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

[Hawk_Kegmasters]

My favorite game against MSU during Fran’s era was the one where McCabe got in a scrum with their entire team.

 

[KitKatApples]

Nebrantska was one of the last four in per Lunardi going into today and now has to win Sunday just to make the Big Ten Tournament.

Well I have great news for Nebrantska

 

[brantshawks]

Was that maybe the same night that Josh puked all over the blanket covering him as he crashed in one of my living room chairs, and then claimed in the morning he didn't puke? He was adamant. Pretty funny.

lol nope. Different night even.

 

[AZmessDAWG]

I said maybe!!

You’re gonna be the one that saves me.

No we don’t do that one @thrawn … (anymore)

 

[nolookpass]

lol nope. Different night even.

is Josh the guy with the green gloves? Did he pass away or am I confusing him with someone else?

 

[Herky823]

Nebrantska was one of the last four in per Lunardi going into today and now has to win Sunday just to make the Big Ten Tournament.

I learned just now that not all big ten teams make the tournament anymore. Who knew?

 

[Herbie2]

I learned just now that not all big ten teams make the tournament anymore. Who knew?

Everyone but you.

 

[thrawn]

You’re gonna be the one that saves me.

No we don’t do that one @thrawn … (anymore)

after all?

 

[Lee Beevers]

Everyone but you.

Got him!!!

 

[L. Wade Childress]

Everyone but you.

Well, and our players.

 

[KitKatApples]

Doesn't seem like it

 

[CamelTones]

Mulvey is listed as a RS Jr but appears he’s going to go through senior night festivities in front of tens of people.

 

[Dr. Zaius]

Good for him, he deserves it

 

[Herky823]

Everyone but you.

I bet that’s going to really hurt their chances of making a deep run in March Madness

 

[Dr. Zaius]

Iowa, Penn St, and Washington should hold their own conference postseason tournament. Fran’s Afterseason Game Special

 

[KitKatApples]

I don’t think that would be very popular

 

[Geese]

Yeah as I was typing that I realized that.

Speaking without thinking is nothing new for you

 

[Orestes]

Iowa, Penn St, and Washington should hold their own conference postseason tournament. Fran’s Afterseason Game Special

Pretty sure Fran has got a vacation already scheduled.

 

[Stomper15]

Pretty sure Fran has got a vacation already scheduled.

It's landlocked this year.

 

[Verbal]

Butler is not in Butler.

 

[Talkin' Goat]

Butler is not in Butler.

It may have been when that map was made.

 

[Revolver]

That map looks like it came from Where In The World is Carmen San Diego?

 

[B19Rob]

I hadn't heard about the extreme flooding occurring in Ontario

 

[Stomper15]

 

[AZmessDAWG]

Speaking without thinking is nothing new for you

Shut the fuck up.

 

[KitKatApples]

Looks like he thought about that

 

[Stu Beagle]

I’ll be in Carver tonight for Fran’s last home game. Should be an electric atmosphere

 

[Verbal]

I think there's a decent chance Michigan State will end the Douche's 25-year title drought this year. But tonight, they're going to have to sweat one out.

 

[Lee Beevers]

The Farts got a stinky one for Sparty tonight. Iowa by 11

 

[KitKatApples]

I just let out a stinky fart just for you

 

[tallperson54]

We'll play well for portions of the game and end up losing by like 9. Ho hum

 

[BVHawk95]

We'll start like shit, go on a decent run before half to make it look respectable, maybe even lead, and then fall apart in the second half as usual.

 

[WestMifflin]

I think there's a decent chance Michigan State will end the Douche's 25-year title drought this year. But tonight, they're going to have to sweat one out.

Nah. Their offense isn't good enough this year.

 

[Dr. Zaius]

Hawks by -1,000,000

 

[douglasbader]

I can't wait for the sequence tonight where Gasser stands up like a goon during a mini-run and prances up and down the sideline in front of the tv announcers and holds his hands up high clapping while exposing his gut and high fiving whatever current blonde woman he's trying to bang.

