BirdistheWord
HB Legend
Need all black with charcoal tigerhawk, subtle but powerful
Because it'd be weird to play basketball in sleeved shirts, pants, and hats?anyone watching the Iowa baseball game today vs IU in the B1G Baseball Tournament?
why can't men's basketball have cool uniforms like those?
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Baseball is a bit easier for multiple reasons.
1. You can have different colored pants from tops. Like our Gold tops with white pants.
2. You have the buttons down the middle of the jersey giving you an opportunity to add piping to give some pizazz.
3. You have sleeves where you can put logos on.
4. Gray is an expected road color in baseball, no matter your school colors.
But some of the concepts wouldn't transfer over to basketball well. Look at the photo of our black baseball uniforms. Now imagine if we had an equivalent basketball uniform with plain black shorts, a plain black tank top, with gold block lettered Iowa on the front and gold numbers. That would look like a practice outfit, not a game outfit. Baseball gets to accessorize with a belt and hat plus the tigerhawk logo on the sleeve. Also, players get to choose to do full length pants or knickers for an extra flair of style.
On the gray baseball outfits, the gold piping looks great. And the gold piped black block lettering looks really good too. But it wouldn't look as good on a white, gold, black uniform which is what basketball uses, except for the 3 or so games they broke out the special gray ones.
Mr. Jones and Mr. Smith. Who's the other guy?All black ... for baseball.
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all i am saying is the Iowa baseball team has white, gray, gold and black uniforms, and they all look great.Because it'd be weird to play basketball in sleeved shirts, pants, and hats?
All black ... for baseball.
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And look! They don't fill in the "O" with white (like they do with the black basketball jersey).
Classy Nike uniforms for baseball.
For basketball? Not so much.