Agree with @Suterman come on everyone. Iowa is not going to repeat NW St.
Grand Canyon Antelopes, What type of team are they?
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Their big is good. I think Iowa will wear them out and win but no walk in the park.
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They’re a double digit seed and wear purple uniforms. What could possibly go wrong?
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I remember them being a host school for Final Four perhaps when Peter Jok won the 3 Point Shooting Contest Final Four weekend?
Actually I think it's a great team for Iowa to play, for one, Joe Toussaint gets to see video of a player he needs to emulate going forward, guard Juuan Blacksher. If Joe can somehow become half of what this GCU guard is on the court we'd all be happy...take notes Joe....
Man defense so they don’t get hot from three, and let Garza get their 7 footer in foul trouble. Game over
FYI Dan Majerle was their coach for about 5 or 6 years. Got fired a year (or 2) ago for never quite getting over the hump - always had a star player be injured every year and a small school has no good backups. Dan took them from Div II ( or naia) to Division I.
Incidentally, Jerry Coangelo pushed to get him the job at GCU, I think.
Incidentally, Jerry Coangelo pushed to get him the job at GCU, I think.
Grand Canyon on top of losing to Colorado by 10 and ASU by one have lost to the likes of. Utah Valley by 4, Seattle by 6, Cal Baptist by 3 and San Francisco by 3.
I had never heard of Utah Valley and Cal Baptist before I looked at their schedule. Same goes for some of their wins against schools I never knew existed.
I had never heard of Utah Valley and Cal Baptist before I looked at their schedule. Same goes for some of their wins against schools I never knew existed.
They beat Nevada, but lost to AZ State, who would be the worst team in the B1G. They are one of the slowest tempo teams in the country, and it looks like they turn the ball over a lot and don't force many.
They appear to be one of the best teams in the country, as far as fg%, in the lane, but are bad everywhere else. They also appear to be good at forcing bad shots, the fg% allowed is pretty low, though how much of that has to do with playing bad teams, who knows.
KenPom has Iowa winning by 14, it won't surprise me if it's a bit more than that, maybe 81-63 type of game.
They appear to be one of the best teams in the country, as far as fg%, in the lane, but are bad everywhere else. They also appear to be good at forcing bad shots, the fg% allowed is pretty low, though how much of that has to do with playing bad teams, who knows.
KenPom has Iowa winning by 14, it won't surprise me if it's a bit more than that, maybe 81-63 type of game.
With Nunge out, I worry most about early fouls on Luka in games like this. Hawks will do fine if everyone can play their usual minutes.
If one of their signature games was a close loss to a then ranked top 25 ASU team (ended well under 500), just what does that say? It says to me take the 14 1/2 and only worry about a late back door cover. The last thing a team that plays slow and doesn't score wants to do is to play a team that can. The game won't be close.
FWIW, they are in IMHO about on par with Northwestern. Are they good enough to beat our Hawkeyes? On the day when they are playing the biggest game of their program history and they play that way - yep. BUT, they will need to find "that magic moment". We win 9 times out of 10 under these circumstances.
GCU has some size in its front court and that's about it. They haven't faced a team nearly as loaded as Iowa and will be in for a rude awakening. They're going to have to play stifling defense and nab the lion's share of the rebounds to have a chance, and even if they do that they're bound to pick up plenty of fouls. I could see a 6-8 point Iowa lead at the half, but the Hawks will wear them down in the second half.
Not all stats are created equal. Their top scoring big played at Wichita St. for three seasons and didn't do squat. There's a reason his scoring went up tenfold when he transferred downwards. Luka will be an eye opener for him.
Illinois played a home and home as a gift to former Illini great, Jerry Calangelo. Jerry is the godfather of GCU basketball.
Haven't watched them play but just looking at stats and numbers.
They don't play at a fast pace but still turn the ball over 13 times a game.
Not a team that shoots a bunch of threes and only makes 33%.
They do shoot their 2 point attempts at a very high percentage, one of the best in the country. I'm guessing that having two competent bigs playing against mostly lesser competition is a big part of that. Blacksher takes almost four threes a game but as you said, it seems like his strength is more about getting to the rim.
