***Iowa vs MN 2 pm BTN***

[L. Wade Childress]

LFG!

 

[L. Wade Childress]

We have finally unlocked the magic. We need the coach’s shitty kid to score 20 points or more, and we need their best player to injure themselves while blocking our shot.

 

[Shpadoinkle]

GREAT coaching job.

 

[Hawkstrat]

He frustrates, but hats off to him.

 

[douglasbader]

Back up to the #2 seed and hosting NIT at home, boyz!!

 

[Kamala]

Thanks for the heads up. I’m gonna get in my private jet right now and fly to the West Coast so i can catch the ending live

 

[jabberjaw]

 

[Revolver]

Patrick’s best game of the year. Great comeback.

 

[Hawkstrat]

 

[CamelTones]

Once Iowa got it under the halftime number is was kinda obvious they were gonna win. Minnesota built that lead on going 10-14 from 3. They were not going to make another one at that point, especially after Perkins delivered the nut shot with his knee.

 

[Dr. Zaius]

I should go to more games. 20 point comeback and my cousin made the full court putt in the first half

 

[The Full Monte]

#33 for Minny might be the most yoked basketball player I have ever seen at the college level.

 

[RiotFan]

#33 for Minny might be the most yoked basketball player I have ever seen at the college level.

That dude was HUGE. Has to moonlight as a bouncer.

 

[CamelTones]

That dude was HUGE. Has to moonlight as a bouncer.

I appreciated him coming in, playing 8 seconds and getting called for a moving screen. Right back to the bench.

 

[Dr. Zaius]

#33 for Minny might be the most yoked basketball player I have ever seen at the college level.

Looked like he just made it out of a gulag

 

[CamelTones]

This is the future of Iowa basketball:

 

[BBK]

Fuckin Moline

 

[Silky Johnson]

Get his little brother and Juice WRLD’s cousin and build a QC squad.

 

[HiawathaHawk]

#33 for Minny might be the most yoked basketball player I have ever seen at the college level.

One of the biggest humans I’ve ever seen. Pregame I thought he was just a strength coach. Didn’t even take any shots and walked off early. Got about 20 seconds and picked up a terrible moving screen.

 

[HiawathaHawk]

That was fun as hell. First 26 minutes was miserable. About as quiet I’ve heard a Big Ten game since the criminal years. Were able to move courtside for the last 12 minutes. Probably less than half full with people leaving early but got really loud.

Freeman is a fucking man. 20 might have turned to 30 without him. Patrick was big. The aggressive trapping on the ball screens worked.

 

[Hawk_Kegmasters]

This is the future of Iowa basketball:

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Future? He’s the motha fuckin present. Cam Krispy Kreme was scared shitless of him.

 

[L. Wade Childress]

faces of meth

 

[turtley78]

I should go to more games. 20 point comeback and my cousin made the full court putt in the first half

 

[douglasbader]

Local media trying to convince readers that Iowa still alive for the NCAA Tourney.

 

[L. Wade Childress]

They were in a similar spot in 2014-2015

 

[MikeyJoe]

Local media trying to convince readers that Iowa still alive for the NCAA Tourney.

That's insane. Their resume is so bad, they'd need to go something like 5-2 or 6-1 to end the regular season here to have a prayer.

 

[douglasbader]

That's insane. Their resume is so bad, they'd need to go something like 5-2 or 6-1 to end the regular season here to have a prayer.

They would need 5-2 with a couple wins over Illinois and Wisconsin and maybe 1-2 more in the BTT.

It ain't happening.

 

[JD720]

IF they make the tournament, it's more likely to be from winning the Big Ten Tournament than earning an at large. And that's not likley either, of course.

 

[L. Wade Childress]

The big ten is fucking awful. Wisconsin at home may not be Quad 1 by then.

 

[LifelongHawk]

NIT would be fine for this team

 

[CamelTones]

They were in a similar spot in 2014-2015

They were 15-10 coming off back to back losses to Minnesota and a bad Northwestern team. Biggest difference is that team had road wins at North Carolina and Ohio State plus home wins against Ohio State and Maryland.

They then won their last 6 regular season games. The current team just doesn’t have any real quality wins.

 

[TurdBurgler]

This might be the year they finally win the NIT. That is my hope at this point.

