BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (AP) — Kris Murray scored 26 points, Tony Perkins flirted with the first triple-double in Iowa history and the Hawkeyes beat No. 15 Indiana 90-68. Perkins had 23 points, 10 rebounds and a career-high eight assists. The Hawkeyes scored 47 first-half points — the most in a Big Ten game this season — just three days after winning the conference’s highest-scoring game of the season. Trayce Jackson-Davis had 26 points and 13 rebounds to become school’s career rebounding leader. But the Hoosiers never led and Iowa made sure it was never close after the opening minutes.
COLLEGE PARK, Md. (AP) — Kevin Willard has Maryland on track to reach the NCAA Tournament in his first season as coach. A big part of the team’s improvement has come at home. The Terps went 16-1 and did not lose a conference game this season in College Park. The team has also drawn big crowds and brought some excitement back to this fan base. That’s no small feat for a program that’s less than a decade removed from leaving the ACC and joining the Big Ten.
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The Big Ten is carrying a strong case into March for being the toughest women’s league in the country. The conference boasts three of the top seven teams in the latest Associated Press poll with Indiana and Maryland and Iowa. Defending NCAA champion South Carolina remains the runaway NCAA title favorite. The Hoosiers, Terrapins and Hawkeyes all have legitimate designs on reaching the Final Four in Dallas, too. The Big Ten Tournament is in Minneapolis this week for the first time. The first round starts Wednesday at Target Center. Indiana, Iowa, Maryland and Ohio State have the top four seeds.
UNDATED (AP) — College football administrators are looking at ways to reduce the number of plays in games in the name of player safety. A tweak in clock operating procedures is likely the first step. The NCAA Football Rules Committee is meeting in Indianapolis this week and recommendations it forwards and approved in the spring would take effect next season. The average number of plays per game in the Bowl Subdivision has hovered at 180 the past three seasons. NFL games average 154. The NCAA rules committee is looking at keeping the clock moving when a team makes a first down.
SAN DIEGO (AP) — The group that puts on the Holiday Bowl is branching out with a college basketball tournament that will feature an inaugural field of Southern California, Oklahoma, Seton Hall and Iowa during the Thanksgiving holiday. The Rady Children’s Invitational will be played Nov. 23 and Nov. 24 at UC San Diego’s 4,000-seat Lion Tree Arena and televised by Fox Sports. The idea for the hoops tourney came about after the Holiday Bowl promoted a football game between Notre Dame and Navy in San Diego in 2018. Purdue has already committed for the 2024 field.
UNDATED (AP) — As sports gambling in the U.S. explodes, a new investigation shows that only about one in five major public universities has policies in place to restrict sports betting or educate students about potential perils. The investigation by the Shirley Povich Center for Sports Journalism and the Howard Center for Investigative Journalism at the University of Maryland also found that universities are signing deals with sports books to allow advertising on campus despite research showing that college students, many under the legal gambling age of 21, are at higher risk for problem gambling.
UNDATED (AP) — Betting platforms engage tens of thousands of readers on social media sites like TikTok and Instagram with content that experts say clearly targets young people. Although the legal age for gambling is typically 21, the sports books are trying to attract impressionable college students by embracing pop culture marketing strategies. A Texas Tech University sports management professor says that allows the betting companies to reach and cultivate lifelong customers.
UNDATED (AP) — College campuses increasingly are striking deals with sports-betting companies eager to promote their brands in stadiums and on radio broadcasts and athletic department websites — places where students can see and hear them. But details of the agreements are opaque despite high-dollar and societal stakes. At Louisiana State University, Michigan State University and the University of Maryland, the agreements are made by private companies that are not subject to public records requests. That lack of transparency concerns gambling addiction experts and others already troubled by the impact of legalized sports betting on college campuses.
