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Iowa Knocks Off #1 Michigan State, Who Scored An Own Goal
We love these incredible basketball plays, so here’s Michigan State’s Alvin Ellis scoring on his own basket while trying to deflect an Iowa inbound pass. It’s emblematic of the Spartans’ rough night in Iowa City; they fell to the Hawkeyes 83-70....
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Beat Writer's Leg Broken In Iowa State Court-Storming [UPDATE]
Iowa State fans stormed the court after the Cyclones beat in-state rival Iowa in Ames tonight, leading one beat writer to the hospital with a broken leg....

Michigan State Wins Big Ten, Ends Iowa's Unbeaten Season With Last-Minute Touchdown
Michigan State went 82 yards on a whopping 22 plays before L.J. Scott pushed his way into the end zone for the Spartans’ first touchdown of the night, one that earned them a 16-13 win that ended Iowa’s unbeaten season....

Gusgasm: Iowa's Touchdown Brings Fox Announcer To Ecstasy
In Gus Johnson’s defense, we’d be driven to rapture by a touchdown finally being scored in the B1G title game, too....

Cowherd Hates Santa: Your B1G Championship <i>College GameDay</i> Sign Roundup
Lick it up, kids, because this is probably our last College GameDay sign roundup....

Don't You Dare Ask Fran McCaffery About His Eye-Poking Player
Iowa's Adam Woodbury poked another guy in the eye yesterday, a thing that he's been doing far too often this season. After the game, a few reporters tried to ask Iowa head coach Fran McCaffery about all the eye poking. He was not having it....

Iowa's Adam Woodbury Can't Stop Poking People In The Eye
Okay, man, this is starting to get a little ridiculous....

Iowa Loses In Miserable Fashion As Freeze-The-Kicker Move Backfires
That is a gif of pure misery. Iowa coach Kirk Ferentz tried to pull the ol' "freeze the kicker" trick in the final seconds of the Hawkeyes' game against Iowa State this afternoon. The Cyclones missed the first kick, but had another attempt because of Ferentz's timeout. On the second try, Ferentz's w...

Do You Know Why Iowa Got Rid Of Its Field Hockey Coach? Let Us Know
When Iowa fired field hockey coach Tracey Griesbaum last week, they did it in the style of a place that didn't want to talk about it. Officials announced the news during Iowa's football media day. They didn't say why she was fired beyond needing "a change in leadership." And more than a week later,...

Did An Iowa Basketball Player Punch A Guy In The Face Over A Tweet?
Iowa Hawkeyes basketball player Zach McCabe was arrested and charged Friday after allegedly punching a man in the face, knocking him to the ground, and blowing a kiss as he left. One report suggests that it may have been caused by an insulting tweet sent by the victim to McCabe....

Iowa AD: Paying Players Is Too Complicated For Me And My $450K Salary
From a piece on the Iowa and Iowa State ADs' opposition to athlete unionization comes this doozy from Iowa's Gary Barta:...

Watch Iowa Coach Fran McCaffery Get Ejected After Bumping An Official
Iowa head coach Fran McCaffery chose a bad time to get ejected from the Hawkeyes' bout against fourth-ranked Wisconsin in Madison: as they held onto a two-point lead over the undefeated Badgers halfway through the second half. That lead disappeared thanks to the four free throws McCaffery afforded h...

A Three-Man Front Is A Late-Game Defensive Formation For Suckers
The weekend, as I watched the absurd denouement of the Northwestern-Michigan game, something struck me as familiar — beyond the now-routine bumblefuckery that inspires the Wildcats to turn fourth-quarter leads into triple-overtime losses. No, it wasn't simply that Michigan drove in the dregs of game...

Why Did The College Wrestling All-American Shoot The Duck?
This story is a couple of weeks old, but it somehow escaped the attention of our Ducks Desk. Ethen Lofthouse is a senior at Iowa who placed fifth at 184 pounds at last year's NCAA wrestling championships. One recent Friday afternoon, Lofthouse's neighbors noticed that he and his roommates were shoot...

Vodka Samm Has Been Immortalized In A Painting
Vodka Samm, the University of Iowa student who infamously blew a .341 after getting arrested at a Hawkeyes football game, is now art. The painting above is currently up for sale on eBay. Go on, make a bid. YOLO....

Penn State And Iowa Wrestling Coaches Schedule Meet On Twitter
Well, this was easy....

Wrestler Comes In Second Place At Big 10 Tournament, Throws Medal In Garbage
Iowa Senior Matt McDonough came in second place at this weekend's Big 10 tournament and was not particularly impressed with himself. According to a hobo wrestling reporter for The Daily Iowan and fellow senior at Iowa, McDonough threw the medal in the garbage. ...