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19 J ordan Bohannon's streak of consecutive made free throws grew to 30 in a victory against Minnesota on Jan. 30. e sophomore guard on the University of Iowa men's basketball team needed four more to tie the late Chris Street's school record. And Mike Street, Chris's dad, had this thought: Would Jordan intentionally miss a free throw to keep his son's record alive? Chris Street made two free throws in the first half of a 65-56 loss at Duke on Jan, 16, 1993, to erase Ben McGilmer's school record of 33 straight. And Chris, who told Iowa assistant coach Gary Close that he was not going to miss a free throw in Big Ten play all season, never did Tragically, he was killed in an automobile accident three days aer he set the record at Duke. His free throw streak will be open-ended for eternity Which takes us to Feb. 25 at Carver-Hawkeye Arena, where Chris Street had played his way into the hearts of Iowa basketball fans. Bohannon, with his streak up to 32 consecutive makes, was fouled with 1:12 remaining in the first half of the regular- season finale against Northwestern. He made them both, to join Street in the record books Mike and his wife, Patty, noticed that their grandson, Kaden Christopher Stursma, had tears in his eyes aer Bohannon made them When Jordan was fouled with 2:15 remaining in the game and Iowa holding on to a 73-65 lead, Betsy Stursma scrambled to take a picture of Bohannon replacing her brother as the record holder And then something unexpected happened. Bohannon missed the free throw Did he miss it on purpose? At a point in the game where victory still hung in the balance? Bohannon answered that question when he was fouled with 50 seconds to play. He walked to the line, touched his chest over his heart and pointed skyward at was for you, Chris "I thought it was awesome," Iowa head coach Fran McCaffery said Bohannon had told his brother, Zach, and other members of his family what he planned to do weeks before it happened. Aer getting to 30 straight, he didn't attempt a free throw for four consecutive games. Aer making his only two attempts against Indiana on Feb. 17, he didn't get to the line at Minnesota on Feb. 21 "It was stressing me out," Bohannon said. "I'm glad it ended the way it was supposed to." ere was also family pride on the line. Jordan's brother, Jason, holds Wisconsin's school record for consecutive made free throws with 39 (in 2008). But even sibling rivalry didn't stand in the way "I know where the record deserves to stand, and that's in Chris's name," Bohannon said Aer the 77-70 victory, Jordan was greeted by Mike and Patty Street as he walked off Mediacom Court. But the Streets had no idea Bohannon had missed on purpose "Oh, gosh, that tells you the kind of person he is," Patty said. "I mean, he has to have so much humbleness and kindness in there, just to think about Christopher. Such a kind heart." Mike said Chris would have disapproved of the intentional miss "He would have said, 'You should have gone for that. I'm not special enough for that,'" Mike said Bohannon admitted the timing wasn't the greatest, because those free throws represented some needed points at the time "I trusted God's plan," Bohannon said. "Chris was looking down on us and he wasn't going to let that happen. I missed, and we got the ball right back (on a Nicholas Baer steal). It worked out like it should have."