Last nights announcers

[truehawkfan45]

God awful. Couldn’t have been worse. Gave credit to Virginia constantly, but when the Hawks were up, it was simply just “Virginia not playing their game”.

Barely said anything about Keegan Murray, and when they did, it was poking fun at his ankle injury saying “he’s going to have some words for his brother on that one”.

Embarrassing to even call these guys professionals. The win felt even better last night because you could clearly tell they didn’t want the Hawks to win.

 

[CO_hawk]

Lol, who cares. Obviously the local east coast crew.

 

[Hawkeyesgonewild]

We got the win that's all that matters

 

[iahawks10]

Corey Alexander actually played for Virginia, so I’m sure he had a rooting interest somewhat.

It did seem fairly one sided to me. They were complimentary at times, but most of it came back to nobody has been able to do this to Virginia, etc.

I really didn’t pay much attention to it live, nor do I rarely pay attention to the commentators. Watching the replay I paid closer attention to them.

 

[DodgerHawki]

Lol, who cares. Obviously the local east coast crew.

The analyst, Corey Alexander, played for Virginia. Not under Bennett, but in the 1990s. He still lives in the area I think. It would be similar to having Jess Settles be the analyst for Iowa-Virginia at CHA. He's a decent announcer, does ACC games for ESPN. Just doesn't know much about college teams other than the ACC.

Never heard of the PBP guy. They didn't know much about Iowa other than there are two sets of brothers on the team. Iowa was not going to get the A Team broadcast in this Challenge. When you are picked for 9th in the league and playing on Monday night at 6 in the Challenge, this is the crew you get.

 

[Hawk_4shur]

They were fine.

 

[Hawkfan_08]

I honestly felt like they just didn't know anything about our guys. If they did, they would have known how big of a deal Joe's game was to the team last night.

 

[BiPolarHawkeyeFan]

i didn’t even notice them. The one thing I did notice is when one them mentioned “Iowa is not finishing 9th in the big 10.” I personally hate when announcers start hyping Iowa up. It’s a jinx.

 

[LarryMullenJr.]

I thought they were biased, but whatever. Talking through the masks was the most annoying part of all of it.

 

[ssckelley]

I agree Alexander was irritating, everything was about Virginia. You would think ESPN could find an unbiased color commentator. The PBP guy was decent.

 

[relishingwinning18]

I thought they were biased, but whatever. Talking through the masks was the most annoying part of all of it.

Lol I 100000000% agree. Wth was that.

 

[markfromj]

I thought they were biased…

I did not.

 

[BBHawk]

Lol I 100000000% agree. Wth was that.

Not sure what is up with you two but I didn't even notice it. Sounds like it is more in your heads.

 

[BioHawk]

One guy was a Virginia grad so I was willing to cut him some slack. It's no different than when Jess Settles calls an Iowa game.

 

[BioHawk]

i didn’t even notice them. The one thing I did notice is when one them mentioned “Iowa is not finishing 9th in the big 10.” I personally hate when announcers start hyping Iowa up. It’s a jinx.

That's still possible, anyway. It really depends on how many games they have where they can't get shots to fall. They will never win a game with their defense so if they have 4 or 5 games where they hold a bricklayers convention instead of playing basketball, 9th may be where they end up.

 

[ssckelley]

One guy was a Virginia grad so I was willing to cut him some slack. It's no different than when Jess Settles calls an Iowa game.

I would too if I was watching the game on the ACC Network but not on ESPN.

 

[LincolnHawkeye]

I was more annoyed with the post game by Seth Greenberg etc. Basically only talked about Virginia and how impressive the comeback was. Nothing about Iowa going on the road and building a 20 point lead after losing 2 NBA players the year before.

 

[LincolnHawkeye]

i didn’t even notice them. The one thing I did notice is when one them mentioned “Iowa is not finishing 9th in the big 10.” I personally hate when announcers start hyping Iowa up. It’s a jinx.

Honestly at this point, Purdue is the only team in the conference who is truly impressive. They will win by it by a couple of games, Michigan and Illinois have looked average at best so far, and Michigan st and Ohio St don’t look much better. FWIW, KenPom now has Iowa projected to finish T-3.

 

[Titanhawk2]

God awful. Couldn’t have been worse. Gave credit to Virginia constantly, but when the Hawks were up, it was simply just “Virginia not playing their game”.

Barely said anything about Keegan Murray, and when they did, it was poking fun at his ankle injury saying “he’s going to have some words for his brother on that one”.

Embarrassing to even call these guys professionals. The win felt even better last night because you could clearly tell they didn’t want the Hawks to win.

