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Iowa State Cyclones (14-4, 2-4 Big 12) at Oklahoma State Cowgirls (15-4, 4-2 Big 12)

Stillwater, Oklahoma; Sunday, 1 p.m. EST

BOTTOM LINE: Oklahoma State takes on No. 19 Iowa State after Stailee Heard scored 21 points in Oklahoma State’s 85-76 victory against the Kansas Jayhawks.

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The Cowgirls are 10-1 on their home court. Oklahoma State is 1-0 in games decided by less than 4 points.

The Cyclones are 2-4 in conference matchups. Iowa State has a 12-1 record in games decided by 10 points or more.

Oklahoma State makes 48.8% of its shots from the field this season, which is 10.7 percentage points higher than Iowa State has allowed to its opponents (38.1%). Iowa State scores 23.8 more points per game (85.4) than Oklahoma State allows (61.6).

The matchup Sunday is the first meeting this season between the two teams in conference play.

TOP PERFORMERS: Micah Gray is scoring 15.1 points per game and averaging 1.8 rebounds for the Cowgirls. Haleigh Timmer is averaging 2.5 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.

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Audi Crooks is scoring 27.6 points per game with 7.6 rebounds and 1.6 assists for the Cyclones. Jada Williams is averaging 13.5 points and 3.0 rebounds while shooting 37.3% over the past 10 games.

LAST 10 GAMES: Cowgirls: 7-3, averaging 81.7 points, 32.3 rebounds, 15.6 assists, 9.0 steals and 3.1 blocks per game while shooting 46.8% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 64.4 points per game.

Cyclones: 6-4, averaging 79.0 points, 31.2 rebounds, 20.8 assists, 5.9 steals and 2.2 blocks per game while shooting 48.7% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 70.1 points.

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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.

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Two New No. 1s Emerge In Official Iowa Boys High School Basketball Rankings

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The latest Iowa High School Athletic Association boys high school basketball rankings feature two new No. 1 teams.

Storm Lake, led by Creighton University commit Jaidyn Coon, moved to the top in Class 3A while Kuemper Catholic took over the No. 1 position in 2A.

Cedar Falls (4A) and Bishop Garrigan (1A) remained in the top positions in the other two classes.

The official rankings from the Iowa High School Athletic Association will be important in a couple of weeks when the postseason brackets are released for all four classes. The rankings will help separate the top teams from one another while also deciding where games are played in districts and substate matchups.

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Here are the sixth Iowa High School Athletic Association boys high school basketball rankings.

  1. Cedar Falls
  2. Waukee Northwest
  3. Waukee
  4. Dowling Catholic
  5. Dubuque Senior
  6. Ames
  7. Council Bluffs Abraham Lincoln
  8. Des Moines Roosevelt
  9. Muscatine
  10. Ankeny
  1. Storm Lake
  2. Ballard
  3. ADM
  4. Pella
  5. Carroll
  6. Dubuque Wahlert
  7. Clear Lake
  8. Solon
  9. Center Point-Urbana
  10. MOC-Floyd Valley
  1. Kuemper Catholic
  2. Unity Christian
  3. Iowa City Regina
  4. Tri-Center
  5. Western Christian
  6. Grundy Center
  7. Union Community
  8. Treynor
  9. Aplington-Parkersburg
  10. Pella Christian
  1. Bishop Garrigan
  2. MMCRU
  3. Burlington Notre Dame
  4. St. Edmond
  5. Bellevue
  6. Coon Rapids-Bayard
  7. Council Bluffs St. Albert
  8. Lynnville-Sully
  9. Bellevue Marquette
  10. Madrid



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MercyOne announces more layoffs in Mason City

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CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (KCRG) – MercyOne has issued more layoffs in Iowa.

According to Iowa WARN, 34 people were notified on January 26 that they losing their jobs at Mercy One North Iowa Medical Center in Mason City.

Those layoffs will be effective March 17.

This is the third round of MercyOne layoffs in Iowa in the past few weeks.

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In mid-January, the company announced that 40 people will be laid off when their Ottumwa clinic closes on February 27.

Then just last week, a listing on Iowa WARN showed that Mercy One Medical Center in Des Moines will lay off 67 workers.



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Likes and dislikes from Iowa basketball’s win over Oregon

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EUGENE, Ore. — Iowa men’s basketball beat Oregon thoroughly 84-66 on Feb. 1.

With the win, the Hawkeyes improved to 16-5 overall and 6-4 in Big Ten play.

Ben McCollum’s Hawkeyes now get two days off before completing the second leg of their Pacific Northwest road trip. Iowa plays at Washington on Feb. 4.

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Likes

  • Ridiculous performance by Bennett Stirtz: An almost unfathomable display of offensive efficiency by a perimeter player. Stirtz finished with 32 points on 12-of-15 from the field and 4-of-6 from deep. He also had seven assists. Stirtz continues to play at an All-Big Ten level.
  • Alvaro Folgueiras: Two games in a row that Folgueiras was in double-figures scoring. After dropping 14 against USC, Folgueiras had 15 off the bench against Oregon. He also added eight rebounds and three assists. Folgueiras has looked much closer to the player Iowa needs him to be these last two games. He raises Iowa’s ceiling when he’s playing at his best.
  • 1st-half run: Iowa gained some separation in the back end of the first half. The Hawkeyes once trailed 15-13 but turned that into a 32-21 lead. Folgueiras and Stirtz had their fingerprints all over that run. Iowa led for the remainder of the game.
  • Also, a Stirtz milestone: Stirtz eclipsed the 2,000 career points mark. That has come across three stops — Northwest Missouri State, Drake and Iowa.
  • Ball security: The Hawkeyes turned the ball over just five times against Oregon. An impressive display of discipline on the offensive end. 
  • Brendan Hausen: This is not the starting role that some might have envisioned for Hausen when he committed to Iowa from Kansas State. But he has been giving some positive minutes off the bench recently in a limited quantity. He delivered an impactful sequence toward the end of the first half, drilling a corner 3-pointer and then forcing Oregon to call a timeout on the inbounds with his defensive pressure. That helped Iowa take a nine-point lead into halftime.
  • Bench points: Decisively in favor of Iowa 34-18.
  • Cooper Koch: 10 points for the sophomore. Just his second time in double figures over the last 12 games.
  • Road win: Road wins are not easy to come by in the Big Ten. Iowa has not gotten two in a row after beating Indiana in January.
  • No extra drama: Iowa didn’t let Oregon climb back into the game like it did USC. The Hawkeyes slammed the door and won without unnecessary stress.
  • Four-game winning streak: After losing three in a row, the Hawkeyes have now won four in a row.

Dislikes

  • Second-chance points: Oregon had six more offensive rebounds than Iowa and was more opportunistic with those chances. The Ducks cashed in for 16 second-chance points to Iowa’s four.
  • Free-throw discrepancy: Iowa attempted 10 free throws. Oregon shot 16. It wasn’t as if the Hawkeyes weren’t attacking the rim. Iowa scored 44 points in the paint in comparison to Oregon’s 26 (which was another positive for the Hawkeyes).
  • Rebounding: There wasn’t much to dislike about Iowa’s win over Oregon, so this is a little nitpicky. But Oregon held a 31-26 advantage on the glass over Iowa.

Follow Tyler Tachman on X @Tyler_T15, contact via email at ttachman@gannett.com



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