Editor's note: This story by former Register sports reporter Andrew Logue originally ran in March 2016.
From across the court, Johnny Moran saw it all.
He watched Ali Farokhmanesh catch a pass from Northern Iowa teammate Kwadzo Ahelegbe. He saw Farokhmanesh then gather himself as Kansas’ Tyrel Reed shuffled back into the lane.
Moran, a sophomore guard for the Panthers, knew what was coming next.
“I was like, ‘Oh, yeah,'" Moran recalled. '"He’s shooting this.’’’
Hit or miss, this would be a defining scene in Northern Iowa athletics.
Farokhmanesh, Ahelegbe and Moran experienced the emptiness of an early NCAA Tournament exit the year before, in 2009.