lightning1
Well-Known Member
Iowa by 17 pts! Iowa 86 - Illannoy 69.
Illiniois will shoot better than they have all year. Only 1 guy on Iowa is in double digits. slide continues I'm afraid.
My theory goes as such: We're not 1 for our last 4, we're 1-1 with this game part of a completely separate sequence of games from those 3 we lost in a row. Mind flooded with reasons as to how obvious it is that losing streak was a fluke beyond what flukes were supposed to describe, so no clue where to start on that. I do know that this new 1-1 stretch we're *actually* on is legit because we played two great halves and two junk halves in those two games combined. Both times the good half was the first one. At home we settled down and thwarted the comeback, on the road we forced shots when they took the lead and never lost it. That paragraph describes the REAL Iowa Hawkeyes better than any combination of words I could have put down here.
Why am I saying this here? Because the cycle includes blowing out a middling team. That's what the Iowa Hawkeyes would typically do. Ogleseni has been a deadly combination to the Ill Whine Eye in the past, and I hear something about extra motivation for the Seniors to perform well. Sillynoise also kinda sucks really bad. Their team name is the ultimate in irony given their utter lack of attacking mentality. The best fighting I've seen them do was the night they fended off the scrappy team who almost turned a 23-point deficit into a win. I'm sure they were surprised as well to find out that team was themselves. No killer spirit.
Very little over the past two seasons has boded so poorly for a single team in one game. 93-69. Don't be shocked if Olaseni turns out to be the star instead of White or any Seniors.