Basketball

The UNI men's basketball team is expected to defend the Missouri Valley Conference regular season championship the Panthers won last season.

The men's and women's teams are both slated to play a full 18-game schedule, starting in late December.

Games won't be played before the year ends, due to the ongoing impact of COVID-19.

Iowa native and head coach of the Toronto Raptors Nick Nurse wins the top award in his second year as coach.

The Cedar Falls native will be returning to the Panthers for the 2020-21 season.

The announcement comes nearly one year to the date when he coached the Toronto Rapters to their inaugural NBA championship.

UNI is in some rarefied air with some of sports' best athletes and coaches.

An Iowa prep star and George Mason transfer plan to play for the Panthers.

This is the 10th anniversary of UNI's memorable upset of overall No. 1 seeded-Kansas in the second-round of the 2010 NCAA Tournament.

Thirty years ago, UNI became the talk of the college basketball world when the 14th-seeded Panthers stunned third-seeded Missouri 74-71 in the first-round of the 1990 NCAA Tournament.