We went 0-7 this year against teams that are still alive

[BigHAWK8]

Indiana 0-2
Maryland 0-1
Wisconsin 0-1
ISU 0-1
Villanova 0-1
Notre Dame 0-1

I don't think we were ever that good to begin with. Some of our "good" wins were over-inflated. Even one of our "good" losses to Dayton doesn't look so hot.

We also lost to 2 terrible and one mediocre team (Illinois, PSU, OSU). Wins over Purdue don't look nearly that impressive in hindsight, and MSU is arguable. Didn't Valentine miss the first game and the 2nd one was his first game back?

We beat an injury-depleted Michigan team that barely made the tourney, then struggled to beat a team that no one in the country thought should have made it (Tulsa). We beat Wichita State without VanVleet when everyone was beating them. Wins over some really terrible teams (Minn, Rutgers, Illinois, Drake, Gardner-Webb, Coppin St, UMKC, W Ill, Tenn Tech, Nebraska).

NW, Marquette, FSU, and Temple were basically mediocre/bubble teams.

Season doesn't really look all that hot in retrospect, and this isn't even bringing up the fact that we lost an exhibition to a DII team.

 

[EvilMonkeyInTheCloset]

Indiana 0-2
Maryland 0-1
Wisconsin 0-1
ISU 0-1
Villanova 0-1
Notre Dame 0-1

I don't think we were ever that good to begin with. Some of our "good" wins were over-inflated. Even one of our "good" losses to Dayton doesn't look so hot.

We also lost to 2 terrible and one mediocre team (Illinois, PSU, OSU). Wins over Purdue don't look nearly that impressive in hindsight, and MSU is arguable. Didn't Valentine miss the first game and the 2nd one was his first game back?

We beat an injury-depleted Michigan team that barely made the tourney, then struggled to beat a team that no one in the country thought should have made it (Tulsa). We beat Wichita State without VanVleet when everyone was beating them. Wins over some really terrible teams (Minn, Rutgers, Illinois, Drake, Gardner-Webb, Coppin St, UMKC, W Ill, Tenn Tech, Nebraska).

NW, Marquette, FSU, and Temple were basically mediocre/bubble teams.

Season doesn't really look all that hot in retrospect, and this isn't even bringing up the fact that we lost an exhibition to a DII team.

Okay.

 

[BigHAWK8]

Okay.

Thanks chief.

 

[ICWestfan]

Iowa was seeded exactly where they should have been seeded.

 

[Herkuleez]

OP, shhhhh, you're not supposed to look beyond the 20+ wins and NCAA birth...we're only Iowa.

 

[DavenportHawk8]

Iowa was seeded exactly where they should have been seeded.

Yup agreed. But one wonders if we beat PSU or Wisky where we would of been seeded. You take away one of those losses and we are probably on the 6 line in an 11 seed match-up. Oh well.

I think this season just as the 2014 seasons will leave fans asking WHY for years to come. Hopefully these collapses are behind us.

 

[hexumhawk]

OP is probably right. We got hot during a stretch of the season but we returned to what people predicted we were all along. PG play was pretty disappointing as we had some parts that other teams would love to have.

 

[SDHawkDoc]

January was an aberration as to their upside. But, Feb and March were not accurately reflective of the season as a whole either. Problem in sorting out where Iowa falls in the landscape of college ball this year is the incredibly wild swings they had between good and bad.
Ultimately their ride ended as you might expect for 20ish win teams that are OK/good but not great. First round win, second round loss.

 

[HawkOptimist]

Meh. We came into this season with little expectations. Had you told me we'd finish in the upper half of the conference with a 3rd straight NCAA tourney appearance, I would've been shocked.

It is what it is. Just like with football, we blew the doors off all expectations and had a nice season.

 

[MTHawkeyes43]

Indiana 0-2
Maryland 0-1
Wisconsin 0-1
ISU 0-1
Villanova 0-1
Notre Dame 0-1

I don't think we were ever that good to begin with. Some of our "good" wins were over-inflated. Even one of our "good" losses to Dayton doesn't look so hot.

We also lost to 2 terrible and one mediocre team (Illinois, PSU, OSU). Wins over Purdue don't look nearly that impressive in hindsight, and MSU is arguable. Didn't Valentine miss the first game and the 2nd one was his first game back?

We beat an injury-depleted Michigan team that barely made the tourney, then struggled to beat a team that no one in the country thought should have made it (Tulsa). We beat Wichita State without VanVleet when everyone was beating them. Wins over some really terrible teams (Minn, Rutgers, Illinois, Drake, Gardner-Webb, Coppin St, UMKC, W Ill, Tenn Tech, Nebraska).

NW, Marquette, FSU, and Temple were basically mediocre/bubble teams.

Season doesn't really look all that hot in retrospect, and this isn't even bringing up the fact that we lost an exhibition to a DII team.

Why would you expect more, after all we are talking about Iowa. (Sarcasm) It sure does not look as impressive when you look below the surface.

 

[anon_i8nzeu2gbf0ba]

UNI was 2-1, beating both ISU and UNC, and they also beat Stephen F. Austin, which came within a buzzer-beating tip-in of making the round of 16. Not to mention it took a miracle never before executed in the long history of college basketball--and two OTs after that--to keep UNI itself from the round of 16. Just some facts for perspective.

 

[theIowaHawk]

Indiana 0-2
Maryland 0-1
Wisconsin 0-1
ISU 0-1
Villanova 0-1
Notre Dame 0-1

I don't think we were ever that good to begin with. Some of our "good" wins were over-inflated. Even one of our "good" losses to Dayton doesn't look so hot.

We also lost to 2 terrible and one mediocre team (Illinois, PSU, OSU). Wins over Purdue don't look nearly that impressive in hindsight, and MSU is arguable. Didn't Valentine miss the first game and the 2nd one was his first game back?

We beat an injury-depleted Michigan team that barely made the tourney, then struggled to beat a team that no one in the country thought should have made it (Tulsa). We beat Wichita State without VanVleet when everyone was beating them. Wins over some really terrible teams (Minn, Rutgers, Illinois, Drake, Gardner-Webb, Coppin St, UMKC, W Ill, Tenn Tech, Nebraska).

NW, Marquette, FSU, and Temple were basically mediocre/bubble teams.

Season doesn't really look all that hot in retrospect, and this isn't even bringing up the fact that we lost an exhibition to a DII team.

Agree and like this post, it is a realistic review of what went on ... except for the last statement. It was a good season, and other than the blowout, a good end to this senior group.

This team vastly outplayed itself for a very fun stretch that, in hindsight, couldn't be maintained. The Big Ten is a damn good league and the adjustments came. We all want more, nobody wanted it more than the players and coaches.

Regroup, this team is fun again.

 

[MepoDawg#]

Iowa was somewhere between its January run and February/March slide, where, we'll never know, but probably Top 25 and a one win NCAA team, right where they finished, they just took a different path than most would. UNI took the same path, just backwards, terrible start, hot finish. Who was better, we'll never know.