Why didn't you always win though? Were you not as intense in practice preparing for the game? Were you not as intense in your summer workouts as your opponents were? Sounds like just focusing on game days may have been your problem.
Nice try. Sometimes the other team is better. But you always give the same effort.
Again, the problem is 2 Hawkeye veterans said they knew in warm ups they were not readyn. It wasn't like they were playing Upper Iowa. They were playing a team who'd won 4 of their last 5 and only lost to Iowa by 2 earlier in the conference season when a shot was late by 1/10th of a second. How do you not get up for that team?
Some of you as apologists are about as big a problem as the teams intensity level last night.