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IOWA CITY, Iowa -- With a possible trip to the Big Ten championship game at stake, Nebraska fell flat.C.J. Beathard threw three touchdown passes and the Hawkeyes pummeled No. 16 Nebraska 40-10 on Friday, knocking the Cornhuskers out of Big Ten title contention and sending Wisconsin to the championship game.Tommy Armstrong started for Nebraska (9-3, 6-3 Big Ten) despite a balky hamstring and was just 13 of 35 passing for 125 yards. Backup Ryker Fyfe, who broke his non-throwing wrist last week, didnt take a snap until the game had long been decided.Tommy wasnt 100 percent, Huskers coach Mike Riley said. I dont know if he was the healthiest...I dont know how much it would have made a difference (to play Fyfe).Nebraskas defense was just as bad as its offense.LeShun Daniels Jr. ran for 158 yards and two scores and George Kittle caught two TD passes for the Hawkeyes (8-4, 6-3). They closed the regular season with three straight wins -- two of them over ranked opponents -- and scored their most points since a win over Purdue on Oct. 15.Iowa broke open what was expected to be a tight game with a 75-yard TD run by Akrum Wadley and a 77-yard touchdown throw from Beathard to Riley McCarron in the first quarter.We played as good as weve played all year, Beathard said. It just shows the fight and the resilience of this team.The Badgers are big favorites to beat Minnesota on Saturday anyway. But the Cornhuskers, who entered November as a legitimate playoff contender, hardly looked like one after being outscored 102-13 in their last two road games.We gave up big plays. I think we were horrible on third down, Riley said. Im really disappointed all the way around in all of us.THE TAKEAWAYNebraska: With so much to play for, its hard to believe that the Cornhuskers played so, so poorly. Nebraska gave up three plays of over 50 yards, and Armstrong was all over the place. The Huskers have lost three of their last four to Iowa, a fate sealed when they ran into Iowa kicker Keith Duncan on a field goal try in the fourth quarter -- allowing the Hawkeyes to go up 23 a few plays later.Iowa: The Hawkeyes didnt make it to the Big Ten title game either. But they did go 6-3 in the league, an impressive feat for a team that lost to North Dakota State of the FCS in its final nonconference game. Iowa also made its case for a high-profile bowl, which looked iffy to say the least after losing by 27 points at Penn State to start this month. You learn a lot about yourself in November, Iowa coach Kirk Ferentz said.B1G TITLE GAME UPDATEWisconsin gets the Wests spot in Indianapolis next week because it beat Nebraska 23-17 (OT) in late October. In the East, Penn State might have the easiest path. The favored Nittany Lions need to beat Michigan State at home and hope favored Ohio State beats Michigan on Saturday. Ohio State needs a win and a Penn State loss -- and even if the Nittany Lions take the East the Buckeyes should be in good shape for the playoff at 11-1. Michigan needs to upset the hated Buckeyes.EXTRA POINTSDaniels became the first Iowa rusher with over 1,000 yards since 2011. ...Armstrongs 13-yard TD pass to Stanley Morgan snapped a streak of over 136 minutes without allowing a touchdown for Iowa. The Hawkeyes shut out Illinois 28-0 last week. ... Wadley had 105 yards rushing on just 11 carries. ... Armstrong made his 44th career start, setting a team record for a quarterback. Taylor Martinez, his predecessor, made 43 career starts.POLL IMPLICATIONSNebraska likely stays in the Top 25. But the Huskers could find themselves drop a few spots after their second straight poor showing on the road. 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Its the epic pickup games that emerged during the filming of the movie in the summer of 1995.Michael Jordan was fresh off the sting of what would turn out to be the last playoff series loss of his career, to the Orlando Magic in the second round. Movie or no movie, he was determined to return to his place atop the NBA. So he ordered the construction of a tented hardwood basketball court on the Warner Bros. studio lot and laced up his Concords. Word got out, and an array of NBA players came through.Besides the movie co-stars such as Patrick Ewing, Charles Barkley, Alonzo Mourning and Larry Johnson, there were the likes of Grant Hill, Rod Strickland, Glen Rice, Dennis Rodman, Juwan Howard, Steve Smith and Cedric Ceballos. Shaquille ONeal came by. Magic Johnson, less than a year shy of his return to the NBA, made an appearance. Reggie Miller showed up for what turned into a clear-out-and-let-em-go-at-it game, with the trash talk flying.It was like an NBA all-star game every day, said Tracy Murray, who was coming off the third season of his 11-year pro career that summer.Except it had regular-season intensity. So many players showed up that losing meant a two- or three-game wait to get back on the court. Veteran center Olden Polynice came by and made the mistake of thinking, Its the summertime, theyre going to be bulls----ing.Come to find out, they werent bulls----ing, Polynice said.Murray credits the cutthroat competition with priming him for a breakout season -- he made 116 more 3-pointers and his scoring average jumped by 11 points, setting him up for a nice free-agent contract that provided the bulkk of the $22 million he made in his career.dddddddddddd.For Jordan, it was the launchpad to the Bulls record-setting 72-10 season, capped by a championship.Maybe we should credit the singer DAngelo as well. His first album dropped that summer, and his seductive songs wound up providing the soundtrack to the pickup games on the Warner Bros. lot.Michael loved that CD, Murray said.Therefore, Everybody hooped to DAngelo, Murray said. Driving up the floor ... Brown Sugar.Dont think for a second that the neo-soul or even the low stakes of the summer diminished Jordans ultra-competitive fires. Don MacLean learned that the hard way.It started when Jordan was loosely guarding MacLean, and MacLean (the all-time leading scorer in the old Pac-10 conference) got hot and scored about two-thirds of his teams buckets to send Jordan off a loser on the final game of the night.As MacLean changed clothes and iced his knees, Jordan came by and asked if hed be back. MacLean had an overseas trip to conduct basketball clinics in Japan, so he couldnt return the following week.Jordan told him, Thanks for coming, make sure you come back.Im thinking: That was cool for him to say that, MacLean said. Not thinking ...Jordan was plotting his revenge. When MacLean did show up a couple of weeks later, he played in the first game of the night.[Jordan] walks on the court, says, I got MacLean, and did not let me touch the ball for the entire game, MacLean said. And I was trying. And he was not letting me touch the ball.Right then and there, I was like, My God. For a pickup game in the summer that means nothing, two weeks later, he remembers that. I couldnt believe it.Said Polynice: Thats the true nature of Michael Jordan. It can be two weeks, it can be two years.And thats why, two decades later, no one who was there can forget those summer nights of hooping. ' ' '