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Wisco, Ryan Get Black Eye, Former Linn-Mar Foe Uthoff Gets Permission to Transfer

Could the 6-foot-8 former Cedar Rapids Jefferson star Jarrod Uthoff be coming to play basketball for the Iowa Hawkeyes in Iowa City or Iowa State Cyclones in Ames after his controversial exit from Wisconsin?

 

Many a game fans were probably cursing under their breath as former Cedar Rapids Jefferson star Jarrod Uthoff scored bucket after bucket.

Remember the night he dropped in 44 points?

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I'm guessing most fans will forgive and forget if he returns to the Hawkeye State to continue his college ball career. He left Iowa to accept a scholarship to Wisconsin. He played one year and now is on the verge of transferring, after some dramatics.

Wisconsin coach Bo Ryan gave a lengthy list of schools he couldn't transfer to including all schools in the Big Ten and Iowa State, among many more. But, it appears Uthoff gets the last laugh after Ryan and Wisconsin got beat up on sports radio and the Twitterverse. Wisconsin relented lifting most of the bans, but some restrictions still remain, including for Big Ten schools.

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Take a look at our Storify compiled from across the social media universe, and scroll down to the bottom for an old video of Uthoff.


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