IOWA CITY — BTN will devote about 10 minutes of its next segment of ‘The Journey” to the story of former Iowa basketball player Chris Street, who was killed in a car accident 20 years ago. A BTN television crew spent part of last week at the Street household in central Iowa talking with Street’s parents, [...]

The NCAA says it’s OK for Iowa (or anyone else) to have Nike swooshes on its basketball uniforms. But to have all the Hawkeye players wear the name “Street” on the back of them for one night only? That was taboo. This is shooting fish in a barrel. It’s too easy to slam the NCAA [...]

IOWA CITY — Two weeks ago Iowa fell into a coma defensively at Michigan, giving up 95 points and allowing scores on 33 of 41 possessions over a 23-minute span. Iowa (13-5, 2-3 Big Ten) allowed the Wolverines to shoot better than 58 percent. That included transition baskets (16), points off turnovers (15), in the paint [...]

Iowa has beaten Wisconsin three straight for the first time since 1992-93. Coincidentally, Chris Street played in two of those games before he was killed in a car accident. The Hawkeyes lead the Badgers now 79-77 all-time. The teams began playing one another 104 years ago. Iowa (13-5, 2-3 Big Ten) was the first team [...]

IOWA CITY – The 20th anniversary of Chris Street’s death was observed in Carver-Hawkeye Arena Saturday night with a halftime ceremony that was upbeat and dignified, not maudlin. But the real honoring began immediately after the game tipped off. Iowa’s 2013 Hawkeyes played like a team captained by the 1993 Chris Street. Hard-nosed and hearty. [...]

IOWA CITY — You could hear Mike Street coming. The Street family was a little late to a press conference before Saturday’s Iowa-Wisconsin game. You know the topic of discussion. You have distinct memories of Chris Street, and if you were too young to remember the former Hawkeye star who was killed in an automobile [...]

The panel of Monday’s “On Iowa Live” welcomed former Hawkeye basketball player Kenyon Murray to the program to talk about the 20th anniversary of Chris Street’s death.

It was a moment that stopped you in your tracks. On Jan. 19, 1993, Iowa basketball player Chris Street died after suffering fatal wounds in a traffic accident. He was 20 years old. “If you lived it at the time, you understand it,” said Mike Street, Chris’ father. “I’ve had many people come up to [...]

IOWA CITY — Chris Street’s legacy knows no boundaries and stretches into infinity. His presence still shadows the state that cheered and later wept for him. He stood 6-foot-9 and played basketball for Iowa at a time when athletes seemed larger and relationships more intimate. Street, a gregarious 20-year-old, was killed in a car accident [...]