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On Anthony Tucker’s status: "The situation is a coach’s decision. Anthony wasn’t just suspended. He was under the weather, missed practices, lost some strength. He’s kind of been recovering from that. It’s not like we’ve played bad basketball in his absence. Devan Bawinkel has filled in, Jermain Davis has stepped up. His minutes have been limited because of that. He’s continued to work hard in practice and he’s available for us.’’

On if he has learned his lesson: "Yeah, that’s behind us. He’s very bright, a team guy. I have no problem with Anthony. We can’t change things that have happened, but we can learn from them. He’s been a good teammate and we’re happy he’s with us at the University of Iowa.’’

Article here

or did he get his scholarship jackked?

this place smells like feet. i’ll bring a can of lysol next week.

Apparently has mono. Fatigue is a big issue for him right now. Also the guys ahead of him have played well in his absence, so there are 5 guard ahead of him on the list. JPete, Gatens, Davis, Bawinkel, and Kelly all stepped up when he was out (for illness and drinking). He has to get healthy and then try to work back into the rotation.

AT isn’t going anywhere.

one of many things you could catch passed out in a snowbank behind a bar in December.

At least I got mine from a skanky chick who could suck the seeds out of a watermelon.

Actually I got it as an adult. We had our second child 9 months later. heh heh heh.

(get it? Get it?!!? LOL!! LOL!!)

You know, this whole Tucker thing is uncomfortably close in form to the way that Alford handled matters. What’s the big deal in telling the media why the kid isn’t playing? All he had to say was, he’s been ill and is trying to get his legs back.

I like this guy Lickliter and I am sold on his system for the long haul. We just aren’t going to be able to recruit the big trees and post people up at Iowa, so this system makes good sense for us. BUT, I really had deja vu watching that Indiana game. We had two points off the bench. Lickliter strangled the mintues to only six guys (an old Alford trick, once the season got going there was suddenly no bench and now it appears Aaron Fuller is also getting squeezed out of minutes). Meanwhile, Tucker is sitting there on the bench, apparently too sick to play but not too sick to dress for the game.

Bottom line, if the kid is sick, then I guess we’ll just have to roll with the approach here. But, if he is merely not in top form, then please, he is the best shooter on the team and was our leading scorer until he got sick. He may not be able to provide Kevin Boyle defense (there’s a blast from the past!) but is he so frail and fragile he cannot take the court for 10 minutes even?

Whatever. We are still a .500 or a little better team this year and 20 wins would be coach of the year at this point. I’ll just hope he isn’t f-ing this kid and the team up. I think Tucker is a star.

http://www.desmoinesregister.com/article/20090106/SPORTS020504/90106013/1093/SPORTS0205

http://www.hawkmania.com/articles/2009/01/07/news/doc4963e62d490f0394263561.txt

We don’t want to over-use him and wear him out. He only enters late in the game when we are hovering around 40 points or so and we need a quick spark to climb into the 50’s before the game ends.

If we used him much more this early in the year, we also risk our NIT opponents having full scouting footage of him for those crucial end of the year games.