ESPNU contest winner chooses “All Hawkeye Day”
Lang
4/13/19
The winner of an ESPNU programming takeover contest has made his choice clear: He’s 100% Hawkeye.
Despite living in Wisconsin, Brian Dahlin became a fan of Hayden Fry and his Hawkeye teams while working at now defunct KDUB Channel 40 in Dubuque, which carried Iowa games. So last year when he bid on and won his choice of a full day of programming on ESPNU, he chose the University of Iowa.
The prize was part of the ESPY Day Auction, with proceeds going to the Jimmy V Foundation for cancer research. The winner was allowed to highlight the college of their choice by choosing ten events featuring that school’s teams.
Dahlin picked the Hawkeyes. The date of the takeover is Tuesday April 16th.
Since all times are Eastern, the first game will technically air April 15 at 11 p.m. (CT) with the Hawkeyes’ 55-24 football victory over Ohio State on Nov. 4, 2017. Also being shown will be Iowa’s 14-13 football win over Michigan on Nov. 12, 2016, the 101-95 men’s basketball overtime victory against Connecticut in the Great Alaska Shootout on Nov. 11, 1995, the 42-35 overtime football victory against Penn State on Sept. 28, 2002, the 1997 NCAA Wrestling Championships where the Hawkeyes scored 170 points and crowned five individual champions, the 21-20 football victory over Penn State on Oct. 19, 1996, the 96-90 men’s basketball overtime win against Michigan State on Jan. 28, 1993, and the 2005 Capital One Bowl.
Of course, Dahlin included two Iowa men’s basketball victories over his home-state Badgers: the first on Feb. 23, 2012, when Matt Gatens scored 33 points, the second on March 7, 2017, when Jordan Bohannon sank a game-winning 3-point field goal.
Not all of Dahlin’s programming choices were accepted. He wanted to re-run the 1993 NCAA Women’s Basketball Final Four, but ESPN would only offer events it had rights to or permission to use.
| Iowa Day on ESPNU | ||
| 11 p.m. – 2 a.m. | Nov. 4, 2017 | Ohio State at Iowa football |
| 2 a.m. – 4 a.m. | Feb. 23, 2012 | Wisconsin at Iowa men’s basketball |
| 4 a.m. – 7 a.m. | Nov. 12, 2016 | Michigan at Iowa football |
| 7 a.m. – 9 a.m. | Nov. 11, 1995 | Iowa vs. Connecticut men’s basketball |
| 9 a.m. – 11 a.m. | Sept. 28, 2002 | Iowa at Penn State football |
| 11 a.m. – 1 p.m. | March 7, 2017 | Iowa at Wisconsin men’s basketball |
| 1 p.m. – 3 p.m. | March 22, 1997 | NCAA Wrestling Championships |
| 3 p.m. – 6 p.m. | Oct. 19, 1996 | Iowa at Penn State football |
| 6 p.m. – 8 p.m. | Jan. 28, 1993 | Iowa at Michigan State men’s basketball |
| 8 p.m. – 11 p.m. | Jan. 1, 2005 | Capital One Bowl |
