Oh, I know. But you will still hear TLs name uttered when discussions of firing/moving on from Fran.
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Tough day for EIU hoops hopes
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Whoa! I can't imagine an even bigger prick....
Anddddd this up coming week they play a ranked Indiana team. Can they make it 0-4?
I've seen a few tweets calling for Iowa to play like the ISU game or the last few minutes today's game when it's pretty obvious that Iowa can't play like that for very long.
They need opponents to play haphazardly to succeed.
Hope so, but that Indiana team is not that good. Way overrated.
I guess I don't think Indiana is THAT overrated like @exCYtable. They beat Xavier who just beat UCONN. They beat UNC like we did but by 12. But when they lose they lose big. Lost at Rutgers by 15, #10 Arizona by 14, and by 22 at top 5 Kansas.
They are currently top 20 in the NET. Ranked #16 in the polls. I'd say they are a top 25 team.
They beat Nebraska by 16, who just beat Iowa by 16.
But Iowa REALLY needs this win. I fully expect them to win and win going away.
EIU will get one of their next two home games vs. Indiana or Michigan, they are due go off on another 10/12 made 3 pointer night and scrape out a win. What is interesting in looking at their stats, they lead the conference in scoring the most points, and also lead the conference in giving up the most points. They are truly all offense and no defense, and when they are not hitting shots or getting to the FT line, they are in trouble.
I am not saying that they are a quality team, but neither is Indiana or Michigan final 4 teams. They are due to have a game like they did against ISU where they are making all their shots and getting to the free throw line.
Hope not, would love to see them start 0-8, but I think they will get one of those two at home.
They might have a decent game against one of those but they will not shoot and defend like they did against ISU.
It would take one of the Oklahoma schools having a horrible conference season (~2 wins) but still winning in Hilton.
That’s what I noticed. Fran looked like he never cared at all today. Is he sick or something?
He didn’t even say a word when there was an obvious lane violation on PSU on one of Connor’s missed FT’s. I thought for sure he was going to go ballistic. But nothing.
As crazy as it sounds his player love playing for him and not just the ones that get an allowance.
So apparently Connor was giving Penn State fans the middle finger last night. Full of class, that Iowa basketball program. The McCaffreys are a disgrace to the entire state of Iowa, not just the U of I.
Holy hell the B1G is awful this year. They currently have 8 teams outside the NET top 50. So in other words Iowa is going to have a tough time diffing out of their hole because quality win opportunities are going to be pretty limited.
They pretty much have to get to 20+ wins to have any sort of chance at the tourney. At 0-3 already and 15 reg season games left (or is it 17) I just don’t see this in the cards. Gonna have to get real hot which is opposite of Fran’s typical season trajectories.
