The University of Iowa was founded in 1847, 59 days after Iowa became the 29th state. The main campus was established in Iowa City per the state constitution. The first faculty offered instruction in March 1855 to 124 students (41 women), becoming the first university to admit men and women on an equal basis. The original campus consisted of the Iowa Old Capitol Building, where Iowa’s state constitution was crafted, 1st governor was inaugurated and 6 general assemblies met. When the seat of government was moved to Des Moines in 1857, the OId Capitol Building became the first permanent building owned by the University of Iowa.
Today UI has 1880 small city acres, enrollment of 32,199 (22,738 undergrad), $3.3 Billion endowment, USN&WR No. 88 national university, WSJ No. 169
Famous alumni include playwright Tennessee Williams, actor/comedian Gene Wilder, novelist John Irving, 8th Vice Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. James Cartwright USMC, USAF Gen. Chuck Horner commander of Gulf War Coalition Air Forces, legendary Grambling St coach Eddie Robinson, pollster George Gallup, director-writer Joe Russo (Captain America, Avengers, Infinity War, Endgame, Arrested Development, Community), novelist/screenwriter Peter Craig, Game of Thrones co-creator DB Weiss, Arena Football League founder Jim Foster, ACT Exam co-founder EF Lindquist, Voice of the Phillies Harry Kalas, NFL HOF DT/ Monday Night Football co-host Alex Karras, paintball inventor Charles Gaines, singer Al Jarreau, saxophonist David Sanborn, US Senator Chuck Grassley, football coach Bob Stoops, NBA HOF player/coach Don Nelson, WNBA star Caitlin Clark, 4x Academy Award winning filmmaker Charles Guggenheim, Tennis HOF player/coach Steve Wilkinson, actors Ashton Kutcher, May Beth Hurt, Jean Seaberg, Terry O’Quinn, Toby Huss, Tom Arnold, John Getz, Brandon Routh, Don DeFore, Greg Morris, television journalist Tom Brokaw, writer/producers Diablo Cody, David Milch, TV news anchor/political figure Kari Lake, Jewel Prestage – 1st African-American woman awarded PhD in Political Science, assassinated CEO of United Healthcare Brian Thompson, Dick Tracy comic strip writer Max Allan Collins, Youtuber Technoblade
Iowa Athletics: 26 NCAA team championships (24 wrestling, 1 men’s gymnastics, 1 field hockey); plus 12 non-NCAA titles (5 football, 5 rifle, 1 women’s T&F, 1 women’s wrestling), 129 Big Ten conf titles, 23 Olympic medals– 14 Gold, 4 Silver, 5 Bronze
Colors – Black & Gold, nickname Hawkeyes, mascot – Herky the Hawk, Fight Songs - Iowa Fight Song, On Iowa, Roll Along Iowa, Iowa Victory Polka
Basketball started in 1902 as a varsity sport (1756-1219-1, .590) but UI played first 5v5 college basketball game vs. U. Chicago in 1896. 1956 NCAA runner-up, 3 Final Four (last 1980), 8 Sweet Sixteen (last 1999), 29 NCAA appearances, 3 Conf tourney titles, 8 Conf regular season titles. 21 AP AA’s (incl Herb Wilkinson, Don Nelson, Downtown Freddie Brown) - 5 1st Team (Murray Wier, Charles Darling, 2x Luka Garza, Keegan Murray), Retired jerseys 12 Ronnie Lester, 21 Carl Cain, 22 Bill Seaberg, 23 Roy Marble, 31 Bill Logan, 33 Bill Schoof, 40 Chris Street, 41 Greg Stokes, 46 Sharm Scheuerman, 55 Luka Garza, Honored jersey 10 BJ Armstrong. Eleven 1st rd NBA draft picks, 3 current NBA players (Luka Garza – TWolves, Keegan Murray – Kings, Kris Murray – Trailblazers)
Winningest coaches: Fran McCaffrey 280-191, .594, Tom Davis 269-140, .658, Lute Olson 165-95, .635, Steve Alford 152-106, .589. Four Naismith HOF coaches: Sam Barry (winningest coach in SC history), Ralph Miller (pre - Oregon St), Lute Olson (pre-UA), George Raveling (pre-SC)
Current Fran McCaffrey – 14th season, 290-194, .599 (UI), overall, 541-371, .593. Previously at Siena (2009 MAAC COY), UNC Greensboro, Lehigh
Currently: 12-4 (3-2) – W: Minn-Duluth, TX A&M Commerce, Southern, S. Dakota, WSU, Rider, USC Upstate, Northwestern, New Orleans, Utah, New Hampshire, Nebraska, Indiana; L: Utah St, #23 Michigan, #3 Iowa St, Wisconsin. SC is currently 10-6 (2-3) and coming off an upset at #13 Illinois.
