Who's the best player in the State of Iowa...

[Go2Guy]

I will say this. I am glad that we've got guys that want to take the big shot. Our guys may not always make them (and no player does), but Uthoff disappears late in the game.

Uthoff was a ghost the last 8-mins of the game

 

[amishclone]

Life is always so much better when the hawks lose, don't you think?

 

[ForeverIowan]

Iowa projected a #1 seed.
Such a tricky word, projected.

Haha Iowa a #1 seed? They may very well be projected as a 5 seed tomorrow. I will guess a 4. They had a cute little run though good for them. The selection committee takes into account how a team is playingate in the year as well that could very well drop them a spot on selection Sunday. They continue to go to Mike G late in games. Hilarious. Has he EVER once in his career hit a game winner with under 30 seconds to play?

 

[Spanky]

Invisible, until the last play when he went down like a prom date.

 

[cycloner29]

Uthoff was a ghost the last 8-mins of the game

So true, as the refs didn't even see him get run over when Gesell drove to the basket the last 7.5 seconds!!

 

[CoKane]

lost 4 out of 5? To four unranked teams.???Bwuaaaaaaahahahahaahahaha. The lone win over powerhouse Minnesota. Will Iowa even be a top 25 RPI team on Selection Sunday? :twitcy:

Not even sure if they are that right now.

 

[CyArob]

Ah yes, the resorting to conference strength and touting a league that hasn't won a sweet 16 game in half a decade. Iowa is the #1 team on kenpom, projected 1 seed, and favorite to win the B1G. Let this thread dissolve already.

You dun goofed

 

[psyclone51]

Ah yes, the resorting to conference strength and touting a league that hasn't won a sweet 16 game in half a decade. Iowa is the #1 team on kenpom, projected 1 seed, and favorite to win the B1G. Let this thread dissolve already.

Want to edit your boisterism?

 

[CTTB78]

Haha Iowa a #1 seed? They may very well be projected as a 5 seed tomorrow. I will guess a 4.....

Anything higher than a #5 seed would be complete joke. Any metric out there- RPI, BPI, KenPom would not support a 4 seed.

 

[ForeverIowan]

Anything higher than a #5 seed would be complete joke. Any metric out there- RPI, BPI, KenPom would not support a 4 seed.

So let's wrap this thing up...

Niang is 3-0 vs. Uthoff.
Niang has had his team in the top 15 territory for the duration of his career.
Niang has been superior statistically to Uthoff throughout his entire career.
Niang is the winningest player in Cyclone history.
Niangs jersey will be in the raters next to Hoiberg.

Uthoff had a really impressive six week stretch. Really really pretty cute to try to compare him to Georges Niang.

 

[Go2Guy]

Anything higher than a #5 seed would be complete joke. Any metric out there- RPI, BPI, KenPom would not support a 4 seed.

And that may not be a good thing. They are capable of getting back to their late Jan run and if they do, they could easily be a S16 team

 

[NATEizKING]

Uthoff is 8 of 34 from 3 past 5 games. Georges is 8 of 13.

 

[JohnnyFive]

Uthoff is 8 of 34 from 3 past 5 games. Georges is 8 of 13.

But he blocks jumpers tho

 

[HFCS]

So let's wrap this thing up...

Niang is 3-0 vs. Uthoff.
Niang has had his team in the top 15 territory for the duration of his career.
Niang has been superior statistically to Uthoff throughout his entire career.
Niang is the winningest player in Cyclone history.
Niangs jersey will be in the rafters next to Hoiberg.

Uthoff had a really impressive six week stretch. Really really pretty cute to try to compare him to Georges Niang.

Turns out the answer was this. Thanks everyone for playing.

 

[ribsnwhiskey]

And that may not be a good thing. They are capable of getting back to their late Jan run and if they do, they could easily be a S16 team

Wat?

 

[kentkel]

I think that Uthoff is a good player & I'd definitely welcome him on our team. He would likely be better on our team becuz he wouldn't have to feel the pressure to be "the man." He disappears in crunch time in many games. Because of this, I'd take Niang and Morris over him any day of the week. Our two guys aren't afraid to put the team on their backs when they need to. We haven't always had a great "last 10 seconds of regulation," but more often than not, these two usually step up & are not afraid to have the ball in their hands.

 

[LindenCy]

Ah yes, the resorting to conference strength and touting a league that hasn't won a sweet 16 game in half a decade. Iowa is the #1 team on kenpom, projected 1 seed, and favorite to win the B1G. Let this thread dissolve already.

 

[jsb]

And that may not be a good thing. They are capable of getting back to their late Jan run and if they do, they could easily be a S16 team

Of course they could. Just like we could easily be a S16 team or almost any top 25 team could be a Sweet 16 team.

I'll be honest.....I think that Iowa and Iowa State are pretty similar teams. I think that our resume is clearly better right now though.

 

[jsb]

I think that Uthoff is a good player & I'd definitely welcome him on our team. He would likely be better on our team becuz he wouldn't have to feel the pressure to be "the man." He disappears in crunch time in many games. Because of this, I'd take Niang and Morris over him any day of the week. Our two guys aren't afraid to put the team on their backs when they need to. We haven't always had a great "last 10 seconds of regulation," but more often than not, these two usually step up & are not afraid to have the ball in their hands.

Uthoff is having a good season. But I will never understand how or why he disappeared in the 2nd half of our game. I love Matt Thomas and he's turned into a great defensive player (and Georges played good defense on Uthoff for a while in that 2nd half), but there's no way they should have stopped him like that.

 

[CyTwins]

Uthoff appears confident so maybe he'll turn it around

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