It's Not Plagiarism If You Link To It: May 28
by Hawkeye State on May 28, 2009 7:00 AM CDT
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Just ask the Persians: Stay out of Greece Despite a late-game rally, Iowa lost game 2 of its European vacation 76-75 to the Greek Select Team. Given that the Hawks were down 27-10 after the first ten minutes, it wasn't so HOLY SHIT WE TOOK FORTY-THREE 3-POINT SHOTS?!?
Shooting proved to be the difference in the contest, as Greece shot 45.5% from the field, compared to 38.8% for Iowa. The Hawkeyes hit just 13-43 (30.2%) three-point attempts, while Greece made 11-24 (45.8%) three-pointers. Greece won the rebounding battle 40-37 and outscored Iowa from the free throw line, 15-10. Iowa was guilty of just nine turnovers.
You would think that, given the fact that we played well inside against the Italians and were making shots inside the arc at a 54% clip, we would focus on the interior offense. You would think that, when you average 1.08 points per 2-point shot and 0.90 points per 3-point shot, that it would be statistically logical to pound it inside. You would be mistaken. Keep chucking it, Tucker (4-15 from three) and Bawinkel (4-12)!
When asked for comment on the loss, leading scorer Matt Gatens said, "Man, fuck this place. The gyros are better at George's anyway."
What do you expect when you name your stadium after the whiny guy from Friends? Rittenberg (who is quickly finding that there are only so many Disney-friendly ideas for the offseason) ranks the toughest places to play in the Big Ten. Kinnick Legendary Kinnick Stadium comes in fourth:
For starters, it's always packed. And arguably no stadium in the Big Ten puts the fans closer to the field than Kinnick. Throw in the color schemes -- black and gold in the stands, pink in the visitors' locker room -- and this is not a fun place to play.
Notably (and correctly), he ranks The House that Nile Built ahead of that key-jangling-geezer-infested library in Ann Arbor. More troubling for Iowa's chances of a Big Ten championship this year, he places it behind three road opponents, including Penn State:
If every game was played at night, Beaver Stadium would get the nod for the top spot. Penn State's White-Outs are freakin' awesome and very intimidating, and the sight of the massive stadium rising from the hills is enough to make opposing players tremble.
Just a reminder: Iowa plays Penn State September 26. At Beaver Stadium. At night. Um, yeah, that could be a problem.
Stanford had some trouble with the windmill Rain hit Toledo this afternoon, and the Hawkeye golfers were only able to finish the first half of their second round. Iowa sits in 19th place at +20, two shots ahead of Illinois (Yeah, suck it Illini!) and only one shot back of jNWU. With a good morning session, a top 20 finish isn't out of the question.
The story of the day was Michigan, who posted a -7 team score before darkness cut their day short, vaulting the Wolverines into second and giving UM a legitimate shot at the weekend match play finals. Just one Big Ten school (Minnesota, 2002) has won the championships in the last 30 years.
Oh, and Tiger Woods' alma mater is in last place.
UPDATE: Iowa finished the morning in a tie for 20th at +29. Scores ballooned for teams who had to finish this morning; for instance, Ohio State finished at +26 for the day. Any hopes for the weekend are effectively over, as we're 15 shots back of the top 8.
Tim Brewster Tweeting o' the Day
"On to Baton Rouge for NCAA tourney PERIOD," sir? Brewster hasn't used a period in a Twitter post since May 15. That is twenty tweets with nary a period. In that time, he has used exclamation points in sentences about such things as:
And, the greatest of all...
Clearly, someone has a case of tournament envy...
BREWSTATS!!!!
Exclamation point count: 6
Total exclamation points: 18
Exclamation points per day: 6.0
Inadvertent ENTER key usage: 1
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Roughly one period a month for Brewster? Sound about right . . .
Columbus Hawkeye - Not letting his superlatives run away with him since 1983
by ColumbusHawkeye on May 28, 2009 7:50 AM CDT reply actions 2 recs
Wow
That right there, commentariat? That is a fucking WIN.
storminspank: "Or we could join you can take our pants off."
by Hawkeye State on May 28, 2009 8:07 AM CDT up reply actions
Me = “Yeah, Beaver Stadium should give us an advantage. The crowd will be rocking and all that.”
