Not a big surprise. They're still two players short of a "full" roster, and one is hurt. Need 6 to field a full line-up, and right now they've only got 5 available. Giving up 1 point (or 2) right out of the gate.
Iowa Corn Cy-Hawk Series
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Not a big surprise. They're still two players short of a "full" roster, and one is hurt. Need 6 to field a full line-up, and right now they've only got 5 available. Giving up 1 point (or 2) right out of the gate.
Does basketball matter this year? It only seems to matter in years Iowa wins for some reason.
Nope, that one matters a lot. The Cy-Hawk corn series does not. Football, mens bball, wrestling and women’s bball in that order are all that really matters. I would give them this weight.
Football 50%
Mens Bball 25%
Wrestling 15%
Womens Bball 10%
Interesting on the women’s basketball. Up to about 3-5 years ago, we would get ripped for even mentioning WBB from Iowa fans. Wrestling is a regional sport and if you asked anybody but Iowa and Penn state fans, wrestling would be under WBB and be right with volleyball or so.
I would take at least 5% from wrestling and put it to MBB. To say that MBB is not even 2x as big as wrestling isn’t true. 3x, I would agree with.
I feel in the state of Iowa it is bigger. ISU has had a really good wrestling program and is probably a blue blood in the sport.
I’m a wrestling fan and I will admit I’m in the minority and the number of MBB fans far outweigh wrestling fans. I used to help call wrestling duals for the local HS and our numbers were a couple hundred, whereas basketball would break a thousand online viewers every time. Attendance at meets/games are pretty similar and my kids HS is considered to be an old big name in wrestling.