Yeah, totally embarrassing to go out in the 2nd round as a 2 seed. What a bunch of losers.
As a 2 seed, this team was a fraud. 2 seeds shouldn't get manhandled in the 2nd F'ing round. And yeah, Oregon was underseeded. But still.
When our best defensive play involves watching a player zip by you and then you swat his arm, Fran really had no other options. KM is the only starter that remotely plays defense at any kind of level. Maybe Luka, but even he is a little slow of foot...we need to start recruiting pure athletes and but also recruit sharp shooters, but not like your Brady Ellingston’s (sp?) of the recruiting world...
I have no idea why Fran wants to run and gun period..not just this game..I mean ever. He hasn't recruited that type of team since he has been at Iowa. This team would have benefited from a different style IMO. Feel bad for the players to go out that way in a very tough year.
I can't disagree with anyone ripping us or the Big Ten in general.
Our recruiting needs to improve. Big time. I get tired of saying that decade after decade, but it's still true.
Our recruiting needs to improve. Big time. I get tired of saying that decade after decade, but it's still true.
Who the **** cares Herky? Who the **** cares? You and your stupid ****ing clown obsession dude.
Yeah, there was a stretch in the 12 to 8 minute mark where we just panicked and started launching shots and Garza probably went a good 6-7 minutes without touching the ball.
And this began shortly after we had cut their lead to 8.
Some of that is coaching, but at the college level, you can't expect Fran to yell out every possession, "get the ball to Luka". The defense has ears too. Yes, it's no secret, but when it's telegraphed every time, then yeah it's gonna be pretty hard to get him the ball when most of the focus is on him to begin with.
That is why I'm saying they needed to do a better job of moving the ball to create entry points for him.
But oh well. Too late now..........................
Meh, I enjoyed watching you spend the build up to our first game hoping we would lose, and then it made my day knowing that it bothered you, regardless of the fact you won't admit it, that we won.
And then to be able to say not only did we sweep Wisconsin in 3 games this year, we also lasted a day longer than them in the tournament.......
Iowa > Wisconsin #confirmed
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This season reminds of football. We end with 1st round draft picks yet a mediocre or “just enough” season.
I would have been happy with a regular season conference title
I would have been happy with a regular season conference title
Good thing our retarded AD extended him until 2045
Fran’s teams play a fun style to watch; but like Dr Tom, he hasn’t recruited the athletes to make that style work against good athletic teams. I hate the way Wisconsin plays, but they have made it work with limited athleticism. Until this year, that is.
Wisconsin also had scorers and kind of introduced the Big Ten to the versatile 3 pt shooting PF/C.
This year, they just had their weak sauce defensive slow the game to a snails pace style of play without the scoring.
Looks like unwanted trash when you take that away, huh...... @jwardelt
I’m not going to excuse the play today (though Garza absolutely gets a pass and probably Weiskamp), but this tournament has just been carnage all around. Ohio State got beat by a 15. Illinois as a #1 didn’t make it through the 2nd round, Houston really should have lost to Rutgers yesterday. We’ll see how things go today.
Yore best team in forever won as many tourney games as one of our shittiest of the last 20 years.
Enjoy those regular season victories though.
Enjoy the basement next year. You guys are going to bad w/o Garza.
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I just dont think we have the combination to hang with Oregon. They brought athleticism, defense and 3 point shooting with basically the same lineup. We have either/or. Our 3 point shooting HAD to be better to stand a chance. I feel bad for JBo. What a dud.
Wisconsin also had scorers and kind of introduced the Big Ten to the versatile 3 pt shooting PF/C.
This year, they just had their weak sauce defensive slow the game to a snails pace style of play without the scoring.
Looks like unwanted trash when you take that away, huh...... @jwardelt
Shooting was our problem this year. Along with defense, turnovers, passing, dribbling, free throws, etc.
And yet...
We still won as many tourney games as Iowa.
I'm glad your bench mark for success is how Iowa does in the tournament.......
