THIS ISN'T CHAMPIONSHIP ARIZONA TEAM, IT'S SO MUCH MORE
Iowa vs. Arizona Box Score, March 25, 1988 | College Basketball at Sports-Reference.com
The year after 30-5 we got it handed to us by a high Arizona seed. I don't think any talent we've ran into even comes close to rivaling this:
-Sean Elliot: NBA All-Star
-Steve Kerr: Bulls mega-shooter, 3-time NBA Champ, won a game-clincher
-Tom Tolbert: NBA rough houser for 3 teams over 6 years
-Anthony Cook: NBA 1st rounder, shot-blocker extraordinaire. Yeah, there's more NBA on the way
-Jed Buechler: NBA reserve, loved bench player from the Bulls title run Part II
-Kenneth Lofton: Hmmmm, maybe say his name differently. As in Kenny? Yeah, THAT Kenny Lofton, the superstar Indians, Braves and 9 other teams. 15th MLB history in SB, 6-time All-Star. 4 Gold Gloves, 4 MVP finishes, 11 PS series, 2 World Series, no titles. Because my Braves got the '95 Roidians. He teamed with A. Belle, Bonds, Sosa, A-Rod, Justice, Sheffield, Klesko, Damon, Hafner, Kent, all the way up through Peralta. The only thing Lofton has seen more than superstar athletes are steroids. And PS without a WS.
Six major Major League athletes, the best perhaps didn't even stick to hoops. Elliot and Kerr pure excellence in the big league.
Oh, hey, BTW, I noticed something other than the regulars for AZ. The non-regulars for us sitting on our bench. I always figured Dr.Tom had something against you if too much natural talent was an attribute of yours, but I didn't think he'd let it beat him vs Arizona by sticking Horton on the pine. Minutes close to Moe and Hill, but Horton > ALL, that we know.
WHAT ABOUT THE FINAL FOUR YEAR? ANYTHING INTERESTING?
Louisville vs. Iowa Box Score, March 22, 1980 | College Basketball at Sports-Reference.com
Again, not our opponent, but us. Everybody will tell you Hansen and Lester were on that team. But do any of them know they spent more than half the tournament benched and ineffective, no worse than in the Final Four loss by 8.
NEAR MISS IN Mr. Davis'S FIRST YEAR<
I'll just tell you. We mirrored Wisconsin in the game this year, 58 one half, 23 the next. But that isn't why we should really let this go. It was the best Indiana team arguably of all time, even better than the undefeated squad 10 years prior. They won a conference in which our 14-4 was good for 3rd. The Syracuse team they beat barely thanks to well established heroics was awesome. I know the 3rd place games mean exactly dick, but if UNLV and that had anything to say about the whole situation, it's this: You don't beat the UNLV RRs that year, you don't beat BOTH Indiana and Syracuse. In other words, long odds there.
OH BTW PARALLELS!!
1986-87 Iowa Hawkeyes Schedule and Results | College Basketball at Sports-Reference.com
If that schedule's hard to read, you may notice a loss at home for our first loss of the season that year. Who beat us? OHIO ST. UNIVERSITY! *Mediocre* OSU, that is. Our other two losses were via the two 15-3 finishers (like UM and MSU this year) and outside OSU? Michigan, who started horribly before finishing 10-8. Now if that isn't exactly what Wisconsin's headed for? One other thing, on January 20th we claimed TOP SPOT IN THE COUNTRY!! If it really is resembling this year in any way we'd answer with a 1-1. We beat Indiana, 1-loss, 15-3 finisher with OSU at mediocre to keep our ranking. After that, we had two easy Michigan games. Yes, 1-1 yet again. Next home Purdue and Illannoy. 1-1 in conference AGAIN.
One more loss awaiting, but if it means anything a strong finish coming, with one loss waiting at East Lansing and that's all, I'm happy with this. We had a road game in here very comparable to our Xavier win. In fact our schedule here is every bit harder than what we had that year. But if that MSU game is the final one we lose (B1G Tourney notwithstanding) we get the 2 seed, very simple. And again, I cannot stress how little we would have had against any of those top 3 teams. I don't see that dominant, much less 3 dominants this year. It had better not turn out in 30 years we had Horton, Lohaus and Bullard, et al on the bench! With Jok, Uthoff and Olaseni those are very high odds of seeing talent wasted. Even Oglesby will have chances to etch his Jeff Moe into Iowa history.
