By JOHN BOHNENKAMP

Bennett Stirtz’s one year at Iowa resulted in an All-Big Ten season.

The senior guard was named to the all-conference first team by the media and the second team by the coaches on Tuesday. He was also a second-team All-Big Ten selection by the Associated Press and was Iowa’s winner for the Big Ten Sportsmanship Award.

Stirtz is Iowa’s first first-team selection since Kris Murray in 2023.

Stirtz, who transferred to Iowa to follow coach Ben McCollum, was third in scoring in conference games only at 22.2 points per game. He had 13 games of 20 points or more as well as three games of 30 points or more.

Stirtz scored 122 points in a four-game stretch in February,   the most by a Hawkeye since Luka Garza’s 126 in November 2020 and the most by an Iowa player in Big Ten games since Freddy Brown in 1971. Stirtz had 32 points at Oregon, 22 at Washington, 36 at home against Northwestern and 32 at Maryland.

Stirtz was third in the conference in scoring overall, averaging 20.2 points, 4.4 assists and 2.5 rebounds.

Stirtz’s career has been filled with awards. He was a second-team Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association selection as a sophomore at Northwest Missouri State at the Division II level before being named the Missouri Valley Conference’s player of the year and a first-team all-conference selection at Drake last season.

Stirtz was joined on the media’s first team by Keaton Wagler (Illinois), Yaxel Lendeborg (Michigan) and Jeremy Fears, Jr. (Michigan State). Nebraska’s Pryce Sandfort, who transferred from Iowa last season, was the fifth player on the coaches’ first team.

Photo: Iowa’s Bennett Stirtz averaged 20.2 points this season, and was named to the All-Big Ten by the media on Tuesday. (UI Athletic Communications)