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Lee overcomes adversity in second season to win Spencer Lee’s journey to his second national title didn’t come without some low points. The sophomore faced obstacles throughout the season to come out on top.

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Shivansh Ahuja/The Daily Iowan Iowa’s 125-pound Spencer Lee wrestles Virginia’s Jack Mueller during the final session of the NCAA Wrestling Championships in Pittsburgh on March 23. in the world. You’ve got to believe that.”

Lee overcame adversity by beating Piccininni in the semifinals and moving on to face Jack Mueller of Virginia.

For the entire tournament, Lee preached a scoring-points mentality: He wasn’t worried about the score or the clock, he just looked forward toward his next points opportunity. And in the finals, that’s exactly what he did. He stayed on top and took shots at Mueller’s legs that resulted in his two takedowns.

“Big-time wrestlers show up at big-time matches,” Lee said. “I believe that, too. I believe we all show up the best we can, especially when you face a great opponent like Jack Mueller. He’s a great opponent.”

For two years in a row, Lee has shown up in his big-time NCAA matches, and his domination on the mat suggests that there’s more to come in his career.

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anna-kayser@uiowa.edu PITTSBURGH — NCAA champion Spencer Lee was lifted off his feet and carried out of the interview room by his teammates following a 5-0 finals match win on March 23.

A match that, without his teammates, Lee might have never seen.

On Feb. 24, Lee was pinned by his semifinal opponent, Nick Piccininni, something that could have been a turning point in his season — for better or worse.

“I remember losing to Oklahoma State and freaking,” Lee said. “I had whole team grab me and telling me they loved me, and we were a family, and we’re going to be in this together. And I know that moment there is when I’ve got to move on. I’ve got to be the better version of myself.”

Lee’s season also took him through two losses to Sebastian Rivera, once in the Big Ten title match.

However, despite the loss immediately before the NCAAs, Lee came back and wrestled his best all season.

“You look back on the path he took, and he’s a warrior,” head coach Tom Brands said. “He needs to give himself a lot of credit.”

Lee left everything on the mat in his finals match, and he wrestled at his highest — scoring points, being smart, and staying ahead — but the physical stuff came from his mentality.

His teammates help him focus on that personal mindset, the one that makes champions.

“I just have to believe in myself,” Lee said. “And my teammates, they instilled a lot of power into me, mental power, because they tell me every day that I’m the best wrestler

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he is worried about right now.

“I’m focused on what’s next,” Lee said. “That’s going to be summer wrestling, and we’ll see how that goes. And have to get healthy and everything, whatever, you know how it is. Big-time big national tournament, everyone is a little tweaked up, getting ready to finish the summer off strong.

“Can’t worry about four-time champ national because you can’t win four if you don’t win three, and I haven’t won three yet.”

Lee outscored his opponents, 55-7, during the tournament and never trailed in any of the matches.

“When he just can put what’s behind him, behind him, and keep it behind him, then you start to wrestle for seven minutes, and that’s what he’s done this tournament,” Brands said. “It’s one of those things where you’ve got to give him credit.”

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UISG election season kicks off Inspire UI, Ignite Iowa, and UI Charge will be on the ballot when UI students vote for next year’s UISG members.

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daily-iowan@uiowa.edu The campaign for next year’s University of Iowa Student Government members has begun.

Three tickets kicked off their campaigns Sunday night at restaurants throughout Iowa City: Inspire UI, Ignite Iowa, and UI Charge.

Voting for the 2019-20 UISG members will be April 3 and 4.

Henry announced their UISG presidential and vice presidential bid Sunday night at the Mill under the Ignite Iowa party.

Mills has served three years on UISG, most recently filling the role of director of finance.

Mills and Henry said the core elements of Ignite Iowa are financial, social, and environmental sustainability.

“I think those three pillars stand out to us as re-

‘We’re not going to know all of the solutions or issues on campus, but we definitely wanted to get as many voices in that conversation to create our platform.’

— Alexia Sánchez,

UISG presidential candidate

Inspire UI — Alexia Sánchez and Madhuri Belkale The Inspire UI campaign looks to bring together student voices across campus, led by Alexia Sánchez and Madhuri Belkale as presidential and vice presidential candidates.

The campaign kicked off with an event at Melk Sunday night. City council member Mazahir Salih and UISG sen. Caleb Smith introduced Sánchez and Belkale.

Sánchez and Belkale, both third year students, currently serve as UISG senators. Sánchez has been a part of UISG for three years, currently as Student Life Committee chair. Belkale is completing her first semester as a senator.

Twenty students will run for UISG positions with Inspire UI. “We have a really great team. We have a variety of people who have been in the organization for a long time and new faces,” Sánchez said.

Sánchez and Belkale highlighted the establishment of a Latinx living learning community and expanding Iowa City’s community ID program as part of their platform.

Belkale said Inspire UI seeks to lead with sustainable growth and transparency.

Sánchez said she is focusing on the mindset of collective wisdom in representing students.