Rittenberg = “THE BEAV WILL KILL IOWA TO DEATH!!!!1”
We’ve said before at BSD that Rittenberg luvs us…
DO YOU HAVE ANY PRIDE, DANNY?
Please HawkeyeState - the Hlog for tomorrow's "Plagiarism"
Looks like the Goofers got happy with the delete key in their 2009 Media Guide:
http://hlog.iowa.com/2009/05/27/is-minnesota-denying-its-55-0-football-loss-to-iowa-ever-happened/
Visit the Star Tribune’s Randball (really a good blog too) and let the Minnesotans know what you think about the omission:
http://blogs2.startribune.com/blogs/randball/2009/05/28/thursday-the-iowa-rivalry-edition-wha-happened/?elr=KArksLckD8EQDUoaEyqyP4O:DW3ckUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aUycaEacyU
by YouCanPutYourEddsInIt on May 28, 2009 10:53 AM CDT reply actions
The loss to Greece
just confirms that the Italian team was full of guys under 5’6".
If only they had studied their history. You grow tall when you get the mushroom!
by chitownhawkeye on May 28, 2009 12:24 PM CDT reply actions
Brewster
I’m still not convinced that Brewster is actually the poster at Play4Brew and that it is not, in fact, a glorious and ingenious hoax being perpetrated by one of the BHGP staff.
I ate the blue ones ... they taste like burning.
Rand gets it dead wrong though...
…when he opines that the Iowa-Minnesota rivalry means far more to Iowa than Minnesota. Several of the commenters correct him, but go on to say Iowa State is the main rival. Uh, no. It got me to thinking, who is the biggest rival right now from Iowa’s perspective? Who do you want to beat more than anyone?
Speaking only for myself, at this point, I probably love beating a team led by a certain red-clad coach with a Tigerhawk on his leg more than just about anyone. The Illini are certainly fun to beat as well. I also know a THIRD straight loss to jNW at Kinnick will send me right over the edge. Minny, as annoying as they are, is down the list a ways.
Having said that, another turd in Ames will also lead to my family wanting to get out of the house, at least for the first several hours after the game. Could we PLEASE play well in that oversized HS stadium? Just once?
The teams I prefer to rivalry against
In order
1. Wisconsin – long history, that fake rivalry trophy, Bielema, fun and insane fans, similar style both on the field and in the stands, both consistently competitive teams resurrected from 70’s cellar dwellers. Always a great game, always happy to beat ‘em.
2. Illinois – I like beating Illinois for the exact opposite reasons I like beating Wisconsin. I don’t respect their fans, coach, or team, and enjoy every setback they ever suffer, especially at the hands of the Hawkeyes.
3. Ohio State – We’ve come up short many times, and if there’s any team in the Big Televen that needs to be taken down a notch or three, it’s the buckeyes. When we win, it’s glorious. When we lose, it’s heartrending. Because over the last two decades, every time you talk about what “could have been” the “but” is always tOSU. Hear that, fucknuts? You’re the BUTT.
4. Michigan – If the Big Ten was a party, Michigan would be the pony-tailed, wine-drinking, turtleneck-wearing pseudo-intellectual in the corner looking down his nose at the rest of the revelers and making up shit in conversation (but attributing it to Derrida or Barthe) to impress the attractive chick that for some reason idolizes him. He deserves to get pinned down and slapped until he cries, because he’s a smarmy ass.
5. Minnesota – LOLphers. 55-L0L
6. Iowa State – I like beating them just to shut them up. Annoying little brother that thinks his balls have dropped because he won a couple scraps while big brother had the flu. Irrelevant outside of the state.
7. Penn State – this would mean more if we hadn’t owned the series since they joined the Big Televen. Still, JoePa is a legend and they’re always competitive. Last year’s game was a classic.
8. jNW – For the love of god and all that is holy, why do we keep losing to these fucking twerps? Unconscionable.
9. Michigan State – How a team so consistently rich in talent can consistently fail to do anything worthwhile with it is amazing. Still like to beat them, but they’re such also-rans. Haven’t been relevant since the 60’s except during their near-annual “surprise” beatdown of Notre Dame
10 & 11. Purdue & Indiana – When we win, who cares? Sucks to lose.
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