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I thought I'd do one last Fran-graph as a way of reviewing the season and briefly talking about what the team will need to replace next year. This graph shows a few slightly esoteric (but useful)...

Work, a dentist's appointment and a misapprehension that the game started at 4:30 all led me to miss most of the first half of this game, so can only speak for what I saw, but ... man, that was a...

Iowa’s tournament resume is, let’s face it, none too impressive: 11-19 overall, 4-14 in the Big Ten, outscored by almost eight points a game in conference play, with two of our four wins over...

Yeechhh.  That was depressing.  Here's something to lift your spirits: The Lonely Island - Dreamgirl (via orlylover30) For some reason, after this game the following lyrics from that song...

Going to the heart of the orange hell that is Champaign, Illinois and winning a game is a tough enough task to begin with, but when you allow the Illini to open up a 10 point lead in the first...

  This game had a strong sense of deja-vu about it.  Just as in Iowa's recent loss to Wisconsin, Iowa kept the score close with a superior team and had a decent shot to win the game on a Bryce...

This entry will be a little short, because it's late and because I listened to a few too many Ray Stevens songs earlier and may have i-overdosed.  This was a game that Iowa certainly could have...

The weather was pretty wonderful in Iowa City this weekend: temperatures climbed over 40 degrees, the mountains of brown snow started to melt and run in the streets, and fans streamed through the...

If you had told me before the game we would be up two on the #13 team in the country with 30 seconds left, I would have taken it in a heartbeat.  So is it greedy to say we should have done...

Well that was the coolest thing to happen for Iowa basketball in Bloomington since this: At the 7:52 mark in the second half, it felt like Iowa had lost this game.  The Hawks were down 58-48, M...