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Wednesday, March 19, 2014

Indeed, it was a very difficult way for Iowa's basketball season to end. Tennessee outscored the Hawkeyes, 14-1, in overtime tonight and moved through the play-in round of the NCAA tournament with a 78-65 victory at Dayton, Ohio. Iowa lost for the seventh time in its final eight games of what turned into a disappointing 2013-2014 season, but it looked early like things would go differently. The Hawkeyes blew a 12-point lead they built over their Southeastern Conference opponent. Unbelievable as it seems, lowa missed on all eight of its field goal attempts in overtime, and finished the season with a 21-13 record after once being ranked No. 10 nationally. The guessing will go on well into the off-season on what happened to the Hawkeyes to cause their collapse in the final weeks of the season. It was a very emotional day and night for Iowa coach Fran McCaffery, whose son Patrick underwent surgery for a tumor on his thyroid this morning in Iowa City. McCaffery had flown back to Iowa City to be on hand for the surgery, and flew back to Dayton later in the day. Center Adam Woodbury scored a career-high 16 points and had eight rebounds for Iowa, However, Devyn Marble, Iowa's offensive leader all season, was limited to seven points and was 3-for-15 from the field while playing his final collegiate game. Those numbers are hard to believe, too. The seven points matched Marble's season low. The victory sent the Volunteers [22-12] into a Friday game against Massachusetts in the Midwest Regional at Raleigh, N.C. Jarnell Stokes scored 18 points and had 13 rebounds tonight for Tennessee.