Their rebounding percentages are really good, but again is that just the bigs taking advantage of lesser players?
They don't get a lot of blocks or steals but still put up good defensive FG% numbers and efficiencies, but can they do it against a top 10 team with one of the best offenses in the country?
Who?
I don't recall us ever playing such a team..........in fact I'm fairly certain that never happened.
Watched the WAC championship game.
New Mexico State couldn't hit the f***ing broadside of a barn despite open looks.
Iowa will only lose this game if they choose to do the same thing. Plain and simple. Suck at shooting for no reason at all, and sure GCU will probably hit a bunch of garbage 3s and we'll get into foul trouble trying to handle their size because the Big Ten will be assigned to our game (not even sure if that's allowed tbh....), and yeah we could lose.
Having Nunge would really make everything easier in life and I don't think people still truly appreciate that fact yet.
GCU is in fact really tall, outside of their guards. They look to control pace and they try to make it difficult to shoot outside shots because of their length and ability to challenge and redirect shots.
Their top scoring Center is solid, though he's nothing Garza hasn't seen before. He's just taller than him. If Garza can find a way to get him in foul trouble, they are boned. Their other big is a good role player, but would need help guarding Garza.
I think as long as they have Mitgaard in, they'll let him go 1v1 with Garza, which usually works in our favor.
Blackshear will pull up from anywhere, but can be reckless. In fact all of their guards can be. With that said, they like to run inside-out action and their guys can knock down open 3s when comfortable........
Basically think of what Iowa does when they had Garza and Nunge in at the same time.....except at a slower pace with maybe above average shooters (comparatively speaking to what we've seen).
I do think there's gonna be an adjustment period for Iowa figuring out how to handle their size when on offense. But if they can break out of this shooting slump (and they should since we'll be playing in a more shooter friendly venue), then we should be playing with the lead throughout the game.
If we get into foul trouble trying to handle their big guys when we're on defense, though, and GCU decides to do BAU and make every 3 they throw up, then it could be a very sweaty game.
So stay out of foul trouble and make your f***ing baskets......and we'll be fine.
Problem solved.
I would love to have forgotten that but I lost my freaking mind.
Luke looks like he can handle thier bigs. They are like softer Lukas.
I still can remember the horror like it was yesterday.
I can't even watch greatest NCAA tourney buzzer beater videos anymore because I know what's on there.......
They get winded pretty easy and aren't very deep.
Like I said, if we can run and are knocking down shots, and get them into foul trouble early, we'll be in business.
I have watched some of their games in parts. Very deliberate on offense like mentioned above- almost like a Wisconsin style. The might cause us some initial issues on the permiter as they have decent speed. Also, their big is very big so Garza might have some trouble early but he should out work him through the game.
I feel like we should have a field day with Weezy and CJF as their forwards/sgs do not look very good or super athletic. They do have a 4 that can get off the ground with good size so will need to get rebounds from Keegan.
I feel like we should have a field day with Weezy and CJF as their forwards/sgs do not look very good or super athletic. They do have a 4 that can get off the ground with good size so will need to get rebounds from Keegan.
Here's hoping Ulis, Perkins, Kris and JO get lots of minutes.
Garza shouldn't force things inside if he's not getting easy buckets.
If he's not scoring inside at will, he should step out and and take some shots from the perimeter and draw their bigs out. He's shooting over 40% from beyond the arc. He and JBo run a nice little pick-n-pop.
We also need to have CJ looking for his shot more also.
If he's not scoring inside at will, he should step out and and take some shots from the perimeter and draw their bigs out. He's shooting over 40% from beyond the arc. He and JBo run a nice little pick-n-pop.
We also need to have CJ looking for his shot more also.
Their Euro big guy has zero conditioning, none, Hawks should look to push tempo and have Garza streaking hard to fill the paint in transition. If we can avoid letting their guards get easy penetration into the paint and limit uncontested 3s, Hawks should take care of business.
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