Voice of the Hawkeyes Board

I'm pretty sure hes a UNI commit.

I'm still wondering how a 7'0 dad, produces a 6'1 kid...still kinda boggles the mind...I would've figured 6'5 at least.

WTF??

Wyatt Lohaus is an All State player on a couple of state championship teams.
D Stokes was a non-starter whose Dad played at Iowa. And also, Wyatt already has
good Division 1 offers. Sorry, but your boy Darius had none.

Big, big difference.

I'm sure this is eating Dondre up inside, and will continue to do so. Hopefully for his sake, he'll have an outstanding college career, and possibly continue playing after that. I'm sure he'll never forget his senior year of high school, but making a number of other positive memories will certainly help.

He has signed with Southern Miss for bball.

I saw Valley play Ames Friday. It was 37-37 at one point in the 3rd quarter. Jok had half of Valley's points but also picked up his 4th foul. Horner had to take him out. Led by 5-10 guard Tanner Hinkle, who's an outstanding all-around athlete, Valley turned up the defensive pressure and won 75-57. Hinkle couldn't miss, jacking up five 3's and finishing as the game-high scorer with 23. Jok had 22 but was basically invisible in the second half and Clint Boffeli 15.

Valley's an enigma to me. They have half-dozen kids 6-5 or taller but Jok's the tallest starter at 6-5. The rest are 5-10, 5-10, 6-2 and 6-5, all seniors. First two kids off the bench are a 6-3 junior and a 6-0 junior. The rest of their big guys' purpose is to wow opposing teams and their fans with Valley's size. And because Jok favors the 3, their inside presence is lacking on offensive. He's a great scorer but needs work on defense, but that's generally true of most high school kids.

19-3 Valley's sub-state final is Tuesday against 17-5 Roosevelt at SE Polk, which should be interesting since that's the school Jok transferred from. I don't think they've played since the 2nd game of the 2011-12 season, in which Jok committed as many fouls as he scored points (3). There was a lot of bad blood, very rough play, a lot of cheap fouls. His ex-teammates may a determined effort to get into his head and he let them. He was obviously not healthy with Patrick Ewing-like knee pads on both knees. The Rough Riders have a lot of motivation, an opportunity to not only upset a higher ranked team but show up two ex-teammates as 5-10 senior Peter Nixon, who starts at guard along with Hinkle, also transferred from Roosevelt with Jok. If you're a Hawk on the east side of the metro, it might be a game worth going to SE Polk and watching.

I guess valley was eliminated before state, not sure by who, but IC West (seeded second) just advanced by defeating Des moines Dowling 63-59 in overtime. Morgan and Lohaus had 19 and 18 respectively to pace West. Iowa FB Recruit Jon Wisnieski had 16 pts and 8 boards for Dowling.

West next faces Dubuque Senior Friday at 3:15 pm.

Valley lost to Des Moines Roosevelt where Jok started his HS career before going and playing for Horner.

That track record with tight ends is one of the things that led Jon to commit to Iowa. I know he'd love to be a part of that.

My understanding is that it's pronounced Wizz-niss-key.

No problem! I was lucky that his coach was the first one to tell me about him, so I heard the correct pronunciation right off the bat.

What was the final score of the IC West vs. Bettendorf 4A championship game?

Who were all the state champs?