Follow along from Cleveland as Lee Enterprises Jim Nelson, the Regional Sports Editor for the Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier and Mason City Globe-Gazette provides live updates from medal matches and tonight's NCAA finals.
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Iowa State and Northern Iowa both had much loftier goals for this weekend's national championships, but both the Cyclones and Panthers are headed back home with their eyes on being better in St. Louis in March of 2027.
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The Hawkeyes had seven wrestlers earn All-Americans and four of them can return in 2025-26.
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The Iowa State duo of Addy Brown and Audi Crooks has yet to reach the Sweet 16.
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Iowa State is favored to beat Kentucky on Sunday. But there is a chance the Cyclones will have to do it without their best player.
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The Iowa women's basketball team beat Fairleigh Dickinson in the first round of the 2026 NCAA Women's Basketball Tournament on Saturday inside Carver-Hawkeye Arena.
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The Iowa women's basketball team advanced to the second round of the NCAA Tournament with a narrow win over Fairleigh Dickinson in Carver-Hawkeye Arena on Saturday.
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