CHAMPIONSHIP GAME 1950s!!
San Francisco vs. Iowa Box Score, March 24, 1956 | College Basketball at Sports-Reference.com
As long as no NBA mega super duper stealth freak F-18 stars faced us in that game, we're '55 Champions! Oh, and it's a guy who I think will win another title in his Pro Basketball days after this. Just a feeling.
ANOTHER ONE?
Jacksonville vs. Iowa Box Score, March 12, 1970 | College Basketball at Sports-Reference.com
The guy who starred in this game next played in the NBA and went 24.0-18-3.0 AST 5 BLK in his first season en route to being named 34th best in Pro history.
If this is to be believed, in the future ignore talented Arizona teams and worry about those city names like San Francisco and Jacksonville. NBA talent thinks it's on UK, KU and dUKe, I'd really hate to see who Detroit and Tulsa has. Or do they need to be good weather? Because Miami and Oakland will be avoided. Honestly Cincinnati and Memphis: great players. Here's one more for those who believe Tom Davis did anything well besides develop would-be junk:
SWEET SIXTEEN: FIRST IN ELEVEN YEARS BEFORE AND 14 YEARS SINCE
Iowa vs. Arkansas Box Score, March 13, 1999 | College Basketball at Sports-Reference.com
Oliver, Settles and Koch our stars, 8-27 FG combined. Dial up MAC'S *Range*!
Range would have been a pretty big deal I believe. I also think on a team with Jaacks, Rucker and Bauer that Luerhsmann would have been 4th or 5th goofiest on the team. Same crowd in the running for clumsy award. Between Jacob J. and Ryan L. I likely misspelled 4 syllables worth of last name, so where am I for dumbest? <br><br>For the UCONN game did they bring in Ricky Moore (that generation's Craft) on Oliver or did they just use El-Amin? Oh, and our big B1G wins that year were against OSU, Indiana and Purdue. Were there ever any more hateful souls in one Conference since Penn-Redd-K. Johnson, Guyton-Haston-Da. Fife and Cardinal? What, the answer's Yes? And it's our own Jaacks?? No argument.
13-5 Regional Semi-??Final?
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A virus revealing Tanya Alford's nude bosom party with Brenda Warner is in that if clicked. Or it's useless and shouldn't really even be there. Umm again, Mrs. Alford! Lots in common with the classic teams. Developmental coach, a Marble, big white guys accounting for our bigger talent, our Big Two newcomers in Yr 2. Whether it's Oliver-Davis, Recker-Evans, Horner-Brunner, we always have a version of Gesell-Woodbury in the tank. And it's getting us to the Final Four this year! Definitely the Sweet Sixteen.
Trust me, history will show you that when you don't think there are great teams on your schedule, there in fact are great teams there. You just can't see the whole picture until seedings are out. 6 B1G and 4 OOC opponents will very likely get in this year. We beat 4 of those teams, lost 6. 4-6 with big chances coming up. The only difference between this year and what I saw in those past teams is we're not finishing 9-7 in a down B1G. We're finishing 12-6 in an up B1G. Even those junk 9-7 years had 3-4-5 seeds falling to Iowa. Having experienced every possible type of game except successful buzzer-beater (Recker for us in BTT, NWSt. vs us in NCAA Tourney) this year alone.
Remember the first one? The awesome Arizona team? There's Arizona mega-talented again today, but nothing anywhere near that crock to deal with. 1-seeds prepare for Kansas, AZ, Syracuse MSU. Nova and Florida saying WTF. Nothing fearsome in this tournament except for us. It's our turn to believe that. Worry about our wins, let the whacko whiner wusses freak out about our losses. Our job is not go undefeated in X situation and winless in another. If that was how this worked Denver would be Champs along with Alabama, BOS doesn't go from worst to world as in World Champs, Michigan doesn't lose every high impact Final Four player one year and threaten bigger the next.
Sports is designed to keep us off-balance. It's working better than any time in history. Relish it through past missed opportunities, don't hate it through future missed ones. In fact, why are so many people so angry when they have the tools to see these things coming? So which are you closer to? Fran's Fan or Nostrdumbass? Your choice.
