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Photo gallery from a season following Iowa men’s basketball
Mar. 19, 2020 10:04 am
I'm no photographer. I admire photography, enjoy it, and value the great work of the many photographers I've worked with in my career.
But I like taking pictures of offbeat stuff, and my phone happens to have a camera. Does yours? I'll bet it does.
Anyway, here are a series of pictures I took while here and there to cover Iowa men's basketball. I apologize for them being much less than professional quality.
Iowa's Luka Garza signs an autograph for an appreciative fan before the Hawkeyes played Ohio State at Carver-Hawkeye on Feb. 20, 2020. (Mike Hlas/The Gazette)
This was at Chicago's United Center as Iowa and Cincinnati tipped off the second game of the Legends Classic there on Dec. 21, 2019. It proved to be quite a doubleheader, since Dayton played Colorado in the opener. Dayton's Obi Toppin and Iowa's Luka Garza are the two top contenders for National Player of the Year awards. (Mike Hlas/The Gazette)
Iowa guard Bakari Evelyn walks with Hawkeyes coach Fran McCaffery in a United Center hallway after Evelyn came up big for Iowa with 15 points, 7 rebounds and 4 assists in Iowa's 77-70 win over Cincinnati. (Mike Hlas/The Gazette)
A beer stand at Purdue's Mackey Arena in West Lafayette, Ind. This is something different in college sports. Beer was also on sale at Iowa's games at Minnesota and Illinois. (Mike Hlas/The Gazette)
It's a long way to the top of Indiana's Assembly Hall, and that's where they have most media watch games. Luckily for me, there was a TV monitor up there when Iowa played the Hoosiers on Feb. 13 in Bloomington, Ind. (Mike Hlas/The Gazette)
This is the Palestra in Philadelphia. My favorite assignment of the season was the Iowa-Penn State game there on Jan. 4. It's such an un-Big Ten setting, with an old, cozy field house on the University of Pennsylvania campus. (Mike Hlas/The Gazette)
The Palestra in Philadelphia. My press box seat for the Iowa-Penn State game there on Jan. 4 was in that red box that says 'The Palestra.' When I asked an usher where I was supposed to sit, he said 'You're in the nosebleed section.' Hardly. (Mike Hlas/The Gazette)
The playing floor of the Palestra had to be mopped a lot during the Jan. 4 Iowa-Penn State men's basketball game because of humidity. It was an unusually warm January day, and there was a sellout crowd. It was hot in there. Penn State's mascot tried to help, presumably. (Mike Hlas/The Gazette)
A lot of Penn State fans were at the Palestra on Jan. 4 for Iowa's men's basketball game against the Nittany Lions. At least one remained a devoted Joe Paterno fan. (Mike Hlas/The Gazette)
They honor University of Pennsylvania and Philadelphia basketball in the Palestra in Philadelphia with a lot of photos. Here is one of former Penn player/current Iowa coach Fran McCaffery. It was a time of hair. (Mike Hlas/The Gazette)
What's one to do the night before covering the Iowa-Penn State men's basketball game at the Palestra on the University of Pennsylvania campus? Well, drop in on the Delaware-Drexel game the night before on the Drexel campus a few blocks from the Palestra. It was a good one. (Mike Hlas/The Gazette)
It was Star Wars Night at Michigan's Crisler Center when the Iowa men's basketball team played there on Dec. 9, 2019. (Mike Hlas/The Gazette)
Illinois' students had some fun at Iowa Coach Fran McCaffery's expense during the Iowa-Illinois game at State Farm Center in Champaign, Ill., on March 8. (Mike Hlas/The Gazette)
The weather outside was on the frightful side before the Feb. 5 Iowa-Purdue men's basketball game at Mackey Arena in West Lafayette, Ind. The statue of Purdue grad John Wooden withstood the wintry mix. (Mike Hlas/The Gazette)
At the Big Ten men's basketball media day in Rosemont, Ill., last Oct. 2, a reporter asked Iowa's Luka Garza to draw up a certain play. Garza accepted the task with relish. (Mike Hlas/The Gazette)
Iowa's Luka Garza, making a fan happy before the Hawkeyes men's basketball team played Minnesota at Carver-Hawkeye Arena on Dec. 9, 2019. (Mike Hlas/The Gazette)
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