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Basabe is looking at Iowa after being released from Siena

P Murphy — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 21:37:00 +0000

Melsahn Basabe has been released from his letter of intent to play basketball at Siena. The Albany Times-Union reported today that Basabe, a 6-foot-7 power forward from Glen Cove, N.Y., was granted a full release and now can sign with any school that he wants to. Basabe is planning on visiting Iowa City and has Iowa high on his list. Iowa and McCaffery has extended an offer to him after he was released. tigerhawkblog end

Basabe signed his letter of intent at Siena based on McCaffery and Francis staying at Siena. My opinion is he will join and play at Iowa next season. This is part of McCaffery’s plan to fill the open slots at Iowa before next season.

Iowa Names New Men’s Basketball Coach

P Murphy — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 12:11:00 +0000

Iowa will name Fran McCaffery the 22nd Men Basketball coach today. tigerhawkblog end

Orange Bowl Champions!!!!

P Murphy — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 04:46:59 +0000

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The Iowa Hawkeyes defeated the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets 24-14 last night in the Orange Bowl. Iowa finish the season 11-2. This is the second time in history and under Coach Kirk Ferentz that Iowa finished the season with 11 wins. tigerhawkblog end

This is also Iowa’s first BCS bowl win and first win against an ACC team in nine attempts.

Orange Bowl Bound

P Murphy — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 04:53:54 +0000

Iowa is going to the Orange Bowl in Miami Florida on Jan. 5th, 2010. It was I little nervous seeing the Fiesta Bowl going against what they said by not picking Iowa. tigerhawkblog end

#10 Iowa (10-2) will be facing #9 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets (11-2). The Yellow Jacket won the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) championship game against the Clemson Tigers. So the Hawkeyes will be facing the best team from the Atlantic Coast Conference.

The Hawkeyes have just under a month to prepare for Georgia Tech’s triple option offense that help them win the ACC this year.

Linebacker Jacody Coleman Leaving, OG Julian Vandervelde Injured

P Murphy — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 17:50:00 +0000

Junior linebacker Jacody Coleman announced yesterday he will be transferring and leaving the Hawkeye Football team for personal reasons.
Junior offensive guard Julian Vandervelde undergone surgery and could possibly miss or be very limited the first part of the 2009 season from the surgery. tigerhawkblog end

Hawkeyes win Outback Bowl, Greene is going Pro

P Murphy — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 21:57:35 +0000

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The Iowa Hawkeyes (9-4) beat the South Carolina Gamecocks (7-6) in the 2009 Outback Bowl today.Â Greene rushed for 121 yards and three touchdowns and Iowaâ€™s defense forced 5 turnovers to help the Hawkeyes in their 31-10 win.

Stanzi went 13-19 for 148 yards with a touchdown. Stanzi also threw two picks during the game. South Carolina also had 100 yards of penalities to help Iowaâ€™s field position during the game.

Tyler Sash had two interceptions for about 74 yards and Bradley Fletcher had an interception in the end zone to help Iowaâ€™s defense keep South Carolina from scoring until the fourth period. Iowaâ€™s defense only allowed 42 yard rushing while giving up 265 yards passing with most of the passing yards coming in the Third and Fourth periods of the game.

Brandon Myers, Tony Moeaki, Andy Brodell, and Derrell Johnson-Koulianos helped out with big yardage plays with the only touchdown pass going to Trey Stross on Iowaâ€™s first possession of the game. Jewel Hamption also helped out with 55 rushing yards.

But the biggest offense star was Shonn Greene. Greene, the Outback Bowl Most Valuable Player, set the new Iowa single season record for the most rushing touchdowns in a single record with 20 and finished the season with 1,850 yards rushing. He also rushed in all 13 games he played in this season.

Greene announced right after the game that he is thinking on skipping his final season at Iowa to go to the NFL Draft this year. He wants to talk to his family about his before making his final decision turning pro.

Greeneâ€™s Return to the Iowa Football Program Will Be Memorable.

P Murphy — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 20:36:17 +0000

Shonn Greene, a 5’11″, 215 pound junior from Sicklerville, NJ, is one of biggest reasons why the Hawkeyes are going to the Outback Bowl this season. Nobody predicted how good he was going to be for the Iowa offense that has been having troubles the last two seasons. tigerhawkblog end

In the beginning of his career with Iowa, Greene was in the shadow of Albert Young for the first two seasons at Iowa. He only gained a combined 378 yards and two touchdowns in his first two seasons. Then he fell into problems with his grades and lost his scholarship after his sophomore season and forcing him to enroll at Kirkwood Community College for a single year.

Then at the beginning of this season, he became eligible to play for the Hawkeyes. This put a big question mark on him due to not playing football for over a year. He ended up winning the starting job by the time Iowa played their first game against Maine.

By the end of the season he rushed for 1,729 yards and holds the single season rushing record at Iowa as well as leading the Big Ten in rushing yards. He is the only running back in the country to rush for 100+ yards in every game of the season. Greene ranks second in the nation with an average of a little more than 144 yards per game.

Greene also has rushed for 17 touchdowns this season while tying the single season record for most touchdowns in a single season with Tavian Banks. He has scored at least one touchdown in every game this season except for the Michigan State game.

His best game performance came against Wisconsin as he scored four times while rushing for 217 yards. This is the sixth-best, single-game rushing performance in Iowa history. The only other time Greene rushed for more than 200 yards was against Purdue were he had 211 yards.

Shonn Greene has one more team to face this year. That is the South Carolina Gamecocks in the Outback bowl on Jan. 1. He is going up against the 12th-best defense in the nation and the 36th-best rushing defense in the nation. Greene has faced tougher defenses during the regular season so this one shouldnâ€™t stop him from going over 100+ yards rushing in the game.

The Gamecocks are not going to just focus on Greene knowing Iowaâ€™s wide receivers corps and quarterback Ricky Stanzi can be as dangerous as Greene can be. I will bet South Carolina will be trying to due the same type of defense that Minnesota did against Iowa during Iowaâ€™s last game of the season. My best guess is that Greene will get between 125 to 175 yards rushing with one or two touchdowns against South Carolina.

Iowa chances of winning the Outback game is if Greene can put up decent numbers and if Iowaâ€™s â€œBend but donâ€™t breakâ€ defense can contain Steve Spurrierâ€™s passing offense. Final score is Iowa 34-13.

Greene has won several awards this year. He became Iowaâ€™s first consensus All-American running back since Nile Kinnick in 1939 and won Iowaâ€™s first Doak Walker Award for being the best running back in the country.

Other awards Greene has won are Walter Camp All-American First Team, Big Ten Offensive Player of the year (coaches and Media), Sporting Newsâ€™ 2008 Big Ten Offensive MVP, First Team All-Big Ten selection (coaches and Media), American Football Coaches Association (AFCA) First Team All-American, and Chicago Tribuneâ€™s Silver Football Big Ten Conferenceâ€™s MVP.