After Iowa State came back to defeat Iowa, head coach TJ Otzelberger described the challenge of guarding one of the Hawkeyes' best.

Stirtz gave a very blunt response during his postgame comments following the 66-62 loss to Iowa State on Thursday night.

Isaia Howard scored 19 points off the bench, Bennett Stirtz added 13, and Iowa defeated Grand Canyon 59-46 in the Acrisure Classic championship game PALM DESERT, Calif. -- Isaia Howard scored 19 points off the bench, Bennett Stirtz added 13, and Iowa ...

Bennett Stirtz meets with media after Iowa basketball's 66-62 loss to Iowa State.

PALM SPRINGS, Calif.(AP) — Bennett Stirtz scored a season-high 29 points and Cooper Koch added 14 for Iowa in a 74-69 win over Mississippi in the first round of the Acrisure Series on Tuesday night. Koch also had 10 rebounds for his first double-double ...

PALM DESERT, Calif. — There came a point in the second half where the high-level shot-making was no longer surprising. It was expected. Iowa basketball star Bennett Stirtz was shooting it, so the ball was supposed to go in. Stirtz is human. He misses shots.

Iowa Hawkeyes basketball was within two points in the final minute at Iowa State, but that's not good enough for Ben McCollum and Bennett Stirtz.

This CyHawk game could be determined by Iowa’s Bennett Stirtz's methodical offense or Iowa State’s Tamin Lipsey and Killyan Toure's tenaciousness.