Iowa
LeBaron Hall’s $39 million makeover has kicked off at Iowa State
Watch: Demolition work on Iowa State University’s LeBaron Hall has started
Demolition of Iowa State University’s 66-year-old LeBaron Hall kicked off on Thursday, Sept. 5.
Iowa State University/Special to the Ames Tribune
A substantial makeover is underway for Iowa State University’s 66-year-old LeBaron Hall.
Demolition started Thursday, Sept. 5 to make way for the new home of Iowa State’s College of Human Sciences.
Bundled with additional renovations of McKay Hall and the Human Nutritional Science Building, the estimated $51.5 million project will replace LeBaron Hall, complete with a three-story building with classrooms, a multipurpose courtyard and renovated lobbies.
LeBaron Hall’s demolition and replacement will cost $39 million. The entire project was made possible through private donations, including a $15.5 million lead gift, and university funds.
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A groundbreaking moment
The groundbreaking for LeBaron Hall’s makeover took place on April 18.
Iowa State College of Human Sciences Dean Laura Dunn Jolly said the university is excited to see the project get underway.
“This has been something we’ve been working on for several years, and it’s really exciting to see it come to life,” Jolly said. “Students are just thrilled; they’ve been walking by, taking videos of the building coming down. There’s a lot of buzz about this new building coming to fruition.”
Construction is expected to be finished by the fall of 2026.
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A new, modern LeBaron Hall
The new LeBaron Hall will be located on the northwest corner of the Iowa State campus at 626 Morrill Road. The original building, built in 1958, will be expanded to 30,000 square feet, complete with two additional above-ground floors.
The new facility will include a 100-seat university classroom, studios for the college’s nationally ranked apparel program, experiential learning space for the event management program, and a historic textiles and clothing lab.
“(There will be) a lot of what I would call multi-purpose, experiential learning space,” Jolly said. “That’s been our goal, this welcoming and student-centric space that serves as a hub for student engagement.”
McKay Hall will eventually be connected to LeBaron Hall, LeBaron Auditorium and the Human Nutrition and Science Building. Once complete, Jolly said it will be a “very integrated complex” with improved wayfinding.
“We expect other renovations to follow pretty quickly after the initial building renovation,” Jolly said. “That will set the stage for moving forward with the other projects.”
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Where will classes be held during construction?
Classes and laboratories that are typically held at LeBaron Hall have been moved to the Student Innovation Center, McKay Hall and Bessey Hall.
Jolly said Iowa State is considering what the future use of those spaces will be when classes return to LeBaron Hall.
Since the new facility will have no faculty offices, LeBaron Hall’s faculty has been relocated to other permanent locations.
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Celia Brocker is a government, crime, political and education reporter for the Ames Tribune. She can be reached at CBrocker@gannett.com.
Iowa
Limited-edition Cy-Hawk bobblehead released ahead of Iowa vs Iowa State football game
Iowa State’s Rocco Becht breaks down his impressions of Iowa’s defense
Rocco Becht shares his impressions of Iowa’s defense and the challenges the Hawkeyes will present for Iowa State football.
The National Bobblehead Hall of Fame and Museum on Friday unveiled a limited-edition Iowa Hawkeyes vs. Iowa State Cyclones Rivalry Bobblehead ahead of Saturday’s Cy-Hawk matchup.
The bobblehead features Iowa’s mascot Herky the Hawk and Iowa State’s mascot Cy the Cardinal with a replica Cy-Hawk Trophy. The bobblehead commemorates the longtime football rivalry, which has awarded a Cy-Hawk Trophy to the winning team since 1977, according to a press release.
The special edition bobblehead, which is being released in conjunction with the 71st meeting between the Hawkeyes and Cyclones on Saturday at Kinnick Stadium in Iowa City, is available exclusively from the National Bobblehead Hall of Fame and Museum, an official licensee of the University of Iowa and Iowa Strate University.
The bobbleheads will be available in our online store at the following link.
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The bobbleheads, which are expected to ship in January, are $50 each plus a flat-rate shipping charge of $8 per order, according to the release.
Each bobblehead is individually numbered to 2,024.
Standing side-by-side on a football field base that reads “HAWKEYES” in one end zone and “CYCLONES” in the other end zone, Iowa mascot Herky the Hawk and Iowa State mascot Cy the Cardinal are wearing their respective uniforms. Positioned in between Herky and Cy is a replica of the Cy-Hawk Trophy. The front of the base features the logos for each team.
Iowa won last year’s matchup, 20-13, in Ames and has won seven of the team’s last eight matchups. Iowa State downed Iowa the last time the two teams matched up at Kinnick Stadium in 2022.
A group of friends created the original Cy-Hawk Trophy awarded annually to the winner when Iowa and Iowa State renewed their football rivalry in 1977. A new trophy was introduced in 2012 and has been used every year since.
