STILLBUSTER
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Glad to see a game that's in hand enough for the deep bench to earn the scholarship. But this is pretty hard on the basketball eyes. Ooof!
The belated Hawkeye vs Huskie Addison O'Grady Thread
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judzeehawk
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Washington leaving all their starters in is bush league. Hope it makes them feel great!
thedukeofearl
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There goes our 30 point lead
January has been a brutal month for Hawkeye fans
Perhaps this game is the turning point for the Hawk Women
I know the ladies needed this and hope it is a much needed reset. But I needed it too! Been a VERY rough January for Iowa basketball ...
Between men and women, 3-9 for January
January has been a brutal month for Hawkeye fans
Perhaps this game is the turning point for the Hawk Women
thedukeofearl
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thedukeofearl
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Hawks won the rebounding: 32-16
Won the FG percentage: 71-38.3
We did have more TOs: 23-14
Won the FG percentage: 71-38.3
We did have more TOs: 23-14
thedukeofearl
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Lotta Smiles on Hawkeye faces
Well deserved
Fun game to watch
Well deserved
Fun game to watch
STILLBUSTER
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I'd like to hope so but it's 4 games too late. These last 4 losses were to teams they should've beat and destroyed their NCAA chances.
While they may play better / competent ball, with the upcoming brutal schedule, they have to play almost perfect in every game.
I only see 3 more wins -
Home vs NwU, Rutgers, Wisc
The rest are all against ranked teams + a likely road loss at Neb.
STILLBUSTER
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I hope Jan harps on that message for the rest of the season ... How any ONE of all those turnovers, all those missed free throws, all those out-hustled rebounds were the difference between finishing as a solid 20-9 NCAA team and an underachieving 16-13.
No purple ribbons ladies. Remember it freshmen as you have a chance for a very special next 4 years.
If not for all those TOs Iowa puts up 100 plus running away. My gosh that's such a problem to have to overcome. They did it tonight because of those other two stats you rattled off. But when that FG % slides down to a more normal 45ish% or less as a team all those TOs become tougher to overcome.
It wasn't personal Washington but you ran into a buzz saw. I found it interesting that Washington waited till pretty late in the game to start pressing full court. I kinda thought TN gave everyone the blue print on how to beat us and that's to do that as much as possible. Now not every team is capable of doing it as TN is but to wait till your down 30 plus to start doing it is just odd... Then to keep many of your starters out there to do it against Iowas bench was even odder the later it got.
I'm not going to pretend to be a womens basketball historian and my ignorance to it is what it is. But the coaches in the womens game do some weird stuff I'm not used to seeing the more I watch. How Washington handled that game was just illogical to me and I'm not sure if it was intentional or what.
I watched the Purdue USC game before ours cause I just turned Peacock on that early and USC got a monster lead in it of 30-40 pts and guess who played most of the 2nd half and 4th q and wasn't taken out till the last 2 mins? They had JuJu in there with 4 backups trying to pad her stats is how I looked at it. And even doing that she still only ended up with 16 pts on 6/16 shooting. Earlier in that game their 2nd best player left with a leg injury. You'd think with JuJu you wouldn't leave her in like that risking an injury. I don't remember Bluder having done that with Clark. Please correct me if I'm wrong
