Locked On Hawkeyes - Daily Podcast On Iowa Hawkeyes Football & Basketball - Bubble Trouble: Iowa Hoops in Danger of Missing Big Ten Tournament

Starting point is 00:00:00 Rapid reaction Iowa falls to Oregon 80 78 at Carver Hawkeye Arena Iowa now in real trouble a missing the Big Ten tournament March situations have returned today locked on Hawkeyes you are locked on Hawkeyes your daily podcast on the Iowa Hawkeyes. Part of the Locked On Podcast Network, your team every day. Hey, welcome in. I'm Trent Condon, and this is the Locked On Hawkeyes podcast. Thanks for making Locked On Hawkeyes your first listen every day. We're available wherever you watch podcasts.

Starting point is 00:00:41 You can also watch us on YouTube or listen to us on the audio side. Greatly appreciate each and every one of you. If you're watching on YouTube, hit subscribe. Just takes a moment and helps us get in front of more Hawkeye fans. 80-78, the final Iowa falls to Oregon. Missed opportunities in this one in a game where at times, it felt like Iowa was going to be able to find a way to pull this out. At times, looked like they were dead team walking. And then other times it was just a play here, play there. The bounce is going, I was way, you thought this was going to happen, but

Starting point is 00:01:12 eventually it does not. Iowa gets a shot at the horn to win it. They go back to Josh Dix once again. I love the play called by frame McCaffrey. I love what he drew up because majority of the time I love what frame McCaffrey does offensively and it was an absolute beauty. The problem, there's a big guy waiting on the other side and a bit of a guy that I didn't know much about coming into this one. He'd been around for four years, something that is a rarity in college basketball at any level anymore,

Starting point is 00:01:41 but certainly at the power conference level, they have a guy that has been around for as long as he is at the same school. Gets the block shot after a monster performance from Nate Biddle, the block shot doesn't even get to the rim. Then we had maybe one of the more miraculous plays. If that would have went down, Evan bronze, who had a game of a lifetime in this one. He had a shot off that deflection, threw it up off the rim, kind of turned around in midair and got it off the front rim, but no good. And that's how this one comes to a close.

Starting point is 00:02:13 Iowa falls to 80-78. Coming up today, we're gonna be talking with Tom Kaicker. We're gonna talk some basketball with him. We're gonna take a look forward to this weekend's women's matchup as they welcome him. Top five ranked UCLA to town, even little Iowa wrestling and some football talk coming up with Tom Kaker from Hawkeye report.com and a big weekend in front of us, but a look back at what we saw at Carver Hawkeye arena, a couple of

Starting point is 00:02:36 different things that you have to go to. And I want to start first the return of Drew Thelwell. You're hopeful that he was going to be able to make a strong push, be back out there. You could see how limited he is though with that ankle injury and what they say it was the size of a softball not too long ago. And you could see this was not the same Drew Thelwell that we've seen throughout the course of this season. He wasn't exactly right. Traore had a couple of moments in there overall still feels like the game as he's getting more and more minutes just a little bit too quick for him. That'll slow down. Still excited about his upside and what he can be. Again, this team was put on the backs of Josh Dix

Starting point is 00:03:12 and Peyton Sanford. And for the most part, they were right there. Um, Dembelly had some good moments again, but this is going to be remembered, I think more than anything about Evan bronze and I was city kid goes on plays in the Missouri Valley in the Ohio Valley Conference at Belmont, comes back, looks like it's gonna be a free year, turns out to be two years. And you can see right away with Evan Bronze, he is an elite athlete.

Starting point is 00:03:37 I mean, this guy can jump out of the gym, he has physicality, he has some of the big things that you want as a backup post player. He's gonna come in there He can make some physical plays. He's not elite at anything. He's not a great shooter by any means But he's shown the ability with that athleticism. He can go in there. He can mix it up He can make some plays and and that's what you've got out of him But this this was not expected. He's a dunker, he's that, but play at this level.

Starting point is 00:04:06 So you go back to the game before, his Iowa career high came the last time out against Maryland when he had six points in that one. Now he goes four, four from the floor. They didn't count that final shot. He didn't get it off before the buzzer. If it would have went, obviously it would have counted. So I guess that helps his field goal percentage. But how about this? Seven of nine at the free

Starting point is 00:04:28 throw line. That was an eye opening number as well. Going back to his time at Belmont, he was a 66% shooter from the free throw line. His final season there goes at the free throw line here. Seven of nine, three rebounds in the game, has an assist, a couple of blocked shots. Maybe we should have been seeing a little bit more of Evan Bronze. Now, he's only six foot nine at the center position. That's in the big 10, going to be incredibly difficult, but we talked about those times. Do they need to go a little bit bigger? We've looked back throughout the course of the season how many times that Peyton Sanford

Starting point is 00:05:01 was playing the power four position and was just physically manhandled in this one great to see it would have been even better obviously if I would got the win had two layups to just spun out. It's that kind of season that's what we're going through right now it's just everything that can go wrong is Murphy's Law is happening I was now lost five out of their last six they have lost eight of their last 10. out of their last six. They have lost eight of their last ten, encircling the drain. And if this is the end of an era for Fray McCaffrey, you hate to see that. We'll have plenty of time for speculation about that. More than anything, just want to look back at the game and we'll talk some more big picture stuff coming up here with Tom Caker. Now Washington this weekend. This is a must win for Iowa. Iowa has to win this game because we've talked about it

Starting point is 00:05:47 all throughout the course of the season. What Iowa has in their final four games is as daunting as anybody in the Big Ten. At Illinois, at Northwestern, home for Michigan State, and at Nebraska. Nebraska is a completely different team in their building. Illinois, well they're Jekyll and Hyde, but still we know about the talent that they have.

