Tough day for EIU hoops hopes
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This makes me laugh. I listened to part of the game in the car. Early second half, Dolphin or Hansen, can't remember for sure, mentions Rutgers on Sunday. Then Dolphin says, "there are no nights off in the Big Ten." The above schedule says otherwise.
This. Look at last year. Iowa has a POTY finalist and 4th overall NBA draft pick. Its always gonna take luck for them (or ISU for that matter) to have a player of that caliber. Fran can't surround him with enough talent to get better than, what, a 5 seed? Fran has shown fans the ceiling and its not very high at all. Pretty hilarious how many of them are ok with it.
Well if you're an average team they have a point.
Any average team can beat other average teams.
If they lose to Minnesota that should disqualify them.
I firmly believe the commitee gets their advice from whoever is calling B1G games so MN will somehow not be viewed as a bad loss.
Fran has won 4 of 5 against ISU that's more important to them than the post season
That is a lot. I had to check, and Holmes is our high FT attempt guy with 63. Next goes way down to 44 -- Osun.
Rebraca with 110 for the Hawks. Next closest is Perkins and Murray with 57 each. Rebraca has been so much better this year than last. Totally unrecognizable from the guy he was last year. Where would they be without a guy that is almost tripling his scoring output, doubling his rebounding, and averaging over a block per game? He is low key their most important player IMO, no disrespect to Kris or Connor.
Pretty sure that Fran teaches jumping into contact, which is almost certainly where Joe picked it up.
I've never once gotten the impression that WVU players dislike playing for Huggins, many in fact credit him for huge impact in their lives. How he is in the "heat of battle" likely differs greatly from how he is at practice, meals, and meetings
Id say flip Illinois to a L, Underwood has had Frans number and they have too good of shooting to get shut down by Iowa. Everything else feels fine. Maaaaaybe @indiana a W but idk
Minny is a landmine Iowa cant afford to play mediocre in. They're playing better as of late, and dropping that one could end up as a kill shot for them
On one side, that's three home games in a row against unranked teams. That's what we call November scheduling.
On the flip side, their next four games are against the conference's 2nd, 3rd, 5th, and 1st place teams.
The drop off from 1 to the rest of the field in the Big 10 is ENORMOUS this year.
If I remember correctly, during COVID Huggy did his coaches show from his deck while sipping whiskey. He had some good comments during those shows