Iowa vs. Arizona Box Score, March 25, 1988 | College Basketball at Sports-Reference.com
The year after 30-5 we got it handed to us by a high Arizona seed. I don't think any talent we've ran into even comes close to rivaling this:
-Sean Elliot: NBA All-Star
-Steve Kerr: Bulls mega-shooter, 3-time NBA Champ, won a game-clincher
-Tom Tolbert: NBA rough houser for 3 teams over 6 years
-Anthony Cook: NBA 1st rounder, shot-blocker extraordinaire. Yeah, there's more NBA on the way
-Jed Buechler: NBA reserve, loved bench player from the Bulls title run Part II
-Kenneth Lofton: Hmmmm, maybe say his name differently. As in Kenny? Yeah, THAT Kenny Lofton, the superstar Indians, Braves and 9 other teams. 15th MLB history in SB, 6-time All-Star. 4 Gold Gloves, 4 MVP finishes, 11 PS series, 2 World Series, no titles. Because my Braves got the '95 Roidians. He teamed with A. Belle, Bonds, Sosa, A-Rod, Justice, Sheffield, Klesko, Damon, Hafner, Kent, all the way up through Peralta. The only thing Lofton has seen more than superstar athletes are steroids. And PS without a WS.
Six major Major League athletes, the best perhaps didn't even stick to hoops. Elliot and Kerr pure excellence in the big league.
Oh, hey, BTW, I noticed something other than the regulars for AZ. The non-regulars for us sitting on our bench. I always figured Dr.Tom had something against you if too much natural talent was an attribute of yours, but I didn't think he'd let it beat him vs Arizona by sticking Horton on the pine. Minutes close to Moe and Hill, but Horton > ALL, that we know.
WHAT ABOUT THE FINAL FOUR YEAR? ANYTHING INTERESTING?
Louisville vs. Iowa Box Score, March 22, 1980 | College Basketball at Sports-Reference.com
Again, not our opponent, but us. Everybody will tell you Hansen and Lester were on that team. But do any of them know they spent more than half the tournament benched and ineffective, no worse than in the Final Four loss by 8.
NEAR MISS IN Mr. Davis'S FIRST YEAR<
I'll just tell you. We mirrored Wisconsin in the game this year, 58 one half, 23 the next. But that isn't why we should really let this go. It was the best Indiana team arguably of all time, even better than the undefeated squad 10 years prior. They won a conference in which our 14-4 was good for 3rd. The Syracuse team they beat barely thanks to well established heroics was awesome. I know the 3rd place games mean exactly dick, but if UNLV and that had anything to say about the whole situation, it's this: You don't beat the UNLV RRs that year, you don't beat BOTH Indiana and Syracuse. In other words, long odds there.
OH BTW PARALLELS!!
1986-87 Iowa Hawkeyes Schedule and Results | College Basketball at Sports-Reference.com
If that schedule's hard to read, you may notice a loss at home for our first loss of the season that year. Who beat us? OHIO ST. UNIVERSITY! *Mediocre* OSU, that is. Our other two losses were via the two 15-3 finishers (like UM and MSU this year) and outside OSU? Michigan, who started horribly before finishing 10-8. Now if that isn't exactly what Wisconsin's headed for? One other thing, on January 20th we claimed TOP SPOT IN THE COUNTRY!! If it really is resembling this year in any way we'd answer with a 1-1. We beat Indiana, 1-loss, 15-3 finisher with OSU at mediocre to keep our ranking. After that, we had two easy Michigan games. Yes, 1-1 yet again. Next home Purdue and Illannoy. 1-1 in conference AGAIN.
One more loss awaiting, but if it means anything a strong finish coming, with one loss waiting at East Lansing and that's all, I'm happy with this. We had a road game in here very comparable to our Xavier win. In fact our schedule here is every bit harder than what we had that year. But if that MSU game is the final one we lose (B1G Tourney notwithstanding) we get the 2 seed, very simple. And again, I cannot stress how little we would have had against any of those top 3 teams. I don't see that dominant, much less 3 dominants this year. It had better not turn out in 30 years we had Horton, Lohaus and Bullard, et al on the bench! With Jok, Uthoff and Olaseni those are very high odds of seeing talent wasted. Even Oglesby will have chances to etch his Jeff Moe into Iowa history.
