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WBR Tom wrote:Here's the Primer for Iowa. Despite replacing a 20-point scorer for the third straight year (the Murray twins each of the last two years, Luka Garza the year before), this looks like another high-octane offense for Fran McCaffery's Hawks; the question is whether they can rebound and defend well enough to win games when it matters most in March.
Should be a fast-paced game with a lot of possessions. CU's favored by 8.5 at the moment; I think they'll go over that. The Jays' offense is every bit as lethal as Iowa's, and their defense is much, much better. A 12-14 point win where they pull away late sounds right to me.
https://whiteandbluereview.com/pregame- ... es-finale/
Incidentally, I loved looking back at that '99 game. Two Hawks fouled out, one of them memorably flipping off the student section and getting into it with some of them. Alford getting his butt handed to him by Dana (again) and playing the villain role so well. Sears and Walker doing amazing things. Just a great, great memory.
That was my junior year at CU and up to that point, it was the largest/rowdiest crowd I'd witnessed here thanks to all the Hawk fans from western Iowa. First time with over 9,000 fans since Benoit Benjamin's final season; largest home crowd since '74. Obviously it's a different era now with a seismic shift in support for the Jays. Very curious how many Iowa fans get in the door.
Mon Nov 13, 2023 8:47 pm
CUGrads03 wrote:WBR Tom wrote:Here's the Primer for Iowa. Despite replacing a 20-point scorer for the third straight year (the Murray twins each of the last two years, Luka Garza the year before), this looks like another high-octane offense for Fran McCaffery's Hawks; the question is whether they can rebound and defend well enough to win games when it matters most in March.
Should be a fast-paced game with a lot of possessions. CU's favored by 8.5 at the moment; I think they'll go over that. The Jays' offense is every bit as lethal as Iowa's, and their defense is much, much better. A 12-14 point win where they pull away late sounds right to me.
https://whiteandbluereview.com/pregame- ... es-finale/
Incidentally, I loved looking back at that '99 game. Two Hawks fouled out, one of them memorably flipping off the student section and getting into it with some of them. Alford getting his butt handed to him by Dana (again) and playing the villain role so well. Sears and Walker doing amazing things. Just a great, great memory.
That was my junior year at CU and up to that point, it was the largest/rowdiest crowd I'd witnessed here thanks to all the Hawk fans from western Iowa. First time with over 9,000 fans since Benoit Benjamin's final season; largest home crowd since '74. Obviously it's a different era now with a seismic shift in support for the Jays. Very curious how many Iowa fans get in the door.
I know it’s early in the season, but a #8 team at home against an unranked team feels like 8.5 is on the low end. I agree with Tom that this should be a larger margin of victory and I believe the pull away is in the 2nd half as well. I’m just going to do a bit more and call it 14.5 instead. Here’s hoping. Go Jays!
Mon Nov 13, 2023 9:42 pm
Jaysker12 wrote:I have fond memories of the last time we played Iowa, in 2011. We were barely favored and beat them by almost 30; Doug scored 25, one of those early games where he established himself as an automatic 20+ ppg scorer. That game and the one against SDSU were eye-openers in terms of what that team was capable of.
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