NorthKCHawk
Well-Known Member
It was Feb 18, 2014. Iowa was ranked 15th in the country and was rolling. We were 19-6. We were scheduled to travel to Bloomington to play a struggling Indiana team (they had lost 3 in a row and were 4-8 in conference play) and the expectation was that we would get a valuable conference road win.
(This next part may or may not be true). Tom Crean, knowing that Iowa was about to walk into his building and clean his clock, paid a part time janitor $28 in Milky Way bars to crawl up in the rafters and sabotage a piece of Assembly Hall's archaic roof system -- all conveniently caught on camera -- such that the game had to be postponed. Crean used the break in the schedule to gather a cash pool to motivate his players into actually trying.
Iowa's season tanked from there. We lost 7 of the last 8, including OT to Tennessee at Dayton. But, in Iowa's defense, a brutal closing stretch was made all the more brutal when we had to play 3 games in 5 days, including playing at Minnesota two days before going back to Bloomington where we lost.
I remain steadfast in the view that had that Indiana game been played as scheduled, our momentum would have continued, we would have closed strong, gotten a 4 seed, and been propelled to our first Final Four appearance in 3 decades (some have said national title, but let's keep it real, gents).
Its time for revenge....tonight!!!!!!
(This next part may or may not be true). Tom Crean, knowing that Iowa was about to walk into his building and clean his clock, paid a part time janitor $28 in Milky Way bars to crawl up in the rafters and sabotage a piece of Assembly Hall's archaic roof system -- all conveniently caught on camera -- such that the game had to be postponed. Crean used the break in the schedule to gather a cash pool to motivate his players into actually trying.
Iowa's season tanked from there. We lost 7 of the last 8, including OT to Tennessee at Dayton. But, in Iowa's defense, a brutal closing stretch was made all the more brutal when we had to play 3 games in 5 days, including playing at Minnesota two days before going back to Bloomington where we lost.
I remain steadfast in the view that had that Indiana game been played as scheduled, our momentum would have continued, we would have closed strong, gotten a 4 seed, and been propelled to our first Final Four appearance in 3 decades (some have said national title, but let's keep it real, gents).
Its time for revenge....tonight!!!!!!
