Tough day for EIU hoops hopes

Iowa fans be like this for basketball now, since they all say the football season is just "exhibition".

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Isn’t the basketball season and exhibition too?
 
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Not sure how this year will all play out with games being played and the rankings teams receive based off of those, but I would be pleasantly surprised if Iowa was ranked in the top-20 come January. And no, that's not me saying Iowa isn't going to be good.. I just think they're getting a ton of hype solely due to Luka and are extremely overrated.

Iowa is going to be salty. They are a veteran team with a hot head coach. I think if they don't finish in the top 20 this season then Fran didn't do his job.
 
Iowa definitely needs to do two things:
Play better defense
Keep the rotation smaller

I don’t think even Iowa fans can trust those will happen. They should be a good team, I’d say 5 seed if March Madness happens is worst case. They have a lot of veterans.
 
Lots of expectations this year for Iowa. Something they are not used to at all. I'm curious how they will handle it.
 
I've said it before and I'll say it again, it's a Big 10 championship and a final 4 or bust for this Iowa team. We are told they are world beaters and given their preseason ranking, that is the expectation
 
Also, maybe a fun game if you will, does Iowa have one future NBA player on it's roster? I still don't think Garza will get drafted after this year, IMO.
 
Also, maybe a fun game if you will, does Iowa have one future NBA player on it's roster? I still don't think Garza will get drafted after this year, IMO.
He wasn't getting drafted this year and I don't see him doing anything to change that for next year.
 
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Also, maybe a fun game if you will, does Iowa have one future NBA player on it's roster? I still don't think Garza will get drafted after this year, IMO.
He needs to work on defensive footwork. He's obviously a great college player but would get eaten alive by Joker, Embiid, KAT, Porzingis, AD, Gobert.
Even Dwight Howard showed me a lot during the bubble. If he had to switch onto an athletic PF like Luka, Giannis, Sabonis, Millsap, Siakam, they would work Garza over.
Draymond would frustrate the **** out of him.
 

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