I just looked into there stats. They have relied on there starters much more heavily than we have through two games. They have a junior guard (Carrington) averaging 22.5PPG. They have a big man (Delgado) averaging 18PPG/15RPG. They have two other scorers averaging over 10PPG.
Here is what I noticed when I looked deeper into the stats. I'll preface this by saying SHU will probably end up shooting lights out against us now so blame me. They only have 3 players on the team who have made 3s this year, for a total of 15 3s. Of those Carrington is 9/10 on the season from deep. I have to imagine that's an aberration (he shot 33.5% last year). There leading assist guy Madison Jones has attempted only one 3. He is a Senior transfer from Wake and has shot less than 15 career 3s. Maybe Jok can take him and sag off and Williams can take Carrington. Zone could be an option too, but they are a good offensive rebounding team so I worry about them killing us on the boards.
Keys to the game for Iowa:
1. 3pt shooting (this is how we can seperate ourselves from them, if they do get hot, could be a long night for us)
2. Defensive rebounding (SHU advantage will be on the boards, we need to box out better than we have.)
3. Get Delgado in foul trouble (with the emergence of Pemsl, we have plenty of bigs we can throw in there at him and try to get him in foul trouble, which would be huge).
I haven't watched them play yet so if anyone has, I'd be interested in hearing more about them.