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Sunday was a special day at Carver-Hawkeye Arena for a variety of reasons. Let s get into that and both the Big Ten men s and women s basketball tournaments that begin in just a couple of days.
On the men s side, 5th-ranked Iowa s 77-73 win over #25 Wisconsin on Sunday was the final home game in the careers of several Hawkeyes, including Jordan Bohannon and Luka Garza, who combined for 37 points, 22 rebounds, and 10 assists in their last game in Iowa City.
Following the game, Iowa Director of Athletics Gary Barta announced that Iowa would be retiring the number 55 in honor of Garza, Iowa s all-time leading scorer in men s basketball. As you ll see in the video below, Garza was unsuspecting, and emotional when the announcement was made.
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LAS VEGAS, Nev. – New Mexico (4-5) had no luck, and no ability to get UNLV batters out, Saturday. The Runnin’ Rebels (4-1) blasted the Lobos 24-7 and 8-5 in Mountain West baseball.
Chase Maddux, son of Hall of Fame pitcher Greg Maddux, got the UNLV win in a seven-inning game one. The Rebels blasted 20 hits and capitalized on two Lobo errors to score 13 unearned runs. Will Armbruester took the brunt of it for UNM, allowing all of the runs in a 10-run fifth, eight of them unearned.
Willie Cano had three of UNM’s 13 hits in the nine-inning nightcap, but UNLV rallied from a 5-4 deficit with four eighth-inning runs and held on. The two teams wrap up the three-game set Sunday.