***2024-2025 Iowa Men’s Basketball Season Thread***

[iowa4ever20]

If we're going to play the NET game I'd rather go this route with decent mid major teams than playing a bunch of 300+ level teams to boost the efficiency stats.

Agree this is better than a 300+ home game. I just think in general the sport would be better and have more early season fan engagement if there were more power conference home and homes built into the non-conference schedule. Fewer eyeballs are watching college basketball and most aren’t even paying attention until March Madness. The Gavitt games went away this year. The ACC challenge ended with the tv contract change last year. How are schools like Iowa replacing these potential power 5 non-conference home games?

 

[Hawk&Balls]

Agree this is better than a 300+ home game. I just think in general the sport would be better and have more early season fan engagement if there were more power conference home and homes built into the non-conference schedule. Fewer eyeballs are watching college basketball and most aren’t even paying attention until March Madness. The Gavitt games went away this year. The ACC challenge ended with the tv contract change last year. How are schools like Iowa replacing these potential power 5 non-conference home games?

Did we just become best friends

 

[The Tin Man]

 

[CamelTones]

Kakert hinted at them playing a shitty team in Moline as well.

I don’t have a problem with the neutral site games close to Iowa. People are not showing up anyway. They should play 2-3 non conference games a year in Des Moines.

 

[KitKatApples]

Agree this is better than a 300+ home game. I just think in general the sport would be better and have more early season fan engagement if there were more power conference home and homes built into the non-conference schedule. Fewer eyeballs are watching college basketball and most aren’t even paying attention until March Madness. The Gavitt games went away this year. The ACC challenge ended with the tv contract change last year. How are schools like Iowa replacing these potential power 5 non-conference home games?

Give it a few years. It’s coming.

 

[Jim Tebow]

Any guards left in the portal? Can nimners come back to ride the pine?

 

[HerkyHopeful]

Any guards left in the portal? Can nimners come back to ride the pine?

According to his socials he is at University of Tampa. He was at Indian Hills last year and was not memorable.

 

[Debit One]

Any guards left in the portal? Can nimners come back to ride the pine?

You're not comfortable with only three scholarship guards on the roster?

Neither am I, Jim.

 

[BBK]

Kakert hinted at them playing a shitty team in Moline as well.

I don’t have a problem with the neutral site games close to Iowa. People are not showing up anyway. They should play 2-3 non conference games a year in Des Moines.

I remember going to that Iowa game at the Mark of the Quad Cities when Settles was a 12th year senior

 

[Hawk&Balls]

I remember going to that Iowa game at the Mark of the Quad Cities when Settles was a 12th year senior

Didn't they play an NIT game there

 

[BBK]

This wont happen and Moline is a school for homos, but their court is one of the largest high school basketball gyms in the country. And we have 2 players from there.

Not a terrible idea

 

[Verbal]

Didn't they play an NIT game there

Lost to St. Louis there in the first round of the 2004 NIT.

 

[thrawn]

Lost to St. Louis there in the first round of the 2004 NIT.

that was in St. Charles, MO

 

[iowa4ever20]

Lost to St. Louis there in the first round of the 2004 NIT.

They beat DePaul there in the 1995 NIT first round. I was there and if memory is correct, Kingsbury was on fire.

 

[thrawn]

Didn't they play an NIT game there

DePaul in 1995

 

[KitKatApples]

 

[Hawk&Balls]

DePaul in 1995

I feel like I was at that game

 

[thrawn]

According to this and wiki, Iowa played WIU there in 1996 and 1998

Leatherneck hoops to hit the Quad Cities - Western Illinois University Athletics

MACOMB/MOLINE, Ill. -- For the first time in Leatherneck men's and women's basketball history, the Western Illinois basketball programs are taking the home show

goleathernecks.com

 

[thrawn]

I feel like I was at that game

lot of people in yellow, hard to tell on the broadcast

 

[BBK]

lot of people in yellow, hard to tell on the broadcast

 

[Hawkstrat]

 

[KitKatApples]

Yea but holy shit he missed that three by 8 feet!

 

[kenos]

Is Iowa basketball really ready to have three, three guys who can jump, on the same team?

 

[The Dad]

Is Iowa basketball really ready to have three, three guys who can jump, on the same team?

 

[BBK]

That poor faggot couldn't jump 3 inches

 

[Fletch]

That poor faggot couldn't jump 3 inches

7 foot tall with the vertical of @Hawk&Balls and the wingspan of @foxhawks .

Poor bastard is about right.

 

[Hawk&Balls]

Rude

 

[brantshawks]

And fox can jump high, porportionally.

 

[CurdMan]

Can someone please remind me if Dembele is any good? I don’t recall him being very athletic. Decent defender, occasional 3s, raw offensively.

 

[Creed]

Can someone please remind me if Dembele is any good? I don’t recall him being very athletic. Decent defender, occasional 3s, raw offensively.

He’s black so automatically that’s good.

 

[Hawk&Balls]

He's raw, but it's okay that not every player is a polished final version of themselves by their freshman year.

 

[Revolver]

Can someone please remind me if Dembele is any good? I don’t recall him being very athletic. Decent defender, occasional 3s, raw offensively.

When Iowa had their little stretch of looking like they may make a run at the bubble, he was providing some good minutes. A lot of games I personally thought he should have played a little more. As mentioned, definitely raw, but there was some promise there.

 

[brantshawks]

He was a breath of fresh air and a decent contributor when he came in, imo.

 

[HerkyHopeful]

He moves well enough that when he has to do Fran's stupid hedging on a screen he might not get completely toasted like recent post players

 

[CamelTones]

It’s probably because he’s black, but you can see what Frans developmental history could potentially turn him in to. He wasn’t a hesitant shooter. Just needs to build some confidence.

He did struggle with basic defensive fundamentals which I’m not sure this coaching staff can help him with.

 

[CamelTones]

Kakert hinted at them playing a shitty team in Moline as well.

I don’t have a problem with the neutral site games close to Iowa. People are not showing up anyway. They should play 2-3 non conference games a year in Des Moines.

Not necessarily a shitty team. Washington State in Moline.

 

[iowa4ever20]

Not necessarily a shitty team. Washington State in Moline.

Their coach and all their players bailed with the drop down to mid major status. They are going to suck this year.

 

[TurdBurgler]

Why tf in Moline? Play more games in DSM.

 

[Hawk&Balls]

Not necessarily a shitty team. Washington State in Moline.

Aren't they playing Iowa State? Hitting a couple of teams while they're out here?

 

[CamelTones]

Why tf in Moline? Play more games in DSM.

Because Harding and Freeman won a state title for Moline 2 years ago.

 

[L. Wade Childress]

Why tf in Moline? Play more games in DSM.

Other than the fact that the Quad cities are a huge fan base, an hour away from Iowa city, moline has two former players playing for us, and it’s a neutral site game for net purposes?

 

[KitKatApples]

Yea take that Turd

 

[Thomas Wolsey]

Yea take that Turd

 

[Hawk&Balls]

Other than the fact that the Quad cities are a huge fan base, an hour away from Iowa city, moline has two former players playing for us, and it’s a neutral site game for net purposes?

what makes a neutral site a neutral site?

 

[HerkyHopeful]

what makes a neutral site a neutral site?

 

[L. Wade Childress]

what makes a neutral site a neutral site?

I have no opinion

 

[Hawk&Balls]

I have no opinion

that's a first

 

[thrawn]

what makes a neutral site a neutral site?

three games and arena control, I believe

 

[Hawk&Balls]

i dont know what that means

 

[Hawk&Balls]

anyways, my point was going to be, would playing at mediacom technically be neurtral?