High School Basketball
Mt. Pleasant will square off against Keokuk on Friday, January 3rd, at home with the girls’ tipping off the night at 6 pm. KILJ 105.5 FM, kilj.com, will be on the call with the pregame show at 5:45 pm.
Fairfield will take on Burlington at home on Friday with game one at 6 pm.
Burlington Notre Dame will travel to Danville on Friday with the boys’ leading off the night at 6 pm.
Mediapolis will host Central Lee on Friday with the girls’ teams playing at 6 pm.
West Burlington will square off against Van Buren County on Friday in a road matchup with the boys following the girls’ game at 7:30 pm.
New London will take on Holy Trinity Catholic at home on Friday with game one at 6 pm.
Winfield-Mt. Union is in the middle of a three-game homestand with a game against Wapello slated to start at 6 pm on Friday.
Columbus will face off against Pekin on the road with the night starting at 6 pm on Thursday, January 2nd.
WACO will compete on Friday with the girls’ tipping off the night at 6 pm at home against Columbus.
High School Wrestling
The Columbus/Winfield-Mt. Union and Mediapolis boys’ teams will participate in the Eddyville-Blakesburg-Fremont tournament on Saturday, January 4th.
The Burlington Notre Dame boys’ team will host an invitational on Thursday, January 2nd, with New London in attendance.
The Van Buren County boys’ team will compete at the Ottumwa Invitational on January 11th.
WACO will compete in a dual tournament on Saturday at BGM.
Fairfield will host a quad on January 7th with Wapello making the trip.
The Mt. Pleasant boys’ team will travel to Highland for the Gary Curtis Invitational on January 11th.
The Columbus/Winfield-Mt. Union girls’ team will compete in the Megan Black Eddyville-Blakesburg-Fremont Invitational on Friday, January 3rd.
High School Bowling
Mt. Pleasant will host Washington on January 9th.
Southeastern Community College
The #20 men’s basketball team will take on Western Iowa Tech at home on January 8th with tip-off scheduled for 7 pm.
College Football
#18 Iowa State outsprinted #15 Miami in the Pop-Tarts Bowl over the weekend in a thrilling 42-41 victory. The bowl win broke the school record for points in a bowl game and wins in a season at 11. Carson Hansen set a school record for touchdowns in a bowl game with three total touchdowns, while Jaylin Noel reeled in 117 receiving yards and a touchdown in the win.
Iowa will take on #19 Missouri for the Music City Bowl this afternoon in Nashville at 1:30 pm.
College Basketball
The #3 Iowa State men’s team will start conference play against Colorado tonight at 8 pm on the road.
The Iowa men’s team will take on New Hampshire tonight at 6 pm at home.
The #24 Iowa women’s team picked up their first conference win of the season in a 84-63 drubbing of Purdue yesterday. Addison O’Grady collected 12 points in the win as the Hawkeyes shot over 50% from the field. Iowa will travel to Penn State on Wednesday, January 1st, at noon.
The Iowa State women’s team will face off against Kansas on Wednesday at home at 2 pm.
This Day in Sports History
1907 – The Mills Committee declares baseball was invented in 1839 by future American Civil War general Abner Doubleday in Cooperstown, New York; widely disproven, now known as “the Doubleday myth.”
1981 – Wayne Gretzky scores 5 goals and an assist in Edmonton’s 7-5 win over Philadelphia; gives Gretzky 50 goals in 39 games, the fastest 50 in 50 in NHL history; also sets an NHL record with a 15-game assist streak.
2020 – San Antonio assistant Becky Hammon becomes the first female to coach an NBA team after Spurs head coach Gregg Popovich is ejected in a 121-107 loss to the LA Lakers.