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No one on this team will be as good as Andre Woodridge.
Brock Harding.
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Start over and come in with way less stupid next time.
No one on this team will be as good as Andre Woodridge.
Wrong; Men’s Basketball: B.J. Armstrong (#10) Ronnie Lester (#12), Carl Cain (#21), Bill Seaberg (#22), Bill Logan (#31), Bill Schoof (#33), Chris Street (#40), Greg Stokes (#41), Sharm Scheuerman (#46) https://hawkeyesports.com/retired-mbb/
Kevin Smith
Mike Gesell
Christian Williams
Joe Wieskamp
Dante Elridge
Jovone Cater
Do any of those names mean anything to you?
The NBA has nothing to do with it. There are tons of guys who had awesome college careers and did nothing special in the NBA. Like Marble, Garza and Woolridge. Or Hurley, Alford, Vaughan, Cleeves.....
His jersey is “honored” and is hanging in the rafters at CHA, but his # is not retired.
Other folks have already corrected the false claims, so I won't repeat it. I saw Lester and Armstrong play in person, so I think my perspective is good. Plus, we're talking about being a great college PG, not about what they did professionally (which, unfortunately for Ronnie, was very little). AW played three seasons at Iowa and has three of the top five seasons in school history for assists. His senior season (1996-97) he carried a depleted team to a second-place finish in the B1G. (If you look at the standings now, the Hawks are shown at the top because Minnesota's season was vacated. The Hawks beat Purdue twice, so own the tiebreaker.) He led the B1G in both scoring and assists that season.
I wouldn't claim that AW was the best among these three guys - that's Lester, as far as I'm concerned - but he quite clearly was a great college PG.
I am thankful he chose Iowa and not Drake where we would get burned by him each year.
Lester was never the same, I think, after his injury senior year. Probably would have done much better in the NBA before that.
I think anyone who says Iowa doesn't need defense from their guards hasn't watched Iowa basketball for the last 7 or 8 years. Now, if you'd said that Iowa doesn't require defense, then you'd have a totally legitimate argument.
The unit he was in with wasn't doing him any favors. The one thing Brock needs is for guys to constantly cut and set picks off the ball.
that offer list for Brock is pretty funny now, isn't it?
if he had ended up at Drake, I think after one year he would have been in the transfer portal
isn't Brock & Owen one helluva one-two combo? you can tell they have been playing together for a long time (AAU and high school)
How many alley oops will he throw in his career? I don't even have a good guess but whatever it is, it will shatter the iowa record. I remember Horner throwing a lot of those long ones but the way Harding does it while getting in to the lane is fantastic.
he's so fun to watch with the ball in his hands
we've seen him putting up shots after games; the kid is a gym rat. he's only going to get better
You had me at floor general, but this bolded comment...uh, gotta disagree.
1000%. You need more than a 1 dimensional guard. I’m not saying he’s that but he’s small. He needs to be tough and also be able to guard and stop penetration. Hugely important.
This board needs the sarcasm pirate emojisarcasm is hard to type
Hard to believe there are people out there that think Andre Woolridge wasn't a great point guard for us. Unreal. Guess you can't please everybody, though. NBA this, or that. Meh, whatever. We're talking about college here.
That dude pretty much single-handedly carried the team his senior season and it was an absolute crime that he didn't win Big 10 POY.
That dude pretty much single-handedly carried the team his senior season and it was an absolute crime that he didn't win Big 10 POY.
The Freeman/Harding combo brings back memos of the Laettner/Hurley days.
I'll take players who wore or are wearing #10 for 200 please! BJ's number was "Honored". Its not retired....
Yes 22 is a retired # I believe which is why Pat had to get permission.....
The transition to college is not easy and it's not like he was was the only option Fran had to go to. Desonte is playing well and deserves the starts and has the inside track at point guard for now. Brock is going to have to adjust to getting his spot minutes and making the most of them, by not turning the ball over, making free throws, running the offense and getting the ball to teammates for easy buckets. That's his mission for the remainder of the year.
He’s earned more minutes imo. I was concerned that teams would abuse him on defense but I’m not seeing it. His passing is elite and he’s shooting the 3 well.
I like this kid. Win or lose, he puts in the work, and then some. He also hates losing, but he’s not a dick about it…definitely on the fan wagon, and I think he’ll be special.
Jess Settles pointed out today that he takes too many risks on defense. That can be fixed. He has exceptional vision and passing. He makes everybody he plays with better.