All-time: Iowa leads SC 5-2, .714
Iowa NET 45, KenPom 39, SC NET 78, KenPom 68
Iowa Scores: 89.6 ppg (+12.9), 50.9% FG, 39.5% 3FG, 10.8 3’s/g, 68.3% FT. Rebounds 33.9 pg (-4.3), Assists 19.8 pg, TOs 10.4 pg (+5.1), Steals 8.4 pg, Blks 5.3 pg
Iowa Leaders:
Scoring: Payton Sandfort 16.9 ppg (41.3% FG, 35.2% 3FG, 87.9% FT), Owen Freeman 16.6 ppg (63.1% FG, 33.3% 3FG, 58.5% FT), Josh Dix 14.6 ppg (56.1% FG, 47.9% 3FG, 95% FT), Drew Thelwell 10.2 ppg (56.7% FG, 40% 3FG, 64.3% FT), Brock Harding 9.8 ppg (45% FG, 39.6% 3FG, 73.1% FT), Pryce Sandfort 9.3 ppg (48.1% FG, 40% 3FG, 66.7% FT)
Rebounding: Freeman 6.7 rpg, Payton Sandfort 5.8; Assists – Harding 6.1 apg, Payton Sandfort 3.3; Steals – Thelwell 2.3; Blks – Freeman 2.2
SC scores: 76.1 ppg (+5.6), 47.4% FG, 33.3% 3FG, 6.2 3’s/g, 75.4% FT, Rebs 32.4 rpg (-0.4), Assists 15.7 apg, TOs 11.6 pg (+1.9), 16.3 ppg/TO, Steals 6.7, Blks 3.2
SC Leaders
Scoring: Claude 15.9 ppg (51.2% FG, 29.2% 3FG, 76.7% FT), Agbo 12.4 (38.8% FG, 38.8% 3FG, 87.8% FT), T-Will 10.6 (51.1% FG, 36.0% 3FG, 81% FT), Yates 10.0 (46.2% FG, 33.3% 3FG, 85.7% FT), Saint 9.7 (42.8% FG, 29.2% 3FG, 63% FT), Cohen 8.7 (64.6% FG, 16.7% 3FG, 76.2% FT),
Rebounds: Saint 6.0, T-Will 4.6, Agbo 4.5; Assists Saint 3.9, Claude 3.9; Steals Saint 1.4, Yates 1.2; Blks Knowling 0.7, Patton 0.6
Pregame
Drum roll…making his FIRST appearance at the Founder’s Room is Coach Muss! He gets a standing ovation. One donor tells me “I guessed we shamed him into showing up” (last game young Muss was asked when his father would show). She thought Muss should have showed for the very first game and introduced himself. She was not happy with him.
Muss: Team continues to evolve and get better. From an energy, effort, enthusiasm and belief standpoint he can’t ask for more in practice or games. T-Will and Knowling still out. Wesley Yates has stepped up in their absence. He is important not just for this season, but for our future. Trying to encourage Agee to shoot more 3’s, made three vs Illinois.
Fran McCaffrey is a great offensive coach and his team averages ~90 ppg. UI perimeter players can shoot and their small PG averages over 6 assists. Their center leads them in scoring but doesn’t shoot 3s, instead taking advantage of defenses vacating the lane to defend the 3’s. UI doesn’t rebound or play defense well, they just want to outscore you (ala Paul Westhead).
Muss’ Keys – Don’t let UI shoot 3’s, don’t let them make 3’s, interfere with their passing LOS. Can’t turn this into a skills competition, we need to turn the game into a grinding, defensive game.
Fun fact Iowa has 2 sets of brothers – Payton & Pryce Sandfort, Cooper & Jacob Koch.
The students are back from break and have filled the bottom student section. Only notable I spy in the crowd is coach Jim Mora Jr (UConn, UCLA, Atlanta Falcons, Seahawks) – no idea why he’s here.
The Game
There was a moment of recognition for the fire fighters battling the LA wildfires with a sustained ovation from the home crowd and visitors – a nice moment.
Starters for SC – Saint, Claude, Yates, Agbo, Cohen – the first 4 would basically play the whole game! Claude 40, Yates 40, Agbo 38, Saint 37 mins. The only subs were Agee (29 min) for Cohen (11 min) and Patton 5 min.
