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Kinda like this joke I heard the other day Three doctors were discussing their greatest surgery successes. On of them said I had a guy come in with his right arm mangled to shreds. The surgery took 30 hours. It was Brett Farve of the Packers. The next doctor had a guy roll in with his leg completely shattered and in 5 big chunks. 50 hours later he had the guy walk out out of the hospital....Robbie Gould of the Bears. The third doctor said well you guys got me beat. I had a guy come in from a bad car accident. Basically, all that was left was a red sweater and an asshole. 5 minutes later he was out the door. I can’t remember his name , but I think he was a basketball coach somewhere in Indiana.
Don’t forget that Joe Mauer, Justin Morneau, and Johan Santana came out of the Quad Cities too. That is two MVPs and a couple Cy Youngs. So many great baseball players “came out of” Iowa.
Rick Mount was a tremendous shooter and scorer. Didn’t have a great NBA career. Best story about him was when Iowa played Purdue the last game of the season when Iowa went 14-0 in the conference. Ralph Miller said the game plan was to let Mount get his points and shut down everyone else. Mount had 63 points. Iowa won like 108-103.
And the first question should be worded better. Hawkins never was on the varsity team, only played freshman ball. So that doesn’t really qualify him as an Iowa player since he has zero official statistics. The question should be worded as best basketball player that was a student at Iowa. Love Don, but Connie was head and shoulders above him. It has been said many times how in the year when 4 starters were ruled ineligible mid-season and we were challenging for a conference title before that and finishing the season in 2nd, the freshman Hawkins would outplay the All-American Nelson in practice.
