Northern Iowa

[tristatecoog]

Northern Iowa started the year 17-6 with wins over New Mexico, Indiana, Morehead State, Iowa State and TCU among others. Then UNI finished the season 1-7. Ponies finished the year 2-6 but the games were closer.

With a #112 RPI vs. over 200 for SMU (through end of regular season), and being at home, this is going to be a very nice challenge. Go Ponies!

http://www.rpiforecast.com/teams/ct/Nor ... 0Iowa.html

[ponyscott]

They didn't play a game the other night...they lead by 39 points at one point. They probably didn't get to run any sets or even challenge themselves defensively..... just an exhibition.

[hoopmanx]

Going into a place like Northern Iowa, I just wish we had one additional big. How could Mylo get minutes last year vs A&M early, but can't give us a rebound or foul now? I get the need to go small, it's what brought us, but I'm talking about stealing minutes

[Dooby]

When I was doing the blog thing, I stumbled upon Northern Iowa's AD (now former AD) as a good option to replace Copeland. My blog post on the guy wound its way up there and he was mentioned as a candidate in the Des Moines newspaper. So if you ever wonder how rumors get started, there you go. That is all I really think about NIU. As far as I-AA teams go, they are pretty successful. They win their conference occasionally in multiple sports, make the playoffs in basketball and football from time to time. I think they have had several coaches leave for better jobs. All and all, a very solid run mid-major.

[Mitch McConnell]

I'm sure their success dates back further but the basketball program's success dates back to when Greg McDermott was running the program and took them to the NCAA tournament a couple of times. I think he pulled off a huge upset of Iowa. UNI was a 14 and Iowa was a 3.

When McDermott left to go to Iowa State, he was replaced by his assistant who is still there?

McDermott was tanking with ISU before he ran off to Creighton.

[The PonyGrad]

I'm sure their success dates back further but the basketball program's success dates back to when Greg McDermott was running the program and took them to the NCAA tournament a couple of times. I think he pulled off a huge upset of Iowa. UNI was a 14 and Iowa was a 3.

When McDermott left to go to Iowa State, he was replaced by his assistant who is still there?

McDermott was tanking with ISU before he ran off to Creighton.

What is with all this talk about the past. Focus on today.
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