The bobblehead is the hall’s latest Iowa-themed release. The Milwaukee-based Hall of Fame has also produced miniature bobblehead versions of Herky on Parade 3 and for the “Crossover at Kinnick,” the record-breaking Iowa women’s basketball event at Duke Slater Field last October.
Iowa
Who the ranked Iowa high school football teams face Friday night
Southeast Polk and Ankeny have met in three of the last four Class 5A state championship games. The Rams have won the last three titles and the Hawks claimed the one before that run. So it’s a little odd to see 0-1 records by their names entering a big game Friday.
Still, both the Rams (No. 5) and Hawks (No. 7) are ranked, part of a strong Class 5A Central Iowa contingent that also happens to include a 1-vs.-2 rivalry game this week.
West Des Moines Valley and West Des Moines Dowling are both 1-0 ahead of their clash at Valley Stadium.
The Iowa Valley Tigers, meanwhile, already are 2-0. So is WACO and those two ranked 8-Player teams meet Friday in Marengo.
Here’s a look at who all 71 teams ranked in this week’s Gazette poll face Friday night.
Class 5A
No. 1 West Des Moines Valley (1-0) vs. No. 2 West Des Moines Dowling (1-0)
No. 2 Waukee (1-0) at Waukee Northwest (0-1)
No. 2 West Des Moines Dowling (1-0) vs. No. 1 West Des Moines Valley (1-0)
No. 4 Ankeny Centennial (1-0) vs. Ames (0-1)
No. 5 Southeast Polk (0-1) vs. No. 7 Ankeny (0-1)
No. 6 Johnston (1-0) vs. Cedar Falls (1-0)
No. 7 Ankeny (0-1) at No. 5 Southeast Polk (0-1)
No. 8 Bettendorf (1-0) at Davenport West (0-1)
No. 8 Cedar Rapids Kennedy (0-1) vs. Pleasant Valley (0-1)
No. 10 Linn-Mar (1-0) vs. Cedar Rapids Washington (0-1)
Class 4A
No. 1 Lewis Central (1-0) at Creston (0-1)
No. 2 North Scott (1-0) at Waverly-Shell Rock (0-1)
No. 3 Western Dubuque (1-0) at Dubuque Wahlert (1-0)
No. 4 North Polk (1-0) at Carlisle (0-1)
No. 5 Indianola (1-0) vs. Norwalk (1-0)
No. 6 Bondurant-Farrar (0-1) vs. Grinnell (1-0)
No. 7 Cedar Rapids Xavier (1-0) at 3A No. 1 Williamsburg (1-0)
No. 8 Pella (1-0) vs. Keokuk (0-1)
No. 9 Decorah (1-0) at 3A No. 6 West Delaware (0-1)
No. 10 Gilbert (1-0) at Carroll (1-0)
Class 3A
No. 1 Williamsburg (1-0) vs. 4A No. 7 Cedar Rapids Xavier (1-0)
No. 2 Solon (1-0) at Clear Creek Amana (1-0)
No. 3 Mount Vernon (1-0) vs. Union Community (1-0)
No. 4 Algona (1-0) at Forest City (0-1)
No. 5 Clear Lake (1-0) at New Hampton (0-1)
No. 6 West Delaware (0-1) vs. 4A No. 9 Decorah (1-0)
No. 7 Independence (1-0) at Crestwood (0-1)
No. 8 Nevada (1-0) at Roland-Story (1-0)
No. 9 MOC-Floyd Valley (1-0) at 2A No. 7 Central Lyon/George-Little Rock (0-1)
No. 10 Harlan (0-1) vs. Denison-Schleswig (1-0)
Class 2A
No. 1 West Lyon (1-0) at Lawton-Bronson (0-1)
No. 2 Van Meter (1-0) at No. 10 Des Moines Christian (1-0)
No. 3 Monroe PCM (1-0) vs. Pella Christian (0-1)
No. 4 Spirit Lake (0-1) at Sioux Center (0-1)
No. 5 Western Christian (1-0) at Hinton (1-0)
No. 6 Clarinda (1-0) vs. Red Oak (0-1)
No. 7 Central Lyon/George-Little Rock (0-1) vs. 3A No. 9 MOC-Floyd Valley (1-0)
No. 7 Cherokee (1-0) vs. Sioux Central (1-0)
No. 9 Carroll Kuemper (0-1) at 1A No. 4 Underwood (0-1)
No. 10 Des Moines Christian (1-0) vs. No. 2 Van Meter (1-0)
Class 1A
No. 1 Grundy Center (1-0) at Aplington-Parkersburg (0-1)
No. 2 Wilton (1-0) at West Liberty (0-1)
No. 3 Ida Grove OABCIG (1-0) vs. East Sac County (0-1)
No. 4 Underwood (0-1) vs. 2A No. 9 Carroll Kuemper (0-1)
No. 5 Dike-New Hartford (0-1) vs. West Branch (0-1)
No. 6 Emmetsburg (1-0) vs. Estherville-Lincoln Central (0-1)
No. 7 Avoca AHSTW (1-0) vs. Oakland Riverside (1-0)
No. 8 Sumner-Fredericksburg (1-0) at North Fayette Valley (0-1)
No. 9 South Hardin (1-0) at Iowa Falls-Alden (0-1)
No. 10 Iowa City Regina (1-0) at Mid-Prairie (0-1)
No. 10 MFL MarMac (1-0) vs. Waukon (0-1)
Class A
No. 1 Woodbury Central (1-0) at Westwood (0-1)
No. 2 Guthrie Center ACGC (1-0) vs. No. 9 Earlham (1-0)
No. 3 West Hancock (1-0) vs. Belmond-Klemme (0-1)
No. 4 Logan-Magnolia (1-0) vs. Kingsley-Pierson (1-0)