“We’re just two people; we’re just a group of 20 members. We’re not going to know all of the solutions or issues on campus, but we definitely wanted to get as many voices in that conversation to create our platform,” she said.

Ignite Iowa — Noel Mills and Sarah Henry Noel Mills and Sarah

ally important, because if you don’t have those things, it’s hard to succeed,” Henry said.

Mills said that her previous experience of interacting with student organizations as part of UISG motivated her to run for president.

Mills said. “It’s not about the shallow stuff. It’s about how you’re changing people’s lives.”

UI Charge — Dady Mansaray and Adiu Arou UI senior Dady Mansaray kicked off his campaign for UISG president as leader of the UI Charge Party.

Mansaray’s running mate is UI junior Adiu Arou, a transfer student from Marshalltown.

The announcement took place in the Old Capitol Town Center Buffalo Wild Wings to dozens of students.

Mansaray, a current UISG senator, also participates in a number of other student organizations around campus, including Dance Marathon, Black Student Union, and On Iowa, and he said being ingrained in the community inspired him to take a community-centric approach.

A lack of transparency and information from UISG was one of Mansaray’s issues that he said UI Charge would address. He said information like UISG initiatives, as well as occurrenc-

‘[Student orgs] work so hard to really be the heartbeat of campus. They are what it means to be a Hawkeye. I want to give back to them.’

— Noel Mills, UISG presidential candidate “This year as being director of finance, I have seen how hard student orgs work. They work so hard to really be the heartbeat of campus. They are what it means to be a Hawkeye. I want to give back to them,” Mills said.

Henry has been a part of UISG for two years and currently works as a resident assistant.

“I’m an RA on campus, so that’s a really good way to see student issues and the things people struggle with every day,” Henry said. “It’s a really good way to see what students need, so that was a big motivation to get involved in UISG in general.”

Mills and Henry said

es like open Senate seats, are currently known mostly by students who have relationships with UISG members.

Some of the solutions he proposed included bringing back biweekly town hall meetings for UISG to hear from the students, weekly video updates from UISG, and other regular social events.

Mansaray also addressed student tuition rates and said he wants to bring more UI students to Hawkeye Caucus in the spring to tell their stories to Iowa state legislature.

Aru said an initiative she wants to bring to the table is for UI transfer students to ease their transition to

‘You all are truly valued, and we want you to be a part of the conversation.’

— Dady Mansaray, UISG presidential candidate

the party hopes to focus on making student’s lives better.

“It’s not about the marketing or the social media,”

the University of Iowa.

“You all are truly valued, and we want you to be a part of the conversation,” Mansaray said.

Reba Zatz/The Daily Iowan Dady Mansaray announces his candidacy for UISG president at Buffalo Wild Wings on Sunday, running on the Charge Party.

TOP: Madhuri Belkale (left) and Alexia Sanchez announce their UISG vice presidential and presidential candidacies at Melk on Sunday. The pair are running on the Inspire UI ticket. (Alyson Kuennen/The Daily Iowan) BOTTOM: Noel Mills (right) and Sarah Henry announce their candidacies for UISG president and vice president at the Mill on Sunday. They are running on the Ignite Iowa ticket. (Michael Guhin/The Daily Iowan)

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A defense of the Pete Buttigieg is creating his Electoral College Our electoral system gives relevance to swing states like Iowa and is worth keeping.

JORDAN ZUNIGA

jordan-zuniga@uiowa.edu Over the past few weeks, the Democratic presidential hopefuls have tried to make their case for president to the American people.

One of the ideas that several prominent Democratic candidates — such as Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Kamala Harris — have talked about is abolishing, or amending, the Electoral College.

Warren made the case that seems to be echoed by her Democratic colleagues, arguing that “every vote matters, and the way we can make that happen is … get[ting] rid of the Electoral College.”

It’s a sound argument to advocate for in a democracy, but there’s one problem. America isn’t a democracy.

At least not a direct one.

Some argue America is a representative democracy, and others argue it’s a representative republic.

Whichever semantics people choose, the founders were intentionally opposed to a democracy in the traditional sense.

The founders were vigorously opposed to a direct democracy because they believed it was a system of government that would inevitably turn into mob rule as James Madison eloquently explains in Federalist Paper No. 51.

“It is of great importance in a republic not only to guard the society against oppression of its rules but to guard one part of the society against the injustice of the other part. If a majority be united by a common interest, the rights of the minority will be insecure.”

Obviously, there will almost always be a dissenting minority to any position. However, the founders wanted to ensure that when laws and changes to government were made, they

were made by more than just the whims of 51 percent of the populace.

For this reason, the Senate has two members from each state, amendments to the Constitution require supermajority of states to support them, and the founders created the Electoral College.

Taking a look at the 2016 election map, I understand the founders’ thinking. Yes, many of the counties in the middle of the country are far less populated than those on the coasts, but they still made up 48.9 percent of the votes cast for the top two candidates.

Without the Electoral College, there would be no need for presumptive presidential candidates to campaign in places such as Iowa City.

