*Official* B1G In-Season Thread
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Gil, I am going to take a wait and see approach. I'll say this, it can't be much worse than last season, so I'm sure it will be better.
What happened to the herbiehawk handle?
And missing the NCAA tournament again.
just on experience alone and having a solid SR leader in Baer will be the best thing for this team. people tend to over look what Jok meant to that team
Leading scorer scoring 25% of the teams total
2nd in steals
2nd in rebounds
2nd in assists
when they needs someone to take charge or make the shot they all looked to Jok.
last season there was no one to take charge or make that shot. that year that Jok was a SR Baer was coming off the BT 6th MOY when he was
1st in Blocked shots
1st in rebounding
1st in steals
2nd in assists
last season Fran tried to use him as a starter and he missed the 1st 6 games because of a hand injury of which he never recovered.
there was no true backup to Jordan. this year there are just 11 scholarship players to be used and they are 2 deep at each position, Fredrick suffered a rib injury in practice by trying to draw a charge from Cook.
like they effort but question the kids decision making.
Connor and Wiescamp are solid defenders, now how much the others improves is yet to be seen. even tonight game means something on the defensive end.
Will Iowa go undefeated at home this year in conference play?
the last time Iowa went to 3 straight NCAAT was in the 96-97, 97-98 and 98-99 seasons and that coach was run off after reaching the Sweet 16. Fran did in the 2013-14 season, 14-15 season and 15-16 season. the 11 seasons before Fran took over they had only had 3 total NCAAT appearances with only 1 win. plus in that period the only had 3 .500 + seasons in BT play vs Fran who had 5 straight .500 + BT season.
in the 8 seasons Fran has coached Iowa the only BT Coach that can claim same this is Izzo of MSU.
Fran now sits in 3rd place all time in Iowa history in BT Wins. on a National level he has over 400 wins. what he has done does mean much Nationally but in relationship to Iowa he has done this
3 best 4 year record in wins with 4 year starters
1st back to back 3rd place finishes since the late 80's
tie for the best single season win total with 25,
they will play better this year than last and that's all I will say on that.
defensive improvement will dictate how they do.
Holtmann looks like he may be a terrifyingly good Xs and Os guy. Impressive showing by OSU.
I know it's early, but this consistent strategy by fran is one that i love. keep his best players on the bench for half the game to make sure the scrubs get in there.
Yes he does! Pretty ballsy to start the season off the way he did. IU may end up egretting not grabbing two ex-Butler coaches. He looks to be legit and an punchers chance of coach of the year this year.
You forgot to mention that Iowa has one of the best players in the conference. Expecting more improvement from Cook.
Cook is very good but he also led the team in TO's last season. he needs to fix that and work on what the NBA people told him, be more aggressive in rebounding, being a TEAM LEADER. being the best you have to play your best in all aspects of the game.
if the exhibition is any indication he is taking the NBA Scouts advice to heart.
13 points
9 rebounds
7 assists
1 TO
1-2 from 3,
he needs to stay consistent from 17' out. BUT in my opinion is he does not to live outside `17' as his bread and butter is near the basket in a position to rebound better on offense and defense.
the whole team needs to get more aggressive on offensive rebounding as that will cut down on the run outs by the other teams.
there was a lot of area's that Iowa was bad at. injuries and players playing out of position caused a lot of the defensive problems
no backup to Bohannon and him playing with a foot injury didn't help
7' Nunge playing the SF position out of need, this season he can concentrate on the PF/C position.
Baer getting hurt and never getting his confidence back do to being the starter instead of being the teams 6th man
jesus, look at all those empty seats in this northwestern game lol
I’m a fan of their new place, though! Looks nice. They’ve really put up some dough to upgrade football and basketball facilities.
Conference coach of the year. Sure, anybody else in the conference have a win as good as that one? He’s certainly the front runner right now.
who are these scrub players you are talking about?
the scrubs from last year are gone Uhl, Ellingson and Wagner. the latter 2 transferred out.
these are the starters by rankings
PG JR Bohannon 4* by ESPN 2nd leading scorer
SG RSJR Moss 4* by ESPN 4th leading scorer
SF FR Wieskamp top 100 4* by ESPN # 42 by Rivals
PF JR Cook #38 by ESPN top 100 by Rivals leading scorer and rebounding
C SO Garza top 100 by ESPN 4* by Rival 3rd leading scorer and leading shot blocker on the team
off the bench
PG Connor top 100 by ESPN 4* by Rivals
SF Baer as a RSSO was the BT 6th MOY
PF JR Pemsl 5th leading scorer
F/C JR Kriener
PG/SG/SF JR Dailey will be the only scholarship players playing
PG/SG/WG FR Fredrick is RS'ing just as I had hoped
PF/C SO Nunge is RS'ing
I don't see any scrubs not with the top 6 being 4*'s 4 of them ESPN Top 100 players. 2 of them playing this season with Wieskamp starting at the SF position.
Nunge is redshirting? That's interesting.
Did you forget Iowa had a whole team of bigs?
Garza in the same class looks to be able to withstand the Big10 a little better.
this will also spread out the classes. this leaves Fran with these in the Front court
Garza, Kriener, Cook and Pemsl.
tonight Cook 12 points, 8 rebounds, 5 assists and 3 blocks with just 1 TO,
Wieskamp is the leading scorer with 15 points 4-6 from 3.
hoping Cook can do this every game.
Garza and Bohannon need more game conditioning to get into shape after Garza being cleared to practice and play Oct 27th. Bohannon just got cleared to play Monday.
TO's were the problem tonight having 16 TO's their smaller lineup caused them problems. they held UMKC to 61 points. Iowa did not do that to often last season.
Garza, Kriener, Cook and Pemsl.
tonight Cook 12 points, 8 rebounds, 5 assists and 3 blocks with just 1 TO,
Wieskamp is the leading scorer with 15 points 4-6 from 3.
hoping Cook can do this every game.
Garza and Bohannon need more game conditioning to get into shape after Garza being cleared to practice and play Oct 27th. Bohannon just got cleared to play Monday.
TO's were the problem tonight having 16 TO's their smaller lineup caused them problems. they held UMKC to 61 points. Iowa did not do that to often last season.
Looking forward to you talking about how half your team has "head injuries" when you lose a few games
Imagine touting Nunge as a 7 footer that can play the 3 and knock down 3s...then he redshirts to open minutes for scrubs like Pemsyl and Kreiner.
Iowa was the 3rd worst B1G team ats last year. They have been top half in the B1G ats once in 5 years.
Don’t trust Fran.
Advertising the fact that you bet on Iowa to cover is the ultimate self own.
I've probably bet over on the Iowa over 10 times the past year and tonight was the only under i believe. got it back thanks to illinois over
It's a shame I will take with me to my grave
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last season they were 1-13 when failing to score 80+ points the lone win was against NW the last game of the season, so they have already = last seasons win total in that reguard.
they finished finished in the top half 5 times and finished tied for 3rd twice.
in Fran's 8 seasons.
Illinois' guards looked really good last night. Our only big man, Giorgi, looked serviceable. He does well on the offense, but he's going to struggle on defense. Excited to get Adonis De La Rosa back soon. Overall, this team is easily better than last year's squad. We shoot and pass so much better. We will struggle some, but this will be a team that's really fun to watch.
