Lol at Iowa fans complaining about fouls when 50% of their offensive strategy under Fran has been recklessly rushing into the lane and flailing away in hopes that a ref will bail them out with a foul call.
I guess Iowa's collapse will start in March this year...
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Nebraska and Maryland continuing to prove they are way overrated.
Yep, both totally embarrassing performances. Big 10 outside of the Michigan schools aren’t impressive at all.
Just checking in to see if we’re still Iowa’s best win.
You could say the same thing about the Big XII as a whole. According to KenPom and NET, there isn’t much difference between Iowa State, Kansas, Texas Tech, Oklahoma and Purdue, Wisconsin, Nebraska, Maryland.
I’m not going to debate which conference is better, because they are fairly similar. But why hasn’t iowa beaten any of the top tier teams in the Big 10? Obviously they still have some chances to do that, but I don’t think anyone expects them to grab a win against a Michigan. Iowa’s resume right now isn’t great. They have lots of work to do.
Iowa played well enough to win against Wisconsin and Michigan State, and in both games couldn’t buy a shot from the perimeter. Games like that happen when you rely heavily on three point shots, unfortunately.
Disagree with your assertion that Iowa has a lot of work to do. Right now they are a solid 6/7 seed. They have 8 Q1/Q2 wins, which is way better than most teams in that seed range, let alone teams that are considered on the bubble. If Iowa gets to 21 wins (5 more), they are a lock for the Tournament- regardless of who those wins come against. 20 wins probably gets them into the Tournament too.
Jack Hoiberg played in the Michigan St game...
If beating bottom feeders of the conference with barely any key wins gets you into the tourney, then we need a new selection committee. I don’t want to toot our own horn here, but Iowa State is Iowa’s best win this year. Oregon may not even be an nit team. UConn is trash. One decent win shouldn’t get anyone in(basing it off if Iowa doesn’t pick up any key wins the rest of the way)
Michigan State blew your asses out at home.
If Iowa shot its season average from 3 against Michigan State it would have had a great chance to win the game. Instead, Iowa shot terribly from 3, which is why they lost by double digits.
Iowa has the same number of Q1 wins as Iowa State, more Q2 wins, and has played a more difficult strength of schedule. If you think Iowa “has work to do”, then so too does Iowa State. Just because you don’t think wins against Nebraska or Ohio State should count for anything, that does not mean the committee views things the same way.
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