Hogue and his toothpick have achieved almost mythical status in my mind. Had I not seen it with my own two eyes, I could scarcely believe that such a badass thing would have truly occurred in real life. And it wasn't just a singular occurrence. He balled out almost every game with it. Imagine what kind of psychological turmoil it must have wreaked in the minds of opponents. "Did I just see what I think I did?" "That wasn't a.......was it?"
And while they contemplated the existence of the thing that couldn't possibly be there, and yet very much was there, Dustin would muscle out another rebound and dropkick some poor soul into oblivion.
Hogue is easily one of my favorite players of the modern Cyclone basketball era.
While we remember things like the toothpick or the drop-kick at WV, I was really amazed at Dustin's growth while at ISU. He was a rebounding machine as a JR, but as a SR really developed the 3 as a weapon, and then who can forget how he stepped up in the tournament when Niang was injured. He simply outworked many others on the court.