The end of season college football awards show was quite nice to the Iowa Hawkeyes. Not only did Logan Jones become only the second player in program history to be named the best center in the nation, but he and one other player were named Walter Camp First Team All-Americans.
Coming off their first loss of the year, the Iowa Hawkeyes are ready to return home as they prepare for No. 1 UConn. In the meantime, they'll have to deal with the Lindenwood Lions, a team they can't take for granted.
The Iowa Hawkeyes, entering as double-digit underdogs against the No. 4 Iowa State Cyclones on the road, were expected to take their second runaway loss against a ranked opponent this season.
With a 7-2 team coming to town, the Iowa Hawkeyes know they can't sleep on their opposition. Earlier this year, Fairfield came into Carver and shocked everyone with how many three pointers they made.
While their next opponent doesn't seem like that big of a threat, the Iowa Hawkeyes can't take anything for granted. They nearly erased a massive deficit against Iowa State to pull out a Top 10 win, but instead the nation's No.
The Iowa Hawkeyes, in the program's first season under head coach Ben McCollum, just nearly pulled off what would have been a historic upset on the road.
At the end of the day, losing by four points to the No. 4 team in the nation isn't the end of the world. Even though Iowa Hawkeyes head coach Ben McCollum would tell you otherwise, this was a key loss for an Iowa team that had no business losing, 66-62, to Iowa State in the first place.
The Iowa Hawkeyes led No. 4 Iowa State by as many as 13 points. Sadly for Hawkeyes fans, that wasn't enough. They let a halftime lead disappear in no time as the Cyclones took over in the second half and left Ames with a 66-62 win.
After listening to head coach Ben McCollum, it's clear he doesn't believe in moral victories. Sure, the Iowa Hawkeyes lost to the No. 4 team in the nation by two points, but that doesn't make the loss any better.
The Iowa Hawkeyes entered this season's Cy-Hawk rivalry game against the No. 4 Iowa State Cyclones as double-digit underdogs. Playing away from home, no less, it appeared prior to the tip that the black and gold would be lucky to make it out alive.
The Iowa Hawkeyes travelled to Ames for a game that ultimately didn't go their way. For the first time this season, the Hawkeyes tasted defeat. No. 10 Iowa State got the best of them, 74-69.
Sadly for the Iowa Hawkeyes, this is a season that has a huge "what if?" attached to it. There's nothing wrong with an 8-4 record, but those four losses were by a combined 15 points.
In the end, the No. 11 Iowa Hawkeyes weren't able to get past No. 10 Iowa State. Playing on the road made things tough, but the Hawkeyes had to battle through foul trouble and other little things like missed free throws.
At 8-1, the Iowa Hawkeyes have taken on a completely new, terribly refreshing identity in the program's first year under head coach Ben McCollum. Gone are the days in which the team would struggle to contend, both inside and outside their grueling conference schedule.
While Chit-Chat Wright played a few minutes against Rutgers, this was her true Iowa Hawkeyes return. The transfer guard played 37 minutes which was by far her most of the season.
No matter what the final score read, the Iowa Hawkeyes erased a 17 point deficit against Iowa State. That wasn't good enough to get the job done, but head coach Jan Jensen's squad fought until the very end.
The final Cy-Hawk game of 2025 comes to a head as the 8-1 (1-1) Iowa Hawkeyes head to Ames to take on an Iowa State team that jumped to No. 4 in the rankings.
In the infancy of the Jan Jensen era in Iowa City, the Iowa Hawkeyes women's basketball program hasn't taken long to skyrocket back into relevancy following their change at the head coaching position.
The 10th-ranked Iowa State women held off a rally from No. 11 Iowa in a 74-69 win in the latest installment of the in-state rivalry on Wednesday night.
The Iowa State women’s basketball team, riding a perfect 10-0 record into tonight, knocked off the Iowa Hawkeyes 74-69 to stay unbeaten and send the home crowd home smiling.
The Iowa Hawkeyes first true road test of the season went to Iowa State. In the latest edition of the Cy-Hawk rivalry, the Cyclones prevailed, 74-69. Plenty of things stood out in the contest, but most importantly it was the fight of the Hawkeyes.
Going to Ames was no easy feat, and in the end the Iowa Hawkeyes suffered their first loss of the season. There's no doubt they'll still see a number attached to their name come next week, but in the end Iowa State prevailed, 74-69.
After the Iowa Hawkeyes' loss to the Michigan State Spartans to a convincing, desperate final tune of 71-52, the team's previous ambitions for recognition in the AP Poll seemed to drown under the weight of that defeat.