One down!

Rebounds
Iowa - 24
Illinois - 41

Can't win with those numbers.
Rebounding is defense... Until you've gotten possession of the ball forcing up a missed shot is just half the battle... That's never gonna get it done. It's how South Carolina beat Iowas women by just chucking up shots and getting all the easy putbacks. In the mens case this was more about effort and ability more so then the womens where it was 98% about size.

Tough way to go out but it was pretty typical. Fran was working the refs with the foul discrepancy and earned his early exit. I kinda think he wasn't gunning for the first T so much but once he got it he just decided F it and got himself the 2nd on purpose. He knew what he was doing. He knew it woulda took something magical for Iowa to have came back at that point. Yeah the lead was hovering around double digits or so but Iowa couldn't string together 3 stops in a row. Iowa putting up 90 plus wasn't gonna matter. Wishing for IL to get cold and have unforced TOs isn't a defensive strategy to hang your hat on.

Ideally by 4:55 pm we could get that Friday afternoon news dump that Iowa seems to be notorious for with Frans news. They'd have had time to be back home and for Beth to sit down with him. From what Frans publicly said he's gonna make her fire him. But till they have that sit down we'll just have to see.
 

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