Recent content by Grady

People don't think this team is like Fran's teams, but oddly enough, just like Fran's teams this team will go only as far as their 3pt shooting will take them. This team is better defensively than Fran's teams, but without a rim protector or any type of enforcer inside, they certainly are not...

I don't remember you saying that, and wouldn't have ridiculed you if you did, but I wouldn't hesitate to put serious money on a bet that Iowa finishes higher than 9th at the NCAAs. 5th or 6th is defnitely in play, but if guys stay relatively healthy I see that as their floor. I mean, egads...

The next great pass-catching TE at Iowa. Excellent hands, good speed, decent quickness which showed on that stop-and-go route vs the Huskers. Add a few lbs and become an excellent blocker and that dude will make some serious cash at the next level. In the meantime, over the next 2 years, GET...

If Gronowski is Honorable Mention, there's a huge chasm between the 4 QBs Fry listed as Rushmore and Hon. Mention. Banks, Tate & Beathard had wheels AND could throw the ball. Gron demonstrated that for most of this season, he couldn't. Gron and Stanley without debate will go down in Hawkeye...

Interesting to compare Rhule's postgame presser today to his presser after last year's close loss in Iowa City. Last year he was flat-out angry. He felt like his team outplayed Iowa, they outcoached Iowa (didn't say it but might as well have), and they deserved to win. It was hard to argue...

Nearly all 7 of Iowa's shots which were blocked were going to be dunks. In the first 5 games those were gimmes. Add 14 pts to Iowa's final total of 74 and you get darn close to Iowa's season average of around 90 pts/game.

In his postgame presser, the MSU coach said their plan going into the game was to punt to Wetjen once and see if they could contain him, and if not to punt everything after that out of bounds. Wetjen fair caught the 1st punt. The 2nd punt he caught on the 10 yd line and returned it 45 yds...

All Hail, Scottyd!! And kudos to Zamboni08 for putting it all together!

I wasn't completely sold on Stremlow getting so many minutes last season, but her mental toughness and the steadiness she brings to the team really showed up last night. Also great to see McCabe making serious defensive strides compared to past seasons -- in past years she was a defensive...

She took two hard blows on back-to-back plays. On the defensive end she ran into a brick wall of a (legal) screen set by one of Baylor's bigs, which knocked her completely off her feet; then came down on offense and it looked to me like she fell oddly onto the front of her head hard. She was...

Man, that was some funky hoops tonight. At one point, Baylor was 1 for 18...and Iowa had a 1-pt lead. Rodriguez was a walking turnover all night -- she must have had 7 at least -- but then she came down with a minute remaining and the game on the line and went 1-on-1 to the hoop on a fast...

Well, you sure got everybody's attention and riled up with your earlier post, Fry. Well done!

I happened to catch the TCU-Michigan game last week. Brock Harding took over the game in the 2nd half and practically willed his team to a win over a ranked opponent -- they ultimately lost 67-63. In that game he led TCU in points, rebounds (!) , and assists. He's also the only TCU player...

Just submitted my picks for the tie-breaker. Zamboni, let me know if you didn't receive them and I'll just post them here, since everybody else has already sent their picks to ya. Go Bearcats!

Isn't there a new change that a one-time portal will only be open for a couple weeks in January? If so, you'd have to know who your coach will be before that portal opens in order to put together a team for 2026. Or I guess if a head coach leaves after the portal closes, it automatically...