Jeff Linder of The Gazette and KCRG has served on the Associated Press women’s basketball panel for the past four seasons. If he is on the committee for the 2013-14 season, his preseason ballot will look something like this: 1. CONNECTICUT (35-4, NCAA national champion in 2013) — Are we about to see the next [...]
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DES MOINES — At first, the comment seemed flawed with redundancy. “When you have an advantage, you’d better take advantage of it,” Iowa Coach Lisa Bluder said. The Hawkeyes had the advantage inside (i.e., Morgan Johnson), and they capitalized in an 82-65 win over Drake in a women’s basketball game in front of 2,716 Sunday [...]
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DES MOINES — Drake and Iowa State boast one of the oldest rivalries west of the Mississippi River, playing one another for 104 of the last 105 seasons. Iowa State beat Drake 86-77 on Saturday at Wells Fargo Arena as part of the inaugural Big Four Classic, a showcase event in downtown Des [...]
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DES MOINES — Jennie Baranczyk has returned home with a mission in mind. “We don’t need to develop a tradition here,” said Baranczyk, the first-year women’s basketball coach at Drake University. “We just need to re-ignite it.” Baranczyk will make the perfect fuse, said her college coach. “What made her a great player is what [...]
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IOWA CITY — Four teams, four fan bases, four equal shares. The inaugural Big 4 Classic scheduled Saturday in Des Moines boasts the state’s four Division I men’s basketball programs at Des Moines’ Wells Fargo Arena. Iowa (8-2) will face Northern Iowa (6-3) at 1:30 p.m., while longtime rivals Iowa State (7-3) and Drake (4-4) [...]
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From Iowa Sports Information: DES MOINES – The men’s basketball teams from the University of Iowa and the University of Northern Iowa will tip off shortly after 1:30 p.m. and the teams from Drake University and Iowa State University will square off at approximately 4 p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 15, when the state of Iowa’s [...]
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The state’s four Division I men’s basketball programs will pay Wells Fargo Arena’s management company a combined $40,000 plus $2 per ticket sold as part of the contract to play the Big 4 Basketball Classic on Dec. 15. The schools’ licensing agreement with Global Spectrum, which was obtained by The Gazette via state open-records law, [...]
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IOWA CITY — Troy Dannen called it a “bittersweet” moment. Northern Iowa’s athletics director did not join in the excitement of his statewide colleagues Thursday with the announcement of a “Big Four Classic.” The state’s four Division I men’s basketball programs will meet in an doubleheader event on Dec. 15 at Wells Fargo Arena in [...]
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EUGENE, Ore. — Iowa Athletic Director Gary Barta said Sunday the future of the in-state men’s basketball series soon will take shape, now that each program’s season has ended. “One of the things that we had to do was wait until everybody was done playing,” Barta said after Iowa’s 108-97 loss to Oregon in the National Invitation Tournament. [...]
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IOWA CITY — Iowa’s men’s basketball team snapped a two-game slide and toppled in-state foe Drake 82-68 Saturday night at Carver-Hawkeye Arena. The win prevented Iowa from getting swept in in-state play for the first time, and it was the Hawkeyes’ third straight in the series. It also marked the Hawkeyes’ most complete performance this [...]
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