The Big Ten’s top four players will rank among the nation’s top 10 at the end of the season. Michigan guard Trey Burke, Ohio State forward Deshaun Thomas, Indiana center Cody Zeller and Indiana guard/forward Victor Oladipo all are competitive for first-team All-American honors. All four are almost assured of landing on the top two [...]

IOWA CITY — Eric May grew up nearly halfway between Iowa City and Madison, Wis., and saw an awful lot of red and white mixed with black and gold. May, an Iowa senior guard and a Dubuque Wahlert graduate, went to high school with friends who lived across the Mississippi River. That’s one reason why [...]

CHICAGO — Zach Bohannon considers himself a staunch Republican. His beliefs are rock-solid and one day he hopes to become President. Bohannon, a Linn-Mar graduate and a junior on the Wisconsin men’s basketball team, argues politics with his teammates, friends, instructors and classmates. But he has an internal debate about his vote in this year’s [...]

NORTH LIBERTY — Jarrod Uthoff competes with and against Iowa players in the summer Prime Time League. He communicates with regularly them during games. But when the game ends, he makes his way to the opposite gym at the North Liberty Recreation Center and shoots either by himself or with non-Iowa players. It’s an awkward [...]

IOWA CITY — Jarrod Uthoff left Wisconsin two months ago looking for the perfect place to restart his college basketball career. The right fit was just a quick drive from his hometown of Marengo depending on the direction. For a week Uthoff contemplated heading east to Iowa City or moving west to Ames. In the [...]

IOWA CITY — Jarrod Uthoff has cut his college list to in-state rivals Iowa and Iowa State and will make his choice within the next few days, he told The Gazette on Saturday. “I’ll make a decision pretty soon,” he said. When asked what separates Iowa from Iowa State, Uthoff said, “I’m still trying to decide [...]

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 [...]

MADISON, Wis. – Jarrod Uthoff probably isn’t going to push his luck any further. The former Cedar Rapids Jefferson all-stater and 2011 Iowa Mr. Basketball sounded Wednesday morning as if he’s unlikely to appeal a restriction placed upon his scholarship release from the University of Wisconsin that blocks the rest of the Big Ten Conference [...]

Many of the particulars of this week’s transfer controversy involving Wisconsin’s athletics program and Cedar Rapids Jefferson graduate Jarrod Uthoff were set in motion two years ago when Wisconsin sought a signed Iowa recruit during a coaching change. Ben Brust, Cody Larson, Zach McCabe and Devyn Marble signed letters of intent in November 2009 to [...]