Well, you and the players' mothers can get together for a reunion and watch some highlights from that season that no one else remembers.
Good Team, Great Year
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Lost to 12th seed in the first round in the only tourney that actually matters. Not a good year.
Well no
It turned out to be a Big Ten championship with a trophy and everything. Doesn't happen often
B1g mreaore important. Kids have no legs, keegan tweaked both Ankles today and after the emotion from B1g, this is a trap game.
The emotion spent in the last game leaves them weak. The win leaves players over confident. Trap.
Way better season than anyone expected, with lots of great moments. It's just one of those games where the ball just isn't going in the basket. It happens. We shoot a halfway decent, which we all know they can. We win by double digits. But to win these games, you need your best players on the floor like what Richmond did. Look at the minutes their best players had. That's what won them the game. But I still loved this team, good season guys.
Also, were picked to finish 12 at the beginning of the year.
Our best player tweaked both Ankles in the first half.
No it’s not. A season is made up of many games, and you know there will be a last one. Therefore the season must be evaluated as a whole, with the last game being only 1 of, say, 35 games. Even if it is deep in the tourney, your season is almost certainly to end in a loss. So the season can be a “success” even ending with a loss.
The vacation cannot be a success if you die getting home.
Isu didn't win a conference tourney championship. Just back of from the edge, save it for the women's game tomorrow. Cheer for some wrestling.
Support the kids, fight for Iowa!
I am pointing out the irrelevance of preseason predictions.
Great Big Ten season. Really impressive and overachieved.
Very disappointing tournament. The most disappointing in Iowa basketball history, in fact.
Love the kids and feel bad for them. They really played poorly today from start to finish. They have to be devastated.
Very disappointing tournament. The most disappointing in Iowa basketball history, in fact.
Love the kids and feel bad for them. They really played poorly today from start to finish. They have to be devastated.
If they win tomorrow is it irrelevant? Careful with your logic.
We all wanted to win. It's ok.
Those postulating that the Hawks winning the BTT = losing today is just laughable.
First of all, if Iowa had lost on Friday and probably even Saturday of the BTT, Hawks aren't even playing Richmond today. They're likely a 6 or 7-seed in the West Region, in a western US pod.
And "would rather lose early in the BTT than lose today". Yeah, that's great. Because that's exactly how that works.
I'm sure if Iowa had sat out the BTT, they would have been an absolute shoe-in for the Final 4.
smh
First of all, if Iowa had lost on Friday and probably even Saturday of the BTT, Hawks aren't even playing Richmond today. They're likely a 6 or 7-seed in the West Region, in a western US pod.
And "would rather lose early in the BTT than lose today". Yeah, that's great. Because that's exactly how that works.
I'm sure if Iowa had sat out the BTT, they would have been an absolute shoe-in for the Final 4.
smh
If who wins tomorrow?
My ISU reference was for their preseason top 10 football ranking. (I realize I didn’t specifically say football, but since they were not a preseason top 10 in basketball it went without saying)
The "picked 12" argument is a dumb one. Ask yourself why does a coach in his twelfth year have a team that is predicted to finish 12th? Also if your best player getting banged up a little but can still play impacts your team that much maybe too much is centered around that one player, No?
Not every NCAA Tourney loss is the equivalent of a plane crashing into a mountain. This one was.
I appreciate that you’re trying to be a bit positive about things, but make no mistake - this was a monumental, epic fail which will go down in Hawkeye lore as such, along with a number of similar disasters; and this season will forever be remembered for this game more than the other 35 combined.
Maybe, but how it is remembered is different than how it should be remembered.
I don't make the rules. Just the way it is. That's life as a big-time basketball program. The coaches are paid millions and the players are treated like royalty. You don't put up when it counts, you're remembered as a failure.
I think he is a plant to remind us how fortunate we are with the current coaches/programs.
It was a good year. Team finished in 4th place and made a great run at the end to win the BTT and got another NCAA bid. But I don't know how you call a year that ends with a first round exit to a team you're favored to beat by 10 a great year. If so, then every year that involves an invite and a first round exit to a lower tier team should be considered a great year. That's a fairly low standard for great years at Iowa but perhaps that's the bar that's been set.
Can't say it any better than that. Second time this millennium that the program has crashed into the equivalent of Hawkeye Point
Hawkeye Point Wikipedia
Making the NCAA tournament 3 consecutive years is a 'burning house' scenario in your opinion?
For what? A banner? Some feel-good videos? Bohannon's chance to settle some scores with social media haters? CMac's chance to call-out some of Fran's haters? Awesome.
Not saying that I didn't enjoy those games with my boys, but as fun as it was, it didn't mean jack sh*t. Yesterday's game did. Again, just the way it is. Everyone knows the rules.
2028 BTT: CBS: “The last time Iowa won this tournament was 2022.”
Yeah, it didn’t mean anything.
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