WHO-TV’s “Iowa Madness” bracket, a matchup of the top 32 moments by Iowans or Iowa teams in sports history, finished last week.
Dan Gable, a wrestler with deep ties to both Iowa State and Iowa, won the tournament for his 1972 gold medal path in the Olympics.
The full, completed bracket is here (PDF). The three other finalists were Kurt Warner, Nile Kinnick, and Shawn Johnson, and that’s not a bad Iowa sports Mount Rushmore (though I would swap Jack Trice for Johnson).
Side note: If I have to hear about the 1985 Iowa-Michigan game again, where the #1 Hawkeyes (a place Iowa State has never been) won by a last-second field goal (something that Iowa State has been unable to do so many times), it will be too soon.