CHAMPIONSHIP GAME 1950s!!
San Francisco vs. Iowa Box Score, March 24, 1956 | College Basketball at Sports-Reference.com
As long as no NBA mega super duper stealth freak F-18 stars faced us in that game, we're '55 Champions! Oh, and it's a guy who I think will win another title in his Pro Basketball days after this. Just a feeling.
ANOTHER ONE?
Jacksonville vs. Iowa Box Score, March 12, 1970 | College Basketball at Sports-Reference.com
The guy who starred in this game next played in the NBA and went 24.0-18-3.0 AST 5 BLK in his first season en route to being named 34th best in Pro history.
If this is to be believed, in the future ignore talented Arizona teams and worry about those city names like San Francisco and Jacksonville. NBA talent thinks it's on UK, KU and dUKe, I'd really hate to see who Detroit and Tulsa has. Or do they need to be good weather? Because Miami and Oakland will be avoided. Honestly Cincinnati and Memphis: great players. Here's one more for those who believe Tom Davis did anything well besides develop would-be junk:
SWEET SIXTEEN: FIRST IN ELEVEN YEARS BEFORE AND 14 YEARS SINCE
Iowa vs. Arkansas Box Score, March 13, 1999 | College Basketball at Sports-Reference.com
Oliver, Settles and Koch our stars, 8-27 FG combined. Dial up MAC'S *Range*!
Range would have been a pretty big deal I believe. I also think on a team with Jaacks, Rucker and Bauer that Luerhsmann would have been 4th or 5th goofiest on the team. Same crowd in the running for clumsy award. Between Jacob J. and Ryan L. I likely misspelled 4 syllables worth of last name, so where am I for dumbest? <br><br>For the UCONN game did they bring in Ricky Moore (that generation's Craft) on Oliver or did they just use El-Amin? Oh, and our big B1G wins that year were against OSU, Indiana and Purdue. Were there ever any more hateful souls in one Conference since Penn-Redd-K. Johnson, Guyton-Haston-Da. Fife and Cardinal? What, the answer's Yes? And it's our own Jaacks?? No argument.
13-5 Regional Semi-??Final?
www.Iowas2014NCAAGames.com
A virus revealing Tanya Alford's nude bosom party with Brenda Warner is in that if clicked. Or it's useless and shouldn't really even be there. Umm again, Mrs. Alford! Lots in common with the classic teams. Developmental coach, a Marble, big white guys accounting for our bigger talent, our Big Two newcomers in Yr 2. Whether it's Oliver-Davis, Recker-Evans, Horner-Brunner, we always have a version of Gesell-Woodbury in the tank. And it's getting us to the Final Four this year! Definitely the Sweet Sixteen.
Trust me, history will show you that when you don't think there are great teams on your schedule, there in fact are great teams there. You just can't see the whole picture until seedings are out. 6 B1G and 4 OOC opponents will very likely get in this year. We beat 4 of those teams, lost 6. 4-6 with big chances coming up. The only difference between this year and what I saw in those past teams is we're not finishing 9-7 in a down B1G. We're finishing 12-6 in an up B1G. Even those junk 9-7 years had 3-4-5 seeds falling to Iowa. Having experienced every possible type of game except successful buzzer-beater (Recker for us in BTT, NWSt. vs us in NCAA Tourney) this year alone.
Remember the first one? The awesome Arizona team? There's Arizona mega-talented again today, but nothing anywhere near that crock to deal with. 1-seeds prepare for Kansas, AZ, Syracuse MSU. Nova and Florida saying WTF. Nothing fearsome in this tournament except for us. It's our turn to believe that. Worry about our wins, let the whacko whiner wusses freak out about our losses. Our job is not go undefeated in X situation and winless in another. If that was how this worked Denver would be Champs along with Alabama, BOS doesn't go from worst to world as in World Champs, Michigan doesn't lose every high impact Final Four player one year and threaten bigger the next.
Sports is designed to keep us off-balance. It's working better than any time in history. Relish it through past missed opportunities, don't hate it through future missed ones. In fact, why are so many people so angry when they have the tools to see these things coming? So which are you closer to? Fran's Fan or Nostrdumbass? Your choice.
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