Black Heart Gold Pants (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
More photos » by Erich Schlegel - AP Texas coach Rick Barnes tries to cross his fingers for good luck, which he will not need tonight. Browse more photos » Tonight the Iowa Hawkeyes meet the Texas Longhorns in the semifinals of the CBE Classic in Kansas City. Consider the opposition: Ranked #3 in the coach’s poll. Ranked #3 in the writer’s poll. Magazines suggest this team is...
Black Heart Gold Pants (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
Big win for the Iowa Hawkeyes tonight, as they shook off a sluggish start and dominated Bowling Green for Iowa's first win of the year. Now, some people will probably point to the fact that Bowling Green was awful tonight, but no no. We think we know what's behind Iowa's sudden resurgence. It was Todd Lickliter ditching the Butlerball system and moving the offense about 30 years ahead. Watch and learn....
ronald wesley maly (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Sometimes a guy hears the darnedest things when he sits at the press table in a collegiate basketball arena . The talkative man sitting next to me had just introduced himself the other night at the Drake-Iowa State game in the Knapp Center . Then he suddenly said, "Well, I guess the bloggers have Keno Davis being the next Iowa basketball coach." I hope the guy wasn't talking about this blogger...
Black Heart Gold Pants (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
Hello, folks, OPS here. As a strong proponent of moustaches as an indicator of virility , I've often wondered why the ol' whiskey strainer has worked its way out of American culture over recent years. After all, it's a fixture on the greatest swimmer of his generation , the two best baseball players of our generation (check that, three best), the finest football player of the Super Bowl era, the finest...
Black Heart Gold Pants (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
...and you thought the Northwestern game hurt. Iowa basketball newcomer and point guard Cully Payne started and scored three points, dished out six assists and an ample supply of grief to the Marian Knights in 29 minutes of exhibition supremacy this past week, or maybe yesterday...who really keeps track of basketball these days? Don't ask who or what Marian is, it will only confuse and sadden you....
Butler Bulldogs Insider (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
Following is an Associated Press college basketball preview about Iowa, led by former Butler coach Todd Lickliter. I thought the Butler community would be interested: By Luke Meredith IOWA CITY, Iowa -- Iowa coach Todd Lickliter knows the Hawkeyes have been picked to occupy the Big Ten basement this season. The eternally optimistic coach, however, is choosing instead to think of a well-known story...
Fox News (Free subscription) | 10/20/2009
Iowa forward Devon Archie could miss the start of the season after injuring his right shoulder in practice. Hawkeyes coach Todd Lickliter says Archie was hurt Saturday and is expected to be sidelined for four to seven weeks. Archie is a junior college transfer from Vincennes Community College in Indiana. He averaged 6.8 points and six rebounds a game last season and is expected to be a reserve in Iowa's...
ronald wesley maly (Free subscription) | 10/13/2009
Roster No. Name Ht./Wt. Year Pos. Hometown (Last School) 1 Anthony Tucker 6-4/200 SO G Minnetonka, MN (Minnetonka HS) 3 Cully Payne 6-1/190 FR G Schaumburg, IL (Schaumburg) 5 Matt Gatens 6-5/215 SO G Iowa City, IA (Iowa City HS) 13 Nick Neari 6-2/185 FR G St. Charles, IL (North) 15 Devan Bawinkel 6-5/210 SR G Winnebago, IL (Highland, IL CC) 20 Andrew Brommer 6-9/235 SO F Rosemount, MN (Rosemount HS)...
ronald wesley maly (Free subscription) | 08/25/2009
Sam from Schleswig , not his real name, is a frequent contributor to this column. Sam noticed the item I had that said Harrison Barnes of Ames High School, who is regarded as the nation's No. 1 collegiate basketball prospect in the 2010 recruiting class, had narrowed his list of finalists to Iowa State, North Carolina, Duke, Kansas, UCLA and Oklahoma . That prompted Sam to make these comments to me...
Butler Bulldogs Insider (Free subscription) | 07/02/2009
Can you believe how much Butler basketball news there is in the middle of the summer? There are FOUR story lines regarding the program, and it's early July. -- Story line No. 1, starting with the bad: Ben Brust, a 6-2 guard from Mundelein, Ill., chose Iowa over the Bulldogs. Iowa is coached by former Butler coach Todd Lickliter. Not only was this a loss for the Bulldogs -- Brust was averaging 27 ppg...
Black Heart Gold Pants (Free subscription) | 06/23/2009
[Bumped. Terrifying news. Also, WaterlooChazz can choke on a shit-filled tube sock.--OPS] June 22, 2009 IOWA CITY (AP) -- University officials today declined to comment when they were questioned about the possibility that another member of the mens' basketball team was preparing to transfer from the program. Recent news reports from the Cedar Rapids Gazette had revealed that the appendix of star guard...
Black Heart Gold Pants (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
More photos » by Charlie Neibergall - AP Browse more photos » Okay, you know how people are all down on Todd Lickliter for the poor performance of the basketball team over the last couple years? And then The Day of the Wailing and Gnashing of the Teeth? You know how people don't think he'll go down in history as a Hawkeye legend? Our question to you is... what if he already has'? We've...
Black Heart Gold Pants (Free subscription) | 04/02/2009
In the wake of last week's mass suicide defection from Todd Lickliter's Iowa hoops squad, the Hawkeyes suddenly have a glut of available scholarships and a lack of point guards. From BHGP Friend of the Program Mike Hlas comes news that Lickliter may have killed two birds with one stone: High school point guard Cully Vale is set to sign with Iowa . Few players have had their high school career chronicled...
Black Heart Gold Pants (Free subscription) | 03/30/2009
Todd Lickliter says "sometimes it's a little dark before the dawn." Perhaps that's not the most apt analogy.
ronald wesley maly (Free subscription) | 03/28/2009
I guess I'm having trouble buying that "dark before the dawn" stuff in Iowa City. About Todd Lickliter's Hawkeye basketball program, I mean. Like I wrote the other day, I've been watching Iowa basketball for 63 years, and I'd never seen anything like what went on this week. Not even when Dick Schultz was the coach. And he was pretty bad. Four players -- Jake Kelly, Jeff Peterson, Jermain...
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