Abolishing the Electoral College would ensure that presidential campaigns take place almost exclusively on such coastal cities as New York and Los Angeles, with stops in Chicago or Dallas.

The term “fly-over country” would become an absolute reality. Some may argue that politicians already ignore vast swaths of the country to focus in on a select few swing states.

There’s no denying that, however, swing states vary from election to election.

California, Illinois, Texas, and Alabama are typically thought of as either ardently Democrat and Republican.

While that may have been true for the past few elections, it isn’t necessarily true over the span of history.

Looking at the last 15 elections, California has voted Democratic eight times and Republican seven, Illinois nine times Democratic and six times Republican.

Texas and Alabama were swing states before the election of Ronald Reagan, and in the 11 elections before Bill Clinton’s re-election in 1996, Florida voted Republican nine times and Ohio did eight.

Meanwhile, cities such as New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, and Philadelphia have been among America’s most populous cites since the end of World War II — some since the founding of the country.

own path to the White House

As a 37-year-old, gay veteran, he definitely has one of the more unconventional pitches for the presidency, and the South Bend mayor is capitalizing on his unique candidate profile.

ELIJAH HELTON

elijah-helton@uiowa.edu During spring break, I knew I was going to write an installment for 20 Out of 20.

I thought I’d finally cover Joe Biden, the former vice president and leader of virtually every Democratic primary poll to date. Or perhaps I’d discuss Beto O’Rourke, the former congressman and Gen-X pretty boy who rose to national fame with his losing effort to turn a Texas Senate seat blue last year.

But stealing a bit of the thunder from the larger-looming figures in the primary is yet another Democratic upstart. Mayor Pete Buttigieg of South Bend, Indiana, is running for president, and his campaign is gaining traction.

His appearance on “Morning Joe” and viral appeal to some of the political internet have given the rising star more attention than most thought possible.

Katie Goodale/The Daily Iowan Pete Buttigieg, the mayor of South Bend, Indiana, addresses the audience during a visit to the Airliner on March 4. He has formed a presidential exploratory committee, joining a slew of Democrats who are or may be running for the nomination. oh yeah — no president has ever been openly gay: Buttigieg has been out since 2015 and married his husband Chasten Buttigieg in June 2018.

But he isn’t treating these characteristics as potential setbacks, instead; he’s leaning into them as his qualifications.

“I am not skilled enough or energetic enough to craft a persona. I just have to be who I am and hope people like it,” Buttigieg said in an interview with the Washington Post.

His poll numbers are already on the rise as more people are exposed to his brand of au-

‘His youth makes him the first millennial to Is he going to be nominated? seriously run for president, which gives him Buttigieg — or “Mayor special perspective on time-sensitive issues Pete” as he likes to be called such as climate change.’

— knows he doesn’t have the most standard résumé for a presidential candidate, and he’s counting on his unique experience and identity to set him apart in the clustered Democratic field.

If elected, he’d earn distinctions for several firsts. No one has ever been elected to the presidency directly from a city-government position; Buttigieg has led South Bend, a city of slightly more than 100,000 people, since 2012.

No president has ever been younger than 42; Buttigieg turns 38 the day before his would-be inauguration. And

His record in South Bend includes redevelopment programs and an increasing population after decades of decline. His youth makes him the first millennial to seriously run for president, which gives him special perspective on time-sensitive issues such as climate change. His sexuality is another sign that it could be time for a younger generation to take over. A gay president would have been unthinkable just a decade ago but at least for right now, it doesn’t seem to be hindering his campaign.

thenticity. It isn’t impossible that his persona could carry the young mayor past the frontrunners and to the top of the ticket.

Is he going to beat Trump?

In many ways, Buttigieg seems to be the opposite of the incumbent President Donald Trump.

He’s has been a commissioned officer in the U.S. Naval Reserve since 2009 and served seven months in Afghanistan in 2014. Trump received five deferments avoiding service during the Vietnam War.

Buttigieg is a Rhodes Scholar who speaks with high levels of comprehension and nuance — he’s definitely one of the smartest of the presidential hopeful alongside Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass. Trump’s communication style is often broad and as simplistic as possible.

A polyglot, Buttigieg is conversational in eight languages, a fact made notable by his recent demonstration of his Norwegian skills. Trump reportedly refers to the country of Nepal as “nipple.”

His home state of Indiana is probably too Republican to flip in the next year and a half, but the competition for more purple states such as neighboring Michigan and Ohio would be interesting to watch with a Midwesterner vying to take back the Rust Belt.

Of course he’s a long shot, but Mayor Pete has his share of the spotlight for the moment. He might just shine bright enough to change his nickname to President Pete.

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UISG approval of suicide-prevention training is a promising move One in 3 college students suffer from diagnosable mental health disorders. They deserve support and access to adequate resources.

NICHOLE SHAW

nichole-shaw@uiowa.edu Praiseworthy new initiatives to support mental health of students are in the works on campus. On March 12, the University of Iowa Student Government voted to support two new pieces of legislation supporting a new suicide-prevention program and an student mental-health fee increase.

