Oh well, "Kelly" made a good subsitute target
I think the rebounding was around 40-35, in our favor. That's what was on the score ring near the very end of the game.
Has there ever been a more lovable Hawkeye than Gorney? Dude literally just occupies space out there. I love to see him in the game.
It was great to see Garrett got 20 important minutes tonight, I would be surprised if they weren't working him into a starting role soon. I am sure that Sean Haluska is a nice guy, but he is not a Division 1 basketball player. With Diante getting more minutes and Wes playing more and more at the 2, Sean may not play much the rest of the year.
Peterson really impressed me tonight. He didn't dominate the game, but he played a lot better than he has this year when you look at the entire game and played well enough to win. It seemed like things started to click for him more than previous games.
Yes, there were a bunch of recruits in for the game. They sat very close to me behind cyclone alley on the west side. They were there with Chizik and several of our coaches. The recruits appeared to be very impressed and a great time, except for one guy who wore a burnt orange jump suit, dark sunglasses, and had a Stevie Hicks hair cut - he just slept through most of the game, if that's possible. He looked like a Univ of Iowa gansta recruit.
That must have been an ugly game, looking at the shooting percentages. I guess the over under on LF 54 pts was dead on. But I love getting a win...winning ugly is better than losing pretty.
I posted earlier in the week that we needed Clark and Jiri to have career games today to shake off the Drake debacle. While they didn't have career games, they both did step up big today.
I'm not going to get too giddy, because iowa sucks out loud, but once we made that mini 8 point run in the first half, I never really felt like we were in trouble.
And you have to like Diante raising the level of his game.