*** Official Ohio State Vs #24 IOWA STATE Game(Day) Thread ***
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We had a shot clock violation coming out of the first half timeout I believe.
How often have we played 2 bigs in at the same time this season? Second half of the last game of the season and you think CSP is going to run 2 bigs out there now?
Slight disagreement on the last sentence. Had the answer- Cam Lard. For some reason staff didn't notice it, adjust to it, or exploit it. Once Cam came back in during the second half, when he got the ball down low, Wesson couldn't do anything with him. Cam would just shot right over him. Unfortunately, it was only thrown into him it seemed like a less than a handful of times. One time OSU moved to help/double him which freed up someone for an outside shot or a cutter (when not trying a fancy pass). Not to mention the potential for him to pick up fouls on Wesson, as well as, tire him out by making him work on defense, with chance of impacting his offense and FT shooting down the stretch.
Cyclones exploit that, more likely a different outcome.
We lost 6 of our last 8 regular season games against Baylor, TCU (twice), Texas, WVU and TTU. All of those teams except TTU clearly had less talent than ISU. Same with OSU. This ISU team just had a hard time getting fired up against lesser opponents. But you can't say they didn't have some great moments because clearly they did.
It was great to get back to the tournament for the 7th time in last 8 years. Hopefully today's loss motivates the players who are returning. I will miss Babb and Shayok, but especially Babb. He didn't shoot well today, but he had 6 rebounds, 4 assists and no turnovers.. I hope Babb's poise and control rubs off on Wigginton because he can use some of it. Next year I would start Nixon, Halliburton, Wigginton, THT and Lard. Bring Jacobson off the bench.
It was great to get back to the tournament for the 7th time in last 8 years. Hopefully today's loss motivates the players who are returning. I will miss Babb and Shayok, but especially Babb. He didn't shoot well today, but he had 6 rebounds, 4 assists and no turnovers.. I hope Babb's poise and control rubs off on Wigginton because he can use some of it. Next year I would start Nixon, Halliburton, Wigginton, THT and Lard. Bring Jacobson off the bench.
I don't know, Babb had a bad game. He had great leadership in the B12T.
Other than THT I think you can really look at the coach on this one. We clearly should have been double teaming their only good offensive player, especially since fouling him didn't work at all when he's a 80% free throw shooter. If not double teaming with a guard why not try playing two big guys.
That same K-state team that we squeaked by just got beat by UC Irvine.
Wigginton from last year, top 25 recruiting class, top 5 transfer in Shayok, another great transfer in Jacobson.
You can't argue we didn't infuse the program with top talent after the missing recruiting year.
Dude they were up by 30 in the second half. By your definition every team in the tournament is overrated and overseeded. Duke was in a dog fight at the half. Virginia trailed at half. Tennessee was only up by a couple of scores late in the game against mighty freaking Colgate.
Agree. ISU needed a big, strong athletic guy on Wessen. That's not Jacobson. Prohm made the correct call with Lard.
And???? They aren't very good without Dean Wade and UC-Irvine was a popular pick playing in their home state. I dont think it was that big of an upset.
He should have. Better to have done it when Baylor and TCU were punking us 4-0 as less talented teams who outrebounded us but better late than never.
Agreed. If Iowa gets to the sweet sixteen, this might be an argument.
With that being said, Iowa looks loaded next year. Only losing Baer, Cook will be back once the NBA scouts laugh at him. They get a couple nice recruits coming in. It could be a watershed year for the hocks.
