loesshillshawk
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Iowa vs Alfraud in the sweet 16....please.
please God...please
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CalvaryHawk
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Making it to the sweet 16 would be awesome. Beating UCLA would be incredible. But man I don't want that team sending us home- that's a must win match up.
atomicblue224
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God doesn't listen to prayers like that, he's deaf like me!
99topdawg
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I also remember him tanking a heck of a lot more games that shouldn't have been lost, but if you go back, he would occasionally pull a rabbit out of the hat and knock off someone when you knew he either wanted it or needed it.
theboat
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You can't say something and then only give his first game out of 256 as "evidence."
As Greg said, it is a must win matchup but it would be the greatest thing in Iowa basketball in my life (maybe ever) and I am 34.
theboat
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It is the only way to lift the stink of Alford off of the program, but it would really suck if that happened. Really.
imported_ankle23
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CalvaryHawk
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I go back 12 more years and I can't think of a bigger one. Maybe after Street passed away, but that wasn't a tournament game. On the flip side, it would be the most painful tourney defeat since UNLV.
ColumbusHawk
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As Alford showed at Iowa, he is great in preparation & is a good game coach. Look at the BTT, he took Iowa to three championship games, winning two. All other Iowa coaches have a combined 1-10 record in the BTT. Since Lute left, Alford is the only Iowa coach to win anything.
CalvaryHawk
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Noodles was the brains of the outfit. Appears he's matured, but SA lacked composure.
ColumbusHawk
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Poor boy! I feel sorry for you. Not even close to the greatest thing ever in Iowa basketball. B1G Championships & Final Four appearances far surpass a victory against UCLA. Heck, it wouldn't even be Iowa's best victory against UCLA. In '65, Ralph Miller & the Hawks blew out eventual national champion UCLA in Chicago Stadium.
From the age of fifteen through twenty-seven, I saw three B1G Championships & a Final Four appearance in another year. In contrast, you've only seen the Hawks seriously challenge for the B1G once. I remember Ralph & Lute. You probably think Tom Davis was the greatest thing that ever happened to Iowa basketball. Actually, there were several more B1G Championships & two more Final Four appearances by the time I was twenty-seven. However, I was too young to remember them. However, I heard countless stories about them.
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sioux34
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Quit saying Alf was a good game coach. His record at Iowa certainly does not indicate that.
WindsorHawk
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I would rather lose to Alford in the Sweet 16 than the Zags tomorrow. I can live with a Sweet 16 loss if that's How it has to be. But losing to UCLA would come as a surprise.
ColumbusHawk
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Davis' record after the first round indicates he wasn't a very good coach!
WindsorHawk
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If spending every timeout talking to your assistants while the players just there equals a good coach then Alford was/is the best.
sioux34
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False equivalency much Columbus?
Do you not remember Alf sitting by watching the lead evaporate against NW State? He did nothing to stop the bleeding at the end of that game. No time outs were called, no substitutions were made, 13 points were allowed to evaporate and by the time the last second three went through the net, it was a forgone conclusion that the Hawks would loose, as we had seen the same thing happen again and again during the Frauds tenure at Iowa.
Do you not remember Alf sitting by watching the lead evaporate against NW State? He did nothing to stop the bleeding at the end of that game. No time outs were called, no substitutions were made, 13 points were allowed to evaporate and by the time the last second three went through the net, it was a forgone conclusion that the Hawks would loose, as we had seen the same thing happen again and again during the Frauds tenure at Iowa.
lightning1
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I would go to church every Sunday for 2 months, if the Lord could see fit to grant me an Iowa smack down of the UCLA Alfrauds. I'll sing in the choir. I'll stand in the church doorway, holding the doors open for every man, woman and child coming to and from.
That's not asking too much, God. Consider it a divine justice for that faux Christian, greasy haired hypocrite!
That's not asking too much, God. Consider it a divine justice for that faux Christian, greasy haired hypocrite!
