So many Idiots in the gamethread at the end. BAU. ISU is elite. Iowa could have easily won and failed at the end. Beat Utah and the rest of the non con teams and then get after it in the BIG.
Iowa will be fine if they stay healthy and play like this
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No defense, poor guard play. Rinse and repeat. Iowa basketball.
Not when Sanford shoots like shit. He keeps chucking them up though.
I get the wear and tear of our pathetic NCAA tourney success I'm sick of it too but this team doesn't need that heaped on them. Let's see how the next few weeks go. Beat Utah in Sioux Falls a must.
They play like a sting is hanging from the crotch like tonight they do not win 15 games , They cannot defend or rebound soft as the ice cream they serve there, embarrassing effort in the paint
You cannot defend or rebound You have to play zone against better athletes
We literally played out of our goddamn minds offensively and still lost at home by 9.
Discouraging.
Discouraging.
Iowa St took a huge blow early and often but how about that resiliency? Wow. I wouldn’t even say Iowa state played all that well. Life on the road is tough.
Hawks can beat some teams at home. No doubt. But the only way they could score once we hit the u8 was at the line.
Hawks can beat some teams at home. No doubt. But the only way they could score once we hit the u8 was at the line.
Payton cost us down the stretch, and that's not a good sign moving forward.
Iowa rebounds they easily win going away. Offensive rebounds and ridiculous makes from 3 only reason you won. Iowa is much better than this laughable summary. Iowa made ISU play poorly.
Iowa has missed two golden opportunities to really inflate their NET tonight & against Michigan. Those opportunities aren't easy. To lose by 2 in one & then lead 95% of the game tonight to lose. They'll be regretting it come March 17.
Yeah but Iowa doesn’t rebound. That wasn’t a fluke. That differential would happen again.
The mere suggestion that he is NBA talent is actually hilarious.
Iowa is better than you or I expected. I am looking forward to see what they do.
I think they are exactly what they've shown so far. They're good enough to stay close to better teams but not good enough to win. That likely means another middle of the pack 7-10 finish in the conference.
No. That's not a fluke. That's a feature.
Cyclone fan here who was pretty impressed by Iowa tonight. You gave us fits for most of the game and didn't let us get in a whole lot of rhythm. Yes, we pulled away at the end, but it took every ounce of energy we had to do so.
That was a solid game by both sides. Iowa will have some decent success this season in my opinion.
That was a solid game by both sides. Iowa will have some decent success this season in my opinion.
It doesn't even matter. Fran isn't taking this roster anywhere special.
Didn’t play well? You’re kidding, right? Lots of circus shots found the bottom of the net, and shot 60% from 3 in the 2nd half.
What are you talking about? Tonight wasn't any different than any other game so far this year. They are a horrible rebounding team and will be going forward.
Yes, that is what OP defines as fine. 10-10 in B1G to 11-9 if you want to live on wild side, usually lose in 1st round in BTT to lower seed, get to NCAA and win 1/3 of the time, never win 2 in a row. That is successful season of Fran ball.
Sure the effort was mostly there, but too soft to man up and rebound. Fran won't bench a 3pt shooter that mostly misses.
This is another NIT team. You don't get credit for being close to winning and always losing against good teams. The defense is putrid, and everything goes in for the opponenets.
FIFY
It's a shame you waddle over here from the Off Topic board with your bad takes.
You are good for a laugh, I guess.
Lol sure man. Beat Utah in Sioux Falls and they are just fine heading into BIG play.
Hawks honestly played as well as they could. They need more from their 1 supposed star Sandfort. Hes killing the team with his shot selection and especially his defense. I thought everyone else played very hard and pretty damn well. Unfortunately ISU had the 2 best players on the floor and they were unbelievable. And of course not having another athletic wing to help Freeman on the boards kills us. Tough loss.
What was incorrect here, jackass? God damn you are such a joke and ❄️.
You are clueless. Good lord.
Utah has a NET of 64. It'd actually be a bad loss.
What is incorrect here? You don't think this team is going to make the NCAA tourney?
SOB...
The way we came out spacing and pacing like an NBA team and hitting pretty much everything (with Dembele as the outlier X factor performer), I truly believed we were going to pull off the upset.
Feels bad, man.
The way we came out spacing and pacing like an NBA team and hitting pretty much everything (with Dembele as the outlier X factor performer), I truly believed we were going to pull off the upset.
Feels bad, man.
