Yup, Xavier was the only team to not win a game. They finished 8th. They did make an okay UTEP team look terrible though.
IOWA vs IOWA STATE
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Yup, Xavier was the only team to not win a game. They finished 8th. They did make an okay UTEP team look terrible though.
I don't think he "has" to but I think Kane going at marble will definitely be in the game plan.
Little known fact, Iowa is actually 18 deep. They're so deep the NCAA has made an exception and allowed extra players to dress because of how deep they are.
Iowa fans said they ran out of legs with 3 games in 3 days. Although there is merit to that, so did every other team in the tournament and this is when their "depth" should have helped out.
I see a lot of them knocking on Woodbury's ability and saying Jok and Uthoff aren't ready yet. If my math is correct that makes their 10 man rotation more of a 7 man rotation. I can't quite remember what their knock on our depth was though....
Woodbury, Gesell, etc haven't experienced a crazy Hilton Coliseum. They may be in for a rude awakening....
I would put Hogue on Aaron White. White gets to the foul line with his slow white-guy drives to the basket--and hits an occasional three-ptr. But in a half-court offense he is ineffective unless he is dunking against Abilene Atheist A&M
I would put Hogue on Aaron White. White gets to the foul line with his slow white-guy drives to the basket--and hits an occasional three-ptr. But in a half-court offense he is ineffective unless he is dunking against Abilene Atheist A&M
Every team faced the same issue. If anything, the way Iowa beat UTEP allowed them to use the bench even more. Now add the way Nova won against Kansas, and I say their argument is invalid.
They are not as deep as their fans think they are. Just because a coach plays 10 or 11 players it does not mean that something is not lost with each different combination on the floor.
Honestly, what I have seen of Iowa.....I think Fran should be starting Clemmons over Gesell, Olaseni over Woodbury, and definitely McCabe over Basabe. The problem is, if he does that then his "second" unit is pretty bad, so what he does is mix them up a bit. Gesell and Woodbury have yet to impress me with anything they have done in 2 years.
Utoff and Jok looked fine when playing cupcakes. Since playing teams with a pulse though, they do not look ready at all, which is understandable.
Honestly, what I have seen of Iowa.....I think Fran should be starting Clemmons over Gesell, Olaseni over Woodbury, and definitely McCabe over Basabe. The problem is, if he does that then his "second" unit is pretty bad, so what he does is mix them up a bit. Gesell and Woodbury have yet to impress me with anything they have done in 2 years.
Utoff and Jok looked fine when playing cupcakes. Since playing teams with a pulse though, they do not look ready at all, which is understandable.
Last year Iowa played some zone and from what I recall it caused us some problems with TO's but that team was really sloppy with the ball in December with KL.
Whats sad about that is we had by far the most trouble with the press when we had luscious in. Once we took him out most of those problems went away. I have confidence Kane will do just fine against Iowa's zone press.
Kane, Morris or even Thomas can slice and dice Iowa's zone pressure. I'm sure with the extra practice time these last two weeks they've been working on breaking a press and some new in-bounds plays. What was the stat last year - Fred's teams were #1 or #2 in the country coming out of a timeout and scoring? I'm sure they could work some magic of the same sort on in-bounds plays.
Iowa has 10 guys that they rotate. They don't have quality depth. They will play 7, maybe 8 max against us.
As far as Aaron White goes - just poke him or knee him in the eye and he's out of the game....sorry, but the guy just had a really bad run of luck last night...not one, but BOTH eyes hit and yet neither of the Villanova players got ejected...almost like they were accidental eye shots or something...
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Iowa has 10 guys that they rotate. They don't have quality depth. They will play 7, maybe 8 max against us.
As far as Aaron White goes - just poke him or knee him in the eye and he's out of the game....sorry, but the guy just had a really bad run of luck last night...not one, but BOTH eyes hit and yet neither of the Villanova players got ejected...almost like they were accidental eye shots or something...
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