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Living in Des Moines I used to be somewhat of a curious ISU fan back in the 60's and 70's. But I always had to pull for the hawks. Once the legislature made the football teams start playing each other I became more of a "I hope ISU loses so the hawks can stomp them every year" kind of a guy. I...

Yeah, it is funny that a team like ISU which was crapping the bed in late Jan and most of February, was bottom of the standings in Feb, could go to the final four. That being said there is a lot of parity in Bball and you only need 3 really good players and good role players to go a long distance.

Agree, but I think officials can talk to players about rules interpretations even though it may not be their job to educate them. Is it the line judges who initiate the telling receivers to step up rather than what I thought the commonly accepted practice is of the receivers checking with the...

Rebraca hit a nice 10-15 footer to start the scoring against Richmond iirc. Maybe he is a pretty decent midrange shooter but was deferring to the other players to be the scorers.

And defense usually wins championships in most all sports, football and bball for sure, hockey (a good defense and hot goalie can win a cup or a series), in baseball it has always been about great pitching and up the middle defense from catcher thru the infield to center field.

I have heard ISU is not a very good shooting team but plays really good defense. I have not watched more than hilites of them this year and most years as I do not get excited by their brand. So, what is the deal, does ISU have better athletes, better defenders, better rebounders? Some...

Let's not get all butt hurt about ISU having a run going. They were getting clobbered the 2nd half of the season and in their tourney. Wisconsin shot like shit just like we did and I am not sure if it was great ISU defense or what. I didnt watch the game and never really watch ISU bball. So...

Yes, NIL is getting sickening real fast. It is as bad and akin to large tax loopholes that help the already rich. You would think "Name, Image, Likeness" of an NCAA athlete 1) could not be signed/completed until an athlete is actually an enrolled student, 2) not be tied to any recruiting of a...

And NIL rules need to be tightened up because this 'aint' normal recruiting anymore.

Connor can certainly play without a schollie as Fran can pay his tuition.

thanks for the info. Winter sports had a very good vibe and run but sudden, shocking endings so it will be good to look in on spring sports and especially spring football. KF has had a really good run going in football but he needs to solve the Purdue puzzle and beat wisky more often than not...

Very good points. I used to watch a lot of the other, non-Hawk, bball games during championship week and the NCAA tourney and even watch some selected NIT games. But that has gone away for me exactly because of the mugging. Remember when hand checking was a point of emphasis and did get...

Now Kris's performance in the last game against Richmond is more of a tell or more disconcerting than Keegan's. With Keegan in the game getting total attention by Richmond, Kris could have gone off for 15 to 20 points but he had a tough game also. I think just from a consistency standpoint...

The tourney is definitely full of "upsets" which I place in quotes because Bball has just been a super popular game, full of kids becoming great players, and the college teams are full of them. So there is so much more parity now. Bball is the ticket for college for many kids. Over the years...

Wow, a lot of upsets this year.

Really, you just noticed that and I assume you are being a little sarcastic since the talking heads have called college Bball a point guard and guards game for the last 20 years.

Well this is a more studied type of discussion of our program than OK4P's "Fire Fran" thread.

I wasnt just talking about his height but his dribbling ability, etc etc, smarts, intangibles, Hilyard hit some big buckets against the hawks and he got the ball to his open teammates. I did happen to catch the last few minutes of their A10 Championship game and he was doing everything very...

Many of you have said this but I am going to reiterate that Iowa has lot's of great big guys, super forwards and wing shooters but Fran has not had enough of the great point guards. Actually, Fran has never had a really great point guard, has he? None of them are good enough to make the NBA or...

By the way, I heard Wisconsin has some injuries. Is that still the case?