judzeehawk
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play at Drake this afternoon at 2:00 and it's not on tv. The Hawks have strung 14 wins in a row against Drake and hopefully they'll bump it up to 15 after today. Good luck and Go Hawks!
This was a tough loss, but it highlights what Iowa has to work on. The team relies on Megan to do the dirty work in rebounding and she ends up working against 2 or 3 players and gets cheap fouls called on her. The players tend to screen out rather than block out and Drake was more aggressive and got way too many offensive rebounds. They played a little tentatively on defense (except Doyle). and that got them in a hole and they didn't shoot well enough to climb out. This was a road game learning experience against a pretty good Drake team. I also thought Davis needed to look for her offense more and make Ingles work harder on defense.Final 76-81
Terrible chippy foul calls going against Megan Gustafson. She had to sit much of the 2nd half. She still had 20 points and 12 rebounds. Ally Disterhoft finished with 24 points.
This was a tough loss, but it highlights what Iowa has to work on. The team relies on Megan to do the dirty work in rebounding and she ends up working against 2 or 3 players and gets cheap fouls called on her. The players tend to screen out rather than block out and Drake was more aggressive and got way too many offensive rebounds. They played a little tentatively on defense (except Doyle). and that got them in a hole and they didn't shoot well enough to climb out. This was a road game learning experience against a pretty good Drake team. I also thought Davis needed to look for her offense more and make Ingles work harder on defense.
Drake is a pretty strong mid-major, they are likely to go through the MVC like a hot knife through butter and end up in the NCAA, and then surprise anyone who isn't ready for them. Ingle & Wendell are good enough to play for most D1 teams, plus they have some quality size as well, even missing their 2nd leading scorer and leading rebounder as they were today. Shouldn't forget we only won by 2 at their place two years ago, and that was with Logic, Dixon & Doolittle.
Davis took 9 shots, making one, but a lot of those were late in the game. Davis, Doyle and Cera were a combined 3-17. Also, another tough day for Kastanek, 0-3 and two fouls in 2 minutes. Would guess a casual fan who knew Iowa would be playing 3 freshmen guards would have picked AK to be one of them.
On the upside I thought Stewart looked pretty good and deserving of more minutes were we not playing a 4 guard lineup. Also, we had enough gas in the tank at the end to cut it to 3 with under a minute left, we get a break or two and maybe we get to overtime. Plus only 12 turnovers, which is progress.
Watching the Drake game, I kept thinking how nice it would be to have a healthy Carly Mohn to add to this mix. She would definitely help the rebounding!