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<p class="maintitle"><span class="Fid_12"> Uthoff does it again </span></p>
<p class="abody"><span class="Fid_9"> Senior scores 22 points as No.
9 Iowa improves to perfect 7-0 in Big Ten</span></p>
<p class="abody"><span class="Fid_10"> By Scott Dochterman,</span><span
class="Fid_11"> The Gazette</span><span class="Fid_6"> IOWA CITY
- Iowa players and coaches know they have something special in
senior forward Jarrod Uthoff, and so does the rest of the Big
Ten.</span></p>
<p class="abody"><span class="Fid_6"> Uthoff added to his season
highlight reel and in turn propelled the No.</span></p>
<p class="abody"><span class="Fid_6"> 9 Hawkeyes to their best
league start in 46 seasons.</span></p>
<p class="abody"><span class="Fid_6"> Uthoff, the Big Ten's leading
scorer, put up 22 points to push Iowa to an 83-71 win against
No. 22 Purdue on Sunday at Carver-Hawkeye Arena.</span></p>
<p class="abody"><span class="Fid_6"> In yet another big-time
performance, Uthoff added three assists that were every bit as
vital as his four 3-pointers. Twice on back-toback possessions,
Uthoff successfully drove in the lane past Purdue freshman Caleb
Swanigan, which brought up center A.J. Hammons. Both times
Uthoff dished to Iowa center Adam Woodbury for easy layups,
which stretched a four-point lead to eight points.</span></p>
<p class="abody"><span class="Fid_6"> Uthoff, who stands nearly
6-foot-10, did most of his damage against the powerful 6-9
Swanigan. In the teams' first meeting at West Lafayette, Purdue
(17-4, 5-3 Big Ten) had top defender Rapheal Davis guard Uthoff.</span></p>
<p class="abody"><span class="Fid_6"> That led to 25 points from
Uthoff, and Purdue Coach Matt Painter elected for the change.
The result was the same.</span></p>
<p class="abody"><span class="Fid_6"> 'We considered going with
Rapheal on Uthoff, but (Peter) Jok has been so good,' Painter
said. 'No</span><span class="Fid_6"> matter who guards Uthoff, I
thought he had the upper hand on them. He's a tough cover. He's
put them at another level.'</span><span class="Fid_6"> Uthoff
twice hit 3-pointers in the game's first three minutes to vault
Iowa to a 10-4 edge.</span></p>
<p class="abody"><span class="Fid_6"> When Purdue rallied</span><span
class="Fid_6"> and took a seven-point lead, Uthoff knocked down
another to cut the deficit </span><br>
<span class="Fid_5">to four. Then, as part of an 8-0 run to start
the second half, Uthoff capped it with another 3-pointer to push
Iowa ahead 41-35.</span></p>
<p class="abody"><span class="Fid_20"> </span><span class="Fid_21"></span></p>
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<p class="abody"><span class="Fid_14"> Iowa forward Jarrod Uthoff
dunks the ball over Purdue center A.J. Hammons (20), guard
Dakota Mathias (31) and forward Caleb Swanigan (50) during the
second half Sunday at Carver-Hawkeye Arena in Iowa City. Uthoff
had 22 points and Iowa won, 83-71.</span></p>
<p class="abody"><span class="Fid_13"> Cliff Jette/The Gazette</span></p>
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<p class="abody"><span class="Fid_5"> </span></p>
<p class="abody"><span class="Fid_5"> 'You can't double him, because
you know we've got weapons,' Jok said. 'It's a like a mismatch
nightmare for anybody who's guarding him. Whenever he has
mismatches - which is pretty much any night we just go to him.'
Uthoff took advantage of his reputation with those passes to
Woodbury. The first looked almost like a jumper, but it was
placed perfectly at head level for Woodbury. On the second pass,
Woodbury drove near the basket and flipped the ball around
Hammons for the easy bucket.</span></p>
<p class="abody"><span class="Fid_5"> 'To be honest, in practice, I
do that a lot,' Uthoff said. 'The fiveman has a tendency to come
up, especially when he sets a down screen. So when I'm coming
up, if I see a resemblance of the five-man coming up, I know
that's going to be open because there's no weak side that can
guard him. I know that's going to be open so when I see that
five-man, I just throw it.' 'I think what you saw was an
aggressiveness that you love to see him play with,' Iowa Coach
Fran McCaffery said. 'I mean, he was really attacking, and I
don't think anything he does anymore surprises anybody.' Uthoff
averages 18.9 points and has scored in double digits in every
game this year. In Big Ten action, he averages 20. The last
player to score more than 20 a night was Adam Haluska</span><span
class="Fid_5"> in 2007.</span><span class="Fid_5"> Woodbury
finished with 13 points and 10 rebounds in a tough match-up
against Purdue's 7-foot tandem of Hammons and Isaac Haas.
Hammons scored 10 points with six rebounds, while Haas had only
one point and</span><span class="Fid_5"> two rebounds.</span></p>
<p class="abody"><span class="Fid_5"> 'He was special today, Adam
Woodbury,' Mc-Caffery said.</span></p>
<p class="abody"><span class="Fid_5"> Five different Iowa players
hit 3-pointers in the second half's first seven minutes to take
the Hawkeyes from a 35-33 halftime deficit to a 56-41 lead.
Bench players</span><span class="Fid_5"> Brady Ellingson,
Nicholas Baer and Dominique Uhl each hit 3-pointers on
consecutive possessions.</span></p>
<p class="abody"><span class="Fid_5"> 'The thing I wold say about
Iowa is a lot of people have good teams that don't want to get
to their bench, but these guys don't have much of a drop off and
in fact, against teams like us, they tend to improve,' Painter
said.</span></p>
<p class="abody"><span class="Fid_5"> Iowa (16-3, 7-0 Big Ten) has
won 13 consecutive Big Ten games, one shy of tying the school
record.</span></p>
<p class="abody"><span class="Fid_5"> The Hawkeyes remain tied atop
the Big Ten with Indiana and are 7-0 in league play for the
first time since 1970. Iowa has won six of its seven Big Ten
games by double digits this season.</span></p>
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<p class="abody"><span class="Fid_19"> Purdue forward Caleb Swanigan
and Iowa center Adam Woodbury struggle for control of the ball
Sunday at Carver-Hawkeye Arena in Iowa City.</span></p>
<p class="abody"><span class="Fid_18"> Cliff Jette photos/The
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<p class="abody"><span class="Fid_19"> Iowa guard Anthony Clemmons
puts his hand in the face of Purdue guard Rapheal Davis on
Sunday at Carver-Hawkeye Arena in Iowa City.</span></p>
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