***Official "I Wish Alford Was Still Playing So We Could Kick His Red and White Striped Pants Wearing Ass" Game Thread***

[Northside Hawk]

I can’t help but wonder if Jbo is sick or hampered in some way. Just looks off.

Every player has an off game and he will bounce back a play a big role. That’s where it’s the coaches responsibility to see this a get the player out. JoeT should have been in the game the last ten minutes of the game.

That was Fran’s fault. Just one of those games for Jbo. He is too good on offense not to bounce back.

It was a group effort.

Wieskamp passed up shots.

Murray was sideways.

Garza was bodied.

Indiana was dug in, rotating, helping, denying, playing to the absolute limit of what the refs would allow.

It reminded me of a home loss we suffered to Purdue in our legendary 1987 season where Keady's bunch had near flawless execution of both ends of the floor.

 

[thedukeofearl]

Jordan was 0-17 from the floor

Hawks were 5-23.....21.7 % from three point land

We won the rebound battle: 46-32

Lot of time to practice before the Illinois game

Have to find a way to stop them inside

Indiana scored at will around the basket

Wide open several times

 

[shonblatt]

It was just a terrible half. Learn from it and move on. Michigan looked unbeatable and then got torched by Minnesota. It's a tough league, the champ will probably have 3-4 losses.

 

[PCHawk]

Gotta be pretty perfect to win the Big 10 after giving away a game up 7 with 40 seconds left. Losing to a bad team at home is pretty far from perfect.

 

[oregonhawkeye]

One of those games that nothing goes right. Pretty good effort- good D generally. Indiana shot well.
Some losses are terrible. This is not one of them.

 

[PCHawk]

Jordan was 0-17 from the floor

Hawks were 5-23.....21.7 % from three point land

We won the rebound battle: 46-32

Lot of time to practice before the Illinois game

Have to find a way to stop them inside

Indiana scored at will around the basket

Wide open several times

Sucks bad to have to wait 8 days for the next game after that shit.

 

[thedukeofearl]

WTF is up with Weezy's FT shooting?

Team was 16-21

JoeW and Luka missed 2 each

Indiana would have really blown us out

If they could hit free throws

The were 21-35

 

[oregonhawkeye]

Indiana is not a *bad* team. They can beat most teams in the power five any given night. On the bell curve these things happen.

 

[smitharooney]

He has weaknesses. But where are you when he drops double digit dimes?

It was a pathetic second half, but evidently it takes the worst half in over a year to bring out certain posters.

He averages 4.4 assists a game . That doesn’t lead the team

 

[Northside Hawk]

Sucks bad to have to wait 8 days for the next game after that shit.

I probably referenced it five times tonight.

Would have been nice to get well against Hoiberg's rubes on Sunday.

Sucks to high heaven.

 

[smitharooney]

If we can't feed Garza, what are we as a team?

Everyone feeds Garza . There are better players sitting behind him

 

[oregonhawkeye]

Indiana shot 35 FTs in Carver- that's got to be one of the bigger nights for opposing teams. Whistles were, uh, unpredictable.

 

[spliff45]

Man, I still can’t believe that offensive meltdown....

 

[oregonhawkeye]

Everyone feeds Garza . There are better players sitting behind him

Idiot.

 

[smitharooney]

Idiot.

Connor Vs nunge or Murray or Joe T one on one who you got?

 

[hawkstal]

Iowa going out after the round of 32. Lose to average teams.

Shut up, troll

Dumb

Why do people keep saying this is a dumb take. After round of 32 would be sweet 16. You expect the best or hottest 16 teams to be there, and Iowa has already lost to two teams that don't fit either of those descriptions, with one being at home. Don't think it's a bad take when the team relies on all offense and not good enough D to win on bad shooting nights.....and not good enough D to win when other team is stroking it either (see Minny).

 

[seepig]

This was Lickliter bad tonight. Frighteningly bad.

 

[smitharooney]

Indiana shot 35 FTs in Carver- that's got to be one of the bigger nights for opposing teams. Whistles were, uh, unpredictable.

Another delusional fan blaming the refs

 

[hawkeyewx]

Team was 16-21

JoeW and Luka missed 2 each

Indiana would have really blown us out

If they could hit free throws

The were 21-35

It has been a several game thing. Joe W has made only 10 of his last 19 free throw attempts. He should be much better than that.

 

[Northside Hawk]

He averages 4.4 assists a game . That doesn’t lead the team

Thats more indicative of how good we are as a team at passing.

Former players like Bardo, Hummel and Settles pointed out how out of sync we look at Rutgers when he missed most of the game.

By the way, how big does that win look now?

Rutgers was ranked #11 at the time and have been in freefall. Would have been terrible to give a stroke back to the field by losing that game.