contact univ of Iowa sports information dept
the state's nickname is hawkeye state because the football team is Iowa hawkeyes.
Cyclones!
They don't have an NBA team, but they have some decent colleges.
Al Rayyan Basketball Team was created in 1970.
John Johnson
The two big names on the 1969 - 70 Iowa Hawkeyes were John Johnson and "Downtown" Freddy Brown. Johnson was a Senior and Brown a Junior. Chad Calabria was second in scoring behind Johnson that year. Top Scorers: John Johnson 27.9 ppg., Chad Calabria 19.1 ppg., Fred Brown 17.9 ppg., Glenn Vidnovic 17.3 ppg., Ben McGilmer 10.3 ppg., Dick Jensen 3.1 ppg., Omar Hazley 2.2 ppg. These names and statistics were taken from the Iowa Hawkeyes 1970 - 71 Basketball Guide and Record Book.
A football team got rained out, so the players invented a game with a ball and a peach bucket.
The Iowa Hawkeyes (University of Iowa) play a wide variety of men's and women's sports. They include, basketball, baseball, football, wrestling, golf, gymnastics, tennis, swimming and diving, soccer, track and field, volleyball, softball, rowing, field hockey and cross country.The Iowa Hawkeyes is the team for the University of Iowa. They play football, but they also play basketball, as well as other sports at the university.
Korie transffered to Iowa State after Tom Izzo kicked him off the team in 2011. He is going to play basketball for Iowa State now.
It all depends on what sport you are talking about and in which way they are the greatest. This also means you must get very specific. For instance, the most dominant basketball team of all time was the UCLA Basketball team of 1970-1971.
The term "Hawkeye" originally appeared in the book, The Last of the Mohicans, and was later used in its plural form to describe the people of Iowa. Soon thereafter, the University of Iowa borrowed this nickname for its athletic teams. Some also believe the reference relates to the famous Indian Chief Black Hawk, who led the Sauk and Fox tribes and lived along the Mississippi River in the early 19th century in present day eastern Iowa and western Illinois.