{"id":241482,"date":"2025-10-21T17:13:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T17:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/241482\/"},"modified":"2025-10-21T17:13:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T17:13:08","slug":"stirtz-named-cbs-sports-preseason-all-american-iowa-hawkeyes-athletics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/241482\/","title":{"rendered":"Stirtz Named CBS Sports Preseason All-American &#8211; Iowa Hawkeyes Athletics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>IOWA CITY, Iowa \u2013\u00a0University of Iowa senior\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/hawkeyesports.com\/sports\/mbball\/roster\/player\/bennett-stirtz\" title=\"Bennett Stirtz\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bennett Stirtz<\/a> has been named a CBS Sports Preseason Second-Team All-American, it was announced Tuesday by the outlet.<\/p>\n<p>It is Stirtz\u2019s second preseason All-America nod as he was also named a preseason fourth-team selection by Blue Ribbon College Basketball Yearbook.\u00a0 He is also a preseason All-Big Ten honoree by Blue Ribbon, USA Today Network and in a media vote by the Big Ten office.<\/p>\n<p>Stirtz, who is in his first season as a Hawkeye, was an All-American by three outlets during the 2024-25 season at Drake.\u00a0 He was also tabbed as the Missouri Valley Conference Larry Bird Player of the Year and Missouri Valley Conference Newcomer of the Year.<\/p>\n<p>The Liberty, Missouri, native led the MVC in scoring (19.2), steals (2.21) and assist-to-turnover ratio (2.86), while ranking second in assists (5.7).\u00a0 He also led the NCAA in minutes played, averaging 39:22 per game.<\/p>\n<p>Stirtz is one of five Big Ten players named to CBS Sports\u2019 preseason All-America teams along with Purdue\u2019s Braden Smith (first) and Trey Kaufman-Renn (first), UCLA\u2019s Donovan Dent (first), and Michigan\u2019s Yaxel Lendeborg (second).<\/p>\n<p>The Hawkeyes open the 2025-26 season Nov. 4, hosting Robert Morris at 7:30 p.m. (CT) inside Carver-Hawkeye Arena. Both single game and season tickets for the 2025-26 campaign are available at <a href=\"https:\/\/hawkeyesports.com\/articles\/hawkeyesports.com\/tickets\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">hawkeyesports.com\/tickets<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"IOWA CITY, Iowa \u2013\u00a0University of Iowa senior\u00a0Bennett Stirtz has been named a CBS Sports Preseason Second-Team All-American, it&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":241483,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68],"tags":[402,398,400,401,99],"class_list":["post-241482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ncaa-basketball","tag-basketball","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-basketball","tag-ncaabasketball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241482\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/241483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}