NEW YORK — I picked up a copy of the New York Post today because, hey, I had to. What other newspaper would choose the Jay Leno/Jimmy Fallon/NBC story as its cover story, and have a photoshop of Fallon riding in a sidecar of a motorcycle Leno was driving? The Post’s story about tonight’s [...]

  NEW YORK — Devyn Marble is scoring. Iowa’s junior guard has 97 points in his four NIT games. That’s 24.3 points per game. That’s a lot for any four-game stretch. That’s a lot from someone who averaged 12.6 points in Big Ten play. Devyn Marble is passing. Often, and especially down the stretch in [...]

NEW YORK — Iowa was a win from the NCAA basketball title in 1956, but Bill Russell and the San Francisco Dons got in the way. All-time great Russell had 27 points and 26 rebounds that day in Evanston, Ill., considerably more than Maryland’s 7-foot-1 Alex Len could accumulate against the Hawkeyes Tuesday night in [...]

Iowa’s Devyn Marble joins the Gazette’s Scott Dochterman and KCRG-TV9′s Scott Saville to talk about the Hawkeyes’ trip to New York City and Tuesday’s NIT semifinal with Maryland.

  IOWA CITY — Melsahn Basabe’s mother has had her fingernails painted in Iowa Hawkeyes colors, and has been wearing outfits with those colors to work. For the last two weeks. “Ever since the NIT started,” said Mom, whose name is Aloha Wilks. “As long as they’ve been winning, it’s black-and-yellow every day.” Iowa’s men’s [...]

  It’s safe to say this year’s NIT Final Four of Baylor, BYU, Iowa and Maryland won’t make everyone in Manhattan stop and bow in the direction of Madison Square Garden. The world’s most famous arena, as it calls itself, will host performances in April alone by Fleetwood Mac, Alicia Keys, Eric Clapton, and the [...]

IOWA CITY – A little more than a minute remained when Jaime Printy, Morgan Johnson and Trisha Nesbitt walked off the Carver-Hawkeye Arena court to a standing ovation. Printy stopped and shared an embrace with Iowa coach Lisa Bluder before taking a seat on the bench. “I just told Jaime not to cry,” Bluder said. [...]

  I barely remember this stuff, but I have archives at my fingertips. What I do recall is I thought it would be a hoot to go to New York to cover the NIT’s Final Four. And it must have meant something to Iowa fans, because they had a sellout of 15,500 for this NIT [...]

IOWA CITY – Kayla McBride witnessed it first-hand Sunday. The Notre Dame junior chased Tennessee-Martin’s Heather Butler for most of the first half, as the 5-foot-5 guard poured in 23 points. McBride laughed last. The Erie, Penn., native not only saw her team win Sunday, she led the Irish to 74-57 win on Tuesday against [...]

IOWA CITY — Lisa Bluder knew what it would take to turn the women’s basketball world on its ear. “We had to experience a near-perfect night to beat that team,” she said. “It just didn’t happen tonight.” Kayla McBride established a career high with 28 points — including 24 in the first half — as [...]