I thought UConn looked quicker and was better defensively but got tired and had bad fouls that affected everything.
2024 NCAA Tournament Thread
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I thought UConn looked quicker and was better defensively but got tired and had bad fouls that affected everything.
That view made the UConn player look like a giant. I thought she was going to pick her up and throw her WWE style.
Sucks that Gabbie has had to cancel her social media because of all the hate she's getting for that call. Pretty sad.
No doubt about it, kind of the state of social media these days.
The weird thing is I’ve seen people sell contact 10x that much every single game, and it was an actual illegal screen!
If the foul hadn't been called, I guarantee Bueckers feeds Edwards on the roll for an easy bucket. Geno didn't put the ball in her hands to necessarily get a 3. He put the ball in her hands because she's precisely the one you want on that team making the decision on which shot to take in that situation. Put the ball in her hands and let her see what the defense gives them, and trust her to make the right decision.
RE: MBB: North Carolina (Charlotte this year) and / or Duke rarely lose in the Carolina Invitational in the first two rounds. That's almost the same thing, but every once in a blue moon one of them misses that layup.
Trouble was Paige was going to be doubled near the sideline with Stuelke and Marshall. With less than 3 seconds. Needed to have more time.
Sunday…..the last day of all this cc crap. Sukeye WBB goes back to irrelevant status tonight by 5 pm…. And the wicked witch will melt away…..
The all-time facebook post I seen from a Hawkeye fan just this morning was:
"However the game goes today, What CC has done while at Iowa is far more impressive than hopping on super teams to cherry pick rings at UCONN. These old head W players just hate that she stayed home and has had this much success"
Their fans are so delusional they don't realize that if she had been recruited by UCONN she would have been there and been "cherry picking rings". It was her dream school.
So guess they won their super bowl already in WBB by beating let me check the 3 seed UCONN.
To me mocking a team for their "relevance", a national relevance we have never enjoyed as ISU fans, is a strange flex.
In a more serious vein, Iowa obviously will not win 30 games next year but I think Bluder has had only one losing season at Iowa so it's not like they will suddenly drop to last place in the Big Ten. They have a class somewhat comparable to our 2023 class coming in and have two top recruits signed for 2025 so I don't expect them to suddenly auger in. The seniors will be gone, and looking for a PG, but the pieces will all be there. Bit of bad luck in that their ranked recruit for this year will never play basketball after her tragic car accident and their 2024 PG recruit tore her ACL.
To me mocking a team for their "relevance", a national relevance we have never enjoyed as ISU fans, is a strange flex.
In a more serious vein, Iowa obviously will not win 30 games next year but I think Bluder has had only one losing season at Iowa so it's not like they will suddenly drop to last place in the Big Ten. They have a class somewhat comparable to our 2023 class coming in and have two top recruits signed for 2025 so I don't expect them to suddenly auger in. The seniors will be gone, and looking for a PG, but the pieces will all be there. Bit of bad luck in that their ranked recruit for this year will never play basketball after her tragic car accident and their 2024 PG recruit tore her ACL.
I think they go into 5-9 seed status starting next year. Bluder will get a short recruiting boom though.
they have a couple decent players coming back, but those players are getting a ton of looks and points this year because teams don't care about them as much right now.
I would fully expect teams to camp in the lane more next year..
It was obvious and maybe should have been upgraded. Edwards should have fouled out earlier with committing more moving screens.
Might be a bubble team? It would help them to get a PG in the portal but Bluders seems really old school with respect to portal recruiting so that will be something for the Hawk fans to watch closely. Hawks are a little bit of an outlier in the age of mass transfering, not many players leaving Iowa nor many coming to Iowa. Maybe, Molly Davis in and Jensen left is all I can think of off the top of my head for players anyone might even know?
