Inglorious Defeat — Iowa State Game

It’s about to start. ESPN +. 1pm Central time. The weather outside is frightful. Big snowstorm hit Iowa yesterday. The Siberian Express blew in.

#21

Vs

#15

 

Their lineup is really tall. At all positions. Allen with 2 fouls in the first 16 seconds.

 

Bishop with the rejection!

And Jones with the 3!!!

 

Different sort of refs for our earlier Conf games. They’re calling fouls on minor contact.

 

Great inside passing and finish Cunningham- Disu.

5-0 us

ISU can’t buy a bucket against our D.

 

Ramey from the parking lot!!!

3

8-7 us

 

Jones 3!!!

11-7 us

 

7 turnovers



21-18 them

 

11 TO, not even half time

 

Can’t win games turning over the ball this much.

Jones is doing all he can to try to carry us offensively.

34-27 them

 

38-31 them

Halftime.

We’re lucky to only be down by 7. That was one sloppy half of basketball. Errant passes getting intercepted, not advancing the ball past half court in 10 seconds, etc. To stand a chance of winning on the road, we’ve got to seriously clean this up.

Butt ugly. Painful to watch.

 

14 to 5 To’s.

That is why the score is what it is.

 

We look just as lost early in the second half as we did in the first half. So can we start defending that Kalscher guy or what? He’s been getting open looks on three pointers all game. We’re down by 15.

 

Glad the game is not on TV

We do not have a PG

 

Benson enters the game.

 

Mitchell with the slam dunk!!!

 

Licon is in.

Our star players aren’t getting it done, so Beard goes deep in the bench.

 

Benson with the board! And Ramey hits the shot. Now we’re only down by 10. Licon brings it down the court.

 

We’re in the bonus. Carr hits 2 FTs. Down by 8. 6:21 left. Ain’t over yet.

 

Now ISU makes a dumb foul. Their Jones hits the bench with 4 fouls. Deficit down to 6 pts after 2 Allen FTs.

getting tighter.

 

They hit a 3. Now goal tend on them! Or not??? Both coaches are yelling at the refs. Getting out of control on both sides. Now a lane violation on us… C’mon guys!!!

67-60 them

4:54 left. Still time. Play our game.

 

We’re in the double bonus. Ramey with 2 FTs.

67-62 them.

 

Kalscher is killing us with those threes. We’ve covered him decently on the last few. The first half—not so much. He’s red hot today. Dude can’t miss. 6 - 3 pointers thus far.

 

Carr will shoot 3 FTs. Hit two of them.

70-64 them. 3:21 left.

 

I think it’s time to put Disu in the starting lineup. He’s our only big right now who wants to play. Mitchell and Bishop really need to figure it out.

 

We turned it over 20 times…

Seemed like more errant passes / intercepted passes than anything. A number of steals too. When our guards get doubled on the perimeter, they’re lost. The help is late to get over. And when the ball gets to the help, he doesn’t swing it over real fast to the other side. Somebody is open. We can’t find him.

 

At least we’re fighting hard til the end.

At some point (soon), we need to beat a Top 25 team.

 

I didn't expect much this year. But are we going to see something similar to what Sark did, a house cleaning after this season? And is that even possible in basketball?

 

House pretty well cleaned out before the season started.

We need a PG. we need to be single digits for n TOs