Remember that chair Iowa basketball coach Fran McCaffery slammed on the Breslin Center floor back in January? It went to a good cause (no, not the technical foul).
The chair was signed by McCaffery and auctioned off for $2,100 at the Iowa Baseball Steak Fry tonight, according to this tweet from Iowa baseball communications director Mark Weitzel. The money went toward Iowa's baseball program.
Along with the signature, the McCaffery wrote "Coach with a passion!" and "Go Hawks."
It had everything you'd want in a basketball game: good teams, good players, big runs, high emotion and a great atmosphere (more on that last one later). The final result: An 80-65 win for No. 16 MSU over No. 13 Indiana — a score that was enlarged due to late free throws.
You're not going to see many runs in Big Ten play like you saw tonight. MSU played nearly-flawless basketball for the first 15 minutes of the game, opening up a 34-16 lead. But Matt Roth hit some deep threes for IU, sparking a 25-2 run that stretched into the second half, giving Indiana a 41-36 lead. The Spartans fought back, but some and-1s from the Hoosiers stretched their lead to 54-45 with 11 minutes to play.
