CEDAR RAPIDS — Jarrod Uthoff plans to visit two more colleges in the coming weeks, but the Cedar Rapids Jefferson graduate said Wednesday he hopes to make a decision fairly soon. Uthoff, a 6-foot-8 forward who red-shirted last season, left the Wisconsin basketball program in April and has made visits to Creighton and Iowa State. He [...]

Phil Steele has become the E.F. Hutton of college football national gurus. For those of you who don’t remember the company’s world-famous commercials back in the 1980s, E.F. Hutton touted its stock market success and left you with a simple phrase: “When E.F. Hutton talks, people listen.” Well, Phil Steele has that kind of clout, [...]

Big Ten basketball lacks the schedule intrigue of its football counterpart partly because all league schools play one another at least once during the season. But clearly there are basketball rivalries that rise above the rest, and there are questions as to whether they automatically are played twice each year. Purdue and Indiana come to [...]

Last week’s announcement of a Big 12-SEC “Champions” bowl game means the plus-one postseason system has risen from the ash heap of college football history. It also could render all four-team playoff talk moot by next month. The SEC and Big 12 agreed to place their champions/runners-ups in a bowl game after teams are selected [...]

The “On Iowa” podcast with Marc Morehouse and Scott Dochterman breaks down the intense debate surrounding college football’s postseason, the current bowl structure and the potential for additional conference realignment with Gazette columnist Mike Hlas. We also answer your Twitter questions. To listen to this podcast, click on the side or below icon or download [...]

  Ten things that have happened since Iowa played Illinois on Nov. 1, 2008: 1) Obama elected — Coincidentally, the renewal (six years after) will be played the Saturday before the next presidential election. 2) The economy crashed — Mainly, the housing bubble burst. Who knew, right? 3) The Chicago Blackhawks won a Stanley Cup [...]

Iowa and Illinois will reignite their border football rivalry in 2015-16, ending a six-year hiatus that began in 2009. The schools rotate back on to one another’s football schedule those seasons, which was released by the Big Ten this morning. Iowa also will play Penn State in 2015-16, while longtime rival Wisconsin and Ohio State [...]

CHICAGO — With a road schedule reminiscent of a trucking agency, the Purdue college baseball program has become a national aberration. In a sport where the best schools rarely leave home outside of conference play, the Big Ten champion Boilermakers rank No. 9 nationally despite playing their first 20 games on the road. Poor early-season [...]

The Big Ten’s realignment process produced one key casualty among the league’s football rivalries: Iowa-Wisconsin. The schools had played 72 of 74 years before the Big Ten added Nebraska as its 12th member for the 2011 school year. When the league split into two divisions based not on geography but competitive equality, the Iowa-Wisconsin rivalry [...]

CHICAGO — Big Ten Commissioner Jim Delany said his league is “constantly aware” of recent realignment developments sweeping college athletics. “We continue to look at it, but we’re very comfortable with where we are,” Delany said at the Big Ten spring meetings. “There’s another reality that since we expanded to 12 and decided to not [...]