VIDEO: Hawkeye basketball once looked like this ...

It was January of 1989, not 1988 as the video caption says.

Don't tell me everything about sports today is better than the past. Take a look at this Youtube video that a friend of mine posted on Facebook this week, and tell me if you've seen an Iowa basketball team do things like this on a consistent basis in the last several years.

This game was played on Jan. 5, 1989. Iowa beat No. 6 North Carolina, 98-97, at Chapel Hill. Check out this New York Times article for details. Roy Marble, B.J. Armstrong, Ed Horton . . . oh, how those guys could play, and in clutch situations.

I covered that game at the Dean Dome. Carolina fans -- all 21,000 of them -- were shocked to see their guys get outmuscled the way they did by the likes of Horton, Ray Thompson and Les Jepsen. Teams simply didn't come to North Carolina and do what Iowa did.

But the Hawkeyes were way more than muscle. Armstrong and Marble were aggressive in a different way. They attacked the basket.

Maybe someday we'll again see such a team at Iowa. Maybe.