Six of one, half a dozen of another. Regardless of if you favor the morons of Hawkeye Nation or the morons of Hawkeye Report, a poll of Hawk fans on a Hawk website is still a fair representation if you're asking a question about the opinions of Hawk fans.
...unless you've got some evidence to the contrary, that goes beyond the anecdotal "I didn't expect to make the tourney, and no one I know did either."
It got so bad that Leistikow had to break it to his twitter and facebook followers that Iowa isn't making the tournament in his piece on 2/16/17. Talk about delusion.