The hugs and platitudes flowed inside the Hawkeye locker room Saturday night as Iowa coach Fran McCaffery presented the game ball to Mike and Patty Street following a 70-66 win against Wisconsin. The game was played on the 20th anniversary of the car crash that killed Chris Street on the outskirts of Iowa City. A [...]
The 3 for 3 blog for the Hawkeyes out in cyberspace … 1: IOWA SHOWS DUAL PERSONALITY — The two faces of Iowa’s basketball team made appearances Saturday during a key, 70-66 win over league-leading Wisconsin. In the first half, the Hawkeyes played the kind of defense coach Fran McCaffery said could enhance the postseason [...]
Jerseys with “Street” on the back were not approved by the NCAA for Saturday’s game.
IOWA CITY, Ia. — When the family of late Iowa basketball player Chris Street approached Carver-Hawkeye Arena on Saturday, emotions began to tangle like a jumbled mess of computer cords. Unraveling all those feelings — wound tightly around the loss of a son and brother 20 years ago that rocked the state — required an [...]
IOWA CITY, Ia. – Wade Lookingbill won the first Chris Street Award in 1993, months after the Hawkeyes’ standout junior forward died in an automobile accident. Lookingill and the other winners of the award, presented to a “Hawkeye player who best exemplifies the spirit, enthusiasm and intensity of Chris Street,” were recognized at halftime of [...]
Twenty years after the death of player Chris Street, Iowa hosted Wisconsin and honored Street and his family before and during the game.
Chris Street’s family spoke to reporters before the game 20 years after his death.
Wisconsin’s Gary Close, a former Iowa assistant, talks about Chris Street. Chris Street is honored at halftime. The Street family and Street award winners. The Street Award winners are honored. How would Chris Street have reacted to this attention? His family weighs in. Chris Street’s family talks with reporters before Saturday’s game. Former Hawkeye Jess [...]
The Iowa Hawkeyes are honoring the memory of Chris Street during tonight’s game against Wisconsin at Carver-Hawkeye Arena. Follow updates from Rick Brown and Bryce Miller of The Des Moines Register.
For years, while driving past the site where former Iowa basketball player Chris Street was killed in an automobile accident, I’d think back to that tragic January night in 1993.
