Not a great night …

[MikeyHawk]

Clearly you have never embraced a single Hawkeye BB team since maybe 1970..altho that team had no shot vs alcindor and UCLA even if they got past Jacksonville...so rule them out of your consideration of supporting them..so maybe the 1956 team?

Well, in that case, just give Fran a lifetime contract, this is the highest level Iowa basketball can achieve.

 

[the notorious r.d.m.]

I'm interested in what the overall winning percentage is in the nation during that time. 17% winning percentage seems like it would be well ahead of the curve. It's a miracle you can win at all doing that.

In the B1G (since 2010-11) the league as a whole is 86-447 when a team allows their opponent to score 85 or more. Which is a .161 win%.

Big12 is .215 (100-364)
SEC is .198 (134-543)
ACC is .154 (97-532)
Big East is .181 (98-443)

Fran's win% is about right. It's just that he probably leads the nation in such games.

 

[RocknRollface]

Yeah, there isn't a consistent Fran Fade in February, but all the teams he puts out ncaa Tournament time have struggled and looked overmatched. The Fran offense gets taken away or throttled back and there is no defense to fall back on. It's been a while since UNI had their Sweet16, but they did that without 5-star athletes and by playing a grinding style. Put Fran in charge of that UNI team and they'd have lost 1st game. Same with TJ Otzelberger's 1st team that made Sweet16----not a lot of talent, but they played defense. No way that ISU team makes Sweet16 with Fran as coach.

Agree,

Frans "shoot out" formula lends itself to a lot of up and down games but it usually does come out in the black over the corse of a regular season and put his team in a position to make the tournament.

But then the tournaments generally tends to expose its vulnerabilities. There's just a lot of variables that can mess up a jump shooting team compared to a defense first team.

He's had a pretty good chunk of time to test it and the results are poor.

 

[hawkjt]

Don't pay attention to the poster you responded to. The poster was a huge Alford supporter and Lick as well. The post is the same posted when Alford or Lick were questioned.

Factually incorrect. Never defended lick...ever. Hated his tenure.
The poster indicated he would only support a hawk team that could win the national championship.
How many hawk teams over the last 50 years fit that criteria?

Call me a dyed in wool hawk fan...guilty as charged. I support the Hawks...win or lose.

 

[mizzy2442]

UCLA has lost 4 in a row…we are the perfect medicine for that.

Bump. Get this f*cking clown packing to Indy. This is another disgraceful, embarrassing effort.

 

[Grumpy Old Hawk]

I found this interesting and I think if Iowa loses to UCLA they’re in even more deep do do…

1. 11 Teams in the Projected Field (by Overall Seed): 13. Oregon, 14. Michigan State, 15. Michigan, 16. Illinois, 22. Purdue, 24. Wisconsin, 33. Maryland, 36. UCLA, 39. Nebraska, 40. Iowa, 42. Ohio State
   Also Considered: Indiana
   Biggest Change: Greetings, Hawkeyes
   For the first time all season, the Iowa Hawkeyes have found their way into the projected field, albeit, with the type of bubble resume that can make a bracketologist's blood boil: zero great wins, but good enough metrics and zero bad losses.
   Iowa did pick up two nice wins this past week, both at home. The Hawkeyes rallied from a 15-point second-half deficit to beat Nebraska in overtime, and then they smoked a bubble-y Indiana team by a final score of 85-60.
   They are now 5-0 vs. Quad 2, which is quite commendable. There are only 18 teams in the country with more wins against the top two Quads than the Hawkeyes have.
   But they're winless against Quad 1 in four tries, including a 31-point loss to Wisconsin, and the only other seven games on their schedule were all Quad 4 wins by an average margin of 29 points.
   All of a sudden, though, their metrics look great.
   When I pulled resume data last Sunday, Iowa was not top 45 in any of the seven metrics, and was in fact 70th in KPI. But now? Ranking 52nd in NET is the only one in which the Hawkeyes aren't in the top 45, all the way up to No. 43 in KPI.
   Behold, the power of trouncing a decent opponent by 25 points.
   Can they now survive the dreaded West Coast road trip, though?
   If the games don't get postponed due to the wildfires in California, the Hawkeyes are supposed to play at USC on Tuesday and at UCLA on Friday. And with nary a Quad 1 win to their credit, getting swept on that road trip would be a devastating blow to their case for a bid. (However, a win at UCLA would be massive.)

They will play their way into much worse metrics unfortunately for the fans, but the selection committee won't have a hard time with this team.