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I know you know of my wager regarding this.....care to place a little bet, kind sir?
Only fools bet money on the Hawks.
 
Not sure they can win their first game in the B1G. March is different. Must rebound, must defend, and must be able to create off the dribble. Iowa does none of these well. Can they do two of three? Sure. And defense and rebounding will keep you in most games.

It's simply amazing that Fran can't re-engineer his philosophy to prioritize defense and rebounding more. We all watch them closely. And we all are well aware that these two fundamental aspects of winning basketball Iowa is inconsistent at best, and usually just not very good.

And these coaches get paid amazingly well.
I’m not disagreeing with any of your points. One thing that I don’t think Hawk fans are taking into consideration (even as Iowa plays crappy basketball) is that we are playing in the best conference in college basketball. This was proved during the nonconference slate, and just because teams have been beating up on each other all year, doesn’t make it untrue.

Suppose Iowa gets into the NCAA as a 7 or 8. Whichever team they play is likely not going to pose much more difficult of a matchup than a team like Indiana or Rutgers... yes I really believe this. Iowa will have an opportunity to win their first game and, in fact, I expect them to do so.
 
If Iowa manages to miss the dance, I’ll hop on the Fire Fran train. That would be an embarrassingly bad collapse. Still won’t count this team out though. They can get hot

Agreed. I’m in the “meh” category on Fran for the most part and expressed reasons I wouldn’t mind if he stays but if they blow it so bad that they go from a 5th seed to not making the tournament, in the fashion they would have, that’s inexcusable.

That being said I am 99% sure they are getting in.
 
Agreed. I’m in the “meh” category on Fran for the most part and expressed reasons I wouldn’t mind if he stays but if they blow it so bad that they go from a 5th seed to not making the tournament, in the fashion they would have, that’s inexcusable.

That being said I am 99% sure they are getting in.
In the exact same boat
 
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