Iowa

[Proud NJ Sports Fan]

Easy team to root for.

They play hard, run an offense and have good basketball smarts.

The only blemish for me is their whiney head coach.

 

[Mr. Magoo1]

Easy team to root for.

They play hard, run an offense and have good basketball smarts.

The only blemish for me is their whiney head coach.

They are. I actually think McCaffrey is an underrated coach. He obviously emphasizes offense over defense, however.

 

[Proud NJ Sports Fan]

They are. I actually think McCaffrey is an underrated coach. He obviously emphasizes offense over defense, however.

He's an excellent coach, but whiney

They value the basketball too, not many wasted trips with turnovers like we see with Rutgers too much.

 

[goru7]

You are enamored with them and disparage our team who goes toe to toe with that so called great team. They play little defense and were very very lucky to get out of the RAC with a victory. I expect the rematch to be another war.

 

[zebnatto]

Hawkeyes getting anything they want on offense. 10-19 from 3 but th second half looks are wide open.

 

[Proud NJ Sports Fan]

They are embarrassing a decent NW team on their own court.

 

[bac2therac]

I love how the board loves to talk trash about Iowa and Minnesota constantly

 

[shields]

Want Northwestern to go in tank, sorry Pawildcat. We need to beat them.

 

[Captain Hogleg]

I like this Iowa team as well. Call me old fashioned but I love teams that value fundamentals and McCaffrey stands up for his team against the refs and the league. He’s a fiery coach and I love pissing him off when we play but no reason not to appreciate or respect this team. They are interesting to watch. That said I want to win by 20 next time we play and show those corn-fed motherf*ckers RU is for real.

 

[Greene Rice FIG]

Iowa is soft. They play lousy defense. They have played bad defense dating back to Jok and Udoff. Many of his teams have folded down the stretch. They can’t and won’t go anywhere until they play D.

They are amazing offensively however.

 

[Greene Rice FIG]

I love how the board loves to talk trash about Iowa and Minnesota constantly

You are a little on edge...you are usually one of the more sane, unemotional and rational posters we have.

you need a hug or a piece of cheesecake. A RU win would help too.

 

[bac2therac]

You are a little on edge...you are usually one of the more sane, unemotional and rational posters we have.

you need a hug or a piece of cheesecake. A RU win would help too.

Im fine. Im being objective. Have always eyerolled about the hate this board has for Iowa..and we should have beat them. They played a subpar game vs RU and we could not make one stop to win

Minnesota despite little fanfare is playing really well. Not sure it hold but for now they have 3 win huge wins.

 

[RUtrumpet92_rivals498139]

Easy team to root for.

Speak for yourself. I respect them but find it very hard to root for them.

 

[goru7]

I love how the board loves to talk trash about Iowa and Minnesota constantly

Funny as hell. You who makes endless fun of little Richie and trashed Minnesota for years. I guess you have a little more respect for them and you should they are really good. But they are a different team at home than on the road. They beat 4 ranked teams by high double digits and lost on the road by double digits. They are a formidable team. Their center , the transfer from Drake is fantastic as is their other transfer Mitchell , who hit 8 of 9 threes to beat Iowa.
Iowa has developed into a great rivalry but Iowa has done crap nationally in the last 15 years. As great as their offense is , they hardly ever overwhelm us on offense and suck on defense. They were lucky to win this year and lucky to win on the Weiscamp ridiculous shot.

 

[Greene Rice FIG]

Im fine. Im being objective. Have always eyerolled about the hate this board has for Iowa..and we should have beat them. They played a subpar game vs RU and we could not make one stop to win

Minnesota despite little fanfare is playing really well. Not sure it hold but for now they have 3 win huge wins.

1 game is not a streak or trend. But based on what I saw vs Wisconsin I think next time we get stops. Whether we score enough is a valid concern. I think against Iowa we can score. I think I can take Jordan B off the dribble.

 

[RURahh]

Easy team to root for.

They play hard, run an offense and have good basketball smarts.

The only blemish for me is their whiney head coach.

Iowa has been my favorite team not named Rutgers since last year, they are so multi- dimensional with so many threats are rarely have a bad night.


After watching Mccaffrey go nuts last year when Iowa intentionally fouled and the refs did not call it, I went on their board to see if McCaffey was the whiney little b**ch that most of us think he is and was very surprised by the reaction. Fran is a valued part of the Iowa community, is constantly doing charitable work, much of it behind the scenes with little publicity, and his players really love playing for him, which is why so many returned. Kind of ironic that some of the same fans who criticize Pike for not being fiery enough are the same ones complaining about McCaffrey being too whiney .

 

[anon_0k9zlfz6lz9oy]

Iowa is such a pleasure to watch. Extremely well coached and they run an incredible organized offense. Pike should spend the entire off season watching iowas tape and trying to mimic their offense. They never have overly athletic guys who can beat their guy off the dribble but rather rely on good cohesive organized well coached offense to generate points. Its a thing of beauty

 

[Greene Rice FIG]

I’ll take Pike and the way he behaves any day of the week. It is very refreshing.

do you really think teams get more calls if their Coach acts like a fool?

 

[Plum Street]

The sad thing many of our fans wanted to keep Fred hill jr instead of hiring mccaffrey

 

[RUJMM78]

On there worse day Iowa will probably score at least 75 points .They have the type of team that will be successful against top level competition ,ie, post player that can score inside and from the 3 point line along with multiple 3 point shooters who also can get to the basket on dribble drives.With their scoring prowess Iowa wears down competition even though they play mediocre defense.