True, but because it's Indiana that's saying that then they're wrong and should sit there in their wrongness and be wrong.......because f*** Indiana, that's why.
Agreed that the latter part was a head scratcher....I missed the Iowa/Illini game, but this game kind of sounded like a similar story line & outcome...well, sans the bad free throw % by Iowa.
I heard that too. I thought he was basically applauding their effort, and don't think he meant that as a slap at Iowa, but It did raise an eyebrow. I think in retrospect he didn't mean that Iowa didn't deserve to win, more that neither team deserved to lose, and we've been there before as well, so......
You are right, but then none of us our analysts for supposedly neutral college basketball shows.
Should have? Could have is more accurate. Iowa had seized momentum and was in better shape at that point to win. But definitely IN had a chance with the way the game was called.
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It's like I said in another thread, JBo misses and we have OT. We may have smoked them in OT. And if Perkins doesn't turn the ball over we may have never even needed that shot. Guess Indiana was lucky they had a shot at the end.
Seems to me there was a game back in the Lute days when Northwestern led the entire game until Vince Brookins hit a shot at the end to win it for Iowa.
I would say, "if we're ahead by 9 & under 4 min's left & we lose,rather would say, "we deserved to lose". Not whinning, "we deserved to win".
There's a difference between losing and being behind. It was a very close game the whole way.
He normally is fair and accurate. Are you sure you quoted him correctly?
And if you did, what was his reasoning? He's been around for a long time, writing for the Sporting News; he is also a BTN studio analyst.
Regardless, I think everyone should be careful using the words "should have been" or "should have won." All that matters is the final score.
However, it was a weird game stat wise.
33:50: Indiana led
03:19: Tied
02:53: Iowa led
Here are the final stats.
Iowa had 9 more made 3's. This helped offset the 18-9 second chance points advantage for IU.
IU had a 50-24 points in the paint advantage as well.
Emphatically proclaiming "Indiana can walk away from this tournament knowing they should have been in the Championship game" is a sure sign of an obstinate and biased moron. I hope that McCaffrey and Iowa make him eat shit for as long as he is analyst at the BTN. Sorry your team lost Mike, you squeaky weasel.
