IOWA CITY, Ia. Iowa’s men’s basketball team will wear throwback uniforms for today’s 2p.m. game with Penn State at Carver-Hawkeye Arena, and Devyn Marble considered taking retro to a whole new level. The uniforms are a copy of the ones Marble’s dad, Roy, wore when he was a freshman in 1985-86. And Roy’s 1986-87 team, [...]
There will be at least one celebration Saturday at Carver-Hawkeye Arena on Saturday.
Iowa’s Zach McCabe and Branden Stubbs celebrate Wednesday’s win IOWA CITY, Ia. – Iowa has four victories over Big Ten basketball teams with current RPIs of 38 or better, according to RPIratings.com. Minnesota, a team the Hawkeyes defeated Wednesday, 63-59, is No. 38. Iowa also beat Minnesota last month in Williams Arena, 64-62. Michigan is [...]
IOWA CITY, Ia. – The VHS tape sits in a box in his basement. “I’ve never watched it,” Brad Lohaus said. The tape is a cruel reminder of the final game of Lohaus’ Iowa basketball career, which ended on the doorstep of the 1987 Final Four: No. 1 Nevada-Las Vegas 84, Iowa 81. The sting [...]
IOWA CITY, Ia. – Iowa’s Fabulous Five basketball team of 1955-56 spent five weeks rated in the Top 10, won 20 games and finished as the national runner-up. Bucky O’Connor’s legendary squad took a school-record 17-game winning streak into the NCAA championship game against San Francisco in Evanston, Ill. Bill Russell and the Dons snapped [...]
The Iowa men’s basketball team started the 1986-87 season 18-0, the longest winning streak in school history, under the direction of coach Tom Davis. And that team became the first – and only – Iowa team to reach No. 1 in the Associated Press poll. Rick Brown of The Des Moines Register spoke with Davis [...]
IOWA CITY, Ia. – When Iowa lost at home to Nebraska on Jan. 26, 79-73, the Cornhuskers scored on 17 of their final 19 possessions. The Hawkeyes returned home Wednesday, and allowed Minnesota to score on just two of its first 18 possessions in a 63-59 victory. Hard to image a bigger turnaround in two [...]
Three days after ripping his team for its lack of toughness against Indiana, Iowa men’s basketball coach Fran McCaffery was in a much better mood Wednesday night.
