This team is still alive for the Dance
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We don’t need to beat Illinois, but that would be nice. Beat Nortwestern and PSU, plus 1-2,in the BTT and we have a shot.
Win at NW, and the 2 home games and 1 in BTT that should be Dayton.
Fouls, of course. Fran even let him play with a 3rd quick foul to open the 2nd half. He got the 4th within a minute and didn’t play again until the final two minutes.
Let’s win next one Saturday at Illinois to make things interesting. Good win tonight!
yes, but Owen still ended up with 8 points! The young man is good. Iowa needs to tie his hands to his body and to heck with getting blocks.....just kidding.
It was a dumb foul, no doubt. But I’d rather see Freeman foul out than sit on the bench with 4 fouls.
That third foul was awful by Owen, the first one was dumb too. He's got to make better decisions.
BirdistheWord
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If we can get 3 more wins this year…
Iowa has 18 or more wins in 12 out of last 13 years, including 8 with 20 or more wins.
1999 is the only sweet 16 I can think of since then.
Sorry, not believing yet. Iowa has had much better teams not make the tourney. Only 2 B1G teams in the top 25, which means the conference is way down.
I want NCAA wins and conference titles. At least contending for a regular season conference title. 20 wins...yay
BirdistheWord
HB Legend
At the end of the day, I'm pretty sure BG knows that the only measures for success in MBB are NCAA tourney success and regular season titles or co-titles etc. I've always thought winning the BTT was worthless and a net negative for Iowa in the NCAAT which means in the things that matter in 2024, Fran has not really accomplished anything in his 12 years. I saw where Fran said he's not retiring. If he doesn't check one of the above boxes in the next couple of years, his hand will be forced. Having said that I am liking this years team and think maybe he's found a winning formula. We haven't been "tough" very often under Fran. Krikke was a monster last night.
Yeah he needs to learn how to not get baited into fouling. Good coaches know he is susceptible to cheap fouls. He will learn....but we really need to keep him on the court.
I feel a bit like Charlie Brown right now and Lucy is toying with me........
Net rankings updated, Iowa is 62. Teams have made it before with that number, but usually they have a good record in Q1 games. Iowa will definitely have opportunities (3 of the last 4 are) and I think Iowa needs to go 3-1 to at least have a shot.
BTT champ = automatic bid to NCAA. It means something.
Defense is still poor. Perkins cheats the passing lanes and Freeman gets himself out of position and into fouls (Granted he is a Freshman). They sometimes have success in zones. They still give up way too many layups and open 3's.
I actually don't think these losses matter that much. The problem with Iowa's resume is that lack of quad 1 wins. They would need more quad 1 wins even if they won those games.
1988 and 1999 are the two most recent Sweet 16s.
Anyway, the team is at 16 wins. Beat PSU, get 2 of 3 in the ILL/NW games, and win one in the BTT. That would give us 20 overall, and I'd like our chances of stealing a bid.
Why not? Let's do this.
Agreed. Just two Q1 wins right now, which is pretty light. Plenty more opportunities coming, though.
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The open 3's are the killer. You can win regular season games when the other team isn't making the 3's, but once you get into the NCAA tourney, in round 1 or 2 you're going to have a team that will be making their 3's. That's why it's hard to get to the sweet 16 when allowing teams to have open 3's.
Teams to root against moving forward:
Providence
Utah
Cincy
Nova
Wake Forest
Memphis
Pitt
Providence
Utah
Cincy
Nova
Wake Forest
Memphis
Pitt
Looking at this list it seems like 2 more quad 1 wins would get Iowa in the mix. Which seems light but that's what it looks like to me.
https://barttorvik.com/quadrants.php
https://barttorvik.com/quadrants.php
Worst defensive Team in the B1G and one of the worst in the Country, Until this changes Iowa will never make a run in March
Oh, yes. The good ol' Players Only Meeting trope. It would be fun to analyze team's records after a reported Players Only Meeting. So do the players need the coaches?