The UISG passed both without any dissent, as it should have.

The legislation will allocate $5,000 for the suicide-prevention training of RAs and incoming students in addition to the $2 student-fee increase for mental-health services.

The legislation is commendable and a step in the right direction for the university; it is no secret that college students at the UI and across the globe suffer from anxiety and depression at staggering rates. In fact, 1-in3 college freshmen report symptoms that warrant a diagnosis of mental-health disorders, according to research published by the American Psychological Association. With statistics such as that, it is imperative students have the applicable resources and support they need to ensure their safety, well-being, and growth at the UI.

The legislation is a monumental step in the right direction, especially with the training of RAs and incoming students in mental-health issues and disorders. RAs are responsible for the well-being of their res-

tal-health issues, thankfully.

However, I had a number of friends, classmates, and fellow residents who did and sought advice or support from their RAs. Often, their RAs did not know how to help them other

‘Simply knowing what to do when a peer reaches out to you about struggles in mental health is a huge step in the right direction.’ idents, most of whom will undoubtedly suffer from some sort of mental-health issue. With training, they will be able to not only support their residents fully but also handle potentially precarious or dangerous situations promptly and correctly.

As a college freshman, I did not suffer from any men-

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than send them to the University Counseling Service, which was at the time often busy and never that helpful. There were even a number of instances in which RAs simply avoided some of their residents or never got back to them regarding mental-health support and treatment inquiries.

That was unacceptable.

However, the UISG’s passing the proposals and allocating significant funds to educate leaders and supply resources for students on mental-health issues, disorders, and suicidal signals and warnings are of paramount importance. Simply knowing what to do when a peer reaches out to you about struggles in mental health is a huge step in the right direction in comparison to the lost feeling of confusion that plagued our society regarding mental health support and/or treatment.

The $2 mental-health-fee increase is also notable, because it will fund three new positions at the Counseling Service. The three will be a second case manager, a liaison between the service and the Dean of Stu-

dents’ Office, and a partially funded staff psychologist. The added positions will allow students to better connect to mental-health services outside the Counseling Service and find campus-wide support.

From 2017 to 2018, student visits to the Counseling Service increased by almost 1,000, according to the legislation UISG passed. With the $2-per-semester fee increase, an additional $107,000 would be added to the service’s budget. While UISG is on the right track for ensuring students’ mental health is supported, the proposed fee must still be approved by UI Senior Vice President for Finance Rod Lehnertz and the state Board of Regents.

For the sake of your mental state, let’s hope they do.

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UI assistant professor Robert Cargill is part of the History Channel’s ‘Jesus: His Life’ airing today. Cargill, among other researchers, was invited to be a series consultant.

BY ANNIE FITZPATRICK anne-fitzpatrick@uiowa.edu While filming on the History Channel set, Assistant Professor Robert Cargill had the opportunity to add his voice to the discussion of the life of Jesus Christ.

The University of Iowa’s Cargill of the Religious Studies and Classics Departments will be featured in “Jesus: His Life” today on the History Channel. Cargill, among other researchers, was invited to be a consultant in the eight-part series in addition to making special appearances on screen.

The series tells the story of the life of Jesus using the style of both a drama and a documentary. In his work on the show, Cargill said the excellent script and acting used in the docudrama, combined with the emphasis on historical accuracy, make it stand out from other historical programs.

“Each episode is the story of Jesus from a different point of view, including … people who were antagonistic toward him,” he said.

“And so it was a beautiful blend of not only these different points of view of Jesus being portrayed by the actors, it was also a wonderful diverse blend of different points of view from the scholars that are being interviewed as well.”

His teaching focuses on Judaism and Christianity in the first centuries BCE and CE, Cargill said. He has worked with the program’s production company, Nutopia, in the past, he said, and appreciates its serious acknowledgement of biblical scholarship.

“My favorite part is showing people — whether you’re Jewish, whether you’re Christian, whether

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UI Assistant Professor Robert Cargill poses for a picture on March 13. He is featured in the History Channel’s eight-part documentary series called “Jesus: His Life.” you’re an agnostic or an atheist — that the Bible is actually a fascinating piece of literature, and it’s important for everyone to know something about it,” he said.

Mark Goodacre, a Duke University professor of religious studies, also worked as a series consultant and appeared in seven of the eight episodes. There was a 50-50 combination of drama and expert research-based information, he said.

He was honored to be featured in the program because of its unique interaction between expert commentators and dramatic action, he said.

“I’m very flattered that they’re interested in my opinions on these things,” Goodacre said. “As someone who is fascinated by the way that film depicts a biblical story anyway, it’s great to have people taking seriously my own thoughts, and it’s a huge privilege.”

Cargill said the UI’s value of public scholars and their work has given the Religious Studies Department national visibility through “Jesus: His Life.” Having his research and scholar-

ship made available to the public is something that the university sees as important, he said. “[The] University of Iowa, as a public university funded by taxpayers, understands the value of having its faculty speak directly to the public, whether it’s by giving public lectures or by doing nationally televised documentary programs,” he said.

