HOOPYTHROWBALLOPENTHREAD: South Carolina State @ Iowa
by Patrick Vint on Dec 21, 2009 7:36 PM CST
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Today, Eamonn Brennan (who we really like, by the way) opened his new ESPN college basketball blog by calling Iowa "one of the worst teams at any major conference school in maybe the past 10 years" (and that was before he discussed the loss of Anthony Tucker). Up until 15 minutes ago, we didn't even know South Carolina State existed (they're apparently the Bulldogs, by the way, which makes this Iowa's second straight game against Bulldogs, and that has to be a record). So this isn't exactly a big ticket. There are approximately 6 people in the stands, though at least 5 of them are wearing Hawk's Nest shirts.
The good news? Kenyon Murray is on color commentary on the Big Ten Network, and we hope he isn't terrible. Join us as we find out. After all, we know you aren't at the game...
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This is actually sad to watch.
It’s like a church at CHA.
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If we were trying to generate some interest...
…having Devan Bawinkel introduce the lineup certainly didn’t help.
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Yes, on Big Ten Network.
Bullwinkel literally looked like a deer, or moose, in the headlights.
I've sentenced boys younger than you to the gas chamber. Didn't want to do it. I felt I owed it to them.
-- Judge Smails
by WaterlooChazz on Dec 22, 2009 12:41 AM CST up reply actions
Tweet o' the night:
@johnbohnenkamp: I can’t look at Brennan Cougill without thinking about someone saying the other day that he looks like John Daly.
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"Iowa's had a lot of success against the MEAC."
As opposed to Duke…
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At least the inside game is working
Fuller with the bucket and the foul. I know, I don’t believe it either…and he clangs the free throw, of course.
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FIRST TELEVISION TIMEOUT
10-9 Iowa. The good news is we’re scoring. The bad news is so are they.
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Losing Tucker is a big blow to the defense
by Black and Gold on Dec 21, 2009 7:47 PM CST up reply actions
(coughs)
(looks down)
(raises hand)
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by Patrick Vint on Dec 21, 2009 7:48 PM CST up reply actions
Big Ten Network...
has been advertising the hell out of this Iowa game for a few days. Why? I have no idea.
I've sentenced boys younger than you to the gas chamber. Didn't want to do it. I felt I owed it to them.
-- Judge Smails
by WaterlooChazz on Dec 22, 2009 12:43 AM CST up reply actions
The free throw shooting is still atrocious
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Yeah
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by Patrick Vint on Dec 21, 2009 7:49 PM CST up reply actions
We open B10 play with the possible conference champs?
The schedule-makers have a sick sense of humor.
It could be worse
Todd could be playing.
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by Patrick Vint on Dec 21, 2009 7:52 PM CST up reply actions
Short Lick just drew an offensive foul
I have no idea what that proves
by Black and Gold on Dec 21, 2009 7:55 PM CST up reply actions
There's no I in MEAC
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by Patrick Vint on Dec 21, 2009 7:53 PM CST up reply actions
SECOND TV TIMEOUT
20-20. Which is absurd.
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OK, the Top Football Games of the Year Marathon on BTN will consume my Saturday.
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The refs are doing their part
That’s at least 3 minor fouls called away from the ball, all against SCSU
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Yikes
Lickliter’s shot is less-than-beautiful.
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Apparently, he is in there to rebound
by Black and Gold on Dec 21, 2009 7:56 PM CST up reply actions
He's wearing capri pants.
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by Patrick Vint on Dec 21, 2009 7:57 PM CST up reply actions
24-22 Iowa, 10 minutes in.
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by Patrick Vint on Dec 21, 2009 7:58 PM CST up reply actions
estimated CHA attendance
excluding player & staff?
this place smells like feet. i’ll bring a can of lysol next week.
by pfac51 on Dec 21, 2009 7:59 PM CST via mobile up reply actions
I'd say 2500. Maybe.
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by Patrick Vint on Dec 21, 2009 7:59 PM CST up reply actions
sadly, i'm not shocked.
this place smells like feet. i’ll bring a can of lysol next week.
by pfac51 on Dec 21, 2009 8:05 PM CST via mobile up reply actions
ESPN...
had the reported attendance at roughly 8500. I think I heard that number in a couple games earlier this year that could not have been a crowd that big. So, does that mean they actually sold 8500 season tickets?
