Todd Lickliter refuses to buy into the notion that his Iowa basketball team may be suffering some fatigue from the rigors of a long season.
“They’re 19 and 20 years old. They get a two-minute break every four minutes of every half (because of media timeouts). They should be able to play all day,” Lickliter said.
Still, a lack of [...]

A pair of potential future Hawkeyes were among the 15,500 on hand for Saturday’s Iowa-Illinois basketball game.
Recruits Aaron Fuller, a 6-foot-7 forward from Mesa, Ariz., and 6-5 shooting guard Chris Babb of Arlington, Texas, joined prep sophomore Harrison Barnes of Ames, Iowa, in the seats directly behind the Hawkeye bench.
Fuller averages 23 points and just under 11 rebounds per game [...]

Usually, two Iowa-Illinois basketball games in a single season is enough to keep hoop junkies in these parts talking over the water cooler at work for weeks.
These are anything but usual times for the Hawkeyes and Fighting Illini. The teams meet just once during the regular season — odd enough in itself as part of the rotation that exists in the Big Ten’s [...]

Who says the housing market has gone south?
After nearly a year on the market, former Iowa basketball coach Steve Alford has finally sold the 10,000-square foot home he had built for his family in Coralville during his tenure with the Hawkeyes.
Jeff Whitehead, an Iowa City resident whose family includes six children, paid $1.2 million for the house which [...]

Todd Lickliter got his wish.
Because his Iowa basketball team was traveling to Penn State on Tuesday night, the first-year Hawkeye coach knew he wouldn’t be able to watch his son, John, take the court with his Iowa City High teammates in an Iowa Class 4A substate game against Iowa City West at Cedar Rapids.
“Hopefully, there [...]

Saturday’s loss at Michigan State continued a recent trend of slow starts for Iowa.
It took the Hawkeyes 10 minutes, 22 seconds before Seth Gorney hit the team’s first field goal to cut into a Spartans lead which had reached 20-1. Michigan State was less cooperative than Northwestern, which led just 5-1 when Jake Kelly collected [...]

Iowa’s basketball team will spend Saturday at a place that has been a virtual house of horrors in recent seasons for the Hawkeyes.
No player wearing an Iowa uniform in the 1 p.m. game at Michigan State will have played in a game at the Breslin Center decided by fewer than 30 points. The Hawkeyes have [...]

In the second half of the Iowa basketball team’s 53-51 win over Northwestern on Wednesday, Dan Bohall made the most of his second chance.
The sophomore from Sioux City recorded a steal and lay-in which gave Iowa a 40-39 lead with 6 minutes, 46 seconds to play and then hit his first 3-pointer in a game [...]

Jeff Peterson, one of the seven Iowa basketball players who has seen action in each of the Hawkeyes’ last five games won’t be seeing action tonight against Northwestern.
The freshman is on the bench in street clothes as he recovers from a virus that has kept him off the practice court since Sunday.

Is seven enough?
It has been in the last four games the Iowa basketball team has played. That is as deep as Iowa coach Todd Lickliter has been willing to go into the not-so-deep Hawkeye bench. Lickliter doesn’t believe fatigue should be a factor given the TV timeouts that are called every four minutes in every [...]