Oct. 25, 2012
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IOWA CITY, Iowa — There tends to be a correlation between college basketball teams playing deep into the month of March and college basketball teams having a deep bench.
Fran McCaffery’s third edition University of Iowa men’s basketball team has depth; whether that translates into the school’s first NCAA Tournament berth since 2006 remains to be seen. But the march to March began Oct. 11 with the first practice leading up to the season-opener Nov. 9 against UT-Pan American.
“I don’t know that I’ve ever had a team where we have 12 guys that can play the game,” McCaffery said. “It’s not easy to get 12 in, so we’ll see how that goes. If we stay healthy I think we can be playing for a while. Obviously we want to play into March.”
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