COLUMBUS, Ohio — Iowa nearly made NCAA men's ball competition history, just as its Sweet 16.

The Hawkeyes about turned into the second group to originate from 25 behind to win a diversion in this occasion. BYU did that against Iona in 2012. Iowa never driven Sunday in Nationwide Arena, however revived to tie the challenge and send it to extra time before tumbling to fifth-positioned Tennessee, 83-77.

The Hawkeyes trailed 44-19 with 4:22 left in the primary half on their approach to obscurity. Or on the other hand so it appeared. That supposition remained solidly set up at halftime when the score was 49-28.

Iowa Coach Fran McCaffery gave his players recess guidelines sans halftime theatricality.

"I think Coach was much more quiet than he was before in the year at halftime since he's seen us return so often," Hawkeyes focus Ryan Kriener said.

Indeed, yet the rebound required this day was far beyond was required in Iowa's revitalizes for home successes against Indiana and Northwestern, and in Friday's NCAA first-round triumph over Cincinnati when the Hawkeyes deleted a mid 13-point shortage.

"The storage space was actually together," McCaffery said. "We (mentors) came in with an arrangement. Not shouting and hollering. They required certainty and an arrangement. They had to know and comprehend what the arrangement was, and after that go out and execute it, which they did to flawlessness."

"He was truly quiet," Iowa watch Jordan Bohannon said. "Simply endeavoring to keep our self-restraint. I felt that was great for us. We required that since a few of us were freezing a smidgen in the primary half."

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