*****Official IOWA at Maryland Game Thread*****
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It was beyond a long shot anyway but any player of the year consideration can be written off for uthoff. You can't lay an absolute horrendous egg in a nationally televised game.
Prolly has something to do with the arena design and acoustics.
Iowa had a turd of a game. MG is anything but clutch with these ill advised drives and poor FT shooting. We need guys to step up and play at their potential for a deep run in Big 10 tourney and NCAA
Yep we played terrible and still hung in there. As for the fans....classless
I'd love to meet this team in the tournament and get revenge.
Except they didn't-- it was one of there better games this month (outside of Ohio State and Rutgers).
POY in B1G is a probability. Iowa has to win National title for Uthoff to get National Player of year.
The positive news is this shouldn't drop us more than 5 spots in the polls and we are through the toughest part of our schedule with a pretty easy stretch approaching.
Yeah, give Maryland credit, they played very well. Best team we've played.
I think these two teams will meet again in the championship.
Good thing Maryland sucked shooting the second half. Should have lost by 20. Our perimeter defense was bad tonight.
I think loss will help us and make us hungry again. You lose by 6 when u play your worst game of big ten season against league favorite??? That's not too bad of a loss
In Mike's defense, no one else was doing jack shit. Someone had to do something. Woody was trying, but Maryland's goal was to foul him out (and it worked perfectly).
But we didn't and basketball is a game of runs. Maryland was on fire in the first half so the law of averages took effect.
You could just as easily argue Iowa could have easily won if we don't shoot poorly from the perimeter and miss free throws all night.
The way Maryland played Iowa should have stolen this game. In my opinion this was a really bad loss.
Hope Iowa can stay motivated and hungry the rest of the way. Lotsa talent on this team but we need better defense and shooting....
I was screaming WTF as he was going in for the shot. Get 2 and foul Trimble, a 80%+ free throw shooter. Makes no sense.
Maryland played decent defense but Iowa didn't adjust and make some extra passes or work for a better shot. Uhl was awful in the 2nd half and Uthoff just couldn't get in a flow. Woodbury unfortunately couldn't avoid the refs making calls on him because reasons....and we went back to missing the open jumps shots we did get, including Baer who unfortunately had his "play like a freshman" game tonight.
The team needs to regroup and use this game to work on and understand what needs to be done when shots aren't falling and our best players aren't going for 20+ pts.
We aren't hurt by this loss but we can't allow this to be a regressing point. We still need to keep pushing to play at a higher level every night to avoid any let downs or playing down to competition when we start meeting these middle of the pack teams in the Big Ten, especially on the road.
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