I've sentenced boys younger than you to the gas chamber. Didn't want to do it. I felt I owed it to them.
-- Judge Smails
by WaterlooChazz on Dec 22, 2009 1:27 AM CST up reply actions
Wow, shocking how many people are checking their Blackberries in the crowd.
And by “shocking” I mean “not at all surprising”
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they're all checking on
Ladell Betts
http://m.espn.go.com/nfl/gamecast?gameId=291221028
this place smells like feet. i’ll bring a can of lysol next week.
by pfac51 on Dec 21, 2009 8:02 PM CST via mobile up reply actions
You are aware...
that Betts is done for the year, and has been for a month, right?
http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=4681756
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-- Judge Smails
by WaterlooChazz on Dec 22, 2009 12:51 AM CST up reply actions
That is huge
Could the fortunes of the FB and BB teams be ANY different right now?
by Black and Gold on Dec 21, 2009 8:01 PM CST up reply actions
THIRD TV TIMEOUT
26-24 Iowa.
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RO*TEL up in this motherfucker!
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We should liveblog the Dance Gala
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We've apparently discarded the slow-down game for the night
Here’s to hoping this is a long-term fix.
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Wow
what a crowd. I think I just heard someone pass gas.
Great atmosphere for some heckling for sure.
Roy Williams would throw your drunk ass out on the street.
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by Patrick Vint on Dec 21, 2009 8:06 PM CST up reply actions
I think "Hey, don't miss it" was your go to phrase as well
that one cuts deep to any player, for sure
Was that a "Rattle and Hum" reference?
U2 FTW.
Also, these refs are calling a ridiculous game.
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Do you believe in nothing?
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by Patrick Vint on Dec 21, 2009 8:09 PM CST up reply actions
Well, I belive that U2
is massively overrated, and that they could record an album of nothing but Bono shitting on a kitten (now THAT would be an epic photoshop) and it would win a Grammy
by The Nihilist on Dec 21, 2009 8:11 PM CST up reply actions
Can't really disagree
but (1) despite their general shiite recently, Achtung Baby and Joshua Tree were pretty fucking great, and (2) fuck the Grammys.
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by Patrick Vint on Dec 21, 2009 8:12 PM CST up reply actions
Yep...
Other great albums: Live at Red Rocks/Under a Blood Red Sky. I also recommend the “Best of, 1980-1990” CD. I don’t own Rattle and Hum right now, but I will before I die.
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-- Judge Smails
by WaterlooChazz on Dec 22, 2009 12:58 AM CST up reply actions
Nice shot by Cole
right after spending a half-hour in the lane.
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TOO SOON
(seriously, that might be a little soon)
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by Patrick Vint on Dec 21, 2009 8:11 PM CST up reply actions
Um, does Lil' Lickliter count as a "player"?
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by Patrick Vint on Dec 21, 2009 8:11 PM CST up reply actions
He's played tonight.
As far as I know, that’s his first action.
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by Patrick Vint on Dec 21, 2009 8:13 PM CST up reply actions
Are we sure Lil' Lick isn't a leprechaun?
(aside from the fact that he would be the unluckiest leprechaun ever)
IMA RENT ME A BACK HOE
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by Patrick Vint on Dec 21, 2009 8:17 PM CST up reply actions
Amateur sketch
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by Patrick Vint on Dec 21, 2009 8:30 PM CST up reply actions
FINAL FIRST HALF TV TIMEOUT
38-28 Iowa.
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Mike couldn't get better seats than that?
I mean, couldn’t he just walk down to the first row? Would anyone question him?
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Don't call it a comeback
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by Patrick Vint on Dec 21, 2009 8:16 PM CST up reply actions
OPS:
This team has the hair you were looking for earlier this week.
Does Pa Gatens ever wish he had cryogenically frozen his kid?
So he could watch him play for a non-shitty Iowa hoops team?
