Read thru the Mens BB season predictions on HR (then showered). I'll link to it below if interested, but one thing that struck me as funny was that Tom K can't seem to bring himself to really speak of the ISU-iu game other than to say: "and the Hawkeyes will be challenged in both their home games." referring to non-conf games vs Seton Hall and ISU.
I assume there will be more specific analysis of that game from them at some point, but I got a laugh as he seemed to want nothing to do with talking about ISU specifically even to the point of not actually predicting that game.
In the end it was not a bad article...not overly homerish. But to save anyone from having to go to that site unless they want...he predicts 19-12 overall, 9-9 in conference before the bigten tourney. Bubble team.
Full quote where ISU is sort of referred to:
"The up in the air games will be: Seton Hall, Virginia, Providence or Memphis, Notre Dame, Iowa State, and UNI. The Hawkeyes will host Seton Hall and Iowa State. They will travel to Notre Dame. And they have neutral site games against Northern Iowa in Des Moines and Virginia and either Providence or Memphis in the Emerald Coast Classic in Florida.
Those six games will be challenging. Their best chance for a win is probably in the second game of the Emerald Coast Classic against Providence or Memphis. More than likely, Iowa will lose to Virginia, who is a top ten team in the preseason rankings. Notre Dame is probably the second most unlikely win given it will be in South Bend. The Northern Iowa game is probably a toss-up or slight lean towards Iowa and the Hawkeyes will be challenged in both their home games. Best case is probably four wins out of those six games. Worse case is probably two wins.
I will slip the difference on this one and call this a 10-3 non-conference for Iowa."
https://iowa.rivals.com/news/hoops-fearless-forecast-1
I assume there will be more specific analysis of that game from them at some point, but I got a laugh as he seemed to want nothing to do with talking about ISU specifically even to the point of not actually predicting that game.
In the end it was not a bad article...not overly homerish. But to save anyone from having to go to that site unless they want...he predicts 19-12 overall, 9-9 in conference before the bigten tourney. Bubble team.
Full quote where ISU is sort of referred to:
"The up in the air games will be: Seton Hall, Virginia, Providence or Memphis, Notre Dame, Iowa State, and UNI. The Hawkeyes will host Seton Hall and Iowa State. They will travel to Notre Dame. And they have neutral site games against Northern Iowa in Des Moines and Virginia and either Providence or Memphis in the Emerald Coast Classic in Florida.
Those six games will be challenging. Their best chance for a win is probably in the second game of the Emerald Coast Classic against Providence or Memphis. More than likely, Iowa will lose to Virginia, who is a top ten team in the preseason rankings. Notre Dame is probably the second most unlikely win given it will be in South Bend. The Northern Iowa game is probably a toss-up or slight lean towards Iowa and the Hawkeyes will be challenged in both their home games. Best case is probably four wins out of those six games. Worse case is probably two wins.
I will slip the difference on this one and call this a 10-3 non-conference for Iowa."
https://iowa.rivals.com/news/hoops-fearless-forecast-1