They absolutely should rip on Iowa... especially its head coach ...
And who exactly over rated us ( and the Big X for that matter )? Oh now I remember, the national media...
Why? Iowa has had problems with smaller, quicker and more "athletic" teams with this group of kids since....forever? Toussaint is part of the answer as he is quick and athletic,,,,,,,Murray needs to get a bit bigger but has the ingrediants,,,,Remember, Indiana whomped us twice this season.....This team needed a good bracket to advance,,,,,and what they got was not what they needed......
It was a fun team to watch....and Garza has been a pleasure to watch the past couple of seasons!
Go Hawks!
Enjoy watching basketball where you dribble out the shot clock for 29 seconds then jack up a three. Then go & fall down on defense. So fun!
The CBS television crew touched on this...and Barkley was biting his tongue!
Yeah....FAILURE is soooo American!
I wonder if someone forgot to tell Oregon not to try and win the game?
Jwardelt is a prick that despises Iowa. Only comes on here to talk shit. Tom or Blair needs to ban his sorry ass.
Tom Davis wasn't! And dammit, there's another Lickliter out there to hire! It wasn't that the B10 was bad Dodger......it was more Iowa trying to compete against "The Conference of Champions!"
And Wisconsin is going to dominate?
Fraud? Then there are a whole bunch of Big Ten teams that better hide their own records. You don't finish 3rd in the league if you are a "fraud." Illinois got bitch slapped by a MVC team. Were they are fraud? Just give Oregon credit and realize the Pac 12 is much better than what most thought.
I hate, as a Cyclone fan, to try to bring some perspective, but had the Big 10 not been performing so poorly in the previous days, this wouldn't be much more than a blip on the national radar. A 2-seed losing in the first round is embarrassing (believe me, I know). Once you get past the first round, every game is a potential L for almost every team except those seasons where there appears to be a dominate team - like Gonzaga this year. It was clear that Oregon was underrated, but even if their ranking was correct, they were still a 7 seed. That translates to being ranked somewhere between the top 25-28 team. Once you start talking about teams at that level, they can beat pretty much anyone on their day.
To sum up my rambling post, the talent is really spread out in college basketball nowadays and that means that there are hardly any safe games once you get past the first round anymore. I'm convinced most of the national dumping on Iowa is really just a continuation of dumping on the conference as a whole.
To sum up my rambling post, the talent is really spread out in college basketball nowadays and that means that there are hardly any safe games once you get past the first round anymore. I'm convinced most of the national dumping on Iowa is really just a continuation of dumping on the conference as a whole.
What is forgotten here is that according to one broadcaster, The PAC 12 is "the conference of Champions!" and us midwestern folks dont like to have our northern European noses rubbed in that!
I know what’s up, I visit the main board. You thrive on Iowa’s failures and let it be known. Keep your crap on the main board.
Games like today are why players need to STFU and stay off social media.
Iowa had some lineups that worked, but he went away from them. He never even tried that small-ball grouping with Joe W as the center that played well in the first half.
This happens to Fran too often, not recognizing matchups and hot hands. He took out his own son, PMac, right after he hit two free throws and had hit a couple layups before that in a short stretch. Why in the world would you take him out of the game when he and Joe T were clicking offensively and defensively? Why change the lineup at all until it stops working? If I was on the national sports news, that's what I'd be talking about. I like Fran, but his substitution moves often seem to have no rhyme or reason and it continues to cost Iowa in big games year after year.
This happens to Fran too often, not recognizing matchups and hot hands. He took out his own son, PMac, right after he hit two free throws and had hit a couple layups before that in a short stretch. Why in the world would you take him out of the game when he and Joe T were clicking offensively and defensively? Why change the lineup at all until it stops working? If I was on the national sports news, that's what I'd be talking about. I like Fran, but his substitution moves often seem to have no rhyme or reason and it continues to cost Iowa in big games year after year.
Nothing like a 1-seed going out in the second round to an in-state rival 8-seed, is there? Especially when your best player totally blows it?
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