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2022 regular season ending loss to Nebraska Iowa blows chance to win 2nd straight division title and what could have been 3 straight West Division titles from 2021-2023. Spencer Petras has career ending injury. Or at least it ended Petras career at Iowa. Ends 7 game winning streak vs. Nebraska.

Yes, if fouls were called a little different, maybe Iowa could have won. But if Iowa would have shot a little better, Iowa would have won easily. Oh well, now it's time to rest up. It's scary to think how close Iowa was this season to a 4 seed and home court in the NCAA first rounds...

McCabe was just off against OSU If she makes her usual percentage of 3's, Iowa wins by 5 to 8 points.

Yes, That was the lineup Jan was using late in the MSU game Olson, McCabe, Feirbach, Stuelke and Heiden. Not sure why Syd was not in the game.

Iowa has struggled against teams like Ohio St that press a lot and cause a lot of turnovers. This includines most of the game when Iowa played Ohio St the last time. A game that Ohio St dominated until late in the game when Iowa rallied to force overtime. The Iowa win over MSU is promising...

Can't say enough about Ava Heiden. What a great attitude. She could have sulked and gave up when she got benched, but she stayed ready and waited for her chance. Ava Heiden's performance in the 2nd half was the key difference in the game, both on offense and defense. You could tell MSU...

We got a great preview what the team will look like next year with the 5 freshman playing major minutes together. I thought I had watched enough games this year to know most of the olayers, but I honestly did not know there was a 5th freshman. She kinda looks like Alfouter from the back...

You forgot Seth Wallace, or will he leave too when Lester is named the head coach?

Warren Ruggiero's time at Iowa will probably be less than 1 year. He is well regarded as a college football OC. It is likely he will get snagged up as an assistant coach by next year. The offensive analyst position will give him the freedom to accept an OC position immediately if offered.

The hard part, of course, is winning 5 games in 5 days. One of the keys to winning the Big Ten tourney in the Caitlin Clark years was getting the double bye and only needing to win 3 games in 3 days. The other key, of course, was having Caitlin Clark on the team.

The main thing I remember about Mike Hart was he was the Michigan player who referred to Michigan St as little brother. Then MSU proceeded to beat Mich 5 years in a row.

This is so true. Iowa has had problems with turnovers going back to the Tennesee game. This approach just does not work against certain teams.

It is interesting that Iowa has been on a roll since making the change to the 4-guard offense lineup while at the same time the play of both Steulke and Ogrady seem to have gotten worse. So is that a sign that Iowa's 4 best players are the 4 guards and that's why Iowa is doing better? Of...

Fran missed his chance. He needed to make at least 1 deep tourney run in the Garza-Murray years. Now it feels like Fran is just playing out the clock.

I hate timeouts late in the game. If it was up to me teams would only get 1 timeout per quarter. In both football and basketball.

Another idea I saw was just give the seeds 1,2&3 the week off and only have the #4 and #5 teams play 1 "Wild Card Game" (WCG) for the 4th spot.

I believe if the Big Ten had 4 play-in games last year it would have been something like this 8 Minn @ 1 Oregon 7 Mich @ 2 PSU 6 Iowa @ 3 Ind 5 ILL @ 4 Ohio St It's actually debatable if Iowa would have been the 5 or 6 seed because ILL and Iowa both finished 6-3 in conference the 2 teams did...

If you are going to hire a women as a gimmick, just go ahead and hire Caitlin Clark as coach. She ain't doing nothing in the WNBA off-season anyway. Conner can help her as an assistant.

Does she have any connection to Iowa?

All the more reason to move on in my opinion. This is is a good way for Iowa to know what resources it needs to bring in a good coach.