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Its like when you look in the fridge 20 different times, hoping more food appears when you know you haven't been to the store in a week lol.

Iowa just played a hard fought game against Purdue at Purdue. they shot 48 % from 3 (12 of 25) and lost by 7. Seems to me this was a game of free throws purdue made 19 of 22 vs. Iowas 6 for 10. We are gonna need to make every free throw, and hit our shots from 3 and take advantage of them not having any one super athletic and not any one taller than us, so we can get to the rim. This is the game to win.

Illinois up on Northwestern 35 to 29

Wow Kentucky wins it

Iowa looking good, giving it all they got against Purdue. Their ball movement looking good

I've seen flashes of on court leadership from Wilkerson....and he is the only that has been consistent in scoring as of late.

Bingo, I share the same sentiment. I said the same thing about the Nebraska game, they were not "wow" athletically, and look we had a 16 point lead, that game was winnable in every way. I feel the same here about Iowa. They dont have anyone that is "scary good", they are very well coached, and play as a team. This is our chance to get a Q1 win on our resume.

I truly think that this upcoming game against Iowa Saturday, is a chance to turn the tides. The roster is what it is at this point and we will continue to have issues down low. What we can control and change is cutting to the basket more, boxing out and getting up for rebounds, and reducing turnovers. I still have tons of faith in Devries and company. Its his first year in the Big Ten, its not gonna be easy.

Agreed. I can’t bring myself to hate on Devries either it’s way too early. But we have held out hope in the past and it didn’t work out like most said it wouldn’t. I understand we aren’t gonna be a final 4 team every single year, but we gotta be competitive. I think we still have some opportunities to steal a few games here upcoming. This Iowa game could really turn the tides on the energy this team is lacking. Iowa is good but not Michigan good. They are beatable and we are blessed it’s at home. Our winless record on the road needs to change asap.

Thank you for the reply. I don’t normally get this down but wow this stretch has been tough.

Sadly the last part seems to be true thus far. You can just tell there is very little excitement around the progrum right now and all the focus is on football (rightfully so). my fear for the basketball program is that, football will sustain success and basketball money/support fades away thus limiting us even further. I’ll probably get nailed to the wall for this one…..but honestly the football run has done very little for me, mainly because I don’t really enjoy football like most do. It’s neat to see, and I watch every single game. But it doesn’t leave me feeling the way I do when IU basketball is good. I’m 34 years old so really the best teams I’ve seen were from 2000 and on that I can specifically remember. I’d say the Crean years were my most memorable because of the few runs we went on…albeit sweet 16s we were still in the national spotlight. We were talked about….now not at all. Literally none but us cares about IU basketball, the diehards….its tough to watch what once was fade away and see another sport take over….

Had plans to go down to our game on Saturday….not happening now.

Sadly, I agree. We are gonna have to beat some serious teams in the coming weeks to have a shot

Looking at a 20 point loss here. And we get Iowa on Saturday……at home but it doesn’t matter I don’t think at this point.

Good golly. This is bad. I mean I just…