Proud to be a Hawkeye! What a great season! Thank you Hawkeyes!
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Hell of a ride. Last 8 days have been a **** ton of fun. Future is bright. Can’t wait to get to carver again next fall and winter.
IIRC, there should be some sort of announcement this summer on what the Carver renovation will look like.
Tonight those of us that said the Elite Eight was the absolute ceiling for this team are vindicated.
IOWA just didn't have enough size and when you have trees coming over your back....
Yeah, it stings that people will see this score 10,20 years from now and think we got schooled…
Oh well, all good things must come to an end….
Hopefully Alvaro comes back hungry.
Alvaro Folgueiras had 0 points in 9 minutes tonight:
“I feel bad. I never got in the game. Those early mistakes, my coach thinks I wasn’t ready to go. In the Elite Eight, I would never let that happen. This March was great. I had some great moments. It just wasn’t there (today) … as a team and as a player. I feel bad.”
Alvaro Folgueiras had 0 points in 9 minutes tonight:
“I feel bad. I never got in the game. Those early mistakes, my coach thinks I wasn’t ready to go. In the Elite Eight, I would never let that happen. This March was great. I had some great moments. It just wasn’t there (today) … as a team and as a player. I feel bad.”
What was Bennett Stirtz thinking as the final seconds of his college career ran out?
“That this was all going to be over. It was tough. Obviously you want to get to the Final Four and win the whole thing. Everything comes to an end at a point, and you’ve got to be thankful. Nothing’s going to satisfy you in life except for God. That’s why I’m thankful that I put my trust in Him.”
“That this was all going to be over. It was tough. Obviously you want to get to the Final Four and win the whole thing. Everything comes to an end at a point, and you’ve got to be thankful. Nothing’s going to satisfy you in life except for God. That’s why I’m thankful that I put my trust in Him.”
What a classy young man! Gives me Chris Street vibes. This is someone you want your kids looking up to!
Yeah, it stings that people will see this score 10,20 years from now and think we got schooled…
only a 12 point loss when it was all said and done
I don't want it to be over 
Hell of a run and exceeded all expectations. March is so much more fun when you have a team making a run, hopefully many more to come.
Hell of a run and exceeded all expectations. March is so much more fun when you have a team making a run, hopefully many more to come.
When you think about when we have coming back, what do we need from the portal to get us over the hump & to the Final Four?
It’s funny how you can recognize the weaknesses before the season starts it just isn’t a matter of time before it catches up with you. Proud of how the team competed when it mattered.
It wasn’t a lack of effort. Many of those rebounds were simply their guys were taller than ours. I figured that was going to be a problem all season and it was against the elite teams. They just didn’t have the horses for that element of the game.
I don't want it to be over
Hell of a run and exceeded all expectations. March is so much more fun when you have a team making a run, hopefully many more to come.
Every team will be eliminated, except for one, 9 short days from now.
It was quite the ride; hopefully we get much further next season. The problem is that teams are really, really good once you make the Sweet 16.
The obvious answer is a big. But for me, another PG like Stirtz is a must too if you want to get to the final four. IMO elite pg play is the most important ingredient to have in the tourney that matters.
Not to mention it took us some clutch plays down the stretch in the previous two games to just get this far. You need the right players who aren’t afraid of those moments and the ball to bounce right in a few of those scenarios as well.
Same, but I think falling in love with the team will be common under Ben. He's a damn good coach and knows how to get max effort out of his guys. Sometimes you fall short, but it's a breath of fresh air seeing the guys leave it all out there.
What's cool is Ben can give the keys to the point guard he lands. That player will play A LOT.... up to 40 minutes a game.
As far as bigs, Jirak showed some flashes; I really hope he contributes even more next season. You can't teach 7'0."
I just wonder what it's gonna cost to land the pieces that we need.
Seeing Purdue go down in the Elite-8 and MSU down in the sweet-16 certainly puts what Iowa did in YEAR ONE into perspective.
WHAT A RIDE.
This IOWA team poster is going into a frame this week and staying there forever
WHAT A RIDE.
This IOWA team poster is going into a frame this week and staying there forever
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Fantastic interview. Please Beth do whatever it takes to keep this coach!
The wild part about all of this is that every great program with a real legacy started the same way, with a leader who saw more than what was in front of him and chose to build it. This might be that moment for us with Ben.
Take a look at the 6 teams still standing.
IOWA, with all of their flaws, was right there & could have been there instead of Illinois.
Here would be the Final Four matchups:
WEST:.........................Arizona vs.
MIDWEST:.......Michigan or Tennessee
SOUTH:..................Illinois vs.
EAST:...........................Duke or UConn
Ben is all class. Ton of respect for him.
It might take some time to set in, but it sucks that Bennett is done and we won't see Coach McCollum coaching again until next fall. Going to miss those guys.