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Yeah, my bad. I watched Van Lith on the tube quite a bit this year, and every game (except 1) I came away very unimpressed. She's not quick enough to get into the lane like Clark, she's not as good of a 3 pt shooter as McCabe. Agreed, not a good fit for Iowa's style.

If Van Lith ever had vision of getting drafted into the WNBA, those hopes went out the window for any scout watching her try to guard Clark Monday night. Clark literally needed just one big step to get by her...EVERY time. You may say "Well, Clark is unguardable". Yes and no. There were...

Agree with most of this post. Have to put Gabby on Johnson to try to slow her down. Unfortunately, CClark having to guard Van Lith will mean her having to actually guard someone out at the 3pt line rather than sag off, and she's going to have to work harder than usual on the defensive end. It...

Given CC's slump from treyland the last several games -- and make no mistake, her 3pt shooting % has been under 30% lately -- if I'm LSU I'd back off and err on the side of giving her more room to shoot 3s, in order to prevent her ability to get to the rim for easy baskets and risk getting my...

Gotta admit I was a big Bruin fan yesterday. I honestly think the Hawks could handle UCLA no problem, but dang, LSU is just a bad matchup. Van Lith is not a problem, but their Guard #4 Johnson yesterday was the best player on the floor. Add in their height and relentless rebounding efforts...

She HAS been very fortunate to stay relatively injury-free for 4 years. Her first couple years defenses didn't really focus on being physical with her, and even last year I was pretty surprised at how little she got beat up when she drove the lane. Finally, at the end of last year a few teams...

Truth. Dude needs to get down to the Iowa wrestling room and learn what a REAL workout is like. Ben Kueter went down to the room after the end of the football season, and it took him over a month to even BEGIN to get into serious shape.

I really enjoyed watching this team play offense this year. They really moved the ball, shared the ball, could drive, could dish, had a post presence, and had good shooters on the team to boot. You watch some of the NCAA tourney teams on offense and it's painful compared to watching Iowa. And...

Should be a fascinating matchup. The Hawks can get sloppy and turn the ball over, and WV's style looks like that's what they're built create. If the Hawks limit their turnovers, and hit a good % of 3s, they should come out on top. But we all know this team is reliant on 3s and CClark. If...

Holy Cross did a good job in the 1st quarter collapsing on Clark whenever she went into the middle of the lane -- to the point she couldn't even pass out of it and committed 4 TOs in the first four minutes. Repeating the pattern as in some recent games, Clark tries to do too much at the...

I think Bowen is more talented than most Hawk fans realize. For the past two years he was literally the only player quick enough to get his own shot and break down a defender and get into the lane. Super quick offensively, and not a turnover machine, either. He fits the profile of other...

I get it -- beat the Hawks and your program will have more publicity and notoriety than they've ever had before in their program. Why not hype it? Shoot, it's not like they won't have a chance.

Iowa's draw is really not that bad. KState has problems on offense, and if all you have to do to get to the Elite 8 is beat a Top 15-20 team, you can't complain about that. It's unfortunate the Hawks drew LSU in their bracket, but everybody knew that was going to happen. It was a horrible...

You can say many truthful things about Iowa's men's teams, but "boring" is not one of them. Geez, dude, they typically lead the BTen conference in scoring, play a fast-paced game on offense that cameras have trouble keeping up with...AND they typically have a very low turnover rate, especially...

At one point in recent years one of Fran's top assistants left, and I thought: what a perfect time to bring in a defensive specialist coach. He didn't. Oh, but I forgot, Fran's got a video out where he teaches defense. Seriously. What coach would ever be dumb enough to buy it?! It's not...

The possibility of playing at Madison Square Garden is something these young guys would remember. I really like the men on this year's team, but I don't expect the Hawks to get there. Perkins and Freeman seem to be running out of gas at the end of the season, and the past couple weeks I've...

Yeah, all you had to do was watch his team play at any point this year, and it was obvious his players didn't know what they were doing -- or were supposed to be doing -- and their confidence, effort and grit was nothing like what Iowa's team shows night in and night out.

My understanding is the BTen conference's coverage contract is now with FOX, NBC, and some other player. Peacock is a division of NBC, and putting games on Peacock is NBC's way to get more subscribers onto Peacock to bring in more cash and help pay for the billion bucks they pay the conference...

He's dropped some hints over the last 24 months that make me think he's not real confident about where Nebraska fits in the ultimate athletic realignment coming in the next 5-10 years. Didn't expect this, tho. Question is, how long can Iowa keep our new AD before Stanford poaches her?

I'm not giving up on this team just yet. I see tonight's game as an outlier...I mean, how often has Iowa missed on 9 straight possessions to open a game -- or at any point in ANY game this season? Never. Add in 2 missed dunks, and a bunch of missed bunnies, and this was just very unusual for...