SC scores first on a Yates layup and Saint’s 3 gives SC a 5-0 lead. SC shared the ball and scored at a 61% clip, 63.6% (7-11) on 3FG. Playing their best half since the UW game, SC never trailed and built their lead to 16 pts 48-32 at the break. They held high scoring UI to only 4-10 on threes, checking off one of Muss’ keys.
For the half:
UI shot 46.4% FG (13-28), 40% 3FG (4-10), 40% FT (2-5)
SC shot 61.3% FG (19-31), 63.6% 3FG (7-11), 42.9% FT (3-7)
Second Half
Claude opened scoring at 19:34 giving SC it’s largest lead of the game 18 pts (50-32). SC would maintain a double-digit lead to the 6:28 mark, when UI closed it to 9 pts (81-72) on a Pryce Sandfort 3. When Thelwell hit a layup at 5:05 bringing the Hawkeyes to within 5 pts, it was nervous time for this SC fan, but fortunately not for the team - UI would get no closer and SC led by 13 (99-86) at :06. Harding closed out scoring with an old-fashioned 3 to bring UI up to its season average of 89 pts, but SC would post an impressive 10-pt win 99-89.
For the game:
UI shot 53.3% FG (32-60), 45.8% 3FG (11-24), 73.7% FT (14-19)
SC shot 64.9% FG (37-57), 66.7% 3FG (10-15), 60% FT (15-25)
SC had 3 players over 20 pts - Claude with 25 pts, 9 assists, 8 rebs; Saint 24 pts, 9 rebs, 7 assists; Yates 21 pts, 4 assists, Zero TO’s in 40 min for the RS FR! Agbo had 18 pts. Claude and Saint were each close to the revered “Triple-Double” which remarkably only one player in SC history has ever accomplished! In 2007 Daniel Hackett had 22 pts, 10 rebs, 10 assists in an 85-75 defeat of South Carolina. SC was led by freshman phenom OJ Mayo’s 29 pts.
SC was great from the field (64.9% FG) and from deep with 10 made 3’s, but a poor 60% (15-25) at the FT line. They had a season high 27 assists and +17 rebounding margin (37-20). They had a 50-34 edge in pts in the paint. Just an impressive victory for SC.
With this wire-to-wire win, SC improves to 11-6 (3-3) and Iowa falls to 12-5 (3-3).
Next Up: vs Wisconsin at Galen Center Jan 18th 12 pm PST, B1G Network
Fight On! Beat the Badgers!
Today UI has 1880 small city acres, enrollment of 32,199 (22,738 undergrad), $3.3 Billion endowment, USN&WR No. 88 national university, WSJ No. 169
Famous alumni include playwright Tennessee Williams, actor/comedian Gene Wilder, novelist John Irving, 8th Vice Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. James Cartwright USMC, USAF Gen. Chuck Horner commander of Gulf War Coalition Air Forces, legendary Grambling St coach Eddie Robinson, pollster George Gallup, director-writer Joe Russo (Captain America, Avengers, Infinity War, Endgame, Arrested Development, Community), novelist/screenwriter Peter Craig, Game of Thrones co-creator DB Weiss, Arena Football League founder Jim Foster, ACT Exam co-founder EF Lindquist, Voice of the Phillies Harry Kalas, NFL HOF DT/ Monday Night Football co-host Alex Karras, paintball inventor Charles Gaines, singer Al Jarreau, saxophonist David Sanborn, US Senator Chuck Grassley, football coach Bob Stoops, NBA HOF player/coach Don Nelson, WNBA star Caitlin Clark, 4x Academy Award winning filmmaker Charles Guggenheim, Tennis HOF player/coach Steve Wilkinson, actors Ashton Kutcher, May Beth Hurt, Jean Seaberg, Terry O’Quinn, Toby Huss, Tom Arnold, John Getz, Brandon Routh, Don DeFore, Greg Morris, television journalist Tom Brokaw, writer/producers Diablo Cody, David Milch, TV news anchor/political figure Kari Lake, Jewel Prestage – 1st African-American woman awarded PhD in Political Science, assassinated CEO of United Healthcare Brian Thompson, Dick Tracy comic strip writer Max Allan Collins, Youtuber Technoblade
