat Harty Iowa City, Iowa – As one of few Iowa quarterbacks to have defeated Michigan at the Big House, Hank Brown has earned the right to have one subpar performance against arguably the most talented college football team in the country. There is no denying that Brown struggled in the 31-14 loss to […]
By Pat Harty IOWA CITY, Iowa – My latest Big Ten football power rankings have no change at the very top, or at very the bottom, but plenty of changes in between. So let’s get right to it: Ohio State; 2-0, 4-1 – Buckeye receiver Jeremiah Smith would probably be ranked ahead of two or […]
By Pat Harty IOWA CITY, Iowa – Unless you believe in the ESPN College GameDay curse, the Iowa football team isn’t in trouble just because it lost to a better team on Saturday at Kinnick Stadium. Iowa’s 31-14 loss to Ohio State was certainly a blow, but it wasn’t unexpected, considering the Buckeyes were a […]
IOWA CITY, Iowa – Kirk Ferentz’s Ohio State post-game press conference transcript: KIRK FERENTZ: First of all, just congratulate, give credit to Ohio State. They have a good football team and played a really good game. We knew it was going to be a challenge going in, and unfortunately, we couldn’t meet that challenge. If […]
By Mike Hlas IOWA CITY, Iowa — Iowa football fans were up to their hips in hoopla for a week. Then their team found itself up to its eyeballs in Buckeyes. Ohio State brought the Woodshed on its first trip to Kinnick Stadium since it got scalded 55-24 here in 2017. The Buckeyes’ 31-14 win […]
By Hawk Fanatic IOWA CITY, Iowa – What is certain about the Iowa football team after five games is that it won’t finish undefeated this season – Ohio State made sure of that by defeating the Hawkeyes 31-14 on Saturday at Kinnick Stadium – and that its running game has to improve significantly, and in […]
By Hawk Fanatic IOWA CITY, Iowa – The Iowa women’s basketball team has received a verbal commitment from one of the top centers in the 2027 class. Khalia Hartwell, a 6-foot-4 center out of Westside High School in Anderson, S.C., has committed to the Hawkeyes over fellow finalists Georgia and Virginia Tech. She announced her […]
By hawkeyesports.com ANN ARBOR, Mich. — The sixth-ranked University of Iowa field hockey team earned a 2-1 overtime victory over No. 15 Michigan on Friday afternoon at Ocker Field behind a golden goal from Fréderique van Cleef. “That was a hard-fought Big Ten win against a fantastic Michigan team,” head coach Lisa Cellucci said. “The […]
