That's fine, we hold them to 24 points then because no one else on that team is going to score on us.
Men's NCAA basketball player rank: 2024-25 preseason top 100: #47 Payton Sandfort, #63 Keshon Gilbert, and unranked Curtis Jones.
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That's fine, we hold them to 24 points then because no one else on that team is going to score on us.
Our guards are too good and we’re too deep and road tested. We win by double digits
RJ Davis is a good player for sure, but hard to believe there is only one better player in the country.
Great players generally don't play five years in college, they go to the NBA within the normal four years. Similar argument on all these QBs playing 5+ years, Cam Rising, Will Howard, Allen Bowman, Cade McNamara etc., if they were great QBs they'd be making $$$ on an NFL team not coming back to college for a 5th/6th/7th season.
Great players generally don't play five years in college, they go to the NBA within the normal four years. Similar argument on all these QBs playing 5+ years, Cam Rising, Will Howard, Allen Bowman, Cade McNamara etc., if they were great QBs they'd be making $$$ on an NFL team not coming back to college for a 5th/6th/7th season.
I believe Dix actually soiled himself.
I will watch that game just to see that. I mean how often do you see TJ trying to hide a laugh with another coach in the middle of a game.I believe Dix actually soiled himself.
I think it’s different for basketball. Roster spots are very limited in the NBA vs NFL and the money between NBA and college is similar unless you are a lottery pick. Late first round picks are making about $2M. Think about how many players we’ve heard $1-2M from NIL.
He should have just done it this year.
He could be a "fan/dad" and watch Pat and Jack.
I think it's also different in terms of transferrable skills/attributes. For the most part, football players who are great in college don't have specific unchangeable attributes that prevent them from being productive NFL players. But for basketball, height especially is a huge factor that limits a player's ceiling in the NBA but doesn't do so in college.
In R.J. Davis's case, he's a 6'0" scoring guard who only averages 3.5 assists a game. Without another great skill, it's easy to imagine NBA teams being scared off by his height. Carsen Edwards is a similar archetype that didn't get much run in the NBA.
A lot of dudes out there better than Spaz that can nail 3's and play defense. Lots. There is a reason he's back at Iowa.
Dix has a pretty decent pull up game and is an efficient shooter. Definitely a guy who would make a solid bench piece. He's not a good ball handler though and also struggles, like most of Iowa's guards do, defensively. They are going to struggle mightily, yet again, against teams who can handle the ball well. They are very very unathletic.
SIAP but Curtis Jones is massively underrated by the national audience. Might be a little underrated by our own fanbase.
After the way he finished the season last year…probably early to mid-January on…he is probably in the conversation for most underrated guy in the country.
He doesn't start though, so nobody gives him much mind nationally.
Larry Eustachy would say it is great that Sandfort averages 16 a night, but unfortunately whoever he his guarding averages 26 a night.
He was more interested in chasing a bag than putting in the work. I get it, he was dealt a terrible hand by life - losing his parents - but he could have chased the bag AND put in the work, but it is clear he hasn't improved appreciably since his freshman year.
I don't take a guard improving his 3 pt percentage from bad to serviceable being the only improvement in his game as improving appreciably, but I get some may differ on that.
