***Iowa at Washington - 2/4/26 - 10:00PM - BTN***

[AZmessDAWG]

I thought I told you to shut the fuck up

Get your own material you little bitch.

 

[6deuce]

Get your own material you little bitch.

YOU get your own material!!

 

[Fletch]

Get your own material you little bitch.

 

[SondyRules]

@SondyRules where are you sitting??
Oh, and we gonna win!

Section 9 near the top. I’ll be wearing Iowa gear.

 

[BBK]

Section 9 near the top. I’ll be wearing Iowa gear.

I hear my man @26.2 is more of a bottom

 

[26.2]

I hear my man @26.2 is more of a bottom

Bull fucking shit you did!

 

[FrodoTBaggin]

 

[Fletch]

 

[Fletch]

You eastern time, Fro?

 

[Revolver]

Drinking coffee at 9:00 pm. Let’s get this win.

 

[Talkin' Goat]

Funny how last year I wouldn’t have given a flying fuck about this game and probably wouldn’t even have noticed that it started at 10pm. This year is just a given I’m staying up to watch and looking forward to it. Thank you Beth!

 

[Revolver]

Banks in.

 

[Talkin' Goat]

Great fuckin win, boys!

 

[jd10]

that was a really fun quad 1 win

 

[YugoslavianMountainHound]

If a team is not good at defending our base play (the Stirtz pick and roll with pocket pass option) they are ded.

 

[RiotFan]

Beaut of a 2nd half.

 

[pjhawk]

Watching a tough Iowa basketball team....how many decades has it been....

 

[Billy Butters]

That looked like a team that can work their way into a 4 or 5 seed.

 

[TurdBurgler]

Great win. That probably keeps Washington out of the NCAA tournament, and we just moved up a seed. stirtz was great. Huge 2nd half from coop. Love these hawks.

 

[Talkin' Goat]

Ben knows what the fuck he is doing. This team ain’t perfect, but got damn he can coach. Hard to not be excited about this year and the future.

 

[YugoslavianMountainHound]

NSFW

 

[YugoslavianMountainHound]

Oh and the streak of keeping teams below their season average continued. UW was averaging 78. Remarkable given the first half.

 

[hawkeyealum]

Ben knows what the fuck he is doing. This team ain’t perfect, but got damn he can coach. Hard to not be excited about this year and the future.

I’m disappointed we didn’t sign a lead guard but I would think Iowa would be pretty attractive for a transfer

 

[Laplace]

We jumped from 19 to 15 in Kenpom. Great win.

 

[Fletch]

#15 in kenpom

 

[YugoslavianMountainHound]

And two of the turnovers were intentional shot clock violations at the end of the games

 

[douglasbader]

That ruled, I fucking LOVE these 10pm games. Reminds me of watching late night west coast games in middle school and high school on my 19 inch tv.

 

[Fletch]

Ben knows what the fuck he is doing. This team ain’t perfect, but got damn he can coach. Hard to not be excited about this year and the future.

17-5, 7-4 with a bunch of afterthoughts.

 

[BBK]

They only missed 22 shots and had 8 offense rebounds and lost by 10.

A testament to our efficiency which needed to be at the top of it's game tonight

 

[Talkin' Goat]

I’m disappointed we didn’t sign a lead guard but I would think Iowa would be pretty attractive for a transfer

That has always been the plan I believe. Let Stirtz show the next one how things could look.

 

[douglasbader]

Now let's not come back home and pull a Rutgers against Northwestern and Maryland.

 

[BBK]

That ruled, I fucking LOVE these 10pm games. Reminds me of watching late night west coast games in middle school and high school on my 19 inch tv.

Just a shame we don't have Bill Walton on the call

 

[Greg Obrecht]

McCollum is a basketball savant.

I don’t want to be the look ahead guy but UCLA, Wisconsin, and Purdue all have a tough stretch coming up. Maybe, if things fall right, the Iowa Purdue game is a battle for 5th place.

 

[douglasbader]

Very well could be 19-5 / 9-4 headed into 2 game home stand against Top 10 Purdue and Nebrantska.

 

[douglasbader]

Sage was huge in the first half, Koch in the second half.

 

[CamelTones]

Give McCollum Washington’s roster and he sure as fuck wouldn’t be 12-11.

 

[Greg Obrecht]

15th on KenPom.

 

[Talkin' Goat]

The Purdue game is sold out and set up to be a massive launching point for this team and McCollum. Winning that would put fan support on a whole different level.

 

[BBK]

And Washington moved up to #45

 

[douglasbader]

Worth noting this now on the 5 losses....

- 19 point loss at #10 Michigan State
- 4 point loss at #4 Iowa State
- 3 point loss at Minnesota with everyone sick as a dog (and Gophers have taken out multiple teams there including Michigan State tonight)
- 6 point loss to #5 Illinois
- 7 point loss at #9 Purdue (up 9 in second half)

4 of 5 losses on the road. 4 losses by 7 points or less and were in all of them at the last minute. 4 losses to Top 10 teams including multiple Top 5 teams.

 

[nikolausp]

Loved watching the Hawks just be nasty on D the 2nd half and just keep playing their game... They definitely got more physical in the 2nd half, kept up the hustle and energy with better adjustments. Felt like Wash shooting would come back down to earth after their 1st half 77% FG , so we just needed to keep being us, and make the halftime defense adjustments . Fuck ya! Great win. Love coach Mac

 

[douglasbader]

Big Ten now has 6 teams in the KenPom Top15 as well.

 

[HiawathaHawk]

Huge fucking win. Love Ben, love this team.

Stirtz still under appreciated. Fucking stud.

 

[YugoslavianMountainHound]

Sage was huge in the first half, Koch in the second half.

My Koch was huge in the 2nd half too.

 

[douglasbader]

5 more Quad 1 games coming up as well in the regular season. Huge opportunities.

vs. Purdue
vs. Nebrantska
@ Wisconsin
vs. Michigan
@ Nebrantska

Possibility that vs. Ohio State could end up being one as well. They are currently #41 in NET.

 

[L. Wade Childress]

#15 in kenpom

so we didn’t move up at all since the last post.

 

[HiawathaHawk]

Take care of business to be 19-5, 9-4 going into the Purdue game that’s sold out on a Saturday afternoon.

 

[Hawk_Kegmasters]

With Washington’s size, that was a complete mismatch down low but Iowa was able to adjust. Fun to watch.

 

[Greg Obrecht]

This may sound stupid. But that early loss @MSU was huge in regards to Ben’s growth as a coach. Blown the fuck out, a complete mismatch, that game reframed how incredibly difficult and how much effort it takes to win a I am a giant douche road game.

The next road game..at Hilton against a top 10 team. Iowa came out swinging. They were a play or two away from a huge upset.

Since that game, sure they’ve lost in the road, but they haven’t looked overwhelmed. They’ve competed each time out even when they were sick af.

Now they just completed the PNW sweep against a decimated Oregon team and pretty damned talented Washington team.

I’m proud of this team for how they’ve stuck together. The whole is greater than the sum of the parts. And ultimately that leads back to the top.

 

[BBK]

Photo from the game tonight. 26, Nico, or Sondy?