The Iowa Baseball team has found their groove in Big Ten play. After a 5-10 start, the Hawkeyes are back to .500, including a 9-3 win over Illinois in the series opener on Friday night. Trailing 2-1 in the fifth inning, the Iowa offense erupted for seven runs to take control of the game. With the wi
The Iowa Baseball team trailed early on Friday night, but a seven-run fifth inning that unraveled quickly for the visiting Illinois Fighting Illini changed the game entirely. That allowed the Hawkeyes to roll to a 9-3 win in the series opener behind a 5.0-inning relief appearance from Kyle Alivo.Wit
Following a busy week of wrestling at the 2026 U.S. Open Championships, athletes with Iowa ties left with plenty of hardware and a trio of titles.Including Senior Freestyle championships from both Stephen Buchanan (men) and Everest Leydecker (women) – plus a U20 Greco-Roman World Team Trials repeat
University of Iowa seniorBennett Stirtzis among 73 prospects that have been invited to the 2026 NBA Draft Combine, which take place May 10-17 at Wintrust Arena and the Marriott Marqueis in Chicago.Stirtz was an Associated Press and USBWA honorable mention All-American and a first-team All-Big Ten se
Donovan Davis, a four-star small forward in the 2027 class, has cut his list of schools down to five and has set a commitment date. The 6-foot-7 junior out of Freedom High School (WI) told Rivals he will decide betweenIowa,Nebraska,Iowa State,Marquette, andWisconsinon Wednesday, May 6th.Davis, a fou
WEEKEND SERIES: VS ILLINOIS FIGHTING ILLINI (22-21, 9-12)The Big Ten season has hit the home stretch and the conference tournament picture is starting to take shape. Top-ranked UCLA is running away with the regular season crown, but up to six teams are still in the hunt for a regional. The race to m
Another quarterback is off the board.Brayden Santibanezis a 6-foot-3, 205-pound signal caller out ofCollierville(Tenn.), and he has committed toIowa, giving the Hawkeyes a key piece under center after a fast-moving recruitment.Iowa did not waste time making its move.“They started recruiting me in Fe
FormerIowa Hawkeyesoffensive linemanGennings Dunkeris looking forward to seeing what the team does this fall. Ahead of the NFL Draft, On3 spoke to Dunker about his expectations for Iowa in 2026.“I think pretty good. I’m fired up,” Gennings Dunker told On3. Led by Dunker, who was drafted by the Pitts
The NCAA Tournament field is expected to expand from 68 teams to 76 this season, leaving more room for bubble teams to enter the mix. While rosters remain in flux based on transfer portal commitments and NBA Draft decisions, enough pieces are in place to start looking toward the 2026-27 season.The N
For as good as Iowa Baseball has been in midweeks this season, Tuesday night was a polar opposite. The Hawkeye pitching staff struggled mightily, with 14 pitchers taking the mound in a 13-6 loss to Illinois State. The staff gave up 14 hits, nine free bases and threw 59.1% of pitches for strikes.With
The Iowa Baseball team is starting to round into form, playing their best baseball of the season as of late. They’ve won eight of their last nine games, including a three-game sweep on Indiana this past weekend in Bloomington. If they’re going to keep that momentum going, they’ll have to do it witho
The Pittsburgh Steelers selectedGennings Dunkerin the third round of this year’s draft, and it marked the end of a very interesting pre-draft experience. On3 spoke to the former Iowa offensive lineman before the draft, and he looked back at the aftermath of going viral after the Combine.“I guess I d
For quite some time, it seemed like the Iowa Women’s Basketball program might be immune to departures through the transfer portal. However, as we’ve found out, no program can run from the portal. Eventually there will be losses and they’ve hit the Hawkeyes this season, with five players entering the
There were 57 head coaching changes last offseason at the Division I level. Last week, CBS Sports’ Matt Norlanderrevealedwhich coaches he believes had the best debut campaigns at their respective schools.Norlander had plenty of options to choose from. Of the 57 head coaches, 13 of them reached the N
Making sense of Iowa’s recruiting means always looking ahead at the number of scholarships potentially available in any given year. The new age of college sports with the transfer portal means rosters are much more fluid than they used to be.Here, we have compiled all of Iowa’s scholarship players b
