Jeff Horner
Jeff Horner
Jeff Horneris an American former basketball player and current assistant coach for the University of North Dakota. He is best known as a point guard for the University of Iowa Hawkeyes basketball team. Horner currently holds the University of Iowa career three point record at 232 shots made. Horner was born in Mason City, Iowa. His father Bob Horner was Mason City High School varsity basketball coach. Horner made a verbal commitment to the University of Iowa while in the...
both defensive game played prettiest teams
Both teams played defensive games, ... and when you play a defensive game it's not going to be the prettiest thing out there.
definitely gets happen played pride sounds
It sounds like they played with a lot of pride down the stretch. Anything can happen in this league, and that definitely gets our attention.
against grudges hold last national played remember stay television time worry
You can't hold grudges against a team. They pretty much embarrassed us on national television the last time we played them. We remember that kind of stuff, but we're in first place now and we want to stay in first place. We've got to worry more about things like that.
again couple dropping field games good holding home needed percent played team ten
After dropping a couple of games on the road, we needed one like this. We played good defense. Holding a Big Ten team to 25 percent from the field is pretty unbelievable and we got things going on offense. We needed to come out and play well at home again and we did.
justify ten tough win
It was tough to handle. Hopefully, we can justify a lot of things with this Big Ten championship, if we win it.
coach emphasized half second time
It was about time we started a second half that was good. Coach really emphasized that and we got a big win.
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I've always thought kids from Iowa don't get enough respect on the national scene. Everyone sees us as farm boys, but there's more to us than that. We can definitely play some basketball. If you grow up in Iowa, a lot of people think of corn and stuff like that. But a lot of kids think about basketball.
We really wanted to get up in them.
high school ten wish won
I wish I would have won a high school championship, but a Big Ten championship would be awesome.
longer wore
I wore it longer than I should have.
boys farm iowa kids people
I still say a lot of people don't think that kids in Iowa can play basketball. People just think that we're farm boys and we like corn. It's kind of funny, but that's just the way it goes.
career second tough
We were up 17. We couldn't get it done in the second half. It's tough to end your career that way.
knew team
The pressure's kind of off us. We knew we had the team to get back here.
mad wore
We just didn't make plays. I don't feel wore down. I'm just mad right now.