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    Iowa purchases basketball court used for 2026 NCAA Houston Regional Elite Eight

    What? You could get whatever color stain you wanted 40 or 50 years ago. I played at a high school with a grey wood-stained floor in the 1970's. Basically stains are like paint. Start with a base and add different amounts of colors to get the color you want. There are some differences in...
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    4-star Iowa target Donovan Davis down to 5 schools, sets commitment date

    Ahhhh. An argument based on assumptions. There is literally no way that this statement can be supported with facts. It's a smoke screen that usually works well on those who are easily led astray and most often used by those who lack the ability to think critically. Otherwise, they would refrain...
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    "With NIL we [Kentucky] can't cheat like we used to."

    Actually, it's not that basic. It's an exception to the rule because NCAA is an abbreviation. For instance, if you don't use the abbreviation and say National Collegiate Athletic Association title, AN would be incorrect and A would be correct.
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    IOWA got betw. $76M & $80M from the B1G for the 2024-25 fiscal year. SEC schools received $72.4M on average

    Actually it is. It's just a different bucket of NIL monies. "Under the House v. NCAA settlement, participating schools can now directly pay athletes for the use of their name, image, and likeness (NIL) from their own athletic department budgets." There are two buckets. Private contracts between...
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    HS recruits and portal transfers be like:

    But it does. Schools need to provide female and male students with comparable facilities, training and opportunities. As long as the sports are associated with the School, all things need to be defendable as equal. I predict within the next 12 months, you are going to see a lawsuit that force...
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    HS recruits and portal transfers be like:

    Nope. It has to do a lot with the equal rights amendment. Even if the University of Iowa only had three male sports, football, basketball and wrestling, they would still be required to have close to an equal number of females engaged in sports. Thus, there would be multiple Olympic sports for...
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    HS recruits and portal transfers be like:

    Just so you know. It happens all the time in the United States. In fact, it happens 100's of times a day.
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    FREE Story from The Athletic discussing Players being drafted in the NFL means taking a pay cut from what they were making in College

    I can see your point, but on the other hand, it would all become a wash in a year or so. One also has to take into consideration that the average stay in the NFL is 3.3 years which means most of the players aren't starters. If I were the NFL, I wouldn't increase the pay for 2/3rds of a roster...
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    VOTE: What do you think ultimately happens with the LAST Roster Spot (14 of the 15 spots are filled)

    Loved the energy that Banks brought to the team, especially on the defensive side, but always felt that he lacked the strength and body type to be consistent in the Big Ten. He had a few really good games and could run the court but that's not Ben's style. In the end my analysis is: good player...
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    I heard some Illini Euro guys played pro in Europe; True? if so which ones?

    Here's the list as I found it. Tony Bilic Arrived over the winter break Tomislav Both Ivisic's Mihailo Petrovic David Mirkovic That makes 6.
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    1 Foul on Mirk?!,!, F U Refs!!!

    It was a game of men against boys. Literally. First there are at least 5 players on Illinois who have played professionally in Europe. Second, their average age is over 21. They have 4 players over 22 years of age and 7 players total over 21. The NCAA needs to do something about this, and if not...
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    Shocker the refs were terrible

    For those of you saying that referees didn't make a difference, I beg to differ. If you know anything about the game, this would never cross your lips. First there are documented instances of games being fixed by refs. Heck, some even went to prison. Second, if there is a noticeable way the game...
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    Trey Thompson

    I did too but then I realized I was thinking of Matt Gatens.
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    Where does this S16 game rank?

    This is a recency biased list. Where is Dan Gables first Wrestling title and don't tell me that wrestling doesn't matter. It matters just as much as women's basketball. Just saying.
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    How about Ben’s

    The automatic review must still exist at least for some things. The Referees literally stopped the game with 4 seconds left to review how much time was on the clock. Talk about a game buster. Gave Florida time to set up a play. They need to change that rule in the last minute of the game, and...
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