IOWA CITY — The Iowa Hawkeyes will play at Florida State on Nov. 28 in the women’s Big Ten/ACC Challenge. Iowa was 19-12 last season and advanced to the NCAA Tournament for the fifth straight year. Florida State was 14-17.
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Iowa Sports Information IOWA CITY – University of Iowa women’s basketball coach Lisa Bluder has announced that sophomore Jade Rogers and freshman Virginia Johnson will end their playing careers due to injury. Rogers played in 13 games as a freshman while battling a knee injury. The Cedar Rapids native scored a career-best five points [...]
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Gotta tell you, I’d be a lot more interested in seeing Iowa play both Northern Iowa and Drake in men’s basketball than playing Virginia Tech once. This ACC-Big Ten Challenge is entering its 14th year, and the Hawkeyes will be making their 12th appearance (they weren’t part of it in 2003 and 2004). Iowa [...]
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The Iowa men’s basketball team will play at Virginia Tech on Nov. 27, as part of the 2012 Big-Ten-ACC Challenge. Iowa has played Virginia Tech twice before, losing both meetings in Challenge games. The Hokies edged Iowa, 69-65, on Nov. 29, 2006 in Blacksburg, Va., and 70-64 on Dec. 1, 2009 in Iowa City. Virginia [...]
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Iowa guard Eric May was hampered with a back injury the last two months of his junior season, which limited his effectiveness in a variety of ways. May, a 6-foot-5 incoming senior from Dubuque, started the first 21 games last year. His final start was against Nebraska on Jan. 26, when he played 19 minutes. [...]
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NEWTON — Iowa forward Melsahn Basabe admitted after the basketball season he has something to prove next year. Apparently he said the same thing to Coach Fran McCaffery in their end-of-season meeting, and he’s lived those words this offseason. “I said, ‘OK, Melsahn, evaluate your season for me,’” McCaffery said Wednesday at the Jasper County I-Club. [...]
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IOWA CITY — Don Nelson will end his quest Saturday for the one accomplishment that has eluded him all these years — a college diploma. Nelson, the NBA’s winningest coach, will graduate from the University of Iowa and receive his diploma from UI President Sally Mason 50 years after leaving the school. It was a [...]
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Iowa’s average attendance for men’s basketball games went up in 2011-2012 from the season before, but not enough to elevate it from No. 31 in the nation. The Hawkeyes’ average home crowd in 2011-2012 was 11,869, up 234 per game from the season before. Iowa was one of six Big Ten teams to raise [...]
continue »IOWA CITY — The Iowa Hawkeyes have received an oral commitment from a junior-college point guard. Kathryn Thomas of Highland (Kan.) Community College committed with the Hawkeyes on Wednesday. She has three years of eligibility remaining. Thomas was a first-team NJCAA all-American. She is 5-foot-6 and a native of Flint, Mich.
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Iowa Coach Fran McCaffery said it’s unlikely the program will schedule a high-major opponent for a single game this season. “It doesn’t look like it,” McCaffery said. “Those games are harder to pull off than you think. I’d like to do it. Next year we’re probably going to try to start earlier.” He said the [...]
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