Predict your starting 5 for the starting game

[InGoodCo]

Good way to start to know your team. I am listing what I think will be game 1.

here's where I am at
1. Bennet Stirtz
2. Brendan Hausen
3. Cooper Koch (I think Tavian Banks was probably here before the altercation in DT IC)
4. Cam Manyawa
5. Alvaro Folgueiras

 

[SwirlinLingerie]

I am pretty bullish on that squad. And if any of those guys take a play off on defense, they are getting yanked immediately.

They are gonna stack a lot of Ws in conference play. If the core stays healthy, I'm calling top 5 in the Big Ten.

 

[Zstatman]

Good way to start to know your team. I am listing what I think will be game 1.

here's where I am at
1. Bennet Stirtz
2. Brendan Hausen
3. Cooper Koch (I think Tavian Banks was probably here before the altercation in DT IC)
4. Cam Manyawa
5. Alvaro Folgueiras

Hard to argue with your 5. Stirtz, Hausen and Folgueiras seem like locks. I agree Manyawu over Jirak at the 5 although I'd like a 5 taller than 6'8". A case can be made for Koch although I'm intrigued about the positive press Trey Thompson is getting.

Seeing the wings on this team develop should be lots of fun.

 

[HawkeyeHypnosis]

St Louis got the W in the secret scrimmage but they are supposed to be solid this year.

 

[HuckFinn]

Stirtz
Next: I have no idea

 

[Zstatman]

St Louis got the W in the secret scrimmage but they are supposed to be solid this year.

Didn't one of last year's Hawks end up at St Louis?

 

[HawkeyeHypnosis]

Didn't one of last year's Hawks end up at St Louis?

Not that I can recall but I may be wrong on that.

 

[Zstatman]

Not that I can recall but I may be wrong on that.

I looked and didn't see anyone I knew on their roster.

 

[Hawkfnntn]

Good way to start to know your team. I am listing what I think will be game 1.

here's where I am at
1. Bennet Stirtz
2. Brendan Hausen
3. Cooper Koch (I think Tavian Banks was probably here before the altercation in DT IC)
4. Cam Manyawa
5. Alvaro Folgueiras

Totally agree with you. The 3 spot is only one I see up for grabs at all. If Koch is shooting lights out and defending well enough it'll just be tough to keep him off the floor. Banks isn't a shooter and more of an energy guy that till now has only really came off the bench so I say keep that role for him going. Giving Stirtz 3 other guys that can spread the floor and shoot will give him so much more room to operate. I think that's the route Ben will go

 

[MisterLucky]

As big of an Iowa Basketball fan as I have been in the past, it seems bizarre to me that I only recognize two of the names on your starting unit and one (Stirz) because of the publicity he came with. Ought to be an enlightening development for me when the games actually start. As usual, I can't wait.

 

[InGoodCo]

As big of an Iowa Basketball fan as I have been in the past, it seems bizarre to me that I only recognize two of the names on your starting unit and one (Stirz) because of the publicity he came with. Ought to be an enlightening development for me when the games actually start. As usual, I can't wait.

same, like I typically even know most of the guys coming in's games, but honestly, have no idea what to expect from this squad and how they are going to play or what roles everyone will play. I thought it'd be fun to at least speculate new territory for all of us.