 

[The Full Monte]

One of the biggest humans I’ve ever seen. Pregame I thought he was just a strength coach. Didn’t even take any shots and walked off early. Got about 20 seconds and picked up a terrible moving screen.

He was listed at 6’11” 338lbs while playing football at Washington State. He clearly cut down a lot of the football weight though. That was bonkers to see on a basketball court

 

[Verbal]

This might be the year they finally win the NIT. That is my hope at this point.

It's more likely they fall out of the NIT. The schedule is pretty rough the rest of the way.

 

[KitKatApples]

That's not very fun

 

[Fletch]

It's more likely they fall out of the NIT. The schedule is pretty rough the rest of the way.

 

[douglasbader]

Imagine the rush to buy NIT tickets this year. Carver might have 5, maybe 600 people!

 

[Hawk&Balls]

Quite the jump from 5 to 600

 

[TurdBurgler]

Automatic 2 bids to the NIT, by net rating, but our chances def hurt if the big ten only gets 5 into the big dance.

 

[KitKatApples]

You're really making me sad now

 

[kenos]

This team ain't going nowhere but back home after the btt

 

[douglasbader]

I would usually say it isn't the worst thing for a team like Iowa that does have talent on the team and coming in but needs the coaching staff to really buckle down and get aggressive in the transfer portal to get it back where it needs to be, but Fran is pretty terrible at that.

He's either going to leave, or more likely will bring back most of the same guys plus Tadjo/Koch and whatever cracker undersized mid-major post player that dominated the MAC/Valley due to playing against 6'7'' other crackers. That or he gets a black guy that can't shoot worth a shit but might be willing to defend like Bakari Evelyn.

Imagine getting an established solid transfer PG. We can dream, boyz!!

 

[L. Wade Childress]

Quite the jump from 5 to 600

will be sold out before the announcement at this rate

 

[The Incredible Hawk]

This might be the year they finally win the NIT. That is my hope at this point.

Hopefully @Trey Kohn can get release so we can ride the train together again leaving MSG.

 

[L. Wade Childress]

Hopefully @Trey Kohn can get release so we can ride the train together again leaving MSG.

how did you, Trey, and TH’s mom end up in the same place?

 

[kenos]

I would usually say it isn't the worst thing for a team like Iowa that does have talent on the team and coming in but needs the coaching staff to really buckle down and get aggressive in the transfer portal to get it back where it needs to be, but Fran is pretty terrible at that.

He's either going to leave, or more likely will bring back most of the same guys plus Tadjo/Koch and whatever cracker undersized mid-major post player that dominated the MAC/Valley due to playing against 6'7'' other crackers. That or he gets a black guy that can't shoot worth a shit but might be willing to defend like Bakari Evelyn.

Imagine getting an established solid transfer PG. We can dream, boyz!!

Just to prove you wrong, Fran is going to grab a six nine transfer center named Ja'Sean who plays the viola and likes James Herriot books.

 

[Silky Johnson]

Rebraca was a solid player and this team sadly really needs Krikke, but I don’t get how Fran is able to find big guys that play so soft (well, I guess he found one at his own kitchen table). You’d think guys from Serbia and Edmonton would be tough, but even yesterday Krikke was once again shoved around by guys smaller and weaker than him. It’s just not a good sign when a white wingman and a freshman are your best rebounders.

 

[CurdMan]

Rebraca was a solid player and this team sadly really needs Krikke, but I don’t get how Fran is able to find big guys that play so soft (well, I guess he found one at his own kitchen table). You’d think guys from Serbia and Edmonton would be tough, but even yesterday Krikke was once again shoved around by guys smaller and weaker than him. It’s just not a good sign when a white wingman and a freshman are your best rebounders.

Rebraca was plenty tough. So was Garza. Krikke isn’t a 5 and never should have been recruited out of the portal as such. It was clear at Valpo that he had high level offensive skills as a finesse power forward but not a reliable 3 point shooter, poor rebounder, and a major liability on defense. Of the two realistic options I thought Mast would have been a better fit for this team. But it isn’t surprising that Fran chose the guy who would score more. And it’s a microcosm of why much of the fan base has given up on Fran to ever take defense seriously enough.

 

[L. Wade Childress]

We had several years in a row of top 30 defenses. It seems to be more personnel related.

 

[MikeyJoe]

We had several years in a row of top 30 defenses. It seems to be more personnel related.

Adam Woodbury was criminally underappreciated in his time.