Iowa might not be an NCAA Tournament Cinderella, but the Hawkeyes' Elite Eight trip is quite a tale
Two years ago, coach Ben McCollumn and point guard Bennett Stirtz were winning a Division II championship, and Alvaro Folgueiras was getting limited minutes in the Horizon League. Who says Cinderella is dead?
Iowa might not be an NCAA Tournament Cinderella, but the Hawkeyes' Elite Eight trip is quite a tale originally appeared on The Sporting News . Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here . Two years ago, Ben McCollum was the head coach and Bennett Stirtz was the star player for an institution known as Northwest Missouri State.
It’s a Division II program so lacking in self-consciousness they’ve declined to abandon the directional aspect of the name, unlike Southwestern Louisiana and Central Florida. Two years ago, Alvaro Folgueiras was a freshman at Robert Morris who’d come from Spain to play a year of high school ball, and essentially no one but RMU coach Andy Toole noticed his promise, but even at that understood he was ready for only 17 minutes a game – 17 minutes at the Horizon League level – his freshman year. Now, McCollum, Stirtz and Folgueiras are together at Iowa.
And they are March Madness heroes. MARCH MADNESS HQ: Live NCAA bracket | TV schedule | Latest news and more Seriously, this March Madness. Not the DII one where McCollum and Stirtz combined for two national titles, but the one with Duke, Arizona and Michigan as No.
1 seeds. Cinderella is not dead in the NCAA Tournament. There’s just been a change of slippers.
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