Team takes break from practice to sample a local delicacy consisting of dough, tomato sauce and cheese.
Members of the Iowa basketball team had two goals when they arrived in Brooklyn earlier this week: first, to beat Temple in their first round NCAA tournament game, and second, to sample a local dish they had heard great things about.
"My Lonely Planet guide said it's called 'pizza'," said senior and Cedar Rapids native Jarrod Uthoff. "And believe it or not, it's pronounced 'pee-za', in spite of the way it's spelled. Apparently it's basically bread with tomato sauce and cheese on it, and the best 'pizza' in the world is made in Brooklyn, so we definitely wanted to give it a shot.