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The Daily Iowan

The independent newspaper of the University of Iowa community since 1868

The Daily Iowan

The independent newspaper of the University of Iowa community since 1868

The Daily Iowan

Women’s basketball team waits for NCAA brackets

MIKE BROWNLEE March 13, 2009

Their own beds and home-court advantage are among the many perks that await the Iowa women’s basketball players in the NCAA Tournament. Three teams will join Iowa inside Carver-Hawkeye Arena March 22...

Wolverines crush Hawkeyes

CHARLIE KAUTZ March 13, 2009

INDIANAPOLIS — After all the injuries, all the adversity, and all of Michigan’s biggest man on campus DeShawn Sims Thursday, the Hawkeyes’ postseason hopes amounted to 40 minutes from hell in Indianapolis. That,...

Spirit goes AWOL for men’s basketball team

SCOTT MILLER March 13, 2009

INDIANAPOLIS — I’m very conscious of being too critical of student-athletes. After all, they’re people just like me who go to class and are on campus to get education and have fun. They just so...

DeShawn Sims too much for the Hawks to handle

CHARLIE KAUTZ March 13, 2009

INDIANAPOLIS — Michigan head coach John Beilein would’ve been well-suited to arrange a massage and a king-sized hotel mattress for forward DeShawn Sims on Thursday night in Indianapolis. If Sims was...

Poor shooting led to collapse against Michigan

SCOTT MILLER March 13, 2009

INDIANAPOLIS — Senior Cyrus Tate said something interesting on Monday. Something that raised a few eyebrows in Carver-Hawkeye Arena. “Going into the [Big Ten] Tournament, teams realize we live and...

Mich-again for Iowa at Big Ten Championships

SCOTT MILLER March 12, 2009

Manny Harris sat on the bench for the first minute in overtime. You figured he was hurt or that Michigan head coach John Beilein was going to work his star into the game somehow. But Harris, an All-Big...

Each game a season as Iowa searches for winning formula

CHARLIE KAUTZ March 12, 2009

The Iowa men’s basketball team was like a wet matchbook during Big Ten play this season. For every rare game with just enough spark to ignite a fire under the Hawkeyes, there were several that saw Iowa...

Looking for wrestling revenge in the nationals

ZACH SMITH March 12, 2009

Tom Brands is not big on superstition, nor are his wrestlers. Whether it’s a uniform change, a pre-match ritual, even a select pair of socks, the Hawkeye wrestlers rarely lose their focus on the big...

Women’s golf struggles after 12th place finish in Florida

PETER GUSTIN March 12, 2009

The weather was sunny, around 80 degrees. The course was very forgiving with wide fairways and flat greens. However, it wasn’t Iowa’s time to excel. Before entering the Eagle Landing Invitational,...

Diving career of Iowa’s Deidre Freeman springs ahead

EVELYN LAU March 12, 2009

Deidre Freeman didn’t know where her future stood in diving four years ago. Growing up in Grinnell, she displayed all the poise and agility needed to become a diver, but she didn’t start the sport...

Beatty tries to heal knee before NCAA championships

RYAN YOUNG March 11, 2009

Iowa 197-pounder Chad Beatty is already making good on his pledge to be mat ready by the NCAA championships, which begins on March 19. Just days after beating Minnesota’s Gordon Bierschenk with an injured...

Despite record, Iowa basketball stays tenacious

SCOTT MILLER March 11, 2009

Penn State’s Talor Battle had 11 points in the last 2:41 to force overtime against Iowa on March 7. Everyone in Carver-Hawkeye Arena thought the game was over. The Hawkeyes had blown a nine-point lead...