This was my favorite dunk by Mashawn Basabe vs NW















I had my fill of making fun of the ESPNU announcers yesterday via Twitter, but I missed this one...

Check out the highlight vid:
Iowa Slams Northwestern 70-50 - YouTube

Go to about 45 seconds in. He says the jumper by Marble was a 10 ftr. Ok, it's one thing to be bad at announcing, but not knowing the dimensions of the court? Eek.



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TEN FOOT JUMPSHOT.
 






Keeping in the same vein, I don't know if anyone else caught it, but Iowa had scored the games first basket, and one of them said "Iowa gets another hoop."
 












Both guys were terrible. One of the guys has done at least 1-2 Iowa games a year the past handfull of years. He is just terrible.

It became a running joke.

Early on, I posted this:
https://twitter.com/storminspank/status/290594607866183681
"Waiting for the ESPNU announcers to say this has been a defensive battle. Just wait. It will happen."

And later in the half, they did. Called it a "defensive battle" - don't mind the fact that they teams were 1-16 combined from behind the arc and wide open shots were being bricked, it was the D.


Other highlights:
McCormick saying, "Freshman and sophomores don't understand B1G basketball" Riiiiiiiiiiiiight because Conley and Oden were basketball dumb when they played at OSU.

McCormick's line: "If you don't make shots you can't win games"

And then, as mentioned early, the Dwayne Marble moment by the PbP guy which spurred this on Twitter:
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It became a running joke.

Early on, I posted this:
https://twitter.com/storminspank/status/290594607866183681
"Waiting for the ESPNU announcers to say this has been a defensive battle. Just wait. It will happen."

And later in the half, they did. Called it a "defensive battle" - don't mind the fact that they teams were 1-16 combined from behind the arc and wide open shots were being bricked, it was the D.


Other highlights:
McCormick saying, "Freshman and sophomores don't understand B1G basketball" Riiiiiiiiiiiiight because Conley and Oden were basketball dumb when they played at OSU.

McCormick's line: "If you don't make shots you can't win games"

And then, as mentioned early, the Dwayne Marble moment by the PbP guy which spurred this on Twitter:
BAhxXi_CYAAn4z2.jpg:large

Surprised no one was able to correctly spell Dwyane.
 


It became a running joke.

Early on, I posted this:
https://twitter.com/storminspank/status/290594607866183681
"Waiting for the ESPNU announcers to say this has been a defensive battle. Just wait. It will happen."

And later in the half, they did. Called it a "defensive battle" - don't mind the fact that they teams were 1-16 combined from behind the arc and wide open shots were being bricked, it was the D.


Other highlights:
McCormick saying, "Freshman and sophomores don't understand B1G basketball" Riiiiiiiiiiiiight because Conley and Oden were basketball dumb when they played at OSU.

McCormick's line: "If you don't make shots you can't win games"

And then, as mentioned early, the Dwayne Marble moment by the PbP guy which spurred this on Twitter:
BAhxXi_CYAAn4z2.jpg:large

Hillarious! I caught all the garbage he was spewing all game. The first 17-18 minuutes of th first half or maybe the whole first half was some of the worst basketball I have seen this year. It was just terrible. I wonder what someone thought who happened to switch to ESPNU, I would think they changed the channel right away if they were not Iowa or NW fans.
 


When the broke to the first commercial time out they had played 5 to 6 mins. The announcer says something along the lines of both teams are off to a fast start offensively.






The score was 5 to 4.
 




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