A nine-day break between games at the end of the regular season and the start of the conference tournament isn’t necessarily a great thing.

Iowa finds itself coping with that this week for the first time since the Big Ten began tourney play and coach Todd Lickliter will attempt to find a balance between needed practice time and a little free time at the end of a long regular season.

“When these situations come up, I like to give the players a couple of days off during the actual school week. It gives them a chance to be students and I feel like that is important,” Lickliter said. “We’ll get our work in, but I want to give them a break, too. The timing is a little different, but we’ll try to make the most of it.”

 That shouldn’t be a problem for Lickliter. He spent Wednesday afternoon watching his son, John, compete in the Iowa Class 4A state quarterfinals in Des Moines for Iowa City High. He expects to be in the stands for any game the Little Hawks play this week, doing what he can to blend into the crowd. 

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