University of Northern Iowa NCAA News

It was a tale of two halves for Northern Iowa last night as the Panthers lost to Southern Illinois, 63-58, despite a 28-9 run in the second half of a quarterfinal game in the Missouri Valley Conference men's basketball tournament.

Tyler Patten stepped on the University of Northern Iowa campus, thinking his days as a competitive wrestler were behind him.

2 and 3 seeds, both eager to show what momentum means after five days off. Second-seeded Indiana State is convinced it means nothing.

Usually, a school's all-time winningest men's basketball coach is a graybeard, someone with a tenure as long as any who came before him.

CEDAR FALLS, Iowa - Seth Tuttle scored 19 points with seven assists and seven rebounds as Northern Iowa crushed Southern Illinois 73-54 on Wednesday night.

Derek St. John wrestled his way to the NCAA finals two years ago on one healthy leg, captured a national championship last year by gritting through the last two matches without a takedown and he could become the first three-time winner of Iowa's most courageous wrestler award.

You can't blame Doug Elgin for having his thoughts in the clouds. As commissioner of the Missouri Valley Conference, Elgin spent much of the 2012-13 men's basketball season bogged down by Creighton's pending departure and speculation about the league's stability.

A little over four months ago, Austin Arians stood on the court at U.S. Cellular Arena and looked around at the black and gold draping, the banners of past Horizon League and NCAA Tournament success, and the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee swing man could only hope for bigger things in his sophomore campaign.

Brittni Donaldson hit a pair of tiebreaking free throws with 16 seconds to play in overtime Sunday, and Northern Iowa hung on to a 99-97 victory over in-state rival Drake at the Knapp Center in the second nail-biter between the Missouri Valley Conference foes this season.

With the sound of the starting gun, Aisha Cancio, Arianna Hernandez and Natalie Soubelet took off toward the finish line.

Something stunning is going to take place this week in St. Louis. Either second-ranked Wichita State will complete an unblemished sweep of Missouri Valley men's basketball titles -- adding a tournament championship to a 31-0 regular season, including 18-0 in the conference -- or some team will land in the national spotlight by knocking off the ... (more)

The Northern Iowa men clinched the third seed in next week's Missouri Valley Conference tournament with at 71-69 win at second-place Indiana State on Saturday afternoon.

De'Antae McMurray and Darrius Edwards connected on 3-pointers in the first two minutes to ignite a 10-2 start and Alton never looked back as it wrapped up its regular season with a 70-54 win over O'Fallon in a Southwestern Conference game.

Matt Bohannon added 17 points for the Panthers . Jeremy Morgan scored 15 and Marvin Singleton had eight.

MEN'S BASKETBALL No. 15 Iowa State vs. West Virginia Specifics -- 7 p.m., Hilton Coliseum, Ames Following the game --TV: Channel 5 in Des Moines; Radio: KDRB-FM .

C EDAR FALLS, Iowa - Illinois State cut its second-half deficit to single digits on three separate occasions, but Missouri Valley Conference foe Northern Iowa held off ISU's comeback attempt, and the Panthers never trailed in a 72-59 win over the Redbirds on Sunday afternoon at the McLeod Center.

Every basketball coach will tell you that they want their team to play its best at the end of the season.

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Old Dominion won more matches than Northern Iowa Sunday but the Panthers used three falls to post a 21-19 victory and become the only college wrestling team to finish the season undefeated in NCAA Division I. The match came down to the final match at heavyweight with Old Dominion leading 19-18.

Old Dominion wrestling's most challenging dual-meet schedule in the program's history concludes Sunday when the Monarchs host the highest-ranked team to come to Norfolk in coach Steve Martin's tenure.