atomicblue224
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After watching Big Ten Elite show "1987 Indiana Basketball",I'm so jealous of Indiana having the championship, not Iowa!
I admit that I'm...
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atomicblue224
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Hope Iowa can bring home the Big One , Go Lady Hawks and Hawks in all sports!
ColumbusHawk
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And its been downhill ever since. There was so much talent on the '87 team. Armstrong, Horton, Jones, Lohaus, Gamble & Marble all played in the NBA. Plus, Lorenzen, Gerry Wright & Hill played in the CBA or Europe. The most players on one team to play professional basketball.
Not even Wooden had that many players on one team play professional basketball. But three years later, the Hawks were four & fourteen in the conference. That's what happens when you replace those players with Luckinbill (sp) & Troy Skinner.
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imported_ankle23
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i think iowa split the regular season contest with indiana that year?
ColumbusHawk
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Two blowouts, each team winning at home.
atomicblue224
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They did ... Man ,We should have beat UNLV that year! Anyway I am thrilled that Iowa is in NCAA's this year! Go Hawks!
imported_ankle23
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i remember the unlv game as well - the above person who said they were physically ill - i believe i was mentally ill after that game! can remember the feeling well.
atomicblue224
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Well I am sick of hearing "The Hair" croaking ever since 1987! Hopefully He is one and done in this tournament!
1hawkeye1
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Well I am sick of hearing "The Hair" croaking ever since 1987! Hopefully He is one and done in this tournament!
The SOB shouldn't even be in the tournament. If it weren't for a large TV market, he wouldn't be. Will be a quick out.
HawgEyeState
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'THe Hair'? I always the best moniker for Stevie will always be:
'Boy Wonder'
He can thank John Wooden's 7 titles for his Bid, this year. eye-roll
'Boy Wonder'
He can thank John Wooden's 7 titles for his Bid, this year. eye-roll
Thawki
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It wouldn't be the first time if I were wrong, but I believe Wooden won ten titles while he was at UCLA.
BigD
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Getting beat by a bald headed towel sucking coach from Vegas....it's like watching the movie "The Shining"..... Just warped!!! That was our closest chance to a championship team next to Ronnie Lester and team. Oh if Ronnie hadn't gotten injured ....... What might have happened.
Bob Knight said later that Iowa with a healthy Lester was the best team in the nation that year.
atomicblue224
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Jerry Tarkenson < He's nervous wreck! He belongs to Psych Ward! Brillant coach but strange.
ThunderHawk
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Yeah. All of the Tom Davis fanboys forget that his greatest accomplishments came with George Raveling's players.
His own recruits relegated Iowa to marginally above average mediocrity.
Really, failing to win the NCAA title in 1987 with that team was an epic fail.
ColumbusHawk
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How many coaches can keep their jobs going 14-4, 12-6, 10-8 & 4-14 in their first four seasons. But he never lost a first round game (sarc). The trouble is his record after the first round was 3-6, 1-2 & 0-1 in successive rounds.
ColumbusHawk
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Another interesting tidbit about that season: not counting that year, Davis won fewer games after the first round in eight appearances than Lute won in '80. Davis is great.
