I didn't think Bowen was worth a scholarship offer after his sophomore year. Thought we maybe should have offered after his Junior year but oh well. However, after seeing how bad we shot this year and how good Bowen can launch it. I think we really messed up no offering him.
Then again by the time this all went down I would have been to late with the offer also. I think Iowa and Iowa State are gong to be regretting not getting him. I think he will be a very slid player at UNI. His dad was a late developer also. Ended up transferring to Iowa State. So there is still hope. haha
We were #7 in the Big 12 in three-point shooting last year -- with Haliburton and Bolton, our two best shooters, each missing stretches with injury.
We were not a great shooting team last year, but we were not an atrocious one, either. I know complaining about shooting is easier to see, but our problem really was defense, not offense. We were a negative outlier on defense versus the conference.
The gap between Iowa State and #9 TCU on defense was as large as the gap between TCU going all the way up to #5 Texas and almost up to #4 TTU. Were were
bad on D.
But we were pretty good on offense (we were #3 until Haliburton and Bolton went down to injuries, which ground our offensive efficiency down) --
We need to learn how to stop, not how to score/shoot, relatively speaking.
A 5'10" kid from the Little Hawkeye Conference is probably going to have trouble defending Big 12 guards, even if he is a slightly better shooter than Caleb Grill.