Iowa 20 minutes from history as Elite 8 run pauses for bizarre horn delay
It was quite the first half.
Iowa 20 minutes from history as Elite 8 run pauses for bizarre horn delay originally appeared on The Sporting News . Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here . For the first time in decades, Iowa Hawkeyes can see it.
Not in the distance. Not as a dream. Right there in front of them.
They are just 20 minutes away from the program’s first Final Four appearance since 1980, a moment that has been building for nearly half a century. An unexpected pause in a massive moment But right in the middle of that moment, everything stopped. Inside Toyota Center, with 7:43 left in the first half and Iowa holding a 22-20 lead over Illinois Fighting Illini, the game came to a sudden halt.
The reason had nothing to do with basketball. The horn got stuck, blaring continuously and making it impossible to play. Eleven minutes that changed the feel What followed was something you almost never see at this stage of March Madness.