I'm sure most of us saw the video of Uthoff fishing where he just seemed super chill.
Turns out, he doesn't have cable or internet. Maybe this is why it's so easy for him to maintain that even keel composure after all his big performances, because he can't read anything to get to his head. Article from Hawk Central:
http://www.hawkcentral.com/story/sp...nternet-mike-gesell-brady-ellingson/79278210/
IOWA CITY, Ia. — You’ve got to love Jarrod Uthoff.
The 6-foot-9 Iowa senior has moved himself into the discussion for Big Ten Conference MVP and first-team all-America. Not that he’s aware of it.
“I don’t have television, Internet,” Uthoff said. “I just do my own thing.”
Really, he doesn’t have Internet at home.
“No,” Uthoff said Sunday inside Carver-Hawkeye Arena after the Hawkeyes’ 83-71 win over Purdue. “I come here for Internet.”
So he won’t take repeated looks at Sunday’s gorgeous full-court drive and left-handed dunkagainst Purdue.
And when Iowa moves up from No. 9 to possibly No. 5 or even higher in Monday’s weekly media and coaches’ Top 25s, Uthoff will intentionally shut it out.
He has his reasons.
“I don’t know about those guys, (but) I don’t. I stay away from it,” Uthoff said. “It does you no good to look at that stuff. All it really does is get selfish thoughts in your mind. It gets you over-confident. And when you’re over-confident, you end up losing.”
You’d have to say, it’s working. Iowa has won 13 consecutive Big Ten regular-season games. And with 22 points Sunday, Uthoff has scored 20-plus points in five of his last six games.
Instead of surfing the Internet, the Big Ten’s scoring leader studies (he's all-academic Big Ten), plays hoops and hangs out with his fiancée, Jessie Jordan. On road trips, card games with teammates trump TV time.
“On the road, I used to (watch TV),” he said. “But now we play so many games of spades, I don’t have time to.”
Turns out, he doesn't have cable or internet. Maybe this is why it's so easy for him to maintain that even keel composure after all his big performances, because he can't read anything to get to his head. Article from Hawk Central:
http://www.hawkcentral.com/story/sp...nternet-mike-gesell-brady-ellingson/79278210/
IOWA CITY, Ia. — You’ve got to love Jarrod Uthoff.
The 6-foot-9 Iowa senior has moved himself into the discussion for Big Ten Conference MVP and first-team all-America. Not that he’s aware of it.
“I don’t have television, Internet,” Uthoff said. “I just do my own thing.”
Really, he doesn’t have Internet at home.
“No,” Uthoff said Sunday inside Carver-Hawkeye Arena after the Hawkeyes’ 83-71 win over Purdue. “I come here for Internet.”
So he won’t take repeated looks at Sunday’s gorgeous full-court drive and left-handed dunkagainst Purdue.
And when Iowa moves up from No. 9 to possibly No. 5 or even higher in Monday’s weekly media and coaches’ Top 25s, Uthoff will intentionally shut it out.
He has his reasons.
“I don’t know about those guys, (but) I don’t. I stay away from it,” Uthoff said. “It does you no good to look at that stuff. All it really does is get selfish thoughts in your mind. It gets you over-confident. And when you’re over-confident, you end up losing.”
You’d have to say, it’s working. Iowa has won 13 consecutive Big Ten regular-season games. And with 22 points Sunday, Uthoff has scored 20-plus points in five of his last six games.
Instead of surfing the Internet, the Big Ten’s scoring leader studies (he's all-academic Big Ten), plays hoops and hangs out with his fiancée, Jessie Jordan. On road trips, card games with teammates trump TV time.
“On the road, I used to (watch TV),” he said. “But now we play so many games of spades, I don’t have time to.”
