Iowa men's basketball to play in in 20-team invitational in 2025
That wait may not be too long as the Iowa Hawkeyes will be one of 20 teams taking part in the largest multi-team event in college basketball in 2025, The Acrisure Series. The event is set for November 25-28 and will be at the Acrsure Arena in Palm Desert, California.
The rest of the field features other Big Ten members, Washington and Minnesota, as well as in-state program Northern Iowa.
It remains unknown who the Hawkeyes will be drawing in their matchups, but the field gives Iowa an early-season look at how they could fare against potential NCAA-tournament caliber programs.
Per the official Hawkeye Sports website, the Hawkeyes have a game on Tuesday, November 25, and Wednesday, November 26.
Last year's Acrisure Series featured just four teams, consisting of TCU, Santa Clara, Washington, and Colorado State, with Washington winning the invitational.
This year's field, along with Iowa, includes Utah, Grand Canyon, Stanford, Washington, Nevada, San Jose State, Northern Iowa, San Diego, Pepperdine, Ole Miss, Saint Louis, Minnesota, Santa Clara, Colorado, San Francisco, Loyola Chicago, Tulsa, Cal Baptist, and Fresno State.
Contact/Follow us @HawkeyesWire on X (formerly Twitter) and like our page on Facebook to follow ongoing coverage of Iowa news, notes and opinions. Follow Riley on X: @rileydonald7
Hashtags
Try Our AI Features
Explore what Daily8 AI can do for you:
Comments
No comments yet...
Related Articles
Yahoo
42 minutes ago
- Yahoo
Fernandez wins DC Open fuelled by Shake Shack, de Minaur takes men's title
WASHINGTON (AP) — The biggest tennis title of Leylah Fernandez's career arrived at the D.C. Open on Sunday with the help of a terrific backhand, some superb returning — and energy courtesy of Shake Shack's burgers and fries. The left-handed Fernandez, a 22-year-old from Laval, Que., who is ranked 36th, wrapped up a big week of tight matches with a lopsided victory, defeating Anna Kalinskaya of Russia 6-1, 6-2 in the final. Fernandez earned her fourth singles trophy — all have come at hard-court tournaments — and first at a WTA 500 event. She came quite close to a Grand Slam championship as a teenager at the 2021 U.S. Open, making it all the way to the final in New York before losing to Emma Raducanu. There almost was a rematch in Washington, but Kalinskaya eliminated Raducanu in Saturday's semifinals. The men's trophy was won by No. 7 seed Alex de Minaur, who earned his 10th ATP title — eighth on hard courts — by saving three championship points in a 5-7, 6-1, 7-6 (3) victory over No. 12 Alejandro Davidovich Fokina. De Minaur, a 26-year-old Australian, was the runner-up in Washington in 2018. Davidovich Fokina dropped to 0-4 for his career in finals despite leading 5-2 in the third set Sunday and repeatedly standing just a single point from victory. This was his second time frittering away multiple match points in a tournament final this year. He entered the week at No. 26 and will make his debut in the top 20 on Monday; he remains the highest-ranked man without a title. Fernandez took quite a journey through the women's bracket. She needed 2 hours, 19 minutes to oust No. 1 seed Jessica Pegula — last year's U.S. Open runner-up — in three sets in the second round, then 2 hours, 20 minutes to beat Taylor Townsend in the quarterfinals, and 3 hours, 12 minutes for a three-tiebreaker victory over No. 3 seed Elena Rybakina — the 2022 Wimbledon champion — in the semifinals. After each of the last two, Fernandez and her father — who is also her coach — opted for Shake Shack. 'We got burgers, hotdog, cheese fries — everything that an athlete should not eat before a match, but it did the trick,' Fernandez said about what she ate after the Townsend match. 'It gave me the right nutrients to recover from the cramps and get ready for the next round.' Following the Rybakina marathon, Fernandez said she and her father 'were messaging, and I was, like, 'OK, what do you want to eat tonight?' We both answered at the same time: burgers. … That was kind of my diet for the whole week.' Sure worked: This was the first title for Fernandez since October 2023 at the Hong Kong Open. Plus, she arrived in Washington with a losing record this season and hadn't won more than two matches at the same tournament since last November. 'I have gone through so many different challenges this week. It just has made me stronger, in a way, that if I can get through this week — through the cramps, through the long matches, through the heat, the humidity — I can get through anything,' Fernandez said. 'So I was just very happy that I got to not only push myself physically through the limits, but also mentally. So that kind of will help me hopefully for future tournaments.' Against the 48th-ranked Kalinskaya, who hadn't dropped a set until Sunday, Fernandez saved the only break point she faced while breaking four times. One key: Fernandez claimed 10 of the 12 points when Kalinskaya hit a second serve. Another: Kalinskaya — a 26-year-oldwho is 0-3 in tour finals — finished with 24 unforced errors and just nine winners. 'Amazing fight this week,' Kalinskaya told Fernandez. 'You truly deserve it.' ___ AP tennis: Howard Fendrich, The Associated Press
Yahoo
2 hours ago
- Yahoo
Demon gets 'lucky' to secure Washington Open crown
Alex de Minaur admits he "got lucky" after he saved three championship points to claw his way to his first title of the year, winning the Washington Open final at the second time of asking. The Australian men's No.1 fought gallantly to claim an enthralling contest in the US capital over fellow 26-year-old Alejandro Davidovich Fokina 5-7 6-1 7-6 (7-3), in just over three hours. A workman-like tiebreaker capped off a week full of positives, and 10th career title, for de Minaur ahead of next month's US Open in New York, while Spaniard Davidovich Fokina fell just short of claiming his first ATP Tour title. De Minaur, who lost in straight sets to Germany's Alexander Zverev in the 2018 Washington final, improved to a tour-leading 22 hard-court wins for the season. The seventh seed consoled his devastated rival after the defeat and during the presentation ceremony told him that his maiden trophy wasn't far away. Davidovich Fokina missed out on two championship points in Delray Beach this February and lost the Acapulco final in March. "You're way to good to not have one of these (trophies). It's coming for sure," de Minaur said to his opponent. "You deserved it today. I just got lucky. You are a hell of a competitor, a hell of a player. No one on the tour wants to play you. This is not the end, this is only going up for you." The Spanish 12th seed was broken early in the opening set but responded immediately for 2-2. He gained the advantage again in the 11th game before serving it out. It lit a fire under the Aussie, who raced through the second set in just 36 minutes, winning 6-1. But de Minaur dropped serve to trail 4-1 in the decider, before breaking back when Davidovich Fokina was serving for the title at 5-4. He scrambled from 0-30 and on his opponent's third match point a desperate lob clipped the sideline and helped de Minaur turn the point and final around. De Minaur will return to world No.8 on the back of reaching the final. "It's something about this court. I did it in 2018 ... and honestly, I just kind of knew I could do it," said the Aussie, who saved four match points against Andrey Rublev that year but lost in the decider. "I just backed myself and I told myself to commit no matter what and if I lost this match it was going to be on my terms. Today it went my way. I've had a couple of brutal ones not go my way, so I'm glad this one went my way."
Yahoo
2 hours ago
- Yahoo
Cal Raleigh's 40th home run of the season
Cal Raleigh hits a go-ahead solo homer to right, the first to 40 home runs in the MLB this season, while giving the Mariners a 3-2 lead in the 6th
