27-20 after 4-0 wednesday, faders deterred for the moment, but likely to return for tonight's play.
iowa +2-: being the only game in town tonight, this matchup has already been analyzed more than freud's housecat so i'll summarize the highlights and throw in a few other thoughts. iowa finally at full strength for the first time tonight, and most acknowledge that freeman is the straw that stirs the hawkeyes' drink. he's had 10 days to rest his sore foot. drake downed iowa last year in des moines for the first time in 27 years, but most of that bulldog team is gone, and the current iowa squad faces the prospect of being the first hawkeye team to lose to drake in iowa city in 40 years, and the first to lose back to back in the history of the series. to boot they're the underdog on their home court (another first). any iowa player that doesn't motivate shouldn't be on the floor.
dr. tom's son keno coaching drake now, and his style mainly derived from his dad and vol coach pearl, for whom he worked as an asst. hawkeye coach lickliter familiar with both so game plan should not be a problem. bulldogs sport a flashy record but it comes against a strength of schedule somewhere in the bottom 50 of div 1. drake likes to run and throw up the threes, and tonight face a hawkeye d that, at home, holds opponents to 36% fg's and 26.9% from the arc. game total of 121 tells all who the linesmakers expect to control game tempo tonight.
iowa's had trouble with attendance of late but tonight expect their best crowd in some time. not knocking what drake has done this year thus far, but it strikes me as overreaching to see them in the rare positon as road favorite against their big 10 in-state rival.
glta
iowa +2-: being the only game in town tonight, this matchup has already been analyzed more than freud's housecat so i'll summarize the highlights and throw in a few other thoughts. iowa finally at full strength for the first time tonight, and most acknowledge that freeman is the straw that stirs the hawkeyes' drink. he's had 10 days to rest his sore foot. drake downed iowa last year in des moines for the first time in 27 years, but most of that bulldog team is gone, and the current iowa squad faces the prospect of being the first hawkeye team to lose to drake in iowa city in 40 years, and the first to lose back to back in the history of the series. to boot they're the underdog on their home court (another first). any iowa player that doesn't motivate shouldn't be on the floor.
dr. tom's son keno coaching drake now, and his style mainly derived from his dad and vol coach pearl, for whom he worked as an asst. hawkeye coach lickliter familiar with both so game plan should not be a problem. bulldogs sport a flashy record but it comes against a strength of schedule somewhere in the bottom 50 of div 1. drake likes to run and throw up the threes, and tonight face a hawkeye d that, at home, holds opponents to 36% fg's and 26.9% from the arc. game total of 121 tells all who the linesmakers expect to control game tempo tonight.
iowa's had trouble with attendance of late but tonight expect their best crowd in some time. not knocking what drake has done this year thus far, but it strikes me as overreaching to see them in the rare positon as road favorite against their big 10 in-state rival.
glta
