Tough day for EIU hoops hopes

[heitclone]

These two took turns giving up 50, Hawks keep nit hopes alive

 

[Cyclonepride]

42-20 overall (after Garcia left) I believe

 

[clone37]

The only Minny game I watched part of was earlier in the year at home against Mizzou. Minny blew like a 20 point lead towards the end of the game and the announcers were just raving about how good Mizzou was. It was easy to see just how poorly coached and mentally soft Minny was. Look at Mizzou's record now...easily the worst power 5 team.

 

[qwerty]

Really Minnesota, outscored 37-12 in last 11:30

 

[ClonesTwenty1]

What does Iowa have to do to sneak in to the tournament? Win 5 of 7 and get a win in the Big Ten Tournament?

 

[JP4CY]

"This is a really good team, they have an excellent coach."

Um, what?

 

[Acylum]

Is Garcia their best player? He sat out nearly the whole second half.

Agree. Think that was the difference. Typical hok luck.

 

[FerShizzle]

What does Iowa have to do to sneak in to the tournament? Win 5 of 7 and get a win in the Big Ten Tournament?

IMO the big 10 is getting 4-5 teams in.

Get into 4th place. Maybe 5th place gets in, but a 6th place team might get selected instead of them if they have a better resume.

 

[JP4CY]

I'd give Fran an extension

 

[cyclone82]

"This is a really good team, they have an excellent coach."

Um, what?

Said no one EVER about Franny……

 

[ISUTex]

What does Iowa have to do to sneak in to the tournament? Win 5 of 7 and get a win in the Big Ten Tournament?

Win the Big 10 tournament

 

[TClone99]

That was beautiful! We do not want the “move on from Fran” talk to pick up serious momentum. That come back right there will keep enough belief in him alive for now.

 

[mikeiastat]

Why is the Big 10 constantly playing games all the time? Practically every night there is a Big 10 MBB game. What a weird schedule.

They also do that weird s*** where they play a smattering of conference games really early in the year. For example Illinois played @ Rutgers on December 2.

I actually think the Ncaa should force all the conferences to play more non-con later in the season. Every little bit helps.

 

[heitclone]

Man that ended up being a big loss for Minny, they would have been in 5th with a win and at least in the bubble convo.

 

[Acylum]

I'd give Fran an extension

I bet Marge gives him one tonight.

 

[kentkel]

Shon Morris hit the nail on the head when he called out the Minny players for "looking at the clock" during game play. I think his meaning was something like, "Will this current lead be enough to get us to the finish line?" Obviously, if you are mentally soft, that can be worse than being Charmin soft like Iowa's defense.

 

[clonedude]

Beautiful win Iowa! Praise Fran and the tremendous coaching job he did!

Hope you are listening Beth Goetz!!

 

[mikeiastat]

He’s not a bandwagon guy.

You gotta give him that. Lol. He's one of the hawkeye dirty 30. Toughest Hawkeyes ever. There are exactly 30 of them left that are tough enough to stomach that ****.

 

[jmb]

What was attendance?

 

[qwerty]

IMO the big 10 is getting 4-5 teams in.

Get into 4th place. Maybe 5th place gets in, but a 6th place team might get selected instead of them if they have a better resume.

They're only projected to win 2 more games (3 at best case) so 17-14 regular season will require 3 or more B1G tourney wins to sneak into solid bubble. They need 21 wins to get over 50% odds of making the dance. Even 20-15 is only a 45% probability. I guess if their 3 wins were @ Illinois, @ Mich St and @ NW, they might get a boost and sneak in with 20 wins.