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True, but if we don't play as well as we did through January, we wouldn't have even made the dance.

See almost every year Iowa has made the dance since 1989. It's not because we played poorly those years but that the other teams were just on rolls.

I'll grant you he's had success at Oregon this year, but hasn't he really underachieved in the tournament more years than not? Too lazy to go look up his record but I don't remember his teams lighting it up in the Big Dance most years.

Could be. Could be he's really hoping player X or Y will ask for a transfer as well.

Does seem hard to believe he would call this kid if he doesn't know someone's leaving.

Kyle Korver has made a living by shooting the 3 in the NBA. Jok is not on his level yet as a shooter nor even as quick as Korver is, though Korver isn't all that quick. If he could improve in those areas it's not out of the realm he could be rostered in the NBA at some point. Probably not but...

He needs his senior year to get a step quicker and work on his handle before he has a chance to go to the Association.

Is the NCAA using the pony express for communication these days?

Happens all the time in NCAA basketball. Fran's a good guy from what I've heard, but he's not a saint. Could see it happening here and it's "adios player so and so".

If Christian Vital comes to Iowa to play guard alongside Christian Williams we'd really have a Christian revival around here.

MG wasn't a great shooter but him not performing in clutch situations was often because his teammates weren't open and didn't seem to want the ball. I think we've been through that already.

It's not a landslide but it's not a wash either. Duke and UNC are 2 of the top 3 programs in the country. I'll give you that MSU is a top 4 or 5 team but that doesn't compare to trying to get past coach K or Roy W in the ACC. Louisville and Virginia are both top 10-12 programs right now as...

What? back atchya. You don't think the ACC is better top to bottom than the B1G?

Bruce Pearl, Ben Jacobson both get phone calls.

I thought Mac Mcausland predicted more than one guy will transfer? Mac's the man.

It's a little more daunting in the ACC when you consider the competition. You think Fran would want to try and compete with Duke, UNC, Louisville, and Virginia or MSU, Indiana, Wiscy, Michigan? The B1G teams listed are pretty good programs but they're not quite up there with the ACC ones.

I have to believe that Ben wouldn't have left his best defender on the bench the last 17 minutes of the first half while the other teams guards were driving to the hoop with ease or facilitating other guys so well. I don't think Ben would have just kept his timeouts in the pocket while the game...

We're gonna struggle the first half of the season next year but by the time Fran figures out lineups and rotations, what works and doesn't work, etc. We're gonna surprise some folks in the second half. We might even actually win a game in the Big 10 tournament.

Unfortunately, at times they were both more like Bruce Waynes down the stretch than co-Batmans.

You coach long enough, your success is going to be a roller coaster. It's not going to be a straight arrow pointing northeast.