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5 WIN • Football – 12 th bowl game under Kirk Ferentz • Women's Basketball -- Eighth straight NCAA Tournament appearance (only 1 of 10 programs in the country) • Women's Basketball – Best NCAA Tournament – Sweet 16 status – since 1996 • Men's Basketball – Second straight NCAA Tournament appearance • Men's Basketball – Best NCAA Tournament – second- round victory – since 2001 • UI Athletics Department – One of only 15 schools in the country to have teams participate in a bowl game, and the women's and men's NCAA basketball tournaments • UI Athletics Department – Learfield Cup (As of April 23, 2015), 31st place, 426.5 points – the sixth 400-point year for UI in 14-year history of challenge • Wrestling – Co-champion of 2015 Big Ten Conference Championship • Wrestling – Second place at 2015 NCAA Championship • Baseball – Won two games in 2015 NCAA Regional competition, Iowa's first postseason tournament appearance in 25 years. 41 wins second most in school history • Men's Golf – 6 th place finish at 2015 NCAA Yale Regional • Volleyball – Most wins in Big Ten Conference play since 2008 • Women's Swimming and Diving – 38 th place in NCAA; four NCAA participants; one Big Ten champion (Becky Stoughton, 1,650 freestyle, first champion since 2001) • Men's Swimming and Diving – 35 th place in NCAA; five NCAA participants • Men's Gymnastics – 6 th place at 2015 NCAA Championship • Women's Gymnastics – Ninth consecutive year of NCAA Regional representation • Women's Soccer – Advanced to championship game of Big Ten Tournament for second straight season • Track and Field – 10 All-Americans (3 indoor, 7 outdoor) and four Big Ten champions (1 indoor, 3 outdoor) • Eight Big Ten champions (as of May 18, 2015): Matt Hagan and Dominic Patrick, tennis/doubles (indoor); Babatunde Amosu, track and field/triple jump (indoor); Becky Stoughton, swimming and diving/1,650-yard freestyle; Carson Schaake, golf; Aaron Mallett, track and field/110-meter hurdles (outdoor), Elexis Guster, track and field/400-meters; Babatunde Amosu, track and field/ triple jump (outdoor) GRADUATE • UI Athletics Department – Federal graduation rate of 78 percent, 12 points better than national peers; highest of three Iowa Regent institutions • UI Athletics Department – Record NCAA Graduation Success Rate (GSR) of 89 percent, six points better than national peers; seven UI teams score perfect 100s and the GSR of 18 teams is better than their national peers • UI Athletics Department – All 24 sports above NCAA APR threshold • Women's and Men's Basketball – Only school in the country with multiple Academic All-Americans in basketball: Samantha Logic, Ally Disterho, Mike Gesell • Football – Mark Weisman named Academic All- American, Jordan Lomax named District Academic All- American DO IT RIGHT • UI Athletics Department – 100 percent self-sustaining financially; no tax dollars or institutional funding • UI Athletics Department/UI Foundation (National I-Club) – Back-to-back record years for fundraising ($28 million in 2014-15) • UI Athletics Department – One of only eight nationally with Top 25 attendance in football, women's basketball, and men's basketball • Football – 22 nd in the nation in per game attendance • Men's Basketball – 20 th in the nation in per game attendance • Women's Basketball – 14 th in the nation in per game attendance • Wrestling – 1 st in the nation in per meet attendance • To date in 2014-15, more than 3,400 different student- athlete appearances over 65 events resulted in the accumulation of more than 9,500 hours of community service and programming. OTHER HIGHLIGHTS • Football – Brandon Scherff, winner, 2015 Outland Award Winner • Football – Brandon Scherff, consensus All-American • Football – Brandon Scherff, Big Ten Offensive Lineman of the Year • Football - 13 All-Big Ten selections • Field Hockey – Two All-America selections (Natalie Cafone, Stephanie Norlander) • Field Hockey – Natalie Cafone, Big Ten Offensive Player of the Year • Field Hockey – ree All-Big Ten selections (Natalie Cafone, Stephanie Norlander, Dani Hemeon)