***Iowa at Oregon - 2/1/26 - 7:00PM - FS1***

[BBK]

Oregon is rather banged up, missing their two best players, and might be missing their 4th best player, Takai ("Oh My") Simpkins, who sat out their last game against UCLA with an ankle injury.

Their best remaining player by far is Kwame Evans, who is a 6'10" PF and former 5 star McDonald's All American.

Oregon doesn't do anything particularly well and their offense has been pretty abysmal in Big Ten play with all their injuries.

Iowa 75
Oregon 64

 

[KitKatApples]

 

[TurdBurgler]

They have lost 7 straight, a record worst under Altman.

 

[YugoslavianMountainHound]

Oregon is rather banged up, missing their two best players, and might be missing their 4th best player, Takai ("Oh My") Simpkins, who sat out their last game against UCLA with an ankle injury.

Their best remaining player by far is Kwame Evans, who is a 6'10" PF and former 5 star McDonald's All American.

Oregon doesn't do anything particularly well and their offense has been pretty abysmal in Big Ten play with all their injuries.

Iowa 75
Oregon 64

Michigan had a tough game out there in similar Conditions

 

[Dr. Zaius]

 

[Mitchandrsn]

 

[KitKatApples]

Get ready to white knuckle this mother fucker to the last second

 

[HerkyHopeful]

It would be beneficial for Iowa to score points the first 10 minutes of the game

 

[Talkin' Goat]

I concur. Starting out like dogshit the last two games was less than ideal.

 

[Silky Johnson]

Like most here I’m expecting a dogfight because we just don’t play for stretches of the game, but it’s jarring to see Oregon at 1-9 in conference. Altman has generally been very good for them and the floor seemingly just fell out this season.

 

[BBK]

We have a bit of a playing up or down to competition trend going on the last several games

 

[douglasbader]

The trend has been close games, so I'm going to go with Iowa rag dolling both Oregon and Washington and then fighting to survive against Northwestern when they get back home.

 

[BBK]

A good top 25 team wins these next 2 games

 

[HiawathaHawk]

Need to take care of business tomorrow. Washington is a bad matchup with size and if they beat us, they have a really good path to get back in the mix for the tournament. Spread will probably be within 2 points.

 

[HerkyHopeful]

Washington is also a bad matchup with a 10 pm start time

 

[douglasbader]

Washington is also a bad matchup with a 10 pm start time

Lol, it's 8pm local and they're college kids.

 

[Hawk&Balls]

Yeah but it's 10 for us and we're all old

 

[HerkyHopeful]

Lol, it's 8pm local and they're college kids.

I don't care about college kids. I care about my own inconveniences

 

[ABeardedDragon]

 

[HiawathaHawk]

The play they ran before half was gorgeous.

 

[The Tin Man]

This court makes my eyes bleed

 

[iowa4ever20]

This court makes my eyes bleed

It used to be way worse

 

[Lee Beevers]

Solid road W.

 

[Nobody]

Brandon?

 

[BBK]

45% from 3, 68% from 2. Great games by Stirtz, Alvaro, Hausen, and Howard.

Big game coming up on Wednesday. It's a quad 1

 

[douglasbader]

As ol' Dougie thought, it's February and starting to see Foulgerias come into his own and now Hausen emerge from the shadows as a much healthier and skinnier quicker version of himself.

 

[BBK]

If we get these next 3 and Purdue loses at Nebrantska, we will both be 19-5 when we play them at Carver on Valentine's Day

 

[douglasbader]

This is the formula of how they go from Drake + Koch to a level up. The effort is great from everyone. I do think Howard might be sort of slow mentally sometimes.

 

[Laplace]

Kenpom liked the big road win. Up from 22 to 19.

 

[CamelTones]

I get a little frustrated when they close out hard and foul at the 3 point line, then I remember Fran didn’t care if the players closed out and let shitty shooters go 4-7 from deep.

 

[UnKnOwN_SeRb]

Good win.

But what a fuck is that gay thing bench is doing any time we make a ft?

 

[HiawathaHawk]

As ol' Dougie thought, it's February and starting to see Foulgerias come into his own and now Hausen emerge from the shadows as a much healthier and skinnier quicker version of himself.

Alvaro has gotten so much better overall and still has plenty of room to grow. But you can see it clicking for him. Still gets a shitty whistle though.

Ben was raving about Hausen postgame. Said he’s lost 15 pounds and while not getting minutes, has one of the two best consistent attitudes. Also implied that it’s been about offense almost as much as defense, not just hunting shots and chucking.

You saw him tonight actually getting inside the arc, creating and making the extra pass. Him, Koch and Alvaro are the keys to opening up the offense. Liked seeing Koch drive tonight and finish. Ben said he’s hit a freshman wall but getting it, wanted to strangle him for a couple defensive mistakes but next year you’ll be shocked at how much better he is.

 

[Nobody]

Figured the FT thing was a knockoff of Major League:

And shout out to the sombrero dude, apparently:

 

[HiawathaHawk]

At half, Sash said Banks was banged up and didn’t know if he’d play 2H. Hopefully minor. Only 42 minutes combined from him, Cam and Combs.

Stirtz was just about perfect tonight. 32 points on 8-9 from 2, 4-6 from 3, 4-4 from the line and 7 assists to 0 turnovers.

 

[douglasbader]

When Iowa can hit threes and not turn the ball over, good luck beating them.

 

[CamelTones]

Only 4 turnovers for Iowa tonight.

 

[Dr. Zaius]

Those missed layups were basically turnovers

 

[FrodoTBaggin]

As ol' Dougie thought, it's February and starting to see Foulgerias come into his own and now Hausen emerge from the shadows as a much healthier and skinnier quicker version of himself.

Was just going to come in here and say Hausen looked great. Like completely different physically from even a month ago.

 

[HiawathaHawk]

Was just going to come in here and say Hausen looked great. Like completely different physically from even a month ago.

Even had the confidence to go sleeveless on the undershirt for the first time. Ponch belly seems to be gone.

I don’t get why the Drake guys love the t-shirt.

 

[Lee Beevers]

8 games left in February. If Iowa can get six of them even wow Ben’s got it cooking a little bit.

 

[Lee Beevers]

I wouldn’t be heartbroken over 5-3 either . I have a feeling the hawks are going to be tough to beat in carver down the stretch

 

[Greg Obrecht]

Alvaro has gotten so much better overall and still has plenty of room to grow. But you can see it clicking for him. Still gets a shitty whistle though.

Ben was raving about Hausen postgame. Said he’s lost 15 pounds and while not getting minutes, has one of the two best consistent attitudes. Also implied that it’s been about offense almost as much as defense, not just hunting shots and chucking.

You saw him tonight actually getting inside the arc, creating and making the extra pass. Him, Koch and Alvaro are the keys to opening up the offense. Liked seeing Koch drive tonight and finish. Ben said he’s hit a freshman wall but getting it, wanted to strangle him for a couple defensive mistakes but next year you’ll be shocked at how much better he is.

His best play was guarding on the inbounds before half. Wasted about 3 seconds. Those are repeatable effort type plays that could make a huge difference. Oregon ran a beautiful play out of the timeout to get a good look but the point still stands.

 

[Dr. Zaius]

 

[BBK]

I hope Frank is doing well and letting that peacock fly

 

[Stomper15]

 

[The Dad]

Fol-gee is the .

 

[L. Wade Childress]

Was just going to come in here and say Hausen looked great. Like completely different physically from even a month ago.

he still looks thick but sometimes I have to remind myself that some of these kids are 18 and guys like Hausen are 23-24.