SPORTS

CEDAR FALLS – The 15th-ranked UNI wrestling team scored bonus point victories and three matches, withstanding a late Missouri push for a 22-14 dual victory over the 14th-ranked Tigers on Sunday inside the McLeod Center in Big 12 Conference dual action.

AMES – No. 4 Iowa State (11-0) remained unbeaten through its first 11 games for just the third time in school history in a 78-53 victory over Eastern Illinois (2-8) Sunday afternoon in Hilton Coliseum.

AMES – UNI women’s basketball traveled to Ames, Iowa to take on the No. 10-ranked Iowa State Cyclones on Sunday evening. The Cyclones flexed their offensive efficiency and shot 44.8% from the field and 41.4% from deep to hand the Panthers an 81-53 loss inside Hilton Coliseum. Iowa State (12-0, 0-0 Big 12) sealed the season in-state sweep with the 81-53 victory over UNI (4-6, 0-1 MVC) to close non-conference. ISU sweeps Drake, Iowa and UNI for the first time since 2021-22.

CEDAR FALLS – The UNI men’s basketball team held the Horizon League’s top scoring offense under 65 points and pushed across the finish line in the final five minutes of regulation for a 75-63 win over the Oakland Golden Grizzlies on Saturday night in the Panthers’ non-conference home finale.

HANNIBAL, MISSOURI – The fourth-ranked University of Iowa wrestling team won a pair of duals Friday night, defeating Chattanooga, 37-6, before downing Utah Valley, 33-7, in Korf Gymnasium at Hannibal High School during the Journeymen Wrestling “Uncivil War.”

AMES – A 13-point first-half deficit proved no problem for No. 4 Iowa State (10-0), as the Cyclones used a 19-0 run between the end of the first half and start of the second to rally past rival Iowa (8-2) to win, 66-62. The Iowa Corn Cy-Hawk Series standings now sit at 15-2 in favor of the Cyclones, and ISU has now won the series in four of the last five years and holds the all-time edge, 10-9 (the series began in 2004).