Don Lund

Saying so long to Hawkeye seniors
05/09/2013 - 6:27pm
Don Lund
The Hawkeye women went to the NCAA basketball tournament for the sixth straight year, won 21 games and got a victory in the first round of the NCAA tournament. Iowa is the only Big Ten team to have appeared in the last six NCAA Tournaments. I talked to assistant coach Jenni Fitzgerald last week about the season and the new recruits. Coach Fitz has been on Lisa Bluder’s staff for 13 years and has helped the Hawkeyes to 12 postseason appearances, including 10 NCAA...
Hawk Talk
03/19/2013 - 7:17pm
Michigan State put together a second-half rally, knocking Iowa out of the Big Ten Tournament and into the NIT. One of the problems I have about the NCAA tournament is when you have a team with a losing record in the field. That means a team, like the Liberty Flames (15-20), who won their conference tournament, knocked out a team like Iowa (21-12...
Hawkeye men and women have 20 wins
03/12/2013 - 6:31pm
The Hawkeye men needed to win their last two home games and maybe two games in the Big Ten Tournament to have a shot at the NCAA tournament. The got one in a good win over Illinois, 63-55, last week at Carver-Hawkeye Arena. It was another one of those grind-it-out games, but Devyn Marble and Iowa’s bench were too tough for the Fighting Illini....
Hawk Talk
03/06/2013 - 9:14pm
The Hawkeye men took on both Indiana teams last week, hosting Purdue last Wednesday and traveling to Indiana on Saturday. The Boilermaker game at Carver-Hawkeye Arena, which Iowa won 58-48, was one of those grind-it-out games that wasn’t a lot of fun to watch… unless you were an Iowa fan. It didn’t help that Mike Gesell was out with a stress...
Hawk Talk
02/27/2013 - 8:14pm
Last weekend wasn’t fun for Hawkeye basketball and wrestling fans. The men’s basketball team blew a 19-point first half lead and lost at Nebraska, 64-60, on Saturday. The wrestlers lost two meets to Minnesota and Missouri finishing fourth at the National Dual meet in Minneapolis Saturday afternoon and night. On Sunday, the Iowa women got beat 66-...
Big Ten champs
02/19/2013 - 8:42pm
While I was talking about the Hawkeyes’ new football recruits last week, the Iowa wrestlers finished the Big Ten season undefeated, the men’s basketball team picked up a couple of wins and the women’s basketball team is in a big time slump. Iowa wrestling When the Hawkeyes knocked off Nebraska, 31-7, at Carver-Hawkeye Arena on Sunday, Feb. 10,...