Photo by Keith Gillett/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images The All-American is poised to make the next leap in his career. Draft Day is upon us and for yet another year, the Iowa Hawkeyes have a first round prospect set to hear their name called. Iowa fans have known for some time they had a star on their hands. When the Odebolt native committed to Iowa, he came not as a Swiss Army Knife, but as a freak athlete who could do literally anything. His reputation on the football field was unblemished. As a do-it-all athlete for OABCG, DeJean passed for 3,447 yards with 35 touchdowns and rushed for 1,2 ..read more

Brody Brecht throwing well for the Hawks | Nick Rohlman Hawks have a five-game winning streak The idea in competitive sports is to improve as the season moves along. The Iowa Hawkeyes baseball team has yet to live up to its expectations this year, but the Hawks do have a five-game win streak going. The Hawkeyes are 23-15 (9-6 B1G) with a 16-3 record at home. Iowa swept Rutgers this past weekend, outscoring the Scarlet Knights 28-7, and took care of UW-Milwaukee 12-6 on 4/23/24. The Hawkeyes travel to Nebraska for a three-game series this weekend. The Hawks are in 5th place in the Big Ten behin ..read more

Photo by Julio Aguilar/Getty Images Hawkeye fans are poised to get their first look at Iowa’s new offense on Saturday. Will it impress? The Iowa Hawkeyes have had a tremendous week. But that was on the hardwood with the men’s team landing a commitment from former Morehead State point guard Drew Thelwell and the women landing a massive commitment from former Villanova PG Lucy Olsen. And of course, all-world former Hawkeye Caitlin Clark heard her name called #1 overall in the WNBA draft to kick the week off. Now, Hawkeye Nation turns its attention to the gridiron where the Iowa football team is ..read more

Photo by Michael Reaves/Getty Images The Hawkeyes go to the Ohio Valley to add guard depth. Portal season is here and while Iowa will never be a program built on a roster full of transfers, the Hawkeyes are again active in the portal this cycle. That started with the news that seniors Patrick McCaffery (Butler) and Tony Perkins (Mizzou) would be exiting for the portal, alongside sophomore Dasonte Bowen (undecided). The departures left Iowa with three open scholarships to fill this spring. Fran McCaffery and company got to work rather quickly and have been linked to a number of prospects. Most ..read more

Caitlin Clark changed the women’s game of basketball | Photo by Thien-An Truong/ISI Photos/Getty Images The Hawkeyes move into a post-Caitlin Clark world Do you remember that time when the Iowa Hawkeyes women’s basketball team played in back-to-back national championship games? Yeah, that was awesome! Chris Farley approves of Caitlin Clark and the Iowa Hawkeyes Much has been said and written about Coach Lisa Bluder’s Hawkeye basketball team. As someone who has watched and written about 90+% of the Iowa women’s games in the last four years, I still shake my head at just how good this team was ..read more

Brad Penner-USA TODAY Sports Caitlin Clark was taken 1st by Indiana while Kate Martin went 18th to Las Vegas After a sensational season where she led the Iowa Hawkeyes to a second straight national championship game, Caitlin Clark was selected first overall by the Indiana Fever. It was a no drama night for Indiana as the announcement was made while a huge crowd watched from the Fever’s arena. Caitlin Clark is an Indiana Fever. #WNBADraft pic.twitter.com/LBWhnalnZA — Zion Brown (@z10nbr0wn) April 15, 2024 She is the highest drafted Hawkeye since Keegan Murray at 4 in 2022’s NBA Draft and the ..read more

Zach Boyden-Holmes/The Register / USA TODAY NETWORK The older and older I get, the more and more I tend to think about my high school basketball team. Sometimes, if I think hard enough, I can still smell the gym and hear the creaks and moans of the tan floorboards under my Nike Shox. I can hear the “THUD” of the four green doors that led to the hallways of my school. I can still feel the butterflies in the pit of my stomach that I would have every time I got into the lay-up line when we had to face off against our town rival (Plainfield South). It feels like I was rushing out of that unfortuna ..read more

Zach Boyden-Holmes/The Register / USA TODAY NETWORK For the final time in 2024, the Hawkeyes are poised to take the floor with a national title on the line. It all comes down to this. The culmination of not just a season of work and effort, but of four years of building fandom, excitement and blood, sweat and tears for this group of Hawkeyes. Iowa is poised to take the floor for the final time in 2024 with a national championship on the line. It’s a remarkable line to type and as a Hawkeye fan, it’s a remarkable line to read. Iowa is playing for a national championship. Again. As exhilarating ..read more

Kirby Lee-USA TODAY Sports The internet’s most rational and objective experts weigh in The #1 Iowa Hawkeyes advanced to their second straight national championship appearance last night after a 71-69 nail biter over the UConn Huskies. It was a heavyweight bout that lived up to each story line put on it in the lead up to tip off. Paige Bueckers vs. Caitlin Clark. Geno Auriemma vs. Lisa Bluder. UConn’s pursuit of its thirteenth national championship appearance vs. Iowa’s quest for its second straight. With less than ten seconds to play, the Huskies with the ball, and Iowa clinging to a one point ..read more

Kirby Lee-USA TODAY Sports Can the Hawkeyes make a second straight NCAA Championship game on Caitlin Clark’s 2024 revenge tour? For the second straight year, the Iowa Hawkeyes find themselves in the Final Four. However, the setting in 2024 is dramatically different than we saw in 2023. A year ago, Iowa entered the Final Four as an underdog story with a shining star who was bringing people to the edge of their seat. They played the role of David to South Carolina’s Goliath. The Gamecocks were fresh off their second national title in five tournaments (coincidentally, over a Paige Bueckers-led UC ..read more