Iowa Bounces Back, Throttles Bowling Green, 68-46
by Adam Jacobi on Nov 20, 2009 10:06 PM CST
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PrintBig win for the Iowa Hawkeyes tonight, as they shook off a sluggish start and dominated Bowling Green for Iowa's first win of the year.
Now, some people will probably point to the fact that Bowling Green was awful tonight, but no no. We think we know what's behind Iowa's sudden resurgence. It was Todd Lickliter ditching the Butlerball system and moving the offense about 30 years ahead. Watch and learn.
LOOK AT THOSE MOVES! And that thug life smack talk! "Watch it, Kareem!" I know we don't want our boys to be too "street," but if that's what it takes to win, that's what it takes. OH SNAP THEY'RE SWITCHING SIDES.
The men of the match are Eric May with 16 points (4-4 from downtown) and Anthony Tucker, who had 13 points and was one assist, five rebounds, six turnovers, and 10 blocks away from the rare quintuple-double. Also, Brennan Cougill is clearly John Daly with a DeLorean. Can't believe the PGA isn't all over this.
Anyhoo, winning is a lot more fun than losing, so hooray hooray. Next up is... Texas. Texas? Never heard of 'em. Look for Iowa to cruise.
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Iowa vs teams I've not heard of
so far 0-2.
Vs teams I’ve heard of, 1-0. Texas is gonna get whipped.
It never gets to be easy
by chitownhawkeye on Nov 20, 2009 10:23 PM CST reply actions
How is it possible that you've never heart of UTSA
We play them every year.
We've played Duquesne
before too. Doesn’t mean that I can pronounce it.
And for the sake of my argument, I haven’t heard of either.
It never gets to be easy
by chitownhawkeye on Nov 20, 2009 10:35 PM CST up reply actions
Du-kane
Seriously. I didn’t know until the PA guy said it.
yea
I murdered that one for years since they make the tourney every year as a 16 seed.
BALLS OF STEEL RICKY! BALLS OF STEEL!!!!!!
by HAWKEYESBABY on Nov 21, 2009 7:44 AM CST up reply actions
Where'd the Utah St. team that was tied with Boise at 14 go?
Down 42 to 14, five minutes into the 2nd half
Luck is probability taken personally, clutch is probability attributed to individuals.
I watched the online BTN feed so I figure I'll share some brief thoughts
As a team, our offense looked really good at times, with lots of ball movement and open shots. I’d say the last 10 minutes of the first half (which was when I started watching) and the first 5 minutes of the second half were really good offense. Once we got up 20 we seemed to really take our foot off the gas, and we went into our “prevent offense” mode, the one where we have one player pound the ball into the floor about 40 feet away from the basket. During the second half we kind of alternated between good, dynamic offense and the prevent offense. There were some possessions where we looked great offensively.
On defense, I think we benefited greatly from Bowling Green being terrible – and they were truly terrible. Several times BG had guys wide open, often when they would use ball screens and we would double team the guy with the ball, basically, and leave the other guy wide open. The double team needs to be very transient, just to let the guy fight through the screen, and then we need to recover on the open man. Bowling Green would either fail to hit the open man, or the open man would fail to make a shot. We need to improve defensively before B10 play.
As far as individual performances go: Eric May looked great. Gatens, Tucker and Cougill all played well. We actually looked like a Big Ten team tonight.
Wait till Texas game...ugh.
Texas…whose smallest guy is the height of Cougill but with muscle definition, speed and hops. Also, and I cannot confirm this I am sure I read it somewhere, every player for Texas is 23 year old or older and all but one has played pro ball in Europe. Cully Payne may have a good first few minutes though, as the Texas team mistakes him for an Iowa ball boy out to clean sweat off the court.
But I’m happy to see we beat BG. This was one of those games I was really gnashing my teeth over when the schedule came out.
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by YouCanPutYourEddsInIt on Nov 21, 2009 8:54 AM CST up reply actions
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