Not much to say about Iowa in the second half until the last few minutes

 

[AwkHawk]

Honestly at this point, Purdue is the only team in the conference who is truly impressive. They will win by it by a couple of games, Michigan and Illinois have looked average at best so far, and Michigan st and Ohio St don’t look much better. FWIW, KenPom now has Iowa projected to finish T-3.

Agreed. Unless some teams make drastic improvements Purdue will dominate.

Illinois will struggle against teams that can put a body on Kofi and keep him from getting under the basket (unfortunately that isn’t us).

A little off topic but did they get rid of the rule about spiking the ball out of frustration being a technical? I saw Kofi do it 2 or 3 times where he slammed it and it went higher than the hoop.

 

[CO_hawk]

Not much to say about Iowa in the second half until the last few minutes

Ya, we scord 20 something points? Ouch.

 

[Rifler]

Ya, we scord 20 something points? Ouch.

31

 

[BBHawk]

Ya, we scord 20 something points? Ouch.

44 in the first half, 32 in the second, both more than what VA averages. But who cares? Iowa outscored VA.

 

[Rifler]

30 + 44 = 74 point Virginia loss
44 + 31 = 75 point Iowa win

 

[RocknRollface]

They kept pushing a false talking point about Iowa not having experience on the road.

Iowa starts a 6th year senior, another senior, a 4th year junior, another junior and a 3rd year sophomore.

The only guy in the top 10 who has no road experience is Sandfort.

 

[Rifler]

They kept pushing a false talking point about Iowa not having experience on the road.

I think this was primarily pointed at the fact that this was our first road game of the season....

 

[EagleHawk]

They kept pushing a false talking point about Iowa not having experience on the road.

Iowa starts a 6th year senior, another senior, a 4th year junior, another junior and a 3rd year sophomore.

The only guy in the top 10 who has no road experience is Sandfort.

How much actual experience on the road with a crowd, though? Experience on the road last year would be no different than if they headed over to IC West for a scrimmage. Court/background is different, but nothing like adding 12-15k fans screaming at you. Connor and Jordan have that experience and Filip, but how many others on the team have gone on the road against an actual crowd?

 

[funnyfletcher]

When Iowa won they were completely silent for what felt like 30 seconds. I thought that was kind of weird.

 

[SSG T]

They were fine.

This. I didn't get to see the last 10 minutes, but the announcing crew, especially Alexander, were very complimentary of Iowa. Now, maybe they weren't expecting much and they were surprised, but I didn't feel it was pro UVA by any stretch, even when UVA started coming back.

Now, maybe when I was taking my granddaughter home, the last 10 minutes, they got more pro-UVA, but not while I was watching.

 

[Hawk_4shur]

This. I didn't get to see the last 10 minutes, but the announcing crew, especially Alexander, were very complimentary of Iowa. Now, maybe they weren't expecting much and they were surprised, but I didn't feel it was pro UVA by any stretch, even when UVA started coming back.

Now, maybe when I was taking my granddaughter home, the last 10 minutes, they got more pro-UVA, but not while I was watching.

Occasionally even unbiased announcers pick the more "interesting" story and talk more about one team than the other. I think last night it was Virginia, but it's not like they were rooting for them or anything.

But, like I said - they were fine.

 

[mepohawk]

They lost some credibility when they keep talking about Iowa being in a zone defense when they were clearly playing man to man. I thought well they will recognize this on the next possession, but did not and continued their discussion of Iowa's zone for several more trips down the floor.

 

[jonesyhawk982]

They did a great job mentioning how the Hawkeyes gave up 21 points there towards the end. They couldn't drop it.

 

[iahawks10]

Did they ever mention that JBo is a 6th year senior?

 

[jonesy5960]

When Iowa won they were completely silent for what felt like 30 seconds. I thought that was kind of weird.

In an awesome kind of way.

 

[funnyfletcher]

In an awesome kind of way.

Oh absolutely

 

[1911_Bandit]

Did they ever mention that JBo is a 6th year senior?

They talked about it early on. When mentioning the B1G records that he holds, they just had to say that there should be asterisks.

 

[Hawksfor3]

I thought they were ok. I was really "into" the game late in the 2nd half and that's where my focus was.

 

[IAHawkGrad2000]

I just watched the game and while I really dont care, it seems a bit crazy for ESPN to have a Virginia alum call the game, of course he's gonna be biased. His silence when they lost says it all, you know he'd be pretty vocal if they'd have won.

 

[markfromj]

When Iowa won they were completely silent for what felt like 30 seconds. I thought that was kind of weird.

Well, the play by play guy said, “Blocked! Iowa prevails!”, followed by 18 seconds of silence.

Nothing odd there for a close ending.

 

[WBBearsFollower]

I agree Alexander was irritating, everything was about Virginia. You would think ESPN could find an unbiased color commentator. The PBP guy was decent.

Settles is FAR more obvious and biased when he does Iowa games.