CEDAR FALLS – It seemed this wasn’t the season for the University of Northern Iowa softball team. The Panthers entered the Missouri Valley Conference tournament as the No. 3 seed, but with a losing record overall. UNI had to fight through the adversities of a young team and a shortened season because of  poor weather. [...]

Iowa athletics director Gary Barta was on ESPN’s College Football Live on Thursday to discuss FCS-level schools on the Hawkeyes future schedules. Monday, The Gazette reported that Iowa was in a wait-and-see mode in regards to future games with Northern Iowa (2014 and 2018), Illinois State (2015) and North Dakota State (2016). Iowa will play [...]

CEDAR FALLS — Northern Iowa ended spring football practice with a game pitting offense versus defense, seeking to rebound from the program’s first losing season since 2002. Rising sophomore quarterback Sawyer Kollmorgen was 17 of 24 passing for 235 yards and a touchdown in one half of action last night, but his absence in the [...]

CEDAR FALLS – Ben Jacobson stepped the podium armed with the knowledge that the people he faced were ready to fire questions at him. So why waste any time? “How about we just start with questions today? I bet there are probably some good ones,” the Northern Iowa head coach said – a statement meant [...]

CEDAR FALLS — Following a one-game exit from the Missouri Valley Conference tournament, the Northern Iowa men’s basketball team has more to do than sit around and wait and see where it will be playing postseason basketball. “We’ll take (Monday) and (today) off and get back into some stuff on Wednesday,” coach Ben Jacobson said [...]

CEDAR FALLS – When Northern Iowa’s senior classed traveled to St. Louis as freshmen, they returned with a Missouri Valley Conference championship trophy. In the following two trips to “Arch Madness” they returned to Cedar Falls with opening round losses. “It’s always tough. Coming in we haven’t been playing our best basketball by any means [...]

Creighton’s Doug McDermott walked to the free throw line with 1:21 remaining in the game. The constant hum of voices within the McLeod Center began replaying the previous 19 minutes of the second half. As the Northern Iowa student section began hazing the Bluejays’ junior, press row and fans sitting behind realized a made free [...]

CEDAR FALLS – Each senior walked off the court to a standing ovation before the final buzzer sounded. Marc Sonnen fouled out with 4:57 remaining. With 2.9 left, Anthony James and Jake Koch followed with substitutions taking their spot. With 0.2 remaining Austin Pehl received his ovation from the 6,621 in attendance at the McLeod [...]