Reminded me a bit of a Tom Davis like come back

[HaydenHawk56]

I'm glad we have depth and we just kept fighting, fighting, and fighting. Almost instant classic.

But, big physical teams are still going to prove tough for Iowa, especially if they go cold from the outside.

 

[Xerxes]

Davis' teams did have a lot of fight in them. But I remember those comebacks as scramble types, full court press causing turnovers and making big runs.

This game looked more to me like Iowa's half court defense settling in and making it tough on Xavier in the 2nd half. Iowa kept chipping away, had a nice run to cut Xavier lead from 12 to 5, and then it was a dogfight from there.

 

[hwks1]

Not as much what we did...except hang around. Xavier was just more inept. We made 10 straight FT at one point and that kept us in the game. Pretty improbable win but happy.

Davis teams comebacks were offensive tsunamis

 

[VAHawkFan]

Davis' teams did have a lot of fight in them. But I remember those comebacks as scramble types, full court press causing turnovers and making big runs.

This game looked more to me like Iowa's half court defense settling in and making it tough on Xavier in the 2nd half. Iowa kept chipping away, had a nice run to cut Xavier lead from 12 to 5, and then it was a dogfight from there.

Davis' teams could go through these incredibly exciting runs when the opposing team got rattled by the pressure. No doubt that trying to press all the time sometimes bit us in the ***, and I'm very happy to have a team that can be stingy in the half-court, but I remember many games when Iowa would go on +10 point runs with the other team turning the ball over on several consecutive possesions and Carver would be deafening. When it was good, it could be very good and when it was bad, it could be very bad.

 

[Xerxes]

Davis' teams could go through these incredibly exciting runs when the opposing team got rattled by the pressure. No doubt that trying to press all the time sometimes bit us in the ***, and I'm very happy to have a team that can be stingy in the half-court, but I remember many games when Iowa would go on +10 point runs with the other team turning the ball over on several consecutive possesions and Carver would be deafening. When it was good, it could be very good and when it was bad, it could be very bad.

Yeah, the press did wonders for Iowa at times and also killed them at times. I remember a game when I was pretty young, mid to late 80s, at Michigan maybe. Iowa scored 100 but still lost by 20. That is crazy.

I also remember Duke game at Carver in the mid 90s, a very good Duke team with Grant Hill at that, in which Iowa cut an 18 point deficit down to 2 or 3 in a couple minutes. As you said, Carver would come unglued.