Tough day for EIU hoops hopes

[Cyched]

He's only won 4 in over a decade? I thought they had a string of winning one game for a while.

Do they count their historic NIT run?

Looks like 4 round of 32 appearances. The rest round of 64 or play in game losses.

Hok fan did claim the NIT was for a natty so maybe they’ll count that

Fran McCaffery - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Meanwhile the Hoiberg/Prohm/Otz trifecta achieved 9 NCAA wins in that same timeframe.

 

[BCClone]

Not a huge deal when your TV payout amounts to $70+ million.

When your AD is already a quarter billion in debt, it does matter.

 

[CyberJJJ]

Fran’s going to wind up as Iowa’s all time winningest coach and get canned all in the same season
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You see 6 more wins for them? Guess it is only 4 more now. What i is anger over/under for the rest of the year?

 

[ClonesTwenty1]

You see 6 more wins for them?

I think they’ll win the three non conference games they have left. I also think they can grab three or more conference games as well. This is a bad Iowa team, but I imagine they still end up with 15 wins.

 

[Bader]

You see 6 more wins for them?

At least. They’ve got 3 non cons left. Then they play Minnesota and PSU twice, Nebraska, Indiana, Rutgers, Maryland. All varying temperatures of garbage. Izzo may murder this MSU team before the seasons over too

 

[Mr Janny]

I think they’ll win the three non conference games they have left. I also think they can grab three or more conference games as well. This is a bad Iowa team, but I imagine they still end up with 15 wins.

Also the Big 10 has some pretty bad teams. Maryland, Penn State, and Minnesota aren't very good. Iowa plays them all twice.

 

[Frak]

The Big 10 isn't very good this year. There will be nights where they are hitting and can beat just about anyone in the conference. But also a lot of games where the 3's aren't falling and they get smoked.

 

[Drew0311]

Somehow probably the winningest coach but hasn't done crap when it counts.

It’s kind of embarrassing that your winningest coach has never made the sweet 16 and you are a big ten school

 

[WartburgClone]

I hope First-Round Fran never leaves Iowa City.

 

[Mick Mars]

What was with the old guy on their bench walking around? Will that be their coach?

Phil Martelli- longtime head coach at St. Joes in Philly- coached their really good team with Jameer Nelson and Dalonte West. Juwan brought him on as an assistant to have a guy with college head coaching experience on the bench. His son Jimmy is on the new staff at Penn State.

 

[MuskieCy]

"The game was gone by then, as McCaffery and Iowa’s season-high crowd of 10,000 (announced) knew." from Hlas/CR Gazette.

This is a dead man walking.

 

[RezClone]

Also the Big 10 has some pretty bad teams. Maryland, Penn State, and Minnesota aren't very good. Iowa plays them all twice.

Fortunately, in the eyes of the committee, winning all of those games won't help you whatsoever.

For all the NCAA's faults, at least the existence of the selection committee all but prevents the disgusting big 10 west fball scenario where the media and fanbase breaks their arms patting themselves on the back for pillow fighting their way to glory.

 

[Acylum]

I’ve always thought the smart move for Devries would be to just wait out the Creighton job at Drake. But Mac is only 59 I see now. Still, that job is way more attractive than Iowa.

 

[nfrine]

Package deal to get Freeman maybe? Or more likely since Fran had invested in the hour drive over to Moline, he was like, "If I could kill two birds with one stone here, that'd be great."

Fran spent more on recruiting than Kirk did on football. Kinda makes you wonder what he did with all the money.

 

[qwerty]

They scored 25% of their 80 points, in the last 3 minutes and 23 seconds of the game. That's how you make a beat down look respectable, to the casual observer.
It's the McCaffery Way!

At that pace, they would score 400 for the game (20 pts every 5% of time).

 

[CyCity]

If iowa mbb had any fans, I bet they'd be pretty pissed. Whar hok posters at?

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10k announced attendance for a Sunday afternoon conference game is so bad.

 

[Die4Cy]

10k announced attendance for a Sunday afternoon conference game is so bad.

What was it actually? 6K? It looked less than half full in the clip from the second half that I saw.

 

[CyCity]

What was it actually? 6K? It looked less than half full in the clip from the second half that I saw.

They will not release scanned ticket attendance unless a journalist does a FOIA request.

 

[mj4cy]

Also the Big 10 has some pretty bad teams. Maryland, Penn State, and Minnesota aren't very good. Iowa plays them all twice.

Hoping Iowa can rattle off a few wins and keep Fran around.....about the only way I'll ever not actively root for them to lose.

 

[RezClone]

They will not release scanned ticket attendance unless a journalist does a FOIA request.

@brentblum