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If no one goes pro, we may have multiple 1st teamers next year. The thought of having Garza, Wieskamp, CJ, JBo and I am going to say CMac because he can shoot a little bit is too good to be true. The only thing a defense can do is to double off of CMac's defender, because they will pay big...

What is so special about Garza is how hard it is for defenses to neutralize his game. TC couldn't shoot, so defenses took away the paint on him and he was taken out of the game. Uthoff wasn't strong enough to take the defender on the block, and a tall physical defender would often take him out...

Unfortunately, you make not just a great point, but the point. The inconsistency with officiating in this league is ridiculous and the reason why the road teams struggle so much. The good thing about Purdue is that their stats show that they dont put a lot of stress on a defense and dont draw...

We have to get 55 out of Garza/Wieskamp/CJ. I think even without playing their best Garza and Wieskamp can get there because their usage is so high and they both go to the line. CJ is really the one that has to be efficient, because we need him to score on far less usage. Question is, between...

You are right, they did whack all those teams. They beat MSU and UVA pretty much the same way; they hit more three's (+9 against UVA and +6 against MSU) and won the turnover battle decisively (+9 against UVA and +12 against MSU) and they beat Wisconsin by absolutely destroying them on the...

If we can steal this one on the road and then take care of business at home against Nebraska, we may find ourselves in first place in the B1G before the tricky slate of road games at Indiana and Minnesota. It also allows us to even out our loss to Nebraska. Purdue is always tough at home...

One of the reasons I love this team this year is a product of them being so limited player wise. Nothing is more of a head scratcher to me in all of sports than when a team has an advantage or mismatch somewhere and then stops going to it. I mean, you have a mismatch somewhere, whether it is...

We are favored to win each of our last 4 home games. As far as road games, both indiana and minnesota are toss-ups, and while i see we are supposed to only have a 33% chance of beating Purdue away, I like our chances here if we can take care of the ball and shoot decent. At Illinois in our...

JBo has that special gene the few players have to close it out in winning time. He may not start, but we want him on the court to finish it.

I think the stats tell part of the story, but where the rubber meets the road is really when those shots are made. With a team like Maryland that plays primarily a dribble drive type offense with a bunch of athletic players and suspect shooting, you have to get up on those guys and make them...

I know right?! I was very surprised that those guys didn't just blow it. They played hard and that was a good thing to see. It was just a lineup that had almost zero chance to score.

Well, in the end, the game pretty much played out like the numbers said they would. - Iowa hit 8 threes to Maryland's 7 - Iowa committed 8 turnovers and Maryland committed 10 turnovers - Iowa brought down 38 rebounds (14 offensive), and Maryland got 42 rebounds (10 offensive) - Iowa shot...

Not that I want to see us lose or even get behind, but I think one thing that we haven't seen yet is the resilience on the road when things don't go our way. I watched the beginning of the MSU at Indiana game the other day, and MSU got down 20-6 and Indiana had all the momentum, crowd in it...

I like your detailed look at it. Its interesting you bring up Iowa's weakness in the screen and roll. I specifically went back and watched the game to look for this action, and from what I see Maryland has 1 guy on the entire team that will set a screen. Their bigs don't move either and they...

I agree. I think we have to think we are going to get exactly zero out of Pemsl and Eveyln, and anything out of CMac will be a bonus. So that leaves 5 guys to get 75-80 points, what I think it will take to win the game. Garza will have to go for 25, Wieskamp 20, CJ 15, JoeT 10 and Kriener 10.

Another interesting trend is the score. Maryland averages 64.5 points per game at home with a high of 75. Iowa averages 80.5 on the road with a low of 70. Even with such terrible shooting against Nebraska and Wisconsin, we still scored 70 and 68 points respectively, whereas Maryland has...

I agree, it certainly doesn't look good with regards to that. In our home game against them, they got 20 FTA's on only 15 fouls. Looks like we are going to have to shoot the lights out.

I am pretty sure that Maryland uses the Under Armour ball. Our latest experience with this was at Northwestern, and we did shoot 45.5% from three and hit 10 of them.

Next one up. We have already seen these guys once, so it will be a familiar foe. However, it was in Iowa City so how do the numbers look when we have to play in College Park? In Big Ten play: - Maryland hits 7.3 three's at home and Iowa hits 7 threes per game away. - Maryland holds their...

Haha, I know right?!?!?