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    2016 Team Recruiting Rankings

    With the Tyler Cook signing next year's class is ranked 23rd in the country: http://247sports.com/Season/2016-Basketball/CompositeTeamRankings And 6th in the B1G behind Michigan St., Penn St., Minnesota, Maryland, and Michigan...
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    RPI is 52

    Kenpom has us at #27 which I think is about right. (Not like I'm biased or anything.) I like to look at the other teams in our grouping and see who would be favored in a neutral court game in Vegas, and there aren't many teams from 20-50 that we would not be favored against. We really only have...
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    Is Fran the answer?

    Yes, and this year we lost Marble. Clearly our best player last year. Sheesh, I guess we should have just forfeited this year. I suppose you predicted Olaseni would be our second best player this year, huh?
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    Is Fran the answer?

    I see most of you expected to go 18-0 in conference this year. Guys, we just lost to MSU when they got absolutely HOT in the last 10 minutes. Trice wouldn't hit 8 of 9 in an empty gym. It's not like we just got run by Northwestern, folks. We're 2-1 so far with some big wins over OSU and...
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    Instant Reaction Podcast: Texas Drops Iowa

    Iowa was outrebounded by 1 -- 40 to 39. We had 10 steals, 4 blocks, more assists, and we outrebounded them by 5 on the offensive glass. Our inside game was terrific, especially considering who they were up against. The problem is very simple. 46% to 30%. We shot horribly. Can that be fixed...
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    I believe this year's team will be better than last year's team

    We'll most likely have a starting lineup of Gesell, Oglesby, Uthoff, White, and Woodbury. 4 of those guys are now upperclassman top 150 recruits and the one that's not is a two time All Big Ten 3rd teamer. We'll have a JUCO All American off the bench, a bouncy 7 footer, Jok, Clemmons, and...
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    Good Article about the Jok Brothers

    Jok brothers' journey leads from Sudan to basketball reunion for Iowa-Penn game - College Basketball News | FOX Sports on MSN
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    Who was the last player we had of Marble's caliber?

    Since the OP said "regardless of position" and mostly guards have been listed I have to throw out Greg Brunner. Led the league in rebounding, he scored efficiently, and played good defense.
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    The improbability of Iowa's comeback last night

    It also helps your probability when the other team's best player had to leave the game for that stretch because of a bloody face.
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    UT-Pan-Am on Mediacom

    MC22.NET The game will be available on MC22 on Friday.
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    Question about Fran and the lineup

    You're the Oracle. You tell us how things are gonna go down.
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    The Spectacular Melsahn

    I don't know that Fran was talking about his play as much this spring as he was talking about his attitude being spectacular. The way the article is put together and the quotes that they used were more about how he's matured and become a leader this spring. Not so much about how he's improved...
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    This one is on the staff

    This might be the truest thing I've read so far. We had an awful night offensively and had nobody that could defend or out-rebound Leonard, yet we were still within striking distance late in the 2nd half. When we're complaining about not winning in Champaign like it's a birthright you know...
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    Hawks and Clones Tied in Scoring

    Link Tied at 55th in the nation. Pretty crazy this far into the season. Their field goal percentage is oh so close as well with Iowa topping them by .001.
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    Commentators for tonight's game?

    Ruined it.
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    Two things we're not used to...

    I also think that having juniors and seniors in a program that have been under the tutelage of top notch coaches can pass along some words of advice and knowledge that the coaches may not me able to. I know personally it can be more helpful for a player's peers to reach out and impart some...
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    Two things we're not used to...

    First, losing our leading scorer to graduation instead of transfer. Gatens will certainly be missed as a great leader and key contributor to the improvement we've seen this year, but he's leaving with a Senior Night which is something that we haven't had much to celebrate in the past 5 years...
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    BTT Trivia Question

    That's due to the fact that when we had 11 teams the 6 seed played the 11 seed in the opening round and then the 3 and 2 seed before the championship. So they got to play the worst team in the conference in the 1st round and avoided the champion until the tourney final.
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    This iowa team is nearly unwatchable

    I would imagine he's talking about Marble.
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    Howe tweet: "very interesting guest" for PSU game

    Brian Scalabrine checking out his main man Aaron White.
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