Iowa Athletics: 26 NCAA team championships (24 wrestling, 1 men’s gymnastics, 1 field hockey); plus 12 non-NCAA titles (5 football, 5 rifle, 1 women’s T&F, 1 women’s wrestling), 129 Big Ten conf titles, 23 Olympic medals– 14 Gold, 4 Silver, 5 Bronze
Colors – Black & Gold, nickname Hawkeyes, mascot – Herky the Hawk, Fight Songs - Iowa Fight Song, On Iowa, Roll Along Iowa, Iowa Victory Polka
Basketball started in 1902 as a varsity sport (1756-1219-1, .590) but UI played first 5v5 college basketball game vs. U. Chicago in 1896. 1956 NCAA runner-up, 3 Final Four (last 1980), 8 Sweet Sixteen (last 1999), 29 NCAA appearances, 3 Conf tourney titles, 8 Conf regular season titles. 21 AP AA’s (incl Herb Wilkinson, Don Nelson, Downtown Freddie Brown) - 5 1st Team (Murray Wier, Charles Darling, 2x Luka Garza, Keegan Murray), Retired jerseys 12 Ronnie Lester, 21 Carl Cain, 22 Bill Seaberg, 23 Roy Marble, 31 Bill Logan, 33 Bill Schoof, 40 Chris Street, 41 Greg Stokes, 46 Sharm Scheuerman, 55 Luka Garza, Honored jersey 10 BJ Armstrong. Eleven 1st rd NBA draft picks, 3 current NBA players (Luka Garza – TWolves, Keegan Murray – Kings, Kris Murray – Trailblazers)
Winningest coaches: Fran McCaffrey 280-191, .594, Tom Davis 269-140, .658, Lute Olson 165-95, .635, Steve Alford 152-106, .589. Four Naismith HOF coaches: Sam Barry (winningest coach in SC history), Ralph Miller (pre - Oregon St), Lute Olson (pre-UA), George Raveling (pre-SC)
Current Fran McCaffrey – 14th season, 290-194, .599 (UI), overall, 541-371, .593. Previously at Siena (2009 MAAC COY), UNC Greensboro, Lehigh
Currently: 12-4 (3-2) – W: Minn-Duluth, TX A&M Commerce, Southern, S. Dakota, WSU, Rider, USC Upstate, Northwestern, New Orleans, Utah, New Hampshire, Nebraska, Indiana; L: Utah St, #23 Michigan, #3 Iowa St, Wisconsin. SC is currently 10-6 (2-3) and coming off an upset at #13 Illinois.
All-time: Iowa leads SC 5-2, .714
Iowa NET 45, KenPom 39, SC NET 78, KenPom 68
Iowa Scores: 89.6 ppg (+12.9), 50.9% FG, 39.5% 3FG, 10.8 3’s/g, 68.3% FT. Rebounds 33.9 pg (-4.3), Assists 19.8 pg, TOs 10.4 pg (+5.1), Steals 8.4 pg, Blks 5.3 pg
Iowa Leaders:
Scoring: Payton Sandfort 16.9 ppg (41.3% FG, 35.2% 3FG, 87.9% FT), Owen Freeman 16.6 ppg (63.1% FG, 33.3% 3FG, 58.5% FT), Josh Dix 14.6 ppg (56.1% FG, 47.9% 3FG, 95% FT), Drew Thelwell 10.2 ppg (56.7% FG, 40% 3FG, 64.3% FT), Brock Harding 9.8 ppg (45% FG, 39.6% 3FG, 73.1% FT), Pryce Sandfort 9.3 ppg (48.1% FG, 40% 3FG, 66.7% FT)
Rebounding: Freeman 6.7 rpg, Payton Sandfort 5.8; Assists – Harding 6.1 apg, Payton Sandfort 3.3; Steals – Thelwell 2.3; Blks – Freeman 2.2
SC scores: 76.1 ppg (+5.6), 47.4% FG, 33.3% 3FG, 6.2 3’s/g, 75.4% FT, Rebs 32.4 rpg (-0.4), Assists 15.7 apg, TOs 11.6 pg (+1.9), 16.3 ppg/TO, Steals 6.7, Blks 3.2
SC Leaders
Scoring: Claude 15.9 ppg (51.2% FG, 29.2% 3FG, 76.7% FT), Agbo 12.4 (38.8% FG, 38.8% 3FG, 87.8% FT), T-Will 10.6 (51.1% FG, 36.0% 3FG, 81% FT), Yates 10.0 (46.2% FG, 33.3% 3FG, 85.7% FT), Saint 9.7 (42.8% FG, 29.2% 3FG, 63% FT), Cohen 8.7 (64.6% FG, 16.7% 3FG, 76.2% FT),
Rebounds: Saint 6.0, T-Will 4.6, Agbo 4.5; Assists Saint 3.9, Claude 3.9; Steals Saint 1.4, Yates 1.2; Blks Knowling 0.7, Patton 0.6
Pregame
Drum roll…making his FIRST appearance at the Founder’s Room is Coach Muss! He gets a standing ovation. One donor tells me “I guessed we shamed him into showing up” (last game young Muss was asked when his father would show). She thought Muss should have showed for the very first game and introduced himself. She was not happy with him.
