Two Noteworthy Milestones This Evening

[DaHawk56]

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Congrats Iowa for winning your "Super Bowl" this year. Wish our team had thought about showing up and playing with some passion like it was some kind of in-state game or something.

This is a pretty ridiculous statement considering that nobody who suited up for Iowa last night was from the State of Iowa. I'm sure kids from Antioch, TN (David Palmer), Franklin, IN (J.R. Angle), Maywood, IL (Tony Freeman), Tyler, TX (Justin Johnson), Carmel, IN (Jake Kelly), Chicago, IL (Cyrus Tate), Kansas City, MO (Jaryd Cole), St. John's (Kurt Looby) and Vandalia, OH (Seth Gorney) always dreamed of playing the mighty Panthers of Northern Iowa.

On second thought, maybe the team with 3 of 5 starters growing up in Iowa. Guys who always dreamed of playing for the University of Iowa (but were passed over) are on the team that just lost their "Super Bowl" to the University of Iowa.

Webster City, IA (Jared Josten) - Starter
Bondurant, IA (Kerwin Dunham) -Starter
Bellevue, IA (Jordan Eglseder) - Starter
Ackley, IA (Adam Viet)

My condolences.

[Khan4Cats]

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would someone please explain to me how that game last night was Iowa's "Super Bowl." give me one indication by coach lickliter that this was his or his team's super bowl. I think that by comments made previously by him that he's more concerned about his 18 game Big Ten Schedule after what he calls "preseason" games because he views the conference schedule as the real big games. It is arrogance and plain stupidity to call that game last night Iowa's "Super Bowl." show a little common sense and humility.

That was my point of saying it.

Had we won, that is definitely one of the comments that would have come from Iowa fans-that this was UNI's Super Bowl or Final Four or whatever.

Despite what the Iowa fan who started this thread thinks, UNI is their equal when it comes to Division 1 basketball. Since 1997, we have won 5 of the 11 contests. There is no "little brother" in this state when it comes to basketball.

Iowa winning last night was an UPSET. UNI was expected to win.
That has never before been the case in the series, even in years when we won in the Dome and probably should have been favored like 2005. I believe we were the better team coming off of back-to-back NCAA trips and we were 4-1 playing at home, but Iowa was from the Big 10 so their soft early schedule garnered themselves a #12 ranking making our win an upset at least by rankings.

It won't be the last time though. UNI is not going away.

[clenz]

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Eglseder commited to UNI long before Iowa even looked at him. Iowa wishes they could have hm

[9YRPLAN]

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That was the third trial...the first two trials found them innocent.

a mistrial is not being found innocent, Mr. Wapner

[Panther'73]

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These players know each other very well from summer league - I couldn't believe how
Tony Freeman reacted at the buzzer - you would have thought Iowa just won the national championship by his reaction so it meant something to the Iowa players as well.
If it wasn't an important game for Iowa why did Freeman play almost the entire game?

[9YRPLAN]

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OUR fansbase...as a "UNI fan"?!?!? After reading about 10 of your posts after this loss, I wouldn't consider YOU part of OUR fanbase. You even admitted you DIDN'T cheer for UNI last night...hopefully the really meaning of you posts is as transparent to everyone else as they are to me. You are just like the little kid dressed up in UNI gear who was cheering for the Hawks all game last night.

i was going to UNI games when YOU were the annoying kid dressed up in panther gear. like last weekend.

i did my undergrad in iowa city and grad school at UNI. i grew up right next to UNI, worked in CF for 4 years and both of my siblings played sports at UNI. my dad went to iowa, but my dad teaches at UNI now. my mom went to iowa, but went to grad school at UNI. seriously, how the hell am I supposed to choose a side?

[DaHawk56]

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Kudos to the Hawkeyes. They got it done this year just like UNI got it done in Carver last year. So, tit for tat...and we'll move on, win some games in the Valley and have a chance to play in the post-season and Iowa will struggle to win 1 game in the Big Ten.

Before you say, "What does that say about UNI?" I will say this, it means that UNI will continue to improve while Iowa will bank on this win as a "signature win" this season. And that says EVERYTHING about UNI...they they have become a signature win vs. THE university in Iowa. Kind of like the ISU win vs. Iowa in football. This used to be a game that mattered more to UNI. It was a throw-a-way game for the Hawks. Now...it means more. The way that Tony Freeman reacted after the game...it was like they just won a championship. That means UNI has elevated the status of their entire program. This game is a blip on the radar to UNI.

Beating an MVC team is a signature win? Sorry, Alford is gone.

