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2023–24 Iowa Hawkeyes Men's Basketball Team
The 2023–24 Iowa Hawkeyes men's basketball team represented the University of Iowa during the 2023–24 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The team was led by 14th-year head coach Fran McCaffery and played its home games at Carver–Hawkeye Arena as members of the Big Ten Conference. They finished the season 19–15, 10–10 in Big Ten play, resulting in a three-way tie for sixth place. As the No. 7 seed in the Big Ten tournament, they lost to No. 10-seeded Ohio State in the second round. The Hawkeyes accepted a bid to the NIT as the No. 3 seed in the Villanova bracket. Following a win against Kansas State, the Hawkeyes lost in the second round to Utah. Previous season The Hawkeyes finished the 2022–23 season 19–14, 11–9 in Big Ten play to finish in a four-way tie for fifth place. As the No. 5 seed in the Big Ten tournament, it lost to No. 13-seeded Ohio State in the second round. The Hawkeyes received an at-large bid to the NCAA tournament as the No. 8 seed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fran McCaffery
Francis John McCaffery (born May 23, 1959) is an American college basketball coach who is the current men's basketball head coach at the University of Pennsylvania. He previously served as head coach of Lehigh University, UNC Greensboro, Siena, and Iowa, taking all four programs to the NCAA tournament at least once. McCaffery played college basketball for one season at Wake Forest before transferring to Penn. In his playing days, he acquired the nickname of "White Magic;" he was also referred to as the “Conductor” on the court. He began his college coaching career with a stint at Penn as an assistant coach. McCaffery became an assistant coach at Lehigh in 1983. He was the youngest head coach in Division I when he was promoted to head coach in 1985. Following his career at Lehigh, McCaffery spent 11 years as an assistant at Notre Dame. In 1999, he became the head coach of the UNC Greensboro Spartans. McCaffery had a 90–87 record through six seasons. He led the Spa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2023 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament
The 2023 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament involved 68 teams playing in a single-elimination tournament that determined the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I men's basketball national champion for the 2022–23 season. The 84th annual edition of the tournament began on March 14, 2023, and concluded with the UConn Huskies defeating the San Diego State Aztecs, 76–59 in the championship game on April 3 at NRG Stadium in Houston, Texas. ASUN champion Kennesaw State made its NCAA tournament debut, while Southern Conference champion Furman made its first NCAA appearance since 1980. Another school, Texas Southern, won the SWAC tournament to become the third 20-loss team to make the field, after the Coppin State Eagles in 2008 and Liberty Flames in 2013. It was also Texas Southern's 3rd consecutive NCAA tournament. This tournament featured several notable upsets. For only the second time in history, a 16-seed defeated a 1-seed, when Fairl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brewster Academy
Brewster Academy is a co-educational independent boarding school located on in Wolfeboro, New Hampshire, United States. It occupies of shoreline along Lake Winnipesaukee. With around 350 students, it serves grades nine through twelve and post-graduates. The 2023 full boarding tuition is $72,700. The current Head of School is Kristy Kerin. History The school was founded in 1820 by local citizens as a "building for higher education". Originally called the "Wolfeboro & Tuftonboro Academy", in 1887 it was renamed "Brewster Free Academy" in honor of benefactor John Brewster. For sixty years it charged no tuition fee to local residents, and, from its inception until 1964, the school served as the only high school in Wolfeboro, as well as serving day students from neighboring towns. In 1946, the academy begin to charge a small tuition, and Wolfeboro at its town meeting in March 1947 voted to pay local students' tuition fees. During the immediate postwar years, it was a popular s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boston
