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23RD: IOWA 73 (at) Oregon State 56 – semi–final game of the 2022 Phil Knight legacy Thanksgiving tournament in Portland, OR. Compared to so many other games in the Caitlin Clark era, this game by and large had stayed under the radar. It was early in the first of the two magical seasons, and at...

Two other legendary coaches at least thought they had. One was Dan Gable, the other was Lute Olson. But I know where you're going with that, and you're right.

T – 24TH: IOWA 76 Michigan State 73 – first game of the 2024 calendar year. T – 24TH: IOWA 83 Nebraska 66 – B.T.T. semi–finals game, 2022. This may be about the “Caitlin Clark era”, but it’s doubtful two national runner–up finishes would have been possible without the tutelage of Lisa Bluder...

PAUSE FOR LISA BLUDER TRIBUTE, WRITTEN ON THE DAY OF HER RETIREMENT. Since I started preparing this came the shocking (or was it??) announcement of the retirement of head coach Lisa Bluder. And since these are being sent in reverse order, I did not want to have the readers of this to wait long...

For this first day, I will add two more posts: 25TH: #1 South Carolina 87 #2 IOWA 75 – 2024 NCAA Tournament Championship. For the official list, we’ll start here. Again, a loss – and it is the only loss on the list. But the fact that this game was played with Iowa in it for a second...

Whether I add these one a day or one every other day, watch for them. And if they don't show up, it is because I am losing patience with the software for this forum site, which takes forever, and often has to be reloaded - several times. Even then, sometimes it just defaults back to the main page.

HONORABLE MENTION: **IUPUI 74 IOWA 73 – Pre – Christmas, 2021; **LSU 102 IOWA 85 – 2023 NCAA Tournament Championship Game; **IOWA 94 DePaul 72 – “Crossover at Kinnick” exhibition – Fall of 2023; **ANY of the 1st – round games of either the B.T.T. or the NCAA...

"We would always rather have Molly available but if she is not we will have to play anyhow and with three starters to replace next year it is good to gain experience for someone who will be back next year." When Molly went down, I knew immediately her season was done. Maybe it wasn't a torn...

First of all, greetings from New Port Richey, just north of you. The ticket sales for the Thanksgiving weekend event in Estero, FL at Hertz Arena have been crazy - the Hawkeye fans sold out their sections for every evening game set the first day. That tournament I guess has NEVER had...

Agree 1000%. And I just HATE to ask this question. But I can see she isn't getting any younger. It makes me wonder how many more years we will have Bluder? I have even pondered about whether she now goes when Caitlin Clark goes. Whenever it is, she will prove to be almost as irreplaceable...

Good word. The person I'm going to miss - and I think we are going to find this person REALLY tough to replace - is McKenna Warnock. Night in and night out, she had to bring more blue-collar hard work to the team than even Kate Martin. She had to guard the other team's "4", which meant size...

Have no idea what happened there. Let me try to repost: "You may not have caught it, but there was a clip following the Ohio State game in Columbus, where we had just beaten #2. There was a long line of girls, all waiting for Caitlin's autograph. ALL of them were wearing Buckeye red. Some of...

You may not have caught it, but there was a clip following the Ohio State game in Columbus, where we had just beaten #2. There was a long line of girls, all waiting for Caitlin's autograph. ALL of them were wearing Buckeye red. Some of the parents standing with them were smiling, some were...

I know that nobody consults the women's schedules when finalizing the men's schedules, and vice versa, but I don't think I have ever seen this. On Thursday, the Iowa men will play (the current) #1, and the Iowa women will play (the current) #2 - with the games tipping off 30 minutes apart, both...

Weird maybe. But when you have what could very well be a 6-way tie for 3rd by the end of Sunday means that, even if you lose to lesser teams - and right now, Michigan State and Wisconsin are lesser teams record-wise, you want to beat those teams you are tied with or who are above you. And so...

Credit that to two things. First of all, he seemed to know where to go to get some space and get a decent shot up. Only one or two of his shots were "3's" - and the day would not have gone nearly as well had he tried to crank up a bunch of those. But a good shooter should easily be able to...

I've been on a couple of other message boards (Yahoo for one), especially in response to the author for the Indianapolis Star who I think had the best article on this Orange Krush thing. Not one Illini fan was backing down. So neither did I. The general consensus post was, "WHEN (not if) we...

Regarding Rebraca, I was down on him more than anyone else in our NCAA tournament loss last year - I won't get into specifics why, but I felt fully justified - and remain convinced if he would've added just 9 points to the 9 rebounds he got in that game, who knows how far we would've gotten in...

Thoughts about today's game: +Rebounds are important. Even granting that Illinois may be one of the best in the country at that, this game is a laugher if we just get some of those. And you can bet that will be a huge point of emphasis at practice leading up to the Purdue game...

I was thinking about something like that. We will accrue and line up 200 lawn chairs on the bluff on the Mississippi River (on the Illinois side of course), and they can watch from there.