Religious Studies Department Chair Morten Schlütter said the program shows the scholarly commitment and research of researchers such as Cargill.

“I think it’s wonderful for the department and gives us wonderful visibility and for the University of Iowa …

I think it’s great that scholars like Robert Cargill are featured on these shows,” he said.

Cargill said “Jesus: His Life” represents how the Bible affects people’s daily lives, whether they are religious or not.

“Whether you’re religious or not, the text of the Bible impacts our daily lives because so many people believe it today,” he said.

UI Ph.D. student falls to death in Utah natl. park An investigation into Jonathon Hogue’s death is ongoing, San Juan County officials say.

BY MARISSA PAYNE

marissa-payne@uiowa.edu University of Iowa Ph.D. student Jonathon Hogue, who was reported missing in Utah’s Hogue Canyonlands National Park earlier this month, fell approximately 500 feet to his death, according to the San Juan County Sheriff’s Office.

Authorities said in a news release his body was found at the base of the Green River Overlook in the Island in the Sky District of the national park. His vehicle was located at the overlook on March 10, and a search for Hogue start-

ed March 12.

Hogue, 33, was found dead and his body recovered March 15. An investigation of the incident is ongoing.

“Search and rescue and recovery were a combined effort of the San Juan County Sheriff’s Office, National Park Service, Grand and San Juan County Search and Rescue teams and the Department of Public Safety Helicopter crew,” the release said. “… Our condolences go out to the family and friends of Mr. Hogue.”

Hogue was a graduate teaching assistant at the UI earning a Ph.D. in geography, the university said in a tweet.

Hogue was “a hiker and backpacker who is known to

hike long distances, including off trail and scrambling,” according to a Canyonlands Facebook post. “His dream was to be a park ranger.”

According to the National Park Service, the Colorado River and its tributaries split the Canyonlands National Park into four districts: Island in the Sky, The Needles, The Maze, and the rivers themselves. The park spans 337,598 acres and preserves a rugged, rocky landscape in southeast Utah’s high desert.

Island in the Sky rests on sheer sandstone cliffs more than 1,000 feet above the surrounding terrain and contains hiking trails and four-wheel drive roads, according to the National Park Service.

Sole student regent resigns from Board of Regents

BY AADIT TAMBE

aadit-tambe@uiowa.edu The state Board of Regents announced on March 18 that the sole student regent, Johnson Rachael Johnson, will resign effective April 30 — two years before the end of her six-year term.

Johnson was appointed

as a regent on May 1, 2015, according to a regent press release. She is a May 2018 University of Northern Iowa graduate with a bachelor’s in elementary and middle-level education.

In April 2017, Johnson was honored with the Truman Scholarship, awarded annually by the Harry S. Truman Foundation in support of its mission to select and support the next generation of public-service leaders.

“I am grateful to have

been the student member of the Board of Regents for the past four years,” Johnson said in a statement. “Serving Iowa’s public universities, special schools, and citizens as a regent has been an honor and a privilege. My time on the board has been an experience I will always treasure. I am proud of all that the board has accomplished the past four years, and I have no doubt these successes will continue in the future.”

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Hawks compete in weekend NCAAs The Hawkeyes men’s and women’s basketball teams, as well as the wrestling squad, competed this weekend in their respective NCAA tournaments. Wrestling’s Spencer Lee became a national champion again and women’s hoops made it to the Sweet 16.

Men’s basketball lost to Tennessee in the round of 32 in overtime after coming back from a 25­- point deficit.

Clockwise from top Iowa’s 141-pound Max Murin wrestles Nebraska’s Chad Red during the fourth session of the NCAA Wrestling Championships in Pittsburgh on March 22. Red won by decision, 4-1. (Shivansh Ahuja/The Daily Iowan) Iowa guard Jordan Bohannon shoots during the NCAA game against Tennessee on Sunday. The Volunteers defeated the Hawkeyes, 83-77, in overtime. (Katina Zentz/The Daily Iowan) Iowa center Megan Gustafson celebrates after the Iowa/Missouri NCAA Tournament second round basketball game in Carver-Hawkeye Arena on Sunday, March 24, 2019. The Hawkeyes defeated the Tigers, 68-52. (Roman Slabach/The Daily Iowan) Iowa’s 133-pound Austin DeSanto wrestles Iowa State’s Austin Gomez during the fourth session of the NCAA Wrestling Championships in Pittsburgh on March 22. DeSanto won by major decision, 16-5. (Shivansh Ahuja/The Daily Iowan) Iowa forward Hannah Stewart blocks a shot during the Iowa/Missouri NCAA Tournament second round basketball game in Carver-Hawkeye Arena on Sunday. The Hawkeyes defeated the Tigers 68-52. (Roman Slabach/The Daily Iowan) Fans cheer after Iowa guard Joe Wieskamp shoots a three-pointer during the NCAA game against Cincinnati on March 22. (Katina Zentz/The Daily Iowan)

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WOMEN’S CONTINUED FROM 8 “A great way to play defense on a great scorer like her is for her to not be in the game,” Iowa guard Kathleen

MEYER CONTINUED FROM 8 bounds.

