IOWA CITY — Thirty minutes into a competitive in-state basketball game last year, Iowa forward Zach McCabe was whistled for a charge shortly before scoring the game-tying basket at Northern Iowa. Iowa Coach Fran McCaffery and the bench went ballistic, and both McCaffery and an assistant coach were issued technical fouls. Northern Iowa’s Anthony James [...]

IOWA CITY — Four teams, four fan bases, four equal shares. The inaugural Big 4 Classic scheduled Saturday in Des Moines boasts the state’s four Division I men’s basketball programs at Des Moines’ Wells Fargo Arena. Iowa (8-2) will face Northern Iowa (6-3) at 1:30 p.m., while longtime rivals Iowa State (7-3) and Drake (4-4) [...]

From Iowa Sports Information: DES MOINES  – The men’s basketball teams from the University of Iowa and the University of Northern Iowa will tip off shortly after 1:30 p.m. and the teams from Drake University and Iowa State University will square off at approximately 4 p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 15, when the state of Iowa’s [...]

The state’s four Division I men’s basketball programs will pay Wells Fargo Arena’s management company a combined $40,000 plus $2 per ticket sold as part of the contract to play the Big 4 Basketball Classic on Dec. 15. The schools’ licensing agreement with Global Spectrum, which was obtained by The Gazette via state open-records law, [...]