My thought process walking to the Field House for wings:
“I wonder who all those black guys wearing matching red outfits getting on a bus in front of the Sheraton are?”
“An opposing basketball team?”
“Does Iowa play tonight?”
“Well, if I had Big Ten Network I would watch it, but I don’t, so I’m not going to worry about it.”
"Jack Trice Stadium - Easily one of the Top 10 Stadiums in Central Iowa"
(Sorry. It had to be done.)
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by Patrick Vint on Dec 21, 2009 8:17 PM CST up reply actions
was Kenyon ever higher
than 2nd team all-big ten?
this place smells like feet. i’ll bring a can of lysol next week.
by pfac51 on Dec 21, 2009 8:17 PM CST via mobile reply actions
According to the Iowa media guide...
Murray was never on any All-Big Ten team.
http://grfx.cstv.com/photos/schools/iowa/sports/m-baskbl/auto_pdf/mguide10-6.pdf
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-- Judge Smails
by WaterlooChazz on Dec 22, 2009 1:17 AM CST up reply actions
HALFTIME
46-30 Iowa. We could score 100, which would make SCSU the worst defensive team in the history of the game.
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"Not feeding off the energy....
…of a non-existent crowd." Pretty much sums up the season.
I read Tucker is telling people he will transfer to
Butler
"I think it's safe to say our concerns are many." -- Kirk Ferentz
Alford won't take him.
“Not ‘rapey’ enough,” is the word out of the ’Querq.
I got more rhymes than Wade Lookingbill's got dunks
he seems to want to be a victim
of it though…passing out in alleys and cabs will attract some…stuff.
"I think it's safe to say our concerns are many." -- Kirk Ferentz
Can Lickliter really survive this season
without Tucker?
"I think it's safe to say our concerns are many." -- Kirk Ferentz
Tom Brokaw FTW
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Couple of questions from the first half....
do we have more of a “fuck it, put it up” attitude going on than normal? Also, what’s up with the crazy ginger kid trombone player in our band????
"I'm not doing any good back here."
His name is "wormy"
Discuss.
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Wormy...
used to play the Iowa rallying cry in the north endzone of Kinnick. Now someone else does it as Wormy has passed…
"I'm not doing any good back here."
Are Bawinkle and Payne
lost at birth twins?
"I think it's safe to say our concerns are many." -- Kirk Ferentz
We have the whitest of white players I've noticed
Bawinkle and Payne are actually pink…
"I think it's safe to say our concerns are many." -- Kirk Ferentz
I've noticed the open thread
is challenging CHA
"I think it's safe to say our concerns are many." -- Kirk Ferentz
CHA gets the nod...
as I am willing to bet nobody in the open thread in knitting whilst participating in the thread.
"I'm not doing any good back here."
I'm doing the wave
and clapping a lot…but I always do that.
"I think it's safe to say our concerns are many." -- Kirk Ferentz
How long until Lickliter's son
transfers out of disgust?
"I think it's safe to say our concerns are many." -- Kirk Ferentz
I say we just start Moeaki and Clayborn (in capris) and dare anyone to say it's a bad idea.
Mr. Boh Knows ...
On 1/6
it’s a great idea. I’d hate to risk anybody, especially Moeaki, before that.
It never gets to be easy
by chitownhawkeye on Dec 21, 2009 8:49 PM CST up reply actions
So much for defense...
SCSU draws within 13
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Is it me...
…or is Bawinkel demonstrably worse this season?
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He's awful.
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by Patrick Vint on Dec 21, 2009 8:52 PM CST up reply actions
I guess when the only thing you have to work on is the three
the only thing you shouldn’t be good at is shooting the three
Gatens, on the other hand, seems to get what he has to do.
He’s never been better than tonight.
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Bawinkel with the most half-assed charge-taking ever
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Wow, this thread died faster than the CHA student section
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Iowa lead climbs back to 17
…and Kenyon Murray takes his first backhanded swipe at Anthony Tucker.
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He's right
the whole team sat around waiting for Tucker to rescue them…or not.
"I think it's safe to say our concerns are many." -- Kirk Ferentz
Cole is injured
It is eerily silent, but that could just be how it always sounds.
