MANCHESTER, Ia. – Iowa’s basketball team had just defeated Stony Brook in a second-round NIT game, played in front of a sold-out Carver-Hawkeye Arena crowd. “Everyone was like, ‘Boy, I wish we had one more home game,’ ” Iowa coach Fran McCaffery said. “I wanted a road game.” McCaffery got his wish, a third-round game [...]
NEW YORK, N.Y. – Eric May’s Iowa basketball career ended when he fouled out with 2 minutes 41 seconds to play in Thursday’s 74-54 loss to Baylor in the championship game of the NIT. The hundreds of Hawkeye fans in attendance at Madison Square Garden came to their feet and applauded May as he walked [...]
Coach Jeff Horner and senior Peter Jok of the West Des Moines Valley boys’ basketball team will be the guests during the Des Moines Register’s weekly High School Insider live chat on Wednesday at 8 p.m. Horner is a former Hawkeye and Jok is a future Hawkeye. Chatting high school sports with the Register
how do i get back with my ex girlfriend Iowa City, Ia. – Sharing is caring, and that suits Aaron White and his Iowa basketball teammates just fine. “We have really unselfish guys on this team, who don’t care about scoring,” the Hawkeyes’ sophomore forward said. “With this team we really share the ball well, [...]
Blacksburg, Va. – Tim McCormick can relate to Peter Jok's comeback journey. He's walked that road. McCormick had the same surgery that Jok did, to repair a torn patellar tendon in his knee, after his freshman season at Michigan. Jok, the West Des Moines Valley standout who signed a letter of intent with the Hawkeyes [...]
When Fran McCaffery saw Peter Jok play in an open gym at West Des Moines Valley High School this fall, he was sold. Jok’s surgically-repaired left knee was good to go. The 6-foot-6 guard was dunking off that leg, slashing to the basket and hitting pull-up jumpers with McCaffery and Iowa assistant Kirk Speraw in [...]
Roy Marble has never forgotten something the late Barry Stevens told him many years ago. “Barry always talked about giving back, and taking care of your own,” Marble said. “That still exists today.” So when Marble, Iowa’s all-time scoring leader, was asked to offer some assistance in Iowa State’s recruitment of Monte Morris, he never [...]
Iowa City, Ia. – Temper your enthusiasm, Iowa basketball fans. Do not take that as a cry that the the sky is falling on the eve of Friday’s season opener against Texas-Pan American. Fran McCaffery has made significant progress in his two-plus seasons as Iowa basketball coach, and he’s give no reason to believe that [...]
Josh Oglesby had the ball at the top of the key, with something that had been elusive all game long. Some space. “Shoot that,’’ Iowa basketball coach Fran McCaffery said to himself. The Cedar Rapids Washington guard and Iowa signee rose up and made the 3-pointer. Later, his jumper with less than a minute to [...]