Portal Jan continues to add to her roster. The Hawkeyes came into the offseason needing to land several guards in the transfer portal and they just got their third one of the cycle. On Tuesday morning, the news broke that Iowa landed a commitment from Georgia guardJocelyn Faison. She spent her true
A couple of weeks ago, the Iowa Baseball team were 5-10 in Big Ten play and faced with the possibility of missing the Big Ten Tournament for the first time under Rick Heller. They’ve answered the challenge with wins in eight of their last nine, including winning five of their last six in Big Ten pla
With the transfer portal closed and the deadline to enter the NBA Draft as an early entrant in the rearview mirror, a majority of teams now have a clear picture where the Top 25 stands. With plenty more to fill out over the coming weeks, many teams have already assembled the core pieces they will re
It’s a post spring practice edition of the Hawkeye Report Podcast and we are thrilled to be joined by Scott Dochterman from The Athletic to discuss what we learned about the Iowa football team this past Saturday.We open talking about the offensive side of the ball, including the quarterback position
Scott Chandlerspent the last couple years as the head coach leading one of Iowa high school football’s top programs in North Liberty (IA)Liberty, but on Monday decided it was time to step down and pursue other ventures.According to a social media postby Chandler on X, formerly known as Twitter, the
The biggest series of the season and the Iowa Baseball team delivered emphatically. On Sunday, the Hawkeyes jumped out to a seven-run lead and held on late for a 7-4 win over Indiana to sweep the series.With the win, the Hawkeyes move to 26-16 on the season and 10-11 in Big Ten play. Rick Heller’s s
The transfer portal is officially closed, and top talents are gradually finding new homes across the country. With rosters nearly finalized, ESPN’s Joe Lunardidebutedhis 2027 Bracketology projections.While Lunardi expects the Final Four teams from last season to be in the hunt for the national title
All spring we have heard rumblings from Iowa’s spring practices that the offense was holding an upper hand over the defense. So there was some anticipation from Hawkeye fans who filed into Kinnick Stadium that perhaps they would see a high flying offense on display.Well, the reality was many of the
Kirk Ferentz put a wrap on Iowa football spring practice on Saturday. He took questions from the media after practice discussing the very latest on the race for the starting quarterback job. How did he characterize the race and where it stood following the end of spring practice.Ferentz also spoke a
It some ways it has been a revolving door for the coaching position at running back for the Iowa football team. Kamari Moulton is now on his third position coach in three years. Some players would be bothered and frustrated by those moves, Moulton appears to be comfortable and in some ways excited a
Last year when Iowa needed a replacement for their starting middle linebacker, Jayden Montgomery stepped up and played solid football at middle linebacker. This spring, he might be on the move as a young linebacker has started to emerge and take over at the middle linebacker position.Following pract
This spring was a quiet one for Bryce Hawthorne. Last year he was one of the stories of spring ball when he arrive on the Iowa campus. Now he’s the most veteran player within his position group in terms of snaps played last season, but he sat out much of the spring.Hawthorne spoke on Saturday after
Deshaun Lee could only smile when it was mentioned to him that he’s now one of the old players within his position group. He recalls back to the days not that long ago when he was the young freshman learning from the veteran defensive backs. Now, he’s the teacher in many ways instead of the student.
University of Iowa defensive endMax Llewellynwas selected by the Miami Dolphins in the seventh round of Saturday’s NFL Draft. Llewellyn was the 238th player picked overall. He is the 101st Iowa player drafted in the Ferentz era.Llewellyn is the seventh Hawkeye selected in the 2026 NFL Draft, the mos
University of Iowa defensive backTJ Hallwas selected by the New Orleans Saints in the seventh round of Saturday’s NFL Draft. Hall was the 219th player picked overall and he became the 100th NFL draft pick under head coach Kirk Ferentz.The native of Fresno, California, is the 20th defensive back sele
