DES MOINES — Drake is one of eight teams set to play in the annual Anaheim Classic basketball tournament in November. The Bulldogs will join NCAA tournament teams California, St. Mary’s and Xavier, NIT participant Drexel along with Rice, Georgia Tech and Pacific. Drake will play three games in four days starting on Nov. 22. [...]
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IOWA CITY — Former Cedar Rapids Jefferson basketball standout Jarrod Uthoff has asked for his scholarship release from Wisconsin, Uthoff’s AAU Coach Jamie Johnson said Thursday night. But the school has placed heavy restrictions on Uthoff on where he can attend his next college, and the 6-foot-8 forward plans to appeal those restrictions. Johnson, the executive [...]
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Jarrod Uthoff, Iowa’s high school “Mr. Basketball” in 2011, is leaving Wisconsin’s basketball program without having played a game for the Badgers. Uthoff red-shirted in the 2011-2012 season. If he wants to play Division I ball, he’ll have to sit out the 2012-2013 season and would have three seasons of eligibility remaining. Uthoff was the [...]
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IOWA CITY — Don Showalter never planned this. “It just kind of came out of the blue,” he said. Showalter will become the head boys’ basketball coach at Iowa City High, it was announced Thursday. His hiring is subject to approval by the Iowa City Community School District.
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IOWA CITY — Troy Dannen called it a “bittersweet” moment. Northern Iowa’s athletics director did not join in the excitement of his statewide colleagues Thursday with the announcement of a “Big Four Classic.” The state’s four Division I men’s basketball programs will meet in an doubleheader event on Dec. 15 at Wells Fargo Arena in [...]
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Iowa and Iowa State win. Drake and Northern Iowa lose. No surprise there. After decades of quietly and not-so-quietly wishing they didn’t play both Drake and UNI every year, and have to play at Drake one year and UNI the next, Iowa and Iowa State have concocted an annual “Big Four” event in Des Moines’ [...]
continue »BIG FOUR CLASSIC’ MEN’S BASKETBALL DOUBLEHEADER SET FOR DECEMBER IN DES MOINES’ WELLS FARGO ARENA DES MOINES — The state of Iowa’s four NCAA Division I institutions will stage the “Big Four Classic,” a men’s college basketball doubleheader at Wells Fargo Arena in Des Moines, in December in each of the next four years, the [...]
continue »The state’s four Division I men’s basketball programs will meet in an inaugural event on Dec. 15 at Wells Fargo Arena in Des Moines, sources from multiple schools confirmed to The Gazette earlier this afternoon. Iowa will meet Northern Iowa and Iowa State will play Drake. An official announcement is slated for 3 p.m. Iowa [...]
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NORTH LIBERTY — A new NCAA rule forced the Iowa Barnstormers to change locations and limit the number of teams competing in he AAU program’s third annual Spring Fling boys’ basketball event this week. But fewer teams doesn’t translate into depleted talent for the two-day tournament. At least 19 juniors or sophomores who were voted to [...]
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Upper Iowa University Head Men’s Basketball Coach Brian Dolan announced today that Jordan Hay from Stanwood, Iowa and North Cedar High School has signed a National Letter of Intent to continue his academic and basketball career at Upper Iowa.
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