Hippen did fine in his start. He didn’t have very good stuff but he worked the strike zone and made the Jayhawks swing their bats. I was surprised to see he only threw 96 pitches when the box score came out. I thought he was up around 110-120. He gave up a lot of hits but did not give in to the batters and gave the Hawkeyes almost seven innings.

Schrieber won the second game. I can’t say why. I think KU’s batters were not comfortable in the batters box, but I think that might have had to do as much with poor umpiring as it did with Schrieber. Of all the Iowa pitchers I think Kevin Lee looked the best. He only pitched one inning all weekend but he was getting nice cutting action on his fastball.