Iowa will either be in 5th place alone or tied with Wisconsin based on how Iowa plays at home against Illinois! Much better than ab nticipated at the start of Feb!
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Define "cupcake". Once you get past Purdue, there is very little that separates most of these teams and Iowa's record vs the bottom of the league is proof of that.Iowa still needs to stack up wins in the BTT, so I'm hoping for the 5 seed. Beat a cupcake, then knock off #4. A loss to #1 Purdue would be a "good loss".
I wouldn't automatically consider a loss to Purdue as a sure thing. Keep in mind, OSU took them down a couple of weeks ago which - along with a new coach - seemed to energize that program bigtime.Iowa still needs to stack up wins in the BTT, so I'm hoping for the 5 seed. Beat a cupcake, then knock off #4. A loss to #1 Purdue would be a "good loss".
I wouldn't automatically consider a loss to Purdue as a sure thing. Keep in mind, OSU took them down a couple of weeks ago which - along with a new coach - seemed to energize that program bigtime.
But the team to watch out for in the B1G Tournament is Nebraska ----- nobody is talking about them much and they have some decent talent and coaching, And yes, I know I'll get blistered on this site for saying this but just call them as I see them.
Yeah, they have all the necessary components to make a run in the BTT. They just have to find the magic away from Pinnacle BankI wouldn't automatically consider a loss to Purdue as a sure thing. Keep in mind, OSU took them down a couple of weeks ago which - along with a new coach - seemed to energize that program bigtime.
But the team to watch out for in the B1G Tournament is Nebraska ----- nobody is talking about them much and they have some decent talent and coaching, And yes, I know I'll get blistered on this site for saying this but just call them as I see them.
I believe he had a visit to Iowa scheduled before Krikke was on the radar but ended up committing to Nebraska right after BK committed to Iowa.We don't matchup well with Purdue because we don't have 7ft banger that can keep Eddy further away from basket or bother his shot and we don't have depth to backup Freeman. WE got outrebounded by 20 the last time we played Purdue...I don't see that changing and you can't get stops without rebounding the miss. So I think beating Purdue would be a 5% type probability.
Nebraska can beat anyone in B1G if they are hitting their 3's. The center Mast they got out of the MVC is a lot better than Krikke....guy defends and rebounds better and can hit the 3. They live and die by the 3, so if they're hot they win and if not, it is a crapshoot for them. Their home crowd was big advantage...they won't have that much in BTT
I'd like to see a summary of Fran's B1G tournaments. I think he's lost the 1st game maybe 9 or 10 times in past 13 years going by memory. Based on past performance, I'd not expect a run, but it would be great if they did.
This team does seem different from some of his past teams---they do pretty well on the road and they have a few guys that have improved a lot as season has gone along so they are a lot better now than they were to start the season. Dembele, Freeman, Dix, Harding, Pryce were not factors at start of season---I don't recall a Fran team with that many contributors emerging by end of the season. It has to be FRan's deepest in quality Freshman class ever at Iowa. Add in Perkins has made huge strides at PG...night and day difference between the current Iowa team and the Iowa team that opened with Loss vs Michigan.