This team...

[SonofaSailor]

This team officially jaded me...I won't believe in another Iowa basketball team...ill just assume even if they're undefeated they will be de-pantsed in the tourney.

its one thing to lose....it's another to have this happen...

 

[okeefe4prez]

This team officially jaded me...I won't believe in another Iowa basketball team...ill just assume even if they're undefeated they will be de-pantsed in the tourney.

its one thing to lose....it's another to have this happen...

This team? Nothing before this? I've been jaded for years because this is par for the course.

 

[cincyhawk]

Par for the course for every Iowa athletic endeavor.

 

[okeefe4prez]

Par for the course for every Iowa athletic endeavor.

Our women's field hockey team had a couple of nice years.

 

[83Hawk]

I'm sorry, but this season has been a massive failure.

 

[99topdawg]

I want to know how a guy from Philly could have a team that has so little toughness. Hopefully the next wave of Hawkeyes will have that in them.

 

[Bigtenchamp]

I'm sorry, but this season has been a massive failure.

I'm upset about this game and the end of the season... but this statement is devoid of reality.


This team was picked to finish NINTH in the big ten.

Yet we made it to the NCAA and won a game... for awhile we looked like the best team in the country.

So yeah I'm upset how we played today.. but massive failure of a season...

Nah.

 

[HawkeyeWalker]

I'm sorry, but this season has been a massive failure.

Disagree, but I understand why you feel this way. It's a failure if your expectations were where Iowa got to in mid January.

The last 6 weeks were absolutely dissappointing, brutal even. But that, imho, is not the same as a failure of a season.

It was about the same, if not a little better tHan last season, regardless of what preseason expectations were.

 

[HawkeyeWalker]

I want to know how a guy from Philly could have a team that has so little toughness. Hopefully the next wave of Hawkeyes will have that in them.

I know hundreds of guys from nowhere Iowa as tough as anyone from Philly. Rocky was just a movie.

 

[Xerxes]

I'm upset about this game and the end of the season... but this statement is devoid of reality.


This team was picked to finish NINTH in the big ten.

Yet we made it to the NCAA and won a game... for awhile we looked like the best team in the country.

So yeah I'm upset how we played today.. but massive failure of a season...

Nah.

But as it turned out Iowa had 2 of the top 10 players in the conference and besides them had 3 SRs who have played a lot of B1G basketball and the conference overall, while good, wasn't great. This team should have been better but they couldn't adjust after the got punched in the mouth a month ago and wilted.

This team is like most teams from the Davis era and from the last 4 years excluding 1986-1989. They had talent, they had moments during the regular season that were impressive. But the same old problems since 1989 resurfaced come tournament time:

Nowhere near talented enough for the big boys
No half court offense or defense
Inept perimeter defense
Bizarre substitution patterns
The last few years have been magnified because while Davis era teams had good PGs, Fran's teams have PGs that wouldn't start at UNI

 

[DJL]

But as it turned out Iowa had 2 of the top 10 players in the conference and besides them had 3 SRs who have played a lot of B1G basketball and the conference overall, while good, wasn't great. This team should have been better but they couldn't adjust after the got punched in the mouth a month ago and wilted.

This team is like most teams from the Davis era and from the last 4 years excluding 1986-1989. They had talent, they had moments during the regular season that were impressive. But the same old problems since 1989 resurfaced come tournament time:

Nowhere near talented enough for the big boys
No half court offense or defense
Inept perimeter defense
Bizarre substitution patterns
The last few years have been magnified because while Davis era teams had good PGs, Fran's teams have PGs that wouldn't start at UNI

I'm breaking my rule of not posting when angry to add to this. While our highs were really high, our 4 best wins were against teams who were bounced in the first round. The BIG just wasn't that good this year. Which means our lows were really low.

 

[Seth53]

Out-played, out-scored, out-hustled, out-classed, out-coached and now stomped-*out* of the tourney.

Nothing like getting squashed on national TV when you're the only game on. (did someone say Rose Bowl?)

It's been an interesting season Hawkeyes. See you next November.

 

[Seth53]

This was harder then watching the Rose Bowl.

At least that was a guillotine.

The last five weeks of BB was like watching Charles Vane hang at the end of the rope on Nassau.

 

[EstronHawkKing]

This was harder then watching the Rose Bowl.

At least that was a guillotine.

The last five weeks of BB was like watching Charles Vane hang at the end of the rope on Nassau.

Rose Bowl was far worse

 

[ColumbusHawk]

This team officially jaded me...I won't believe in another Iowa basketball team...ill just assume even if they're undefeated they will be de-pantsed in the tourney.

its one thing to lose....it's another to have this happen...

I've been jaded about Iowa basketball since about two & one-half years of the great Mr. Davis.

 

[HawkeyeWalker]

This was harder then watching the Rose Bowl.

At least that was a guillotine.

The last five weeks of BB was like watching Charles Vane hang at the end of the rope on Nassau.

I thought the Rose was far more brutal. I actually was pretty confident we could win, until the end of the first quarter. It took a long time to get over it, I may not still be completely over it

This game, however, I knew we had to play our best to have a good chance. Although I didn't expect Nova to have their best shooting performance of the year and blow the doors off early, I knew anything less than great play by Iowa was likely a loss. I'm almost over it already