Understand, legacies are never a sure thing. We lost out to UNI on one not long ago.
Hawkeye Basketball Recruiting
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I would be shocked if Dix does not redshirt. Really unfortunate and bad injury. I would think even if he can go he's got to have some serious rust.
The kid can play. I don't like Iowa, but I hope he can make it back to 100% and play. It seems like he should, it was just always going to be a pretty long haul to get back.
Did Kenpom value ISU as top 16? Iowa lost because they ran out of steam and did not hit shots, much like the team that Won the big 12 tournament a few years ago from Ames.
ISU road a hot hand and caught breaks is all I am saying. Much like St Peters did.
Can we make jokes about Frans only good gets being legacies that have to go to someone else to develop in here?
Thinker shows up and the thread goes Spiderman.
Nice try. Of course not. Even with SoS being a factor, you can't lose as many games as ISU did in Big 12 play. It didn't matter that it was the best conference by a mile. You still have to actually win some games, which once ISU got into the best conference in basketball, they found difficult, despite how much success they had against other conferences.
I love how people, ISU fans included, try to explain how this team was really good before big 12 play, pretty bad in Big 12 play, then good again outside of Big 12 play. It's almost like there might be a pattern there. They were 15-1 outside the conference and 7-12 vs. the Big 12 for a reason.
I get that he did well against the Big 10, but Hepburn was absolutely awful against ISU. Maybe Hepburn was a good player having a horrible day. But he was not good AT ALL.
Look, your team and your conference flopped again in the tournament. Congrats on the pumped up KenPom by beating Western Michigan by 1000 points and pressing Wisconsin's walk-ons to get the game close
Iowa was a nice team that didn't belong on the same court as ISU back in Hilton, and was sitting at home watching ISU beat your conference co-champs. Fran is an OK coach who can ride a horribly overrated conference and some bloated non-con wins to a nice tourney berth.
There's no reason to believe Fran can't keep improving in season 17 and beyond as a head coach to the point where things might fall in place one of these years and you can see what the second weekend feels like. Hang in there and keep on thinkin'.
Lots of Koch and Dix talk. And their coach is a prick so it's all making sense to me now.
TJ is a much better recruiter than Fran in all facets. I wish they’d go head-to-head more in recruiting, but I don’t see it happening.
Yeah it's not close. I think most Iowa fans agree with that.
Clearly that role was written and drawn with Willem Dafoe in mind. Too bad he has already played another Spiderman villian.
You’re right, Fran is killing it on the recruiting trail and sweet 16 appearances.
Yeah I’m sorry but it really doesn’t matter what schools are recruiting you (I guess unless it’s blue blood), you’re going to be more inclined to choose the school your dad went to. Obviously there are outliers.
So much this. Iowa State didn't catch a break with Wisconsin. They actually had a really bad break in having to play a true road game in the NCAA Tournament. And they won.
