Day one of Ben McCollum

[SwirlinLingerie]

In my opinion, Iowa already is legit. Because Drake was more than legit. I don't care what league they played in. They proved it.

Legit is the baseline. Now it's about if they are elite.

I think Freeman would likely have started on the bench last night. You have to play your ass off on D, dive for loose balls, and share the ball. And that's in practice.

The bar is unbelievably high. Ben only recruits a certain kind of cat.

 

[HuckFinn]

Yeah, Pizza Ranch is just awful pizza. Do Pagliai's or Wig & Pen.

Pizza Ranch pizza = No sauce.

I vote Pagliai’s. Original recipe from Italy still used.

 

[InGoodCo]

Attendance was 9,232. Last year, Iowa's first 7 home games were below that number, before 13,033 came to the Iowa State game.

I went to the WI game at Carver last year in February. WI was ranked, there wasn't 9k or even close to 9k there that day. It was on a Saturday and WI was ranked, tons of red in stands. Last night's crowd looked as good as it has in some time at Carver sans a couple of big games with rivals, let's hope it keeps up.

 

[InGoodCo]

In my opinion, Iowa already is legit. Because Drake was more than legit. I don't care what league they played in. They proved it.

Legit is the baseline. Now it's about if they are elite.

I think Freeman would likely have started on the bench last night. You have to play your ass off on D, dive for loose balls, and share the ball. And that's in practice.

The bar is unbelievably high. Ben only recruits a certain kind of cat.

We'll see if he even starts at Creighton tonight.

 

[InGoodCo]

Seriously, I don't remember seeing an Iowa team dunk as many times as they did last night. I'm not sure that's a stat that's tracked, it was just noticeable for me.

 

[hawkrr]

Ben likes to recruit shooters. His M.O. is that he will teach them defense. If you want to start for Ben, you gotta play defense and rebound.
In my opinion he started four former Drake players because they know his system and what he expects on the court. The starting rotation will likely change once a few others get up to speed in his system.