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Iowa State basketball senior Joshua Jefferson is AP All-American
Eugene Rapay | Des Moines Register The accolades continue to pour in for Iowa State basketball senior forward Joshua Jefferson. The Cyclones’ standout big man is a second-team Associated Press All-American. The teams were announced on March 17. Jefferson previously earned first-team All-American honors by the Sporting News. He also earned first-team All-Big 12 recognition. Jefferson enters the… Continue reading
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Iowa’s Bennett Stirtz earns AP All-America honors
IOWA CITY, Iowa — Iowa senior Bennett Stirtz was named an honorable mention All-American by The Associated Press on Tuesday. The Liberty, Missouri, native also earned first-team All-Big Ten honors from the media and second-team recognition from league coaches. He was a second-team All-Big Ten selection by the AP and received All-Central District honors from the… Continue reading
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Iowa State rises to No. 6 in Men’s AP Top 25 as NCAA Tournament is set to begin
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Duke is the No. 1 seed in the NCAA Tournament and No. 1 in the final AP Top 25 of the regular season. The Blue Devils received 50 first-place votes from a 57-person media panel in The Associated Press men’s basketball poll released Monday, a day after they were named… Continue reading
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Iowa remains No. 7 in final AP Top 25 women’s basketball poll before NCAA Tournament
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — UConn, UCLA, Texas and South Carolina were the top four teams in the final regular-season Associated Press women’s basketball Top 25 released Monday, matching the No. 1 seeds in the NCAA Tournament that begins this week. The No. 1 Huskies were the overall top seed in the NCAA bracket announced Sunday… Continue reading
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March Madness wagering set to tip off with the games just 2 months after federal gambling charges

ERIC OLSON | Associated Press The NCAA basketball tournaments open this week and billions of dollars will run through a gambling market that has evolved from office bracket contests and illegal bookmaking operations into a booming industry where it’s legal in most states to wager on outcomes or a seemingly endless menu of statistics-based predictions within the… Continue reading

