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Dwight Howard now has the best dunk in a slam dunk contest. If you have not seen it, you can view it on YouTube.

Also nice with that video is Kenny Smith attempting the Superman theme, but totally botching it.

Northwestern State, you are welcome.? Watching the pregame for the national championship game, I saw that Northwestern State has won $100,000 for the Pontiac Gamechanging Performance of the tournament for their game winning shot over Iowa.? Here’s to remembering the shock of seeing the shot go in live and going to relive it for years and years to come.? All I have to say is if Jess Settles had a 10th year of eligibility, that shot wouldn’t have gone in.

After 12 hours of hoops yesterday, then a couple hours of Metroid Prime, then waking up this morning and nearly beating Prime, I was ready for some more hoops this morning. Eleven rolled around and I get to start with Charlotte vs. NC St., but then I am quickly informed that I will be switched to a different game starting in a few minutes. To my dismay, it is the Minnesota/ISU game. Normally this would be OK, I can deal with watching Minnesota and ISU, but then comes the kicker, Billy Packer is commentating the game. Within the first few minutes, Packer is screaming about a travel and almost accusing him of cheating. Therefore, I am going to go to HyVee and get some food for the day and be content in not having to listen to Billy Packer.

I would say that Courtney Scott leaving Iowa foreshadowed the trouble that the basketball program would have over the next 4 years. For those of you who don’t remember, Courtney Scott left Iowa during the peak of Iowa basketball’s recent fame, right as Iowa was breaking into the Top 10 with Recker and Evans. At the time it looked like Scott was frustrated by the playing time of Evans by saying that Alford played favorites with the team. Scott transferred to Oakland University and not many people have heard from him since. I paid attention to Oakland when we played them in the Hawkeye Challenge last year and saw Scott play for Oakland against Illinois this year. He developed well and is now a key member of their team. I then saw the highlights this week that Oakland, as a 12-18 team, won their league tournament and will be playing in the NCAAs. This means that since the year after Scott left, Alford has gotten to zero NCAAs and Scott is now in one. If only we had paid more attention to Courtney when he left.

Well, according to reports coming in from around the state, Pierre Pierce is an idiot. Whether or not the aligations are true, to be Pierre Pierce and put yourself in a situation where you can be accused of these crimes makes you an idiot. I sat back and quietly defended the program, Alford and to an extent Pierce for a long time. I just give up now, until Alford and Pierce are off the team I cannot cheer for this team. Isn’t there some way that we can bring Ferentz in as the basketball coach?