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IOWA CITY, Iowa -- Seton Hall no longer has star Isaiah Whitehead to lean on.The Pirates have depth and balance though -- and that was enough for them to pass their first road test of 2016-17.Myles Powell scored 26 points off the bench, Desi Rodriguez had 25 and Seton Hall beat Iowa 91-83 on Thursday night.Khadeen Carrington added 20 points for the Pirates (3-0), who shot 51 percent from the floor with eight 3s and outscored the Hawkeyes 50-24 in the paint.Our team will be much more balanced this year, said Seton Hall coach Kevin Willard after Whitehead left for the NBA.Powell buried a 3 and followed by a layup to put Seton Hall up 82-74 with 3:15 to go -- and then drilled another long 3 to make it a 10-point game a minute later. Rodriguez followed with a 3 that sent the fans to the exits.Iowa made a few late 3s to make it close before falling for the first time in 2016-17.Senior Peter Jok had 30 points and 11 rebounds for his first career double-double, and freshman Tyler Cook scored a career-high 24 points for the Hawkeyes (2-1).I would have liked to have seen us play better defense over the duration, especially in the second half. We tried defenses, we changed defenses; press, we went to zone. We just didnt perform to the level thats necessary, Iowa coach Fran McCaffery said.BIG PICTURESeton Hall: The Pirates should be a factor in the Big East. They started five upperclassmen who were unfazed by their first road game -- although a 9 p.m. ET tip-off time on a week night kept the crowd down a bit. Seton Hall forced Iowa to commit 17 turnovers.Iowa: Win or lose, a matchup against a tough, veteran team halfway through November was exactly what the Hawkeyes needed. McCaffery is still trying to find a rotation that can win in the Big Ten, using 11 players in the first half alone. But it looks like Jok has found a more than capable sidekick in Cook, who can seemingly do everything but knock down free throws.NOT-SO FREE THROWSCook was a mess at the free-throw line, going just 5 of 12. But neither team could covert its freebies, as Seton Hall was 17 of 31 and Iowa was 19 of 32.SMOKE SHOWIowa brought out two sets of pyrotechnics during its player introductions. The smoke lingered in the air for roughly half of the first half. But Iowas other new wrinkles, including a new court, lighting and a massive new scoreboard over center court, has vastly improved the game-day experience at Carver-Hawkeye Arena -- which had begun to show its age until recent renovations.HE SAID ITTheres not a time where he shoots the ball where I think its not going in. He plays with a lot of confidence. 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Dual premiership-winning coach Chris Anderson fears rugby league may be dead in 10 years if the NRL doesnt get its house in order.Anderson is pleading with selfish club bosses to end their war with ARL Commission chairman John Grant for the greater good of the game - or face catastrophic consequences.But while he is seriously concerned about the threat from AFL and soccer, those two rival football codes arent Andersons biggest worry.Our biggest danger is rugby union, the former Canterbury, Melbourne, Cronulla, Sydney Roosters and Kangaroos coach told AAP.Not as in it taking it over, but a Murdoch or a Packer coming in and saying rugby union in Australia needs grassroots competition. They (the ARU) havent got enough money to make it happen.Weve got the best grassroots competition in Australia so if Murdoch came in and said to every player were going to double your wages and youre going to play rugby union next year.Its a big world sport. Its taken over Europe. Rugby leagues died in Europe. All good players now go to union; in England, in France.So its a big game. Its growing in America. Thats our danger. If we dont get our house in order, our danger is well be playing rugby union in 10 years.Anderson can understand NRL club boosses for being upset at having their promised funding from 2018 cut.ddddddddddddBut hes still siding with Grant and the commission, who instead want to invest in grassroots rugby league to address declining player numbers.Theres more than just NRL. The clubs dont see that. They just see themselves, Anderson said.Clubs are a little bit selfish. I think the structures not right. The structure needs to be that the clubs cant run head office. Head office has to run the clubs.You cant throw a ton of money at the clubs and not put it into development.And we need to change the way that weve treated country rugby league. The demographics have changed there.If we dont change those things, rugby league will die. AFL are genius in grassroots (development). They throw a lot of money at grassroots.If we dont do that, theyll hurt us.As well as rugby union, Anderson worries about the continuing surge of AFL and football on the back of the Socceroos three straight World Cup appearances.All our kids played soccer til they were eight or nine and then came to rugby league. Now theyve got a reason to stay in soccer. ' ' '