If You Build It, They Will Come

 Today we have a new collection of cards for the 2021 ICY set.  These 16 cards honor the achievements of the wrestling teams from three major Iowa NCAA teams: Iowa, Iowa State, and UNI.  Iowa won NCAA Championship, Spencer Lee was the Wrestler of the Year and Tom Brands is the Coach of the Year. Iowa Hawkeyes Iowa State Cyclones Northern Iowa Panthers

 I've already posted the ICY cards for Men's basketball and Women's basketball.  However, I have missed a bunch of cards that should have been included.  More awards (Clark), a new hire (Baranczyk) but mostly I just missed those Iowa players who left to play outside of Iowa.  Here's the rest (I hope) of the 2021 NCAA basketball cards.

Today we have a new collection of cards for the 2021 ICY set.  These 17 cards honor the achievements of the men and teams from the four major Iowa NCAA teams: Iowa, Iowa State, UNI and Drake.  Two teams had NCAA tournament invites, and each team also had individual awards led by Iowa's Luka Garza. Iowa Hawkeyes Iowa State Cyclones Northern Iowa Panthers Drake Bulldogs

 The 2021 ICY Set will continue with these three cards.  There were 3 former Hawkeyes who collected rings with the Super Bowl Champion Tampa Bay Buccaneers this year.  So here are the cards for Tristin Wirfs, Anthony Nelson and Tom Moore.

So, I thought it would be fun to put together a set that was solely produced for this blog, the If You Build It, They Will Collect It Set if you were.  It'd be produced by Upper Deck and distrubuted across the nation to those who were awesome collectors.  But alas, this is just but a pipe dream.  But I can still make mock up a card and make up a set for posts. (Content baby!) First, IYBITWCIS does not make a good set name, so from here on out I shall declare them the Iowa Connection Yearly set, or ICY.  With Hot and Cold parallels, of course.   Cards must be for events this year.  Tristan Wirfs was drafted in 2020, so he'd have to be in the 2020 set, BUT Wirfs winning the Super Bowl would be ok because that happened in 2021. The first card of the set NOTE : This checklist will update as the year progresses.  As I create cards, I'll post links to them in here, so every card listed below that isn't linked will have a card eventually... Football Tris...