Tonight, Iowa hosted Wake Forest in the first game of the ACC vs. Big Ten Challenge. This game was so ugly that I won't even bother posting the final score, or any sort of detailed analysis of either team. The only conclusion that anyone who watched this hideous drek disguised as a basketball game could have possibly come away with is: Iowa and Wake Forest really, really suck.
Consider that midway through the first half, the score was Wake Forest 11, Iowa 3. This game looked, for the world, like a bad pick up game at the local YMCA. Missed layups and turnovers were followed by more missed layups and turnovers. And there were just about as many empty seats at Carver Hawkeye Arena as there are at a typical Tampa Devil Rays home game. Oy. That place used to be one of the toughest places to play in the Big Ten, if not in the entire country. And this game was nationally televised. That alone is usually enough to draw crowds - especially in the Hawkeye state, which is usually only in the national consciousness once every four years (when they hold the Iowa Caucuses).
Maybe folks in Iowa City didn't show up because they were in a state of shock - considering all the Kirk Ferentz to Michigan rumors that have been floating around today. But it's more likely that nobody - not even nutty Iowa fans - wants to be subjected to the Godawfulness that is Hawkeye basketball.
Iowa is terrible. And Wake isn't a whole lot better. 'Nuff said.
EDIT:
Not that any sane person would want to, but if you're interested in reading what Iowa sports writers have to say about the Dreadful Hawkeyes, this article from the Cedar Rapids Gazette should be good for a couple laughs. That may have been the worst college basketball game that I've ever seen (and Iowa is one of the worst Big Ten teams I've ever seen), but the Cedar Rapids Gazette's game recap is titled: A Wake-up Call For Hawks.
The Quad City Times has a better perspective on both the game and the 2007/08 Hawkeyes.
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Wow-wah-wee-wah-wah. This was a game that made the Borat thong look appealing. I'll give Wake Forest a past, considering the adversity they have had to endure this year. They do also have the number one early signing period recruiting class according to a few outlets. Iowa, on the other hand - there's another missed three pointer - has a longer road to "hoe." At least the fans in Iowa City are realistic about their future.
Krazy Kats Fan here...I'm as passionate about NU athletics as anybody! There aren't many of us left, and to respond to your assertation that Iowa is one of the worst Big 10 you've ever seen. You haven't watched Northwestern play this year, have you? GO U NORTHWESTERN!
I said that Iowa is ONE OF the worst Big Ten teams that I've ever seen.
And, although Northwestern plays basketball in the Big Ten, I'm not going to count them as a Big Ten team. They're more like a Mid-Con team that happens to play a Big Ten schedule.
And, yeah, the Cats are bad this year. How bad, you ask? Well, they lost to DePaul. It doesn't get any worse than that.
But look for your Cats to beat Iowa this year anyway. Iowa is that awful. And regardless of Iowa's record, Northwestern has always had the Hawkeyes' number.
By the way, if you were really a Northwestern fan, you'd have known that it's NU (i.e.- Northwestern University) -- not "U Northwestern."
If you knew anything about Northwestern, you'd also know the fight song is entitled "GO U NORTHWESTERN"
I'm nitpicking here, but the name of the song is "GO! U NORTHWESTERN." It is, in fact, better than hearing the Wisconsin student section sing "Build Me Up Buttercup" during the 5th quarter. Or hearing the Steve Miller band blare over the Camp Randall speakers for that matter. Wow, and I thought Northwestern athletics were behind the times.
Anonymous,
I do know some things about Northwestern. I tend not to know fight songs of schools that I didn't go to, however. Hell, I don't even know fight songs of schools that I did go to (although I was in Division III in college - nobody pays attention to fight songs in D3 - and I'm not sure that my high school even had a fight song).
Come to think of it, I don't think I know any school's fight song.
I know that Oklahoma does that "Boomer Sooner" thing, but I'm not sure if that's their official fight song. And Texas sings that stupid "Yellow Rose of Texas" song (or whatever it is that they sing), and despite the fact that I'm from a family that's full of UT alums, I wouldn't know it if I heard it.
Just thought of another: Ohio State sings that goofy song about being the men from "OH-HI-OH," and hating people - and everything else - from Michigan.
Talk about having an inferiority complex. If you're jealous of people from Michigan - a state that's known, primarily, for it's economic woes and for the decay and rapidly declining population of it's largest city (Detroit) - you've got problems.
you guys from illanoy cant' stop taking cheap shots at the hawks. i admit htat game was hard to watch, but if those damn refs wouldnt of called such a 1 sided game the hawks prolly would of won. the hawks cant get a call. refs have major anti iowa bias.
Leave my state alone, honey! As much as the auto industry is crumbling (General Motors is run by a Dukie, Mr.Buckets!)we still have our Eastern Michigan Eagles to cheer on! This is the school of George Gervin, and for the younger crowd, Earl Boykins. This is the state that produced Michael Moore! 'nuff said thurrr
Heather,
If I were trying to extol the virtues of Michigan, I might want to leave out the part about Michigan being responsible for Michael Moore.
And for someone who made his name by stalking the CEO of General Motors ("Roger & Me"-1988)so that he could excoriate him, in person, for closing the Flint assembly plant (and thereby leaving many auto workers jobless), Michael Moore could end unemployment and turn Michigan's economy around all by himself ... if he'd just hire all of Michigan's unemployed people to cook for him. Hell, it probably takes a staff of thousands to cook that much food anyway. And the post-meal cleanup would probably be so extensive that a huge bus boy staff (if not HazMat staff) would be needed too. With all of Michigan cooking for him, Moore could hire Ohio to clean up. Thus, he could turn Ohio's economy around too.
Ypsilanti Heather,
I almost forgot to ask - since you're so bullish about your university -- we'll call you "Little Miss EMU"-- and all, please tell me this wasn't you:
driveanddish.blogspot.com/2007/03/m-is-for-michigan-right.html
Ypsi Heather,
By the way: no female under the age of 70 addresses a guy by calling him "honey." The only "girls" who do that aren't actually girls, if you know what I mean.
I think RuPaul calls guys "honey."
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