This Iowa team will continue to improve throughout the year. 3 of Iowa's regular starters are true freshman and have already shown great improvement over the course of this season (e.g., Jake Kelly (as you witnessed last night), Jarryd Cole and Jeff Peterson). And the players that were non-factors under Alford have improved as well.

UNI is not a good team this year. They faced a rebuilding Iowa team that was missing their starting PG (Jeff Peterson) and had their best returning player from last year playing limited minutes on a bum foot in his first action of the season. Basically, UNI lost to a depleted rebuilding Iowa team at home. As much as you claim Iowa sucks, UNI sucks worse. Congratulations, I guess. Best of luck the rest of the season, your guys are going to need it (even in the MVC).

[06panther10]

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How is winning a game that UNI was favored by double digits not a signiture win? This was an upset....Iowa had to upset UNI. That is the reality Iowa fans. Not the other way around.

[ubuntuCAT]

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They faced a rebuilding Iowa team that was missing their starting PG (Jeff Peterson) and had their best returning player from last year playing limited minutes on a bum foot in his first action of the season. Basically, UNI lost to a depleted rebuilding Iowa team at home.

UNI has been missing there starting PG all season along with another guard in Carlton Reed. Coleman played limited minutes with the flu. You probably didn't realize this since UNI fans haven't been *****ing about being short handed.

[UNIAlum95]

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Beating an MVC team is a signature win? Sorry, Alford is gone.

Must be a big win for Hawk fans to troll around little UNI's message board. I'll watch for you in the bottom half of the big ten again this year. Bye bye.

[jman2004]

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UNI is not a good team this year. They faced a rebuilding Iowa team that was missing their starting PG (Jeff Peterson) and had their best returning player from last year playing limited minutes on a bum foot in his first action of the season.

This is ridiculously stupid. If I'm not mistaken, your "starting" PG on your beginning of the season depth chart ACTUALLY DID PLAY LAST NIGHT, and played pretty well, bum foot or not. Stop claiming that Peterson is your "starting" PG. If Freeman had been healthy, he's your man. Duh.

And remember, it was our star hobbling around the court, recovering from the flu. It was Carlton Reed sitting on OUR bench. It was Kwadzo sitting in street clothes for the rest of the season. Stop tossing excuses. We've got 'em as well.

You Hawk fans are making your fan base look unintelligent and dumb. What was the Big Ten's conference RPI last year? What was the Big 12's? What was ours?

THE VALLEY IS A DIVISION I NCAA BASKETBALL CONFERENCE. Our schools may have smaller enrollment and we may operate on smaller budgets, but that doesn't change the fact that WE ARE UNDER THE SAME UMBRELLA as the Hawkeyes. The NCAA that is.

And you're in an awkward spot to be bragging. Your non-conference schedule has been nothing to brag about in the least. It's laughably pathetic.

Idaho State, Northern Colorado, Florida Gulf Coast, Maryland-Eastern Shore, Utah State, Wake Forest, Louisiana-Monroe, Eastern Illinois, UNI, ISU, Drake, and Southeastern Louisiana.

Are you kidding? Are you seriously going to come on here all arrogant and mock us? Take a look at your @#$%&$# schedule. That's amazingly pathetic. Stop acting macho and realize that playing us, is nothing but a boost for you. If you make the tournament bubble by the end of the year, last night's game will be listed as a BIG WIN for you guys. That says everything about where our programs are at.

We've got a lot going for us. Grow up and stop trying to take it away from us.

[9YRPLAN]

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freeman will not play the 1 this season unless peterson is on the bench. peterson was our starting pg from the time he signed with Lick.

[06panther10]

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freeman is not a 2....

[DaHawk56]

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These players know each other very well from summer league - I couldn't believe how
Tony Freeman reacted at the buzzer - you would have thought Iowa just won the national championship by his reaction so it meant something to the Iowa players as well.
If it wasn't an important game for Iowa why did Freeman play almost the entire game?

Freeman played 24 minutes. I wouldn't consider that almost the whole game. Further, Freeman played as much as he did out of necessity (i.e., the only other guys on the team who had played PG for Iowa this year did not play (Peterson and Bohall)). Finally, it was Freeman's first game of the season, it was a pretty good game and Iowa pulled out a W on the road. Freeman played through pain and helped the Hawks get the win on the road, are you surprised he was happy?

[jman2004]

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freeman will not play the 1 this season unless peterson is on the bench. peterson was our starting pg from the time he signed with Lick.

No way. Freeman's been the 1 his entire career. Peterson is their PG for the future. If Freeman's healthy, he's the guy. He was last night.