No. 5 Saint Ansgar (1-0) vs. North Union (0-1)
No. 6 Mount Ayr (1-0) vs. Wayne (1-0)
No. 7 Starmont (1-0) at Clayton Ridge (0-1)
No. 8 Madrid (0-1) at Martensdale-St. Marys (0-1)
No. 9 Earlham (1-0) at No. 2 Guthrie Center ACGC (1-0)
No. 10 Lisbon (1-0) at Louisa-Muscatine (0-1)
8-Player
No. 1 Remsen St. Mary’s (1-0) vs. Siouxland Christian (0-1)
No. 2 Bedford (1-0) vs. Murray (1-1)
No. 3 Algona Garrigan (1-0) vs. West Bend-Mallard (1-0)
No. 4 Audubon (1-0) vs. Colo-Nesco (2-0)
No. 5 Don Bosco (1-0) vs. Elkader Central (0-1)
No. 6 Lenox (1-0) at Fremont-Mills (1-0)
No. 7 Anita CAM (0-1) at Griswold (0-1)
No. 8 Iowa Valley (2-0) vs. No. 9 WACO (2-0)
No. 9 WACO (2-0) at No. 8 Iowa Valley (2-0)
No. 10 Lansing Kee (1-0) vs. Turkey Valley (0-1)
Comments: nathan.ford@thegazette.com
Iowa
Iowa vs. Iowa State score prediction by expert college football model
Three of the last four wins the Iowa State Cyclones have picked up in the Cy-Hawk Trophy series have come on the road, and they’ll look for a fourth in five tries against the No. 21 Iowa Hawkeyes in college football’s Week 2 action on Saturday.
The rivalry is split the last two seasons, and the Hawkeyes are coming off a 20-13 victory over the Cyclones in last year’s game, while Iowa State won a 10-7 decision the year before. Otherwise, Iowa has dominated in the last decade, winning 8 of the last 10 meetings.
Iowa’s infamously unproductive offense took what appeared to be an important step forward in this season’s opener, posting a 40-0 victory over Illinois State in which quarterback Cade McNamara passed for 251 yards and threw three touchdown passes, and the Hawkeye ground game amassed 241 yards and averaged 6 yards per carry while Kaleb Johnson scored twice.
Iowa State handled North Dakota in a 21-3 win last week, as quarterback Rocco Becht threw two touchdown passes and ran for a third, but the Cyclones’ rushing attack finished with just 86 yards while back Abu Sama ran 5 times for 36 yards.
What can we expect in the matchup? For that, let’s turn to the SP+ prediction model to get a preview of what to watch as Iowa and Iowa State re-new the Cy-Hawk Trophy series on Saturday.
The simulations favor the Hawkeyes to pull out a close win over the Cyclones this week.
SP+ predicts that Iowa will defeat Iowa State by a projected score of 21 to 14 and to win the game by an expected 7.8 points.
The model gives the Hawkeyes a 69 percent chance of outright victory.
SP+ is a “tempo- and opponent-adjusted measure of college football efficiency” that attempts to predict game outcomes by measuring “the most sustainable and predictable aspects of football.”
Iowa is a 3 point favorite against Iowa State, according to the lines at FanDuel Sportsbook, which set the total at 35.5 points for the game.
FanDuel lists the moneyline odds for Iowa at -162 and for Iowa State +134.
If you’re using this projection to bet on the game, you should take…
Other analytic tools suggest the Hawkeyes will take down the Cyclones this week.
That includes the College Football Power Index, a computer prediction model that uses data points from both teams to simulate games 20,000 times to pick winners.
Iowa is projected to win the game in 71.8 percent of the computer’s calculations, while Iowa State comes out the expected winner in the remaining 28.2 percent of sims.
The model projects Iowa will be 6.5 points better than Iowa State on the same field in both teams’ current composition, enough to cover the spread.
Iowa will win 7.7 games this season, according to the index, which projects the team has a 2.4 percent chance to win the Big Ten championship.
The model projects Iowa State will win 6.2 games this year and has a 1.5 percent shot to win the Big 12 championship.
When: Sat., Sept. 7
Time: 2:30 p.m. Central
TV: CBS network
Game odds refresh periodically and are subject to change.
If you or someone you know has a gambling problem and wants help, call 1-800-GAMBLER.
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