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Women's college basketball player of the year: Iowa's Megan Gustafson (Unanimous)

NICE!!! Congratulations to her. It really wasn't close, but that doesn't always matter when the media is involved. What a season for her.
 
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I read something a week ago saying there wasn’t a clear cut favorite for women’s POTY...ESPN IIRC. Really? No clear cut favorite? The numbers she put up, the way she plays and the fact that she does it at both ends, and what she means to this team made her an overwhelming favorite IMO and am shocked she didn’t get overlooked. Congrats to MG...really fuggin awesome.
 
Other than in wrestling and obviously Nile Kinnick has Iowa had any other athletes win a national player of the year honor?
 
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According to the Hawkeye Athletics HOF:

Charles "Deacon" Jones - 1955 NCAA Cross Country Champion
Bernhart "Cap' Herman - 1966 NCAA Fencing Champion
Kristy Marie Gleason - 1994 Honda Broderick Award Winner (Field Hockey's Heisman)
Andrea Wieland - 1992 Honda Broderick Award Winner (Finalist for Babe Zaharias National Female Athlete of the Year for her national team achievements in 1990).
Keith McCanless - 1969 Men's Gymnastics All-Around Champion

Obviously numerous NCAA Outstanding Wrestler and Hodge Awards, NCAA men's gymnastics, and co-ed track, swimming, and diving national champions in individual events.

*Elizabeth Tchou would surely have won the Broderick Award in 1986, had it existed.
 
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IT'S ANONYMOUS!!!!

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Got my tickets, my hotel. Can't wait to be back in Iowa City for more Megan, Tania, Hannah, Kathleen, Mackenzie, and the rest.

Megan, with every breath she takes on the court, is everything I love about sports and why I still play. The passion for the game, for being a teammate, for competition is ever-present. It's her gift to all of us. And she also breathes gratitude that we return the gift whenever we show up.

I'm an ex college player. My first organized basketball was summer workouts with the Bradley women's team starting when I was 9-turning-10 (summer birthday). From then on I recognized the unique love for the game shared by girls and women playing the game—because they work, train, live the game with just as much (often more) commitment, and obviously neither for fame nor riches given neither is even a thing, really, in the women's game. Love of the game is undeniable, unquestionable.

There is almost zero sense of entitlement, media saturation, negative energy surrounding women's basketball. In some ways, it's simply unspoiled. This is both a compliment to women's basketball, but also a critique of how forces of society/money/power/greed have negatively affected men's basketball (mostly just at the highest levels).

But I digress. Megan is the perfect ambassador for Iowa, Iowa women's basketball, and women's basketball at large. But really, she is quite possibly one of the greatest sportspeople I've ever witnessed.

And she's "ours"—I feel so lucky to be an Iowa fan.

Thanks Megan!
 
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Got my tickets, my hotel. Can't wait to be back in Iowa City for more Megan, Tania, Hannah, Kathleen, Mackenzie, and the rest.

Megan, with every breath she takes on the court, is everything I love about sports and why I still play. The passion for the game, for being a teammate, for competition is ever-present. It's her gift to all of us. And she also breathes gratitude that we return the gift whenever we show up.

I'm an ex college player. My first organized basketball was summer workouts with the Bradley women's team starting when I was 9-turning-10 (summer birthday). From then on I recognized the unique love for the game shared by girls and women playing the game—because they work, train, live the game with just as much (often more) commitment, and obviously neither for fame nor riches given neither is even a thing, really, in the women's game. Love of the game is undeniable, unquestionable.

There is almost zero sense of entitlement, media saturation, negative energy surrounding women's basketball. In some ways, it's simply unspoiled. This is both a compliment to women's basketball, but also a critique of how forces of society/money/power/greed have negatively affected men's basketball (mostly just at the highest levels).

But I digress. Megan is the perfect ambassador for Iowa, Iowa women's basketball, and women's basketball at large. But really, she is quite possibly one of the greatest sportspeople I've ever witnessed.

And she's "ours"—I feel so luck to be an Iowa fan.

Thanks Megan!

Awesome post! There was a moment against Maryland, when I think Kathleen hit a transition bucket down the court with about a minute left to them up by double-digits. All five girls turned away to run down the court with ear-to-ear beaming smiles on their faces. It was one of the most purely unadulterated joyful moments I have ever seen in sports. They knew they had to play D to the end but they could no longer hide the elation. That is a special team.

PS - I hope that, after a long and distinguished pro career, that Megan is brought in to be groomed as Bluder’s successor.
 
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Awesome post! There was a moment against Maryland, when I think Kathleen hit a transition bucket down the court with about a minute left to them up by double-digits. All five girls turned away to run down the court with ear-to-ear beaming smiles on their faces. It was one of the most purely unadulterated joyful moments I have ever seen in sports. They knew they had to play D to the end but they could no longer hide the elation. That is a special team.

PS - I hope that, after a long and distinguished pro career, that Megan is brought in to be groomed as Bluder’s successor.
I’ll take Tania Davis as next Iowa women’s basketball coach, please.
 
I read something a week ago saying there wasn’t a clear cut favorite for women’s POTY...ESPN IIRC. Really? No clear cut favorite? The numbers she put up, the way she plays and the fact that she does it at both ends, and what she means to this team made her an overwhelming favorite IMO and am shocked she didn’t get overlooked. Congrats to MG...really fuggin awesome.

Agreed!! Even the espn article was written in an apologetic tone. Like her stats were pretty good but she played even better in big games so we didn’t have a choice.
 
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