When this season started for Iowa, there were a few questions heading into the season. The questions have been answered, but to many, not the way fans would like them to be.

Will Melsahn average a double double and be and all-conference selection?
Well, this one was answered fairly early in the season and it is a resounding no. Basabe heading into this season as a known, rather than an unknown. This is one point that could have had some effect on his play.
The reality...

Iowa basketball has arrived again. The play of the Hawkeyes was not of a team that has had nothing but misery in the past few seasons. This was not the team that lost to Campbell this season, nor the team that lost by a wide margin at home against Clemson.
Iowa went to Wisconsin today, punched the Badgers in the mouth and never looked back. The Hawkeyes were at their best with Bryce Cartwright, Matt Gatens, Devyn Marble, Melsahn Basabe and Aaron White. What a performance these five put...

The text that follows is from an email I sent my Dad near the end of the 2010 college football season. It eventually outlines my 'Pre-Plus 1' system, a non-playoff method of finding a national champion on the field.

A lot of people think that the best solution to finding a National Champion in College Football is to incorporate playoffs ranging from 4 to 16 teams, or to have a Plus-1 game where two teams standing equal after the bowls would further settle things. I stand on the side...

Penn State University is reeling in the midst of the scandal with former Defensive Coordinator Jerry Sandusky. There are a few things that just leave one to wonder who actually has been accused of a crime. In the eyes of the media and obviously the Board of Trustees at PSU, it seems that Joe Paterno has done the crime and is already been served his punishment.
Until it has been revealed that after Paterno was told more after he reported what he the information he recieved and was not lied...