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I'm sorry to disagree with you on one front, but the Keegan Murray who is suddenly starting is neither the Keegan Murray I had been seeing, nor someone I'm particularly excited to see. What in the hell were all those missed lay-ups about last night?? And if he doesn't try the monster dunk...

I totally agree with that. But it has to be more than that. Again, you see us playing with "an edge" early in the season. It is what frustrated me when we played Gonzaga - that edge was missing. You see it by how hard guys work on defense, how much they go for loose balls (the Gonzaga game...

RIGHT ON. But since you didn't address your third point (free-throw shooting), I will. At some point, you see the teams and coaches that emphasize it and know what to do to get the team shooting them well. We have a guard-oriented team at this time. That alone, plus a star who showed 2...

Look - even dating back to who was going to replace Lute Olsen, I have never had any preconceived notions to who would or should be the next Iowa head man. I can't say I had ever heard of, or followed George Raveling, Tom Davis, Todd Lickliter or Fran McCaffery. And the one I had heard of...

I keep looking at this Iowa men's team, and I barely recognize them. Early in the season, there wasn't one team in the B1G that even slightly scared me. Our team was easily better than all of them. I don't know where that team went, but I haven't seen it in weeks. Yes, I know - the...

From what I understand, the Michigan wrestlers are working hard to get this undone for their sport. It probably won't happen, but give them credit - they want to do what they have received scholarships - and a ton of training - to do.

My hunch is, by the end of the week, they will have a good choice of bowl games to go to, and some bowls will have to be cancelled. My hunch.

Sources are saying that there were "14 confirmed positive tests" for COVID today in the U. of I. athletic department, at least some of them in the football program. I wish I had more specifics, but for now, that is probably all we will hear out of the athletic department. But after KFz's...

This must be one city that is REALLY hurting. The music industry has been devastated as much as any by COVID, and more than any other, this seems to be where "wishing to be stars" musicians all move to - the area is DRIPPING with musical talent. I met one such person in the last several days...

Er, no. Missouri's coach back then, Gary Pinkel, wanted nothing to do with the B1G, for whatever reason. HE is the one who fought against games against B1G teams, including the famous 4-game Iowa series, and even worked to shut down the "Border War" vs. Illinois. Eventually, he got his wish...

I don't see that at all. If they kick out Indiana, they put in Northwestern. That much I will guarantee you. NO WAY the B1G gets just 1 bid in the national semis and the NY6.

Anybody have any idea what will happen Sunday and when? I haven't heard that there will be that (utterly ridiculous) 3-4 hr. selection show - with bowls involving Iowa added near the tail end. But something has to happen.

I also agree with this 100%. In my post, I decided not to even get mixed into this Ohio State thing. But a couple of prognosticators were asked last week what the difference would be between tOSU playing Northwestern in a designated title game, vs. having to play Iowa. Both of the ones I...

Terrific. Someone still needs to explain to me why we aren't playing Indiana this week. This garbage about some kind of rivalry week is pond scum - the only rivalry games are Indiana, who would LOVE to guarantee themselves an NY6 bowl bid by playing a sister of the poor (like Purdue) and...

2004, which was actually 7 in a row. We lost the opener at Michigan, beat Michigan State at home right before a bye week. During the bye week, I opined that we could go anywhere from 6-0 to 0-6 in our final six games. Never would've guessed, especially with all the running back injuries, that...

All well and good. WHEN WILL WE KNOW??

Chuck Long's 74-yard pass to Dave Moritz to FINALLY beat Ohio State in 1983. Rob Houghtlin's "other" big game winner at the Holiday Bowl, essentially a home game for San Diego State that night. The combination of plays (Paul Kuyawa for the TD, Moses Santos for the sack on Elvis Grbac and...

A day? I'm not even Catholic, but I might say "Hail Mary's" for a week on that one. And yes, Gus' call was fantastic - and that was the loudest I ever heard the dome in Indy during a B1G Championship game. It was also the proudest I'd ever been of Iowa when they lost - they put on one HELLUVA...

Oh WOW! What a memory. And yet, in that game, my "play of the game" was Brett Greenwood leading the team out onto the field and being our honorary captain. That was up there along with Houghtlin #1 vs. #2 in terms of emotional overload.

I can't tell you why, but after two Houghtlin kicks and Tate-to-Holloway, that was the first one I thought of. I had actually gotten up twice to turn off the TV that night and go to bed - I did not see that coming.