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The question will be if he thinks he can get better and improve his draft stock by playing his senior season. He can leave and get paid, or come back to a team with a legit chance at a special season and polish off his game at the same time. He's got a tough decision.

If you hear your name called on Selection Sunday, you made the tournament. That's how I've always looked at it.

If he was he'd be in the NBA right now. He's probably the most exciting and athletically gifted player Iowa has had in a long time but he has an incomplete game (not a great jump shot, turns the ball over alot, really good playing with his back to the basket but not so much facing the basket).

If Barta wasn't ousted over the whole Meyer/Greisbaum fiasco I'm not sure anything relating to success of the sports programs will.

Who are the inferior teams Iowa has lost to this year? Wisconsin? Purdue? Michigan State? Minnesota? Those teams are combined 66-22 and all but Minnesota are ahead of Iowa in the conference standings. Minnesota is tied with Iowa in the standings. Did you watch when Iowa went on a 21-2 run...

I'm not sure who would really want the Indiana job right now. Crazed fans living in the past who still think Indiana is elite when they haven't won a national title since 1987 and have been to only two final fours since then (1992 and 2002). It's like Nebraska in football, accomplishments...

I said when Fran was hired if Fran could duplicate Davis's accomplishments he would be earning his pay. What Fran has done in 9 years is respectable. He came to Iowa as a coach with a reputation of turning programs around and Iowa was a program needing turned around. Fran filled a need. He's...

The extension Barta gave Fran in late 2017 doubled Fran's buyout which makes him one of the most expensive coaches to fire in the country. Unless the program craters he's pretty well entrenched as the coach. Which is too bad because I think Drake's Darian DeVries is going to be getting alot of...

Starting with the Ralph Miller era Iowa has made exactly 6 sweet 16's. That includes the 87 team that almost went to the final four, and the 1980 final four team. That period of time includes 2 hall of fame coaches in Miller and Lute Olson and Iowa's all time leading coaching wins leader in...

We don't know anything about Tousaint because he's not played any college minutes. I certainly hope he's legit but Fran's track record of recruiting the 1 position doesn't give me much hope. The only time we've even been serviceable at the 1 position the last 9 years was when Gesell and...

Agreed. I think defense is an attitude. Everyone wants the ball and to score points, that's what shows up in the stat book and gets you NBA attention. Only certain players are willing to put the work in to play the kind of defense it takes to win games. Fran can teach defense all he wants...

100% correct. More specifically, at the PG position. He has missed on Tyler Ulis and DJ Carton. There was also the Trey Dickerson experiment that failed. If he hasn't landed a legit PG who can play in the big ten by now then I'm not sure he is going to.

Michigan State is clearly the best team in the conference. Hands down. Michigan can make an argument I suppose but MSU is the most complete team and most likely to go to the final four. I'm not shocked Iowa lost nor am I disappointed in the effort. MSU is just better and Iowa was outclassed...

Here's something for your stat nerds out there: Iowa gets 56% of it's offense from free throws and three pointers. Michigan State gets 28% of its offense from free throws and three pointers. This means Iowa gets 56% of it's offense from traditionally lower percentage shots away from the basket...

The next four games will define Iowa's season. They host Michigan and Michigan State, and travel to Indiana and Minnesota. Two games against the top 2 teams in the conference and two road games at two venues that have been houses of horror for Iowa historically. Split those games and things...

I feel like defense is an attitude. It's tiring and it doesn't stuff the stat book. Everyone wants the ball and wants to score. But few ever really have a passion for playing defense. Fran has a team full of offense-first players, which makes sense since he wants to run the floor and score...

Saturday afternoon game with students back. Should be a great atmosphere.

But geezo peezo. Wide-spread predictions of Iowa getting hammered by Nebraska and Northwestern after getting de-testicled by Purdue at Mackey Arena (a decades-old Iowa tradition) were a little bit of a over-reaction. Fact is there are 2 elite teams in this conference in Michigan and Michigan...

I don't think it's a lack of talent overall. There are 3 4-star recruits on the team. I think it is lack of a legit PG who can drive the lane and lack of anyone who can keep opposing guards out of the paint. Iowa's guards are Bohannon, Dailey, Moss, and Wieskamp. None of them have shown a...

If this season follows alot of Fran's at Iowa, Iowa will build up to around a top 15 ranking then fall as the season goes along, culminating in a first-round exit in the BTT then a first or 2nd round exit in the NCAAT. It's better than the Lickliter years but 9 years in we have seen Fran's ceiling.