NEW YORK — Iowa’s team captain covered himself with ice packs after the program’s biggest basketball victory in recent memory. Senior Eric May, Iowa’s leader and catalyst, had ice wrapped around his back and both knees in the wake of Iowa’s 71-60 win Tuesday against Maryland. The fluid and powerful athletic ability he displayed with [...]

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 [...]

NEW YORK – A city known for the world’s greatest plays will see an encore presentation from the Iowa basketball team. Iowa’s first act included a big lead off Maryland turnovers, the second act included a sluggish near-intermission. The Hawkeyes then sizzled in a third act to a 71-60 win last night in an NIT [...]

NEW YORK — Eric May took hundreds of trips with his parents over the years, and each one has its own story. Mostly the Iowa senior remembers the small moments with his parents but he also recalls the incidents that make him laugh. “The most would be them arguing over directions,” May said. “My dad [...]

NEW YORK — Iowa and Maryland boast many similarities from their records to their personnel. The schools will have much more in common in 2014 when Maryland joins the Big Ten. But Tuesday night (8 p.m. ESPN2) is about championships. The Hawkeyes (24-12) and Terrapins (25-12) are playing for a spot in Thursday’s NIT finals. [...]

NEW YORK — Maryland basketball has entered the uneasy portion of its program’s history. This week the Terrapins will finish their second-to-last season as an Atlantic Coast Conference charter member. In 15 months, Maryland joins the Big Ten, and games against tonight’s NIT semifinal opponent Iowa will occur annually in conference play. In November, Maryland announced [...]

The Big Ten made a big deal out of competitive equality when it split into divisions for the 2011 football season. Competition was the No. 1 component in balancing divisional play, and rightly so. The newest member, Nebraska, was part of an acrimonious geographical split when the Big Eight morphed into the Big 12 back [...]

The Big Ten’s push to conquer the college athletics universe has hit a pregnant pause about two weeks after accepting Maryland and Rutgers as the league’s 13th and 14th members. Everyone expects the league to consider future expansion, and Commissioner Jim Delany reiterated the possibility in his subsequent news conferences and interviews. Rather than sitting [...]