But Iowa owes a large part of its success to Makenzie Meyer, who finished the game with 18 points, 3 rebounds, and 4 assists playing all 40 minutes.

Her biggest impact came in her 3-point shooting, making 4-of-7 against a Missouri defense that has been superb against the 3 all year.

MEN’S CONTINUED FROM 8 and put Tennessee’s players in foul trouble.

Three of the five Volunteer starters committed two fouls in the second half.

With its star players Grant Williams and Admiral Schofield in foul trouble, Tennessee struggled on both

COOK CONTINUED FROM 8 I mean, find someone else on the team who can get a crowd roaring with a simple dunk. You might look for a while.

“He was in a little bit of a funk, but it was kind of like he threw all the rust off at

GYMNASTICS CONTINUED FROM 8 had a three-match winning streak, notching victories over Nebraska, Michigan, and Ohio State.

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Doyle said. “That worked out for us; she’s a great player but got in some foul trouble, and we took advantage of it.”

Iowa knew how key Cunningham was for Missouri, and the defensive attention they put on her, along with the foul trouble, led to a qui-

et day.

“We respected her — we know how good of a player she is,” Iowa head coach Lisa Bluder said. “We did not want her to get any open looks, no good shot attempts. We got her in a bit of foul trouble at the start

of the game, but she still played 32 minutes, so it’s really a credit to our defense.”

Iowa never gave up the lead for the rest of the game after takng it in the second quarter. The Hawkeyes outscored Missouri 21-11 — including the first 11 points of

the quarter — to close out the game and send Iowa home with a victory.

Bluder said the key to the two big Hawkeye runs was a tenacious defense.

“I think in those runs, we played great defensively,” she said. “We were making

them take so much time off of the clock. They didn’t have many great looks, we just kept getting defensive stop after defensive stop, and Megan [Gustafson] cleaned up on the defensive boards for us. It gave us a real mental edge.”

The Tigers entered the game holding opponents to just 29.3 percent shooting, and merely 26 percent of their opponents’ points came from deep.

Meyer bucked that early with two 3s in the first quarter, helping the Hawkeyes shoot 38 percent from deep.

This after a season in which she shot the lowest percentage of her career from beyond the arc, finishing the regular season shooting at a 30.9 percent clip.

Whatever the reason for

her poor shooting during the regular season, she found a solution before the start of the Big Ten Tournament.

Since then, she has shot a blistering 48.6 percent of 3s over five games, all of which have been elimination games.

“It’s huge,” head coach Lisa Bluder said. “The more 3-point shots that we can put down, the easier it makes life for Megan and Hannah [Stewart] inside.

I don’t know what’s the difference right now, other than that she did have a

significant knee injury and came back early from that.”

Meyer thinks a change in confidence has propelled her to a strong stretch.

“I have been feeling really confident lately,” Meyer said. “We’ve been doing a good job of getting [the ball] inside to Megan, and Megan is looking back out to us for the in-and-out 3, and that’s a really, really great shot for our offense.”

Meyer’s effect wasn’t limited to beyond the 3-point arc. After the first quarter, she started driving to the

basket a few times.

She didn’t accumulate a ton of points on those drives, but on a few occasions, she got drew fouls from Missouri’s star player, Sophie Cunningham.

That forced Cunningham to spend several minutes on the bench while Iowa went on important runs.

Meyer’s performance at the other end was also notable. She was matched up against Cunningham for much of the night and held the senior — who averages 18.1 points per game on a

59.3 effective field-goal percentage — to just 8 points and 27.3 percent shooting.

“I mean, they had me,” Cunningham said. “Right now, I really don’t want to talk about it. They’re a good team.”

If Meyer can keep this up, Iowa may have to make plans for Tampa, Florida, the site of the Final Four.

For now, though, the Hawkeyes await their opponent for next week’s Sweet 16, which will be played Friday or Saturday in Greensboro, North Carolina.

sides of the ball.

Offensively, the Volunteers shot just 33.3 percent in the second and committed 10 turnovers — essentially, a repeat of Iowa’s first-half play.

“It was some of our best basketball as a team,” forward Luka Garza said. “We were getting stops on a team that was the No. 1 team in the nation for most of the year, a top-10 team in the

nation for the entire year.

We showed what we’re capable of in the second half.

When we came back, we had them on the ropes.”

But despite erasing a 25-point deficit, the Hawkeyes never secured any sort of lead.

Tied at 71, Iowa and Tennessee headed to overtime, and that’s when things fell apart.

“Williams hit some big

shots,” Garza said. “He’s a big-time player, and we defended him well. He it a couple of turnarounds and different stuff like that.”

Williams had 6 points in overtime, Jordan Bone scored 5, and Kyle Alexander scored 1 to round out a 12-6 overtime scoring advantage for the Volunteers. Tennessee scored 7 unanswered to begin the period.

Iowa took just four shots

in overtime, finishing with as many turnovers as makes (two).

