All it takes are three things for Iowa’s football and/or men’s basketball team to make you rich in the next school year. 1. Bet a substantial amount on the Hawkeyes to be BCS or NCAA champions. 2. The Hawkeyes then win the national-championship. 3. Make your wager in Nevada, where it’s legal. According [...]
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Iowa assistant men’s basketball coach Sherman Dillard tweeted the following Wednesday afternoon: Congrats to our own Devyn Marble and Aaron White for being selected to try out for the 2013 USA Basketball World University Games. So cool! Marble’s reply: Thanks Coach Dillard we’re going to represent to the best of our ability The World University [...]
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We don’t know how many of the six remaining slots are already filled on Iowa’s 2013-2014 nonconference men’s basketball schedule. For this exercise, let’s assume none. I’m assuming the six slots will all be filled by home games, since five of the seven games we know about are away from Iowa City. And of those [...]
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It may have been mentioned a time or 10,000 that Iowa’s men’s basketball nonconference schedule wasn’t the stuff that dreams are made of last season. Iowa coach Fran McCaffery said the schedule would get better. It couldn’t get much worse. But there is already some teeth in McCaffery’s words. Wednesday’s pending announcement that the Hawkeyes [...]
continue »CEDAR RAPIDS – He still has an office in the Iowa football operations building. He still watches ever game. He still wanders into film sessions on Sunday mornings to see what went right or wrong. But there’s something that can’t be replicated in former Iowa defensive coordinator Norm Parker’s retirement: the postgame smiles. “The thing [...]
continue »AMES – Back in October and November whispers of the NBA draft infiltrated the Iowa City and Ames’ campuses. Iowa’s Devyn Marble commanded the attention of scouts. At Iowa State, seniors Korey Lucious and Will Clyburn attracted the eyes of NBA organizations. Come April the professional aspirations continue, but it’s in different locker rooms. The [...]
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IOWA CITY – University of Iowa senior Morgan Johnson has been selected to the NetScouts Basketball United States All-Star team. Johnson, along with nine other NCAA Division I seniors, will travel to China for 15 days to play against other national teams. The all-star team will be in China from May 1-15 and will face national [...]
continue »Veteran basketball broadcaster Mac McCausland joins the Mike Hlas Podcast to talk about Iowa’s recent NIT run and what are realistic expectations for the Hawkeyes entering next season. Mac also talks about Iowa State’s program, and the state of college basketball in general. Subscribe to my podcast on iTunes by clicking here. [Audio clip: view [...]
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NEW YORK — Fran McCaffery screamed at his Iowa basketball players during a timeout four minutes into Thursday night’s NIT title game, and yelled at them on the way off the court at halftime. Bob Knight, doing color commentary for ESPN’s telecast of the contest, might have even blanched at McCaffery’s intense anger. [...]
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NEW YORK — The Garden. Anyone who was ever anyone has performed here. Tonight it’s Iowa and Baylor in an NIT championship game. Tomorrow night it’s the Milwaukee Bucks and New York Knicks. A week from tonight, it’s Alicia Keys. Rank them in your order of preference in the comments section. [...]
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