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Joshua Lewis, the No. 73 overall recruit in the 2025 class, has committed to the Iowa Hawkeyes, he tells 247Sports. The 6-foot-6, 175-pound small forward out of Tampa (Fla.) Blake was previously committed to South Florida but reopened his recruitment in early November.

No. 3 Iowa State will take on Arizona State for the first time as a Big 12 Conference foe when the teams tip off Saturday afternoon in Tempe, Ariz. Iowa State coach T.J. Otzelberger acknowledged that it felt a bit different as he prepared to face a program he had never coached against.

Fran McCaffery and Iowa men’s basketball just landed the second-highest-ranked recruit in program history.  Four-star prospect Joshua Harris announced his commitment to the Hawkeyes live on the 247Sports YouTube channel on Thursday.

A top target for Iowa basketball was on hand to watch the Hawkeyes dismantle the Indiana Hoosiers. Four-star small forward Joshua Lewis made his way to Iowa City and got to take in Iowa’s 85-60 win over Indiana.

The Iowa State men are now ranked second in both the AP and Coaches Polls for college basketball. After a loss by Tennessee while No. 1 to Florida, the Cyclones

The UCF Knights and TCU Horned Frogs square off in Orlando on Saturday in a pivotal Big 12 matchup as both teams look to climb out of the middle of the conference standings. With identical 3-4 Big 12 records, this game is an opportunity for one team to establish momentum in a tightly contested league.

Losses to Georgia Tech and Notre Dame (its only regular-season meetings) prevent North Carolina from placing even higher, but continued consistency in the ACC will have the Tar Heels poised to host in March for the first time since Sylvia Hatchell still walked the sidelines.

Many of these recruiting visits take minutes and sometimes hours evaluating players through tape, offseason work or simply checking in to see what some high school's have to offer

The Fighting Illini dipped into Florida for the third time in their 2026 recruiting class when a three-star receiver committed.

Facing a projected surge in power demand across the country, NextEra Energy is taking steps to potentially restart its shuttered 615-MW Duane Arnold nuclear plant in Iowa as early as 2028, while also signing a new partnership with GE Vernova to develop natural gas generation projects that could be paired with renewable energy and storage.