The final score was in no way what the Hawkeyes wanted, as echoed by their somber expressions in postgame media availability.

However, erasing a 25-point deficit and nearly toppling one of the nation’s giants in the process is nothing to scoff at — a testament to Iowa’s unrelent-

ing fight.

“We put a game plan together. We know it’s not going to be perfection — it never is,” McCaffery said.

“But what you hope to get is a perfect effort. And that’s what we got. And I think anytime that happens, you just want to hug your guys and tell them how much you love them because you appreciate how hard it was to do what they did.”

once, and he’s back to the old TC smashing guys around, going dunking on people, all that stuff,” Iowa forward Ryan Kriener said. “His performance in the second half was awesome.”

Sure, Cook’s style of play can be frustrating at time.

His perimeter game hasn’t developed. He leans on his athleticism and raw strength in the paint. He makes mis-

takes. But Iowa would not be where it is now without him.

He scored in double figures in all but eight games.

Had he left the program last season, it’s hard to imagine where the Hawkeyes would be without their most consistent scorer in the paint.

Jordan Bohannon and Joe Wieskamp would both continue to produce, but without the tandem of Cook and

Luka Garza in the paint, they wouldn’t get the same opportunities.

Last season, Cook took some time to evaluate where he was at as a player and ended up declaring for the NBA Draft before withdrawing and coming back to Iowa City.

This time around, his status is unknown.

“I’ll answer that stuff lat-

er,” Cook said about his future.

If Cook stays, Iowa will be stacked for another run in the NCAA Tournament. Everyone, excluding Nicholas Baer, will return, and two recruits in Patrick McCaffery and Joe Toussaint have a chance to help the program.

While the loss of Baer is certainly a big one, Iowa’s potential is sky-high.

“We’ve got size, we’ve got depth, and we’ve got experience,” Iowa head coach Fran McCaffery said. “That’s what you need in this league.”

Being frustrated is one thing, and sometimes, it’s completely warranted. But to call for Cook’s benching and hope he forgoes his senior season are not things fans should want if they know what’s good for them.

The men’s team will return to Carver-Hawkeye to host the Big Ten Championships on April 5-6. After Big Tens, the men will head to the NCAA Championships in Champaign, Illinois, April 19-20.

While the men’s team

continues to train for a bigger competition, the women’s team took sixth place at the Big Ten Championships with 196.075 points at Penn State. That marks the third-highest score of the season for the GymHawks as well as their fourth score

of more than 196 points.

The Hawkeyes followed Michigan, which took the title (197.400), Illinois (196.650), Nebraska (196.550), Minnesota (196.425), and Penn State (196.125).

Junior Charlotte Sul-

livan placed solid scores in all events, earning her an overall score of 39.100.

Sullivan kept the scores through floor (9.800), bars (9.825), vault (9.750), and beam (9.725).

Other highlights included Lauren Guerin’s score

of 9.900 on floor to tie a career-high, a career-high on beam by Misty-Jade Carlson (9.850), and a tied career-best score on beam by Bridget Killian (9.825).

The GymHawks will continue competition in an NCAA regional.

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Sweet, Sweet Sixteen

Iowa gymnastics become Big Ten co-champs The Iowa men’s gymnastics team snagged a share of the Big Ten title, and the GymHawks posted a solid performance at the Big Ten Championships.

BY SYDNEY BECKER

sydney-becker@uiowa.edu

On Sunday afternoon in Carver-Hawkeye, the No. 2 seed Iowa women’s basketball squad beat the seventh-seed Missouri, 68-52, to advance to its second Sweet 16 in five seasons.

The Hawkeyes played a tightly contested game in front of a nearly soldout crowd before pulling away with a strong fourth quarter.

It was a game Iowa won despite an “average game” for Megan Gustafson, who did have 24 points and 19 re-

The Iowa men’s gymnastics team earned a share of the Big Ten title this past weekend. It marks the first time a team has been awarded the title during the regular season, as well as the first time since 1998 that the Hawkeyes won the conference title.

“I am incredibly proud of the boys. They performed really well,” Iowa head coach JD Brodarzon Reive said in a release. “This is what we trained for this week, so we did what we prepared to do. We are going to get back in the gym so we can do it again when we host Big Tens in Iowa City.”

The team traveled to Minneapolis to compete against Minnesota and Penn State, taking second place among the teams with 406.350 points.

Eight scores at the meet set career-bests or season-highs for the Hawkeyes, including Jake Brodarzon’s career-best score of 14.500 on rings to take first.

“We all had an undying belief that we could win this title and wrote it on our board in the gym to look at every single day,” Brodarzon said in a release. “It was one of the hardest journeys we’ve been on, but we did it together.”

Senior Bennet Huang secured the second place all-around score to the 2018 NCAA event runner-up with 81.250 points. Huang also led the team with confidence in the program and the squad’s abilities.

“I’m super proud of our entire team for winning the Big Ten regular season,” Huang said in a release. “From the start to the finish of the meet, our guys put up a huge fight, and every single person had each other’s backs.”

