The 2022-2023 basketball season hasn’t come to an finish, however the Iowa employees already has its eyes on the switch portal.
As first reported by Jake Weingarten of StockRisers.com, the Hawkeyes have proven curiosity in 6’8″, 245-pound ahead from Wofford, B.J. Mack. Mack introduced his intentions to enter the portal as a graduate switch on Tuesday.
Mack, who spent the final three years at Wofford after transferring following his freshman season with South Florida, was a star large man for the Terriers. As a junior, he put up 16.5 factors and 6.1 rebounds a sport whereas taking pictures 53.6 % from the sector, 44.8 % from three and 81.8 % from the free throw line. He earned a spot on the All-Southern Convention Second Staff and SoCon All-Match Staff.
This season, he put up 16.6 factors and 5.6 rebounds per sport whereas taking pictures 49.2 % from the sector, 33.5 % from deep and 80.7 % from the stripe. He was named to the SoCon First Staff.
On this season’s convention match, he hit a buzzer-beating game-winner to ship Wofford to the semi-finals, as they defeated UNC-Greensboro, 67-66.
Iowa is definitely not the one faculty to have proven curiosity within the large man since he entered the portal. Applications like Nebraska, Memphis, Kansas State, Auburn, Missouri, Texas A&M, Arkansas, Xavier and others have reached out to Mack as nicely.
It is no surprise so many Energy 6 packages are after the previous three-star, Oak Hill product. Mack shoots it nicely from deep and the free-throw line, has wonderful footwork and mushy contact across the rim, can put the ball on the ground and has the dimensions to assist defend the rim.
The Hawkeyes will look to exchange the manufacturing and rim safety Filip Rebraca has offered the final two seasons. Except Fran McCaffery believes Josh Ogundele or Riley Mulvey will step up in a serious method subsequent season, the Hawkeyes might want to dip into the switch portal for a giant man (or two) like Mack to spice up the roster.
One heart Iowa confirmed heavy curiosity in final low season, Fardaws Aimaq, re-entered the portal on Wednesday after transferring from Utah Valley to Texas Tech this season. The 6’11”, 245-pound large averaged 11.8 factors, 8.3 rebounds and 1.7 assists in solely 11 video games for the Purple Raiders whereas “playing at 60%” on account of harm.
It was an important date around the state for volleyball teams in Iowa, as the latest rankings were released and regional pairings in all five classes were revealed.
The two come into play once regionals reach the championship round, as the higher-ranked team will serve as the host for those games.
All five No. 1 squads remained the same, as Ankeny Centennial (Class 5A), Cedar Rapids Xavier (4A), Mount Vernon (3A), Denver (2A) and Ankeny Christian (1A) held serve.
New teams to the Top-15 include Iowa City West in 5A, Ballard in 4A, Wapsie Valley in 2A and Stanton in 1A. The entire 3A poll remained the same while Sidney made one of the biggest climbs, moving to ninth from 12th in 1A.
Regional play for 1A and 2A begins Oct. 21 with 3A, 4A and 5A starting Oct. 22. The state tournament is scheduled for Nov. 4-7 in Coralville from the Xtream Arena. Complete regional pairings can be found on Bound.
1. Ankeny Centennial; 2. Pleasant Valley; 3. Ankeny; 4. West Des Moines Dowling; 5. Indianola; 6. Waukee Northwest; 7. Cedar Falls; 8. Cedar Rapids Prairie; 9. Waukee; 10. Iowa City Liberty; 11. West Des Moines Valley; 12. Sioux City East; 13. Iowa City West; 14. Iowa City High; 15. Linn-Mar.
1. Cedar Rapids Xavier; 2. Sioux City Bishop Heelan; 3. North Scott; 4. Clear Creek-Amana; 5. Lewis Central; 6. Pella; 7. Glenwood; 8. Carlisle; 9. Marion; 10. Adel-ADM; 11. Norwalk; 12. Sergeant Bluff-Luton; 13. MOC-Floyd Valley; 14. Ballard; 15. Grinnell.
1. Mount Vernon; 2. Western Christian; 3. West Delaware; 4. Dubuque Wahlert; 5. Davenport Assumption; 6. Sioux Center; 7. Carroll Kuemper; 8. Mid-Prairie; 9. Cherokee; 10. Wilton; 11. Solon; 12. Anamosa; 13. Roland-Story; 14. Clarinda; 15. Nevada.
1. Denver; 2. Eddyville-Blakesburg-Fremont; 3. Dyersville Beckman; 4. Dike-New Hartford; 5. Aplington-Parkersburg; 6. South Hardin; 7. Boyden-Hull; 8. Pella Christian; 9. Iowa City Regina; 10. Hinton; 11. Grundy Center; 12. Sumner-Fredericksburg; 13. Wapsie Valley; 14. West Burlington; 15. Shenandoah.
1. Ankeny Christian; 2. Holy Trinity; 3. Saint Ansgar; 4. Riverside; 5. BCLUW; 6. Janesville; 7. North Tama; 8. Don Bosco; 9. Sidney; 10. River Valley; 11. Akron-Westfield; 12. Stanton; 13. Fremont-Mills; 14. Southwest Valley; 15. Gladbrook-Reinbeck.
Week 6 of the 2024 Iowa high school football season has wrapped up, and High School on SI is continuing its weekly computer rankings for the season.
The Dowling Maroons kept their top five placing in this week’s 5A Iowa computer rankings after a thrilling 41-35 victory over Ankeny Centennial. They face a strong Urbandale team on Friday, to keep their momentum going.
The top of the 5A computer rankings stay the same this week as the Bettendorf Bulldogs take home another win, this time defeating Kennedy 33-14. The Bulldogs look forward to Friday, where they will travel to Davenport Central in hopes to hold their place in the standings.
SBLive’s formula was created using its linear algebra-based ranking algorithm inspired by the Colley Bias-Free Ranking Method. Colley’s Method was created by Wes Colley, Ph.D., an astrophysicist at the University of Alabama at Huntsville. He devised his algorithm to help address the subjectivity and controversy regarding BCS college football selections in the 1990s and early 2000s, using a method that used no subjective variables.
Here are SBLive’s latest Iowa football computer rankings, as of Oct. 7, 2024:
CLASS 5A | CLASS 4A
CLASS 3A | CLASS 2A
CLASS 1A | CLASS A
CLASS 8 MAN
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JELD-WEN, a manufacturer of windows and doors in Grinnell, has announced it will be laying off 152 workers effective Nov. 7.
The announcement was made on Iowa’s Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) site.
The company, based in Charlotte, North Carolina, was founded in 1960 and has 18,000 employees, with operating facilities in 16 countries in North America and Europe with 2023 sales of $4.3 billion, according to the company’s website.
JELD-WEN did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Wednesday.
Earlier this year, JELD-WEN announced the closing of its Hawkins, Wisconsin facility, affecting 338 employees, and in Vista, California, resulting in the loss of 110 jobs.
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