**2026-2027 Iowa Basketball Season Thread**

[FrodoTBaggin]

If the coach who took us to the Elite-8 in his first year with Drake players wants to play his kid a little bit, I'm fine with it.

 

[jquintana]

Peyton won't play much in the I am a giant douche unless the other point guards have foul trouble, or Ben wants to make a point about effort and defense. If by his 3rd or 4th year he works himself into a Little Hoiberg type contribution, I would be pleased.

 

[Uff Da]

Connor peaked early and was ranked as high as #25 in his class when he was HS. Other kids caught up, but he still ended up as a consensus four-star recruit. He also became a pretty good college player once he quit baseball. His shooting was never great, but he took a huge jump once he had to stop splitting his time between sports.

Peyton as much closer to John The Criminal, although not that bad. His high school accolades look decent, but when they moved his dad made sure he was surrounded by two big ten players and two very good D2 players. Sound familiar?

Not really, Connor was below average at best and hurt the program in general. He averaged 30 minutes a game his last season and averaged 6 points a game. Don't understand why people want to claim Connor had value.

 

[Laplace]

To me the team at the time functioned better with Connor in the game. I can't find a plus minus stat for his career. I also recall his assist to turnover ratio being quite good. There were times when I swear he was the only guy on the team capable of feeding the post. Which says something about the coaching.

I'm not saying he was great. But I think he was a B10 basketball player. Starter on many teams. First or second off the bench on most of the rest.

Patrick was soft and deserves the ridicule he gets.

 

[Geese]

#ICBMWT

 

[AZmessDAWG]

Not really, Connor was below average at best and hurt the program in general. He averaged 30 minutes a game his last season and averaged 6 points a game. Don't understand why people want to claim Connor had value.

That’s overstating things a bit and not giving any value whatsoever to the things that don’t show up on a stat sheet.

He’s a tremendous douche don’t get me wrong but he definitely had a high BB IQ. He just had a lot of his dad’s bad qualities that inform our opinion of him.