5 games left and is the toughest schedule in the entire country.
#9, #10, #11 teams in KenPom back to back to back. #26 and #32 team to finish it up. #14, #17, #20, #19 and #33 defensive teams, and that last team is vastly tougher at home and will be an ugly atmosphere. All the games Quad 1 on steroids.
Every single one of the 5 teams loves to grab and hold and rape and fuck your corpse to death as a defensive strategy. Every single possession to make it extra hard to call a game properly. Lucky for Iowa the refs are in swallow your whistle and call nothing unless a players head cracks open and their brains spill out on the court.
If Fran can pull 2 wins out of that mess with a banged up team I will be really happy and so should everyone else.