By Jason Brummond, Correspondent IOWA CITY – Two basketball state championships in one year. And it’s still getting better. The Iowa City West boys’ and girls’ basketball teams are one of 20 high schools nationally being honored on the MaxPreps Tour of Champions presented by the Army National Guard. Head coaches Steve Bergman and B.J. [...]
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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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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 »Former Linn-Mar basketball star Kiah Stokes “is doing great” after undergoing surgery Friday to repair a torn tendon in her right ankle, according to her father. “She’s with her mother (Julie Saddler), on her way home (from Connecticut),” Greg Stokes said Friday afternoon. Stokes recently completed her freshman season at the University of Connecticut. The [...]
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It seems like a hundred years ago when Reggie Evans played basketball for Iowa, but it’s “only” been 10. There’s been so much change and turbulence in Hawkeye hoops since Evans carried Iowa to the Big Ten tournament title in 2001. Evans had 51 rebounds in four days in 2001 as the sixth-seeded Hawkeyes [...]
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This Bo Ryan-Jarrod Uthoff story has gone from a little odd to really bizarre. Uthoff is the Cedar Rapids Jefferson grad who recently asked for his release from Wisconsin’s men’s basketball program after one season, in which he redshirted. Uthoff is a 6-foot-8 player of considerable potential. He was Iowa’s high school Mr. Basketball [...]
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Hey, don’t shoot me. I’m only the messenger. Joe Lunardi, who somehow created a profession called bracketologist, has his first 2013 NCAA tournament bracket posted for ESPN.com. No Iowa. But seven Big Ten teams are in the field of 68 according to Lunardi. They are: No. 1 seed Indiana, No. 2 Michigan State, No. 3 [...]
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NORTH LIBERTY — Three members of the Iowa Barnstormers’ AAU basketball program are pondering their college future as either football or basketball athletes. Juniors Jeremy Morgan and Dondre Alexander of Iowa City West and Riverside-Oakland junior Ricky Williams have received either contact or scholarship offers from several Division I schools. The trio hopes to catch the [...]
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NORTH LIBERTY — For the players competing in the Spring Fling 17-and-under AAU championship game Sunday, the game was personal and the emotion was raw. And it was all in the family. The highflying 17U Iowa Barnstormers Black squad faced its brethren out of semiretirement — the Barnstormers’ Gold team. The Barnstormers Gold consisted of [...]
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MADISON, Wis. — The pressure is on. Jarrod Uthoff knows that. There are no second chances now. This decision is crucial. “It’d better be a good one,” the former Cedar Rapids Jefferson all-stater acknowledged Saturday.
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