Boston is the capital and most populous city in the Commonwealth (U.S. state), Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States. The city serves as the cultural and Financial centre, financial center of New England, a region of the Northeastern United States. It has an area of and a population of 675,647 as of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, making it the third-largest city in the Northeastern United States after New York City and Philadelphia. The larger Greater Boston metropolitan statistical area has a population of 4.9 million as of 2023, making it the largest metropolitan area in New England and the Metropolitan statistical area, eleventh-largest in the United States. Boston was founded on Shawmut Peninsula in 1630 by English Puritans, Puritan settlers, who named the city after the market town of Boston, Lincolnshire in England. During the American Revolution and American Revolutionary War, Revolutionary War, Boston was home to several seminal events, incl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abraham Lincoln High School (Council Bluffs, Iowa)
Abraham Lincoln High School is a public high school located in Council Bluffs, Iowa, United States. It is one of two high schools in the Council Bluffs Community School District. Demographics The demographic breakdown of the 1,334 students enrolled for the school year 2017–2018 was as follows: By gender * Male – 50.9% * Female – 49.1% By race * White – 80.9% * Hispanic – 11.3% * Multiracial – 3.6% * African American – 1.4% * Native American/Alaskan – 1.2% * Asian/Pacific Islander – 1.1% Athletics The Lynx compete in the Missouri River Conference in the following sports: *Baseball *Basketball *Bowling *Cross Country ** Boys' 1948 State Champions *Football *Golf *Soccer *Softball *Swimming *Tennis *Track and Field *Volleyball *Wrestling Notable alumni * Stan Bahnsen, former professional baseball player (New York Yankees, Chicago White Sox, Oakland Athletics, Montreal Expos, California Angels, Philadelphia Phillies) *Dan Dawson, current ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Council Bluffs, Iowa
Council Bluffs is a city in and the county seat of Pottawattamie County, Iowa, Pottawattamie County, Iowa, United States. The population was 62,799 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, making it the state's List of cities in Iowa, tenth most populous city, and the most populous city in Southwest Iowa. The Omaha–Council Bluffs metropolitan area, Omaha metropolitan region of which Council Bluffs is a part, is the 58th largest in the United States, with an estimated population of 983,969 (2023). It is located on the east bank of the Missouri River, across from Omaha, Nebraska. Until about 1853 Council Bluffs was known as Kanesville. Kanesville was the historic starting point of the Mormon Trail. Kanesville is also the northernmost anchor town of the Emigrant Trail, other emigrant trails because there was a steam-powered boat which ferried the settlers' wagons and cattle across the Missouri River. In 1869, the first transcontinental railroad to California was connected ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moline High School
Moline High School is a public four-year high school located in Moline, Illinois, a city in Rock Island County, in the Midwest area of the United States. The school is the only public high school in the city of Moline, and is part of Moline-Coal Valley School District #40. The district (of which this is the sole comprehensive high school) includes the majority of Moline along with the portion of Coal Valley in Rock Island County, and half of Rock Island Arsenal, along with a small piece of Milan. Text list/ref> The Rock Island Arsenal garrison provides a school bus service to the Moline district from the on-post residences. History After the founding of the Moline Board of Education, Moline High School took the form of a two-room schoolhouse. It was replaced with Central/Washington school, which housed grades 1-13, after its building completion in 1873. Still getting progressively more spacious, a building nicknamed "the Castle" by passing travelers on the Mississippi be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moline, Illinois
Moline ( ) is a city in Rock Island County, Illinois, United States. With a population of 42,985 in the 2020 census, it is the largest city in Rock Island County and the List of municipalities in Illinois, ninth-most populous in Illinois outside the Chicago metropolitan area. Moline is one of the Quad Cities at the confluence of the Rock River (Mississippi River tributary), Rock and Mississippi River, Mississippi rivers, along with neighboring East Moline, Illinois, East Moline and Rock Island, Illinois, Rock Island in Illinois and the cities of Davenport, Iowa, Davenport and Bettendorf, Iowa, Bettendorf in Iowa. The Quad Cities metropolitan area had a population of approximately 380,000 as of 2023. Moline was established in 1843. The name derives from the French ''moulin'' meaning "mill [town]". The John Deere World Headquarters, corporate headquarters of Deere & Company is located in Moline, as was Montgomery Elevator; its acquirer Kone has its U.S. division headquartered in Mol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Episcopal School Of Dallas