Entering the competition, the Hawkeyes

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Lily Smith/The Daily Iowan Iowa’s Makenzie Meyer drives to the basket against Missouri in the NCAA Tournament at Carver-Hawkeye on Sunday. The Hawkeyes defeated the Tigers, 68-52.

Iowa took advantage of Missouri’s foul trouble and went on numerous scoring runs to secure a trip to the Sweet 16.

BY ROBERT READ

robert-read@uiowa.edu In an NCAA second-round matchup full of hot and cold stretches for both teams, Iowa got the upper hand over Missouri to move on to the Sweet 16.

Both teams grabbed ahold of the lead at different stretches of the game, though foul trouble for Missouri sent a couple of its leading scorers to the bench, leading to large Iowa runs.

“It really felt like a game of runs,” Missouri head coach Robin Pingeton said. “But when you give up offensive rebounds and don’t hit open shots, that gives them the advantage.”

Missouri finished the first quarter with a 20-16 edge, but the game changed dramatically.

Missouri had a 25-24 lead with 5:21 remaining in the second quarter.

Sophie Cunningham, Missouri’s leading scorer at 18.1 points per game, had foul trouble early and finished with only 8 points.

Cunningham picked up her third foul with 2:11 left in the second quarter, and the Hawkeyes dominated the rest of the half.

Iowa went on a 13-0 scoring run toward the close of the first half, with 9 points coming with Cunningham on the bench. Iowa found its edge in the second quarter, outscoring the Tigers, 17-9. Cunningham spent two stints of the quarter on the bench in foul trouble.

Cunningham did not commit another foul the rest of the game, but by the end of the first half, the damage had been done.

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Makenzie Meyer posted one of her best games of the season to help Iowa to a 6852 win over Tennessee.

BY JORDAN ZUNIGA

jordan-zuniga@uiowa.edu

March Sadness Iowa dug itself out of a seemingly insurmountable hole on Sunday in the NCAA Tournament, but it wasn’t enough to topple Tennessee.

BY ADAM HENSLEY

adam-hensley@uiowa.edu COLUMBUS, Ohio — Down by 25 at one point, Iowa basketball clawed its way back in one of the greatest second-half performances in program history.

The Hawkeyes outscored the Volunteers, 43-22, in the second — a complete turnaround from a forgettable first-half performance.

Then, overtime happened.

Tennessee cruised in the extra time, taking down Iowa, 83-77, in one of the wildest games of this season’s NCAA Tournament.

“Getting down 25 is hard to come back from,” freshman forward Joe Wieskamp said. “It shows the fight we truly have, to be even back in that game and have a chance to win.”

At halftime, Iowa’s chances of a comeback looked dead in the water. The Hawkeyes scored 28 firsthalf points, shot 32.1 percent from the floor, and turned the ball over eight times.

“We had a decision to make,” Wieskamp said. “You either fold and just kind of hand it to them — or we can go out there and fight.”

During the break, the locker-room conversation wasn’t full of anger from head coach Fran McCaffery, and there wasn’t a sense of panic in the air.

“He didn’t have to come in and cuss — nothing like that,” Tyler Cook said. “He just told us, ‘Be better.’ We understood everything he meant, just by those two words. We came out and we fought, played our hearts out. It hurts to come up short like that.”

A rejuvenated Hawkeye squad came out of the break and outscored the Volunteers, 9-2, in the first few minutes — all 9 courtesy of Cook.

The junior forward scored 11 of Iowa’s 43 second-half points in physical fashion.

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Katina Zentz/The Daily Iowan Iowa forward Nicholas Baer comforts forward Luka Garza after the lost to Tennessee in overtime in the NCAA Tournament on Sunday. The Volunteers defeated the Hawkeyes, 83-77.

Tyler Cook might make mistakes at times, but the Hawkeyes wouldn’t have been in a position to upset Tennessee without him.

BY PETE RUDEN

peter-ruden@uiowa.edu COLUMBUS, Ohio — Tyler Cook has been Iowa’s best player all season, but you never would know it by watching his first three halves at the NCAA Tournament.

He scored 5 points on just 1-of-9 shooting in the Hawkeyes’ upset of Cincinnati in the first round. He finished the first half scoreless on 0-of-5 shooting against Tennessee on Sunday.

But then, the Cook that Hawkeye fans saw all season took over in the second half against the Cook Volunteers. He scored 11 points in the final 25

minutes, sparking an incredible 25-point comeback in which Iowa narrowly fell short of the Sweet 16.

“I just felt like I let myself and my team down in the first half,” Cook said. “I didn’t have the energy I needed to have; I wasn’t aggressive enough. I just wasn’t being who Tyler Cook is or supposed to be. I knew if I was going to struggle, I was at least going to play my ass off.”

Without Cook in the second half, it’s unlikely Iowa would have been as aggressive as it was. Given the Hawkeyes’ own play in the first half, supplemented by all of the fans on Twitter, he looked like one of the few believers in Iowa’s chances of mounting a comeback.

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