Iowa avoids meltdown in stifling Carver-Hawkeye Arena for NCAA Tournament first-round win
IOWA CITY, Iowa — Unseasonably warm temperatures turned sold-out Carver-Hawkeye Arena into a sauna, and Iowa nearly melted down inside of it. The No. 2 seed Hawkeyes (27-6) repeatedly blew three-score leads and led 15th-seeded Fairleigh Dickinson by just two points inside the game’s final five minutes of Saturday’s first-round NCAA Tournament game. …