DES MOINES, Iowa -- Iowa, left for dead just two weeks ago, has found some life by figuring out to how play defense.Peter Jok scored 21 points in his final game in his hometown and the Hawkeyes thumped rival Northern Iowa 69-46 Saturday for its third straight win.Nicholas Baer had 11 points with 11 rebounds off the bench for the Hawkeyes (6-5), who jumped all over the slightly favored Panthers early and never let up. Iowa led 34-16 at halftime after a 16-3 run, and it pushed that lead to as much as 27 early in the second half.The win was Iowas biggest over Northern Iowa (5-5) since it beat the Panthers by 32 in 2000 -- long before the Panthers improved so much that Iowa and Iowa State scrapped their home-and-home series with them for an annual doubleheader on a neutral floor.I just feel like we bought into (defense), Jok said. We just keep talking and our chemistry has been good.Jeremy Morgan scored 14 points and added nine rebounds for Northern Iowa, which shot just 27 percent. Morgan was 4 of 13 from the floor.When those shots arent falling, weve got to have a different level of toughness, Morgan said.BIG PICTUREIowa: Iowa again looked nothing like the team that lost to Nebraska-Omaha 98-89 on Dec. 3. It harassed Northern Iowas shooters out of their comfort zone, clogged up passing lanes and turned many of UNIs bricks into transition opportunities -- which isnt what the Panthers want to do. If Iowa can continue to play like it has the last three games while incorporating talented freshman Tyler Cook back into the lineup, the impending Big Ten season wont look so foreboding.Northern Iowa: Granted, Iowas defense had a lot to do with it, but the Panthers took some awful shots early, and the Hawkeyes put them in a hole they couldnt dig out of. Northern Iowa missed the shots it should have missed and many of the ones it shouldnt have. The Panthers will almost certainly have to win the Missouri Valley tournament to return to the NCAA Tournament.THE NUMBERSIowa freshman Cordell Pemsl continued his torrid shooting stretch, hitting all four of his shots. He had 10 points and five rebounds in 18 minutes. ... Iowa owned the boards as well, with a 43-29 advantage. ... Spencer Haldeman had 12 points and Wyatt Lohaus scored 10 for Northern Iowa. ... The Hawkeyes got 34 points from their bench. ... This was Northern Iowas second game scoring fewer than 50 points. Xavier beat the Panthers 64-42 last month.INJURY UPDATECook (broken finger) might play in Tuesdays game against North Dakota. He is averaging 13.7 points and 5.3 rebounds. McCaffery will need to find ways to use Cook without disrupting his teams momentum moving forward.HE SAID ITBaer is just such a special player. Every time hes on the bench Im thinking of how I can get him back in. 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All Blacks head coach Steve Hansen has told Israel Dagg, Ben Smith and Aaron Cruden if they feel their time wearing the New Zealand jersey is up, they should leave when their contracts expire.Dagg, Smith and Cruden will come to the end of their contracts next year, and would have suitors across the Northern Hemisphere if they decided to leave New Zealand. But Hansen feels all three could have a part to play by the time the next World Cup comes around in Japan, in 2019.?We dont want anyone who is a vital ingredient to the team to leave and he [Dagg] is a pretty vital ingredient we think, Hansen told the New Zealand Herald in the build up to Saturdays clash with France on Thursday.He missed the last World Cup. Is it certain hes going to go through to the next one? Well, if he keeps playing like he is now, hes been told that he will because you would be foolish to leave him out given the form he is in.I have said to him [Dagg] is that if you think your time in the jersey is done then you probably should go. But I dont think his story is finished yet personally. So that is what he has got to work out and it is the same for Crudes [Aaron Cruden] and with Bender [Ben Smith]. All three of them have to work out do I think my story has finished?From my point of view all three of them have still got a lot deliver and give to this team and at this point I would see all three of them going to tthe World Cup.ddddddddddddThe biggest question for Dagg [28], Smith [30] and Cruden [27] is whether they will wait until after the World Cup to take the path to Europe. Dan Carter signed for Top 14 giants Racing 92 after the 2015 Rugby World Cup, earning a reported €1.5m.?Hansen believes not only will the chance to move to the northern hemisphere still be there after the 2019 World Cup, but the contracts on offer would be more lucrative.Thats the big decision Dagg, Smith and Cruden have to make. If they do leave, Hansen and his coaching staff will need to work hard to plug the holes their departures would leave.Thats an obvious part of the argument and we have talked to them about that. Whatever anyone gets offered today it will be twice as much tomorrow because that is the way it is.If you think back to five years ago overseas contracts have probably quadrupled. 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