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Twisted/sprained ankle
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by Patrick Vint on Dec 21, 2009 9:10 PM CST up reply actions
COUGILL FROM DOWNTOWN
That was absurdist.
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Eric May will be in the NBA
I’m the same guy who was buying into the Ricky Stanzi is the next Tom Brady talk
/drinks more kool-aid
by KenOKeefeIfuckinghateyou on Dec 21, 2009 9:11 PM CST reply actions
He's like 6'4" and can't shoot or handle the ball
I love watching him, but he’s extremely limited.
Eric May should have played football
he’s athletic and very large. Was he a tight end?
"I think it's safe to say our concerns are many." -- Kirk Ferentz
Jesus...
now that’s intriguing…how tall is he?
"I think it's safe to say our concerns are many." -- Kirk Ferentz
So Tucker leaves and Gatens and Fuller immediately look 50% better.
Makes sense.
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We get Tennessee Tech State Community College at some point in the next few weeks, I think.
That’s about as good as it gets from here on out.
Tomorrow
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by Patrick Vint on Dec 21, 2009 9:14 PM CST up reply actions
Did Brommer get caught giving Lil' Lick swirlies or something?
How had do you have to be not to play in this game?
He's the worst Iowa player in a generation
He’s worse than Angle. I believe this in my heart.
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by Patrick Vint on Dec 21, 2009 9:16 PM CST up reply actions
Andrew Brommer: The Human Double-Bonus
I wish I could sell those shirts without getting sued.
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by Patrick Vint on Dec 21, 2009 9:19 PM CST up reply actions 1 recs
If you're talking scholarship players, yeah
Otherwise, Beutjer is still the benchmark for all shitty Iowa players (he probably shouldn’t count, but he was so bad that I feel like I have to) and Lickliter’s kid is also probably worse.
but, but
he’s the future!
It never gets to be easy
by chitownhawkeye on Dec 21, 2009 10:20 PM CST up reply actions
Brommer is better than...
Antonio Ramos. Was that a full generation ago?
Also, Brommer has played more than Joe Fermino did. I had a friend who worked at Carver at that time, and said that Fermino was awful in practice and got yelled at all the time. I will assume Brommer is a touch better than him.
I've sentenced boys younger than you to the gas chamber. Didn't want to do it. I felt I owed it to them.
-- Judge Smails
by WaterlooChazz on Dec 22, 2009 1:23 AM CST up reply actions
He was getting serious minutes early last year
you may recall he went to the line against BC and airballed two FT to lose the game.
"I think it's safe to say our concerns are many." -- Kirk Ferentz
Maybe that was the signal to the coach
to bury him 4ever
"I think it's safe to say our concerns are many." -- Kirk Ferentz
If he had a diet coke and cigarette in his hands
he could be John Daly’s stunt double
"I think it's safe to say our concerns are many." -- Kirk Ferentz
I looked at the score on the first page
and just assumed the game was over… No way this Iowa team could have that many points and still be playing…
Fuck tOSU
Per Bohnenkamp
Cole is looking OK on the bench.
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80 is the high water mark for Lickliter at Iowa
WE’RE MAKING HISTORY FOLKS
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We're about to make it through an entire game with Arsenio Williams
and not make one “Carsenio” joke. That’s some serious self-control.
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Are we feeling better about the upcoming Big Ten season yet?
We are starting to play something that resembles basketball. I wish our point guard didn’t jump on every pass. I saw him do a jump bounce pass earlier—I swear. That is a little disconcerting.
by KenOKeefeIfuckinghateyou on Dec 21, 2009 9:20 PM CST reply actions
Tim Tebow disagrees.
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by Patrick Vint on Dec 21, 2009 9:20 PM CST up reply actions
We played South Carolina State and Drake
And we didn’t even look that great against Drake.
So, no.
Ballgame.
Peace.
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I think what we've learned here
is that we need to plays teams whose mascots are bulldogs.
It never gets to be easy
There's a game tonight? (last night)
/hangs head in shame
Perhaps my best years are gone. When there was a chance of happiness. But I wouldn't want them back. Not with the fire in me now. No, I wouldn't want them back.
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