Basketball
Adam Emmenecker and Klayton Korver
Drake stars Adam Emmenecker and Klayton Korver stopped by Marty and Miller Friday afternoon to discuss their amazing season. Classy as always, they took phone calls from fans for an hour.
Top NCAA Comebacks
SI.com has a list of their top 10 Greatest NCAA Comebacks. Amazing, the State of Iowa, with our limited NCAA appearances from the Big Four scores 2 out of the top 10 spots.
Rolling in at No. 1, Hampton over Iowa State.
The NCAA tournament is remembered for its upsets, but comebacks are also a big [...]
Coach of the Year, it’s an Iowa thing
Ok, the pressure is officially on Greg McDermott and Ben Jacobsen.
You see, to coach college basketball in the State of Iowa you must have a little Henry Iba Coach of the Year award dangling around your neck.
Ok, maybe not but it certainly seems that way.
Keno was named the Henry Iba Coach of the Year Award [...]
Emmenecker Mo Valley Player of the Year
Adam Emmenecker has been named the Missouri Valley Conference Player of the Year. Emmenecker joins an elite list of players inlcuding Larry Bird, Xavier McDaniel and Hersey Hawkins.
Emmenecker set the Drake single-season assist mark at 177 and led with 6.1 assists per game.
All conference teams were also named today. Emmenecker and teammate Josh Young [...]
Might have to start watching Women’s BB
Missouri Valley regular season wrap
Almost everyone was playing for seeding Saturday as the Missouri Valley regular season wrappde up. Drake had already grabbed the top season in next weeks tourney, but still sent the seniors out on a high note beating Wichita State.
Here are the scores from the Valley, as well as seeding for the conference tournament.
Drake 73, Wichita [...]
Amazing dunk
Drake beats Butler
Drake carried the day for Iowa basketball Saturday. Playing in historic Hinckle Fieldhouse two of the best student-athlete, “teams” played and Drake pulled out a 71-64 win.
If you want to feel good about college basketball read Pat Forde’s piece on ESPN.com.
This day, the assignment was to cover Drake beating Butler 71-64 in the BracketBusters marquee [...]
The prevent will get you everytime
Drake’s 72-71 loss to Bradley Tuesday had to sting the entire Bulldog locker room. Drake out played the Braves for 39 minutes, proving to be faster and more physical than the visitors from Peroia.
With 5 minutes left in the game Drake went into a ball control game and failed to score after Jonathan Cox tip [...]
Kelvin, please go away and Kyle you’ve been traded to Japan
Rick Brown’s Courtside Seat is an awesome read each week, and this week doesn’t disappoint. Rick recalls a conversation he had with Kelvin Sampson back during the recruitment of Reggie Evans to Iowa. Seems Kelvin was pulling the same telephone games trying to get Reggie to Oklahoma, after he had already committed to Iowa. Brown [...]
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