The Episcopal School of Dallas (ESD) is an independent, co-educational preparatory day school located in Dallas, Texas. History The Episcopal School of Dallas is a coeducational academic community founded in 1974 by Stephen B. Swann and a group of Episcopalian local leaders. The school began as an offshoot from St. Mark's School of Texas when a few members of the board wanted it to become a solely Episcopal school. The first ESD class was held in 1974 and included eight 7th graders. Today, approximately 1,150 students attend ESD, aged Beginner (age 3) through 12th grade, with 435 students in the Upper School (9th – 12th grade). David L. Baad is the Head of School. Campus The campus contains four major buildings, with a total of 308,000 sq ft (28,600 m²) in facilities. The campus encompasses over . The school's first building, the gymnasium, was built in the late 1970s. Until the main building was in 1981, classes were held in the gym. In 1986, the school had another major exp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dallas, Texas
Dallas () is a city in the U.S. state of Texas and the most populous city in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex, the List of Texas metropolitan areas, most populous metropolitan area in Texas and the Metropolitan statistical area, fourth-most populous metropolitan area in the United States at 7.5 million people. It is the most populous city in and the county seat, seat of Dallas County, Texas, Dallas County, covering nearly 386 square miles into Collin County, Texas, Collin, Denton County, Texas, Denton, Kaufman County, Texas, Kaufman, and Rockwall County, Texas, Rockwall counties. With a 2020 United States census, 2020 census population of 1,304,379, it is the List of United States cities by population, ninth-most populous city in the U.S. and the List of cities in Texas by population, third-most populous city in Texas after Houston and San Antonio. Located in the North Texas region, the city of Dallas is the main core of the largest metropolitan area in the Southern Unite ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Belmont Bruins Men's Basketball
The Belmont Bruins men's basketball team represents Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee. Belmont completed a 10-season run in the Ohio Valley Conference in 2021–22, and joined the Missouri Valley Conference in July 2022. The Bruins play their home games at the Curb Event Center under head coach Casey Alexander. Their most recent NCAA Division I tournament appearance was in 2019. Coaching staff * Casey Alexander – Head coach *Brian Ayers – Associate head coach *Kerron Johnson – Assistant coach *Sean Rutigliano – Assistant coach *Luke Smith - Director of Player Development *Harrison Gascho – Director of Basketball Operations *Graduate Assistant - Clay Holmes *Graduate Assistant - Bryce Haase Rivalries Lipscomb University (Battle of the Boulevard) The Battle of the Boulevard, also referred to as the Belmont–Lipscomb basketball rivalry is a college basketball rivalry between the Belmont University Bruins and the Lipscomb University Bisons. Its nickname ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iowa City West High School
Iowa City West High School is a public high school in Iowa City, Iowa. It serves grades 9–12 for the Iowa City Community School District. Athletics The Trojans compete in the Mississippi Valley Conference in the following sports: *Cross Country ** Boys' 1988 Class 3A State Champions ** Girls' 5-time State Champions (1997, 1998, 2000, 2001, 2004) *Volleyball ** 2-time Class 4A State Champions (2010, 2011) *Football ** 3-time Class 4A State Champions (1995, 1998, 1999) *Basketball ** Boys' 7-time State Champions (1977, 1998, 2000, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2017) ** Girls' 2012 Class 5A State Champions **Girls’ 2018 Class 5A State Champions *Wrestling ** 2-time Class 3A State Champions (2006, 2007) *Swimming ** Boys 3-time State Champions (2014, 2015, 2020) 1/sup> * Diego Lasansky (2012), painter and printmaker * Jeremy Morgan (2013), basketball player for Hapoel Jerusalem in the Israeli Basketball Premier League. * Patrick McCaffery (2019), basketball player * Dasia Taylor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