Muss: Team continues to evolve and get better. From an energy, effort, enthusiasm and belief standpoint he can’t ask for more in practice or games. T-Will and Knowling still out. Wesley Yates has stepped up in their absence. He is important not just for this season, but for our future. Trying to encourage Agee to shoot more 3’s, made three vs Illinois.
Fran McCaffrey is a great offensive coach and his team averages ~90 ppg. UI perimeter players can shoot and their small PG averages over 6 assists. Their center leads them in scoring but doesn’t shoot 3s, instead taking advantage of defenses vacating the lane to defend the 3’s. UI doesn’t rebound or play defense well, they just want to outscore you (ala Paul Westhead).
Muss’ Keys – Don’t let UI shoot 3’s, don’t let them make 3’s, interfere with their passing LOS. Can’t turn this into a skills competition, we need to turn the game into a grinding, defensive game.
Fun fact Iowa has 2 sets of brothers – Payton & Pryce Sandfort, Cooper & Jacob Koch.
The students are back from break and have filled the bottom student section. Only notable I spy in the crowd is coach Jim Mora Jr (UConn, UCLA, Atlanta Falcons, Seahawks) – no idea why he’s here.
The Game
There was a moment of recognition for the fire fighters battling the LA wildfires with a sustained ovation from the home crowd and visitors – a nice moment.
Starters for SC – Saint, Claude, Yates, Agbo, Cohen – the first 4 would basically play the whole game! Claude 40, Yates 40, Agbo 38, Saint 37 mins. The only subs were Agee (29 min) for Cohen (11 min) and Patton 5 min.
SC scores first on a Yates layup and Saint’s 3 gives SC a 5-0 lead. SC shared the ball and scored at a 61% clip, 63.6% (7-11) on 3FG. Playing their best half since the UW game, SC never trailed and built their lead to 16 pts 48-32 at the break. They held high scoring UI to only 4-10 on threes, checking off one of Muss’ keys.
For the half:
UI shot 46.4% FG (13-28), 40% 3FG (4-10), 40% FT (2-5)
SC shot 61.3% FG (19-31), 63.6% 3FG (7-11), 42.9% FT (3-7)
Second Half
Claude opened scoring at 19:34 giving SC it’s largest lead of the game 18 pts (50-32). SC would maintain a double-digit lead to the 6:28 mark, when UI closed it to 9 pts (81-72) on a Pryce Sandfort 3. When Thelwell hit a layup at 5:05 bringing the Hawkeyes to within 5 pts, it was nervous time for this SC fan, but fortunately not for the team - UI would get no closer and SC led by 13 (99-86) at :06. Harding closed out scoring with an old-fashioned 3 to bring UI up to its season average of 89 pts, but SC would post an impressive 10-pt win 99-89.
For the game:
UI shot 53.3% FG (32-60), 45.8% 3FG (11-24), 73.7% FT (14-19)
SC shot 64.9% FG (37-57), 66.7% 3FG (10-15), 60% FT (15-25)
SC had 3 players over 20 pts - Claude with 25 pts, 9 assists, 8 rebs; Saint 24 pts, 9 rebs, 7 assists; Yates 21 pts, 4 assists, Zero TO’s in 40 min for the RS FR! Agbo had 18 pts. Claude and Saint were each close to the revered “Triple-Double” which remarkably only one player in SC history has ever accomplished! In 2007 Daniel Hackett had 22 pts, 10 rebs, 10 assists in an 85-75 defeat of South Carolina. SC was led by freshman phenom OJ Mayo’s 29 pts.
SC was great from the field (64.9% FG) and from deep with 10 made 3’s, but a poor 60% (15-25) at the FT line. They had a season high 27 assists and +17 rebounding margin (37-20). They had a 50-34 edge in pts in the paint. Just an impressive victory for SC.
With this wire-to-wire win, SC improves to 11-6 (3-3) and Iowa falls to 12-5 (3-3).
Next Up: vs Wisconsin at Galen Center Jan 18th 12 pm PST, B1G Network
Fight On! Beat the Badgers!
