So reverse the seeds. It was an 8/9 game, it doesn't matter. The home court "excuse" is a poor one at that. Iowa has played like a poor 1a high school team away from Carver nearly every game.
We need to make a sweet 16. I'm sick of this shit.
My guess is that he means only being able to beat hapless teams, losing against teams we're better than, and having absolutely no chance with total no-show against superior teams. 2019 was the one and only exception to that Iowa NCAA Tourney "movie" under Fran.
Zero charges taken. That’s the epitome of soft on D. We have guys that get out of the way. It’s been 13 years for Fran. Time for a change for both sides. Hope he goes to ND and Barta finds his brain and hires Pearl. I don’t care if he is a questionable hire. He can recruit and close the deal on guys. Fran can’t get the athletic, superior athletes to iowa. Just can’t.
More like Stockholm Syndrome
I’m not calling you out or anything but I don’t want to hear a word about “bad breaks”, “luck”, or the f*cking Wilson ball.
Loyola of Chicago made a Final Four. So did George Mason. Don't tell me Iowa can't. I've seen it my lifetime.
The seeding was fair the location was not. Auburn was basically given a home court game. Auburn only won 4 away games this season.
Hey, don’t lump Charmin in with this softness (Rebracca excluded).
When you don't have to worry about getting bench time for playing lazy Defense you play lazy defense.
Why would the selection committee put Auburn in a region close to home when they should have sent them to any of the other regions? Just BS!!
Rinse and repeat the last three years! Look at the accolades and roster (Weezy, Garza, Murray, Murray, etc) we SHOULD have punched a ticket to the S16 with even an average D...it's the exact inverse of the football team, any semblace of an offense the last several years and we are in the Conf. Champ game every year!
I hated this however if Iowa beats any of E. Illinois/OSU/Wisky/Neb, we get shipped out of that region as a 6/7 seed and not sure it matters as we had a horrendous 30 min of bball and not sure we are here talking about a Saturday game anyway.
We would have been jumping for joy if Iowa went to Des Moines. It happens.
I hate Charmin. You always break through when you try to get aggressive.
100%. If we hit any of those wide open 3's in the last few minutes a much, much different game however that's the way it goes. Wanna trade places with VA or AZ? Imagine if Cmac threw the ball away like that at the end of the game? This board and all the servers would be absolutely melted down!!!
The difference isn’t a 8/9 seed the difference is location. Why would Iowa be jumping for joy if they went to Des Moines? Because it would give them an advantage. Every article and every analysis on that game I saw mentioned Auburn playing so close to their campus in their home state.
At least the boys can head down to FL for the rest of spring break. Not too far from Gulf Shore or Panama City. Hope they enjoy watching the rest of the tourney from one of those places. Have fun boys over a few beers and viewing the scenery.