 

[iowa4ever20]

I would be stunned if this were finally the year the title drought ended. I don’t think there is a top 10 team in the conference. Michigan State will be the highest seed and they lost comfortably to Kansas and Memphis in non-conference and beat a shitty UNC in OT.

 

[WCFHawkeye]

It is a very sad reality when Iowa is playing Michigan State in basketball, both men's and women's, and I am much more looking forward to the women's game.

I will watch both, but a sad state of affairs what the men's team has become.

 

[26.2]

I can't wait for the sequence tonight where Gasser stands up like a goon during a mini-run and prances up and down the sideline in front of the tv announcers and holds his hands up high clapping while exposing his gut and high fiving whatever current blonde woman he's trying to bang.

Gasser?

 

[douglasbader]

I would be stunned if this were finally the year the title drought ended. I don’t think there is a top 10 team in the conference. Michigan State will be the highest seed and they lost comfortably to Kansas and Memphis in non-conference and beat a shitty UNC in OT.

NIL has been terrible for the Big Ten and fantastic for the SEC in basketball. Big Ten is loaded with a bunch of good or old guys and nerd coaches that aren't very slimy. SEC is filled to the brim with coaches previously thrown out of jobs for cheating or worse.

 

[MikeyJoe]

NIL has been terrible for the Big Ten and fantastic for the SEC in basketball. Big Ten is loaded with a bunch of good or old guys and nerd coaches that aren't very slimy. SEC is filled to the brim with coaches previously thrown out of jobs for cheating or worse.

When it came to football the opposite was true. NIL meant that the Ohio States and Notre Dames of the world could finally bust out the big checkbooks and compete over the table.

 

[26.2]

It is a very sad reality when Iowa is playing Michigan State in basketball, both men's and women's, and I am much more looking forward to the women's game.

I will watch both, but a sad state of affairs what the men's team has become.

I love your crazy ass WCF, but jesus. I think this is the first bow I have ever had to slap on your ass.

 

[douglasbader]

When it came to football the opposite was true. NIL meant that the Ohio States and Notre Dames of the world could finally bust out the big checkbooks and compete over the table.

Absolutely. It evened the playing field and the top level of the Big Ten got to take the gloves off and are now kicking ass.

When it comes to basketball, those schools mostly just don't care. Ohio State hired some kid to be the coach, Michigan could only scrape up the guy from FIU or whatever and Penn State is just horrible at basketball. UCLA / USC / Oregon don't care quite enough or still have Pac-12 laze faire built into them. Michigan State and Purdue are about the cream of the crop and led by relative choir boys. Indiana has been a "sleeping giant" that has tried but they are the basketball equivalent of Nebrantska Football.

 

[WCFHawkeye]

I love your crazy ass WCF, but jesus. I think this is the first bow I have ever had to slap on your ass.

I completely understand, I want to bow myself up also for making that post.

Fran just needs to go.

 

[Verbal]

I would be stunned if this were finally the year the title drought ended. I don’t think there is a top 10 team in the conference. Michigan State will be the highest seed and they lost comfortably to Kansas and Memphis in non-conference and beat a shitty UNC in OT.

I don't put much stock in what happened four months ago. They're probably going to win 17 games in conference play. And the tournament is a war of attrition...sometimes the road clears out for you.

 

[CleteyColgate]

Are more Iowa fans going to watch this game or the women's game?

 

[Verbal]

Spoiler

They will lose in the first round now that I've said all this

 

[tallperson54]

I will be at the scorer's table for the men tonight as an alternate and will definitely have the women's game on my phone. I except 3000 people or less.

 

[Herbie2]

I will be at the scorer's table for the men tonight as an alternate and will definitely have the women's game on my phone. I except 3000 people or less.

That's a lot of exceptions to accept.

 

[KitKatApples]

Probably

 

[tallperson54]

Bowed my own dumb ass. Go Hawks