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Ames, Ia. - It sounded like a meeting of the Mutual Admiration Society this week when basketball coaches Greg McDermott of Iowa State and Todd Lickliter of Iowa talked about Friday night's 7 o'clock Cyclone-Hawkeye showdown at Hilton Coliseum.

NORTHERN IOWA 67, IOWA 50: Former Tartan star Kwadzo Ahelegbe scored 20 points as the host Panthers beat the Hawkeyes on Tuesday night to push their winning streak to five games.

Kwadzo Ahelegbe scored 20 points as Northern Iowa beat Iowa 67-50 to push its winning streak to five games.

Devan Bawinkel stepped to the free-throw line with 2 minutes, 48 seconds to play in Iowa's blowout of Prairie View A&M Saturday.

The story was in a room at University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, just down the street from Carver-Hawkeye Arena.

The Iowa Hawkeyes gave ailing coach Todd Lickliter a dose of good medicine Saturday with an 80-51 victory over Prairie View A&M. Lickliter, 54, was hospitalized Saturday and underwent an undisclosed medical procedure at University of Iowa Hospital and Clinics.

Matt Gatens got a history lesson Monday. "We've never won it?'' Iowa's sophomore guard said of his conference's performance the Big Ten/ACC Challenge, which starts Tuesday.

Iowa City, Ia. - Virginia Tech turned it up at crunch time and defeated Iowa 70-64 in the Big Ten/ACC Challenge Tuesday at Carver-Hawkeye Arena.

North Carolina Central's Michael Glasker reaches in on Iowa's Anthony Tucker during the first half of Saturday's game at Carver-Hawkeye Arena in Iowa City.

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Shooting 3-of-20 from behind the arch might doom most basketball teams, but not Todd Lickliter's Iowa Hawkeyes.

Junior forward Jarryd Cole scored a career-high 24 points to lead the Iowa men's basketball team past North Carolina Central 73-63 on Saturday before an announced crowd of 8,433 at Carver-Hawkeye Arena.

With his team off to one of the worst starts in school history, Iowa basketball coach Todd Lickliter is dealing with a difficult and delicate balancing act.

Cully Payne made a lob pass for a 3-pointer Tuesday against Wichita State. "I planned that," Iowa's freshman point guard said sarcastically as he threw away a bag of ice and put a new one on his bruised right hand.

Wichita State's Graham Hatch tries to get control of the ball after beating Iowa's Matt Gatens to a loose ball during the first half of Tuesday's game in Kansas City.

Dexter Pittman scored 11 of his 15 points in the second half and No. 3 Texas survived Cully Payne's miracle shot to beat Iowa 85-60 on Monday night in the semifinals of the CBE Classic.

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Dexter Pittman scored 11 of his 15 points in the second half and No. 3 Texas survived Cully Payne's miracle shot to beat Iowa 85-60 on Monday night in the semifinals of the CBE Classic.

Finally, a victory this season for Todd Lickliter, the third-year coach who came to Iowa after making a name for himself at Butler.