Starting point is 00:06:07 Michigan State, well they're battling for a conference crown, and the one quote unquote layup in there is the Northwestern, who's gonna be out for revenge after Iowa was able to beat them on a Josh Diggs buzzer beater back in December. 14-12 on the year, 5-10 in the Big 10. And the question now becomes for Iowa. If you don't win the game against Washington, I think you're gonna be in big, big trouble on making the Big 10 tournament, because it's incredibly difficult to envision where Iowa's gonna be,

Starting point is 00:06:35 and what they're going to be able to do on that front. Here's another thing. So I've mentioned this one before, write it down if you're listening, bball.notnothing.net. This is the website that you can play around with who wins the rest of the games remaining in the regular season, and then it spits out

Starting point is 00:06:53 what the bracket's gonna look like for the Big Ten tournament. They also have set up just, if all the favorites win. We know that's not gonna happen, but if that does happen, Iowa finishes in the tie for 14th place, Northwestern Minnesota. But as we know, 15 teams make the Big Ten tournament. Iowa would be on the outside looking in, in that scenario.

Starting point is 00:07:14 They would be the number 16 team and the first team out of the Big Ten bracket. That's tough. I mentioned at the top, March situations. For youngsters out there, if you don't remember what March situations are, when Steve Alford was trying to explain his poor record, explain the disappointment of his career at the University of Iowa, at one point he brought up March situations,

Starting point is 00:07:40 not NCAA tournaments, March situations. We're back, our situation now for March, not about the NCAA tournaments, March situations. We're back. Our situation now for March, not about the NCAA tournament. Our March situation is about just qualifying for the Big Ten tournament. My other mighty have fallen. Tom Kaker from HawkeyeReport.com. He stops in. We talk plenty of Hawkeyes. Football, basketball, women's basketball, even a little wrestling. We'll do that as we continue. This is Locked On Hawkeyes. Attention Locked On Hawkeye fans, the future of college sports is here and it's transparent. Before the Roy App, NIL negotiations often happened under the table.

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Starting point is 00:09:30 Mr. Kaker normally on a Friday, but it's got Dr. Man. He's got the tough duty of being in New Orleans. So we had to move him around a little bit this week. Thanks for joining us a day early time. Well, it's probably appropriate since we had a men's basketball last night. So it works well. It absolutely does. And a game that was there for the taking, there were moments and, and they shot at the end. Yeah. It got a block. Biddle that dude was playing out of his mind throughout the course of that game, but dude made a play. I like the play call. I like going to Dick's

Starting point is 00:10:02 who's obviously proven he can be a shop maker late in games as he did earlier this year against Northwestern. It just it didn't go down. Kind of a microcosm though of this Iowa team, right? There's some good things but ultimately not good enough. Close but no cigar is kind of a theme for this year for Iowa men's basketball and mixing in some really rough losses, but some good moments too. They did go to Rutgers and Wynn recently, so we give them credit. I think they played what, in those two road games, they played three good halves and then

Starting point is 00:10:43 one really bad half. And that was at Maryland. Uh, played one really good half there and then one not so good, but now they're permanently on the bubble of the big 10 tournament because, uh, um, there's, uh, for fans who don't know, there's only going to be 15, uh, big 10 teams out of the team that get to go to Indianapolis. And, uh, right now Iowa is probably going to have to beat Washington and maybe have to beat Northwestern in order to, I think, feel comfortable that they're in. And, uh, using a website that I know, you know, incredibly well, Tom, be ball.notnothing.net where you projected forward.

Starting point is 00:11:28 If you just go by the Sager and rankings, that's the rankings that he uses over there and project the way that this thing finishes out. Iowa finishes in a three-way tie for 14th place, part of the top 15. However, because of tiebreakers, Iowa would be on the outside looking in behind Northwestern and Minnesota. Of course, Minnesota has the tiebreaker against them. Their round robin record would go the way of Northwestern and Minnesota.

Starting point is 00:11:53 Iowa would be out. Let's go down that path, Tom. If Iowa doesn't make the Big Ten tournament, does that change the equation at all for Beth Getz and what her decision's going to be at the end of the year? No I don't think so. Yeah, um because even if you squeak in I mean it's squeaking in right, you know You know, you're not going to be in indianapolis long more than likely um and

Starting point is 00:12:19 You know, I think she's she's She was not at the obviously she wasn't there last night because they have athletes director meetings down in New Orleans where she's got documents down eating, you know, all kinds of great food and what's not, you know, he's not working really. He's just going down there to have great food in New Orleans. Uh, but anyway, they're, you know, but she's been at, I think, every men's home game that I can recall

Starting point is 00:12:46 and that I've been at. And I've been at, I think, all but maybe one of them this year, and that was because we were down in Nashville for one of them. So, yeah, I, you know, it's a financial decision, you know, money, it always is. And it's, that's what's going to come down to, I think, as much as record and as much as achievement, all that's wrapped into one, but it's also about, you know, money, lack of attendance, that sort of stuff. And that's what's going to resonate, I think, with her moving forward.

Starting point is 00:13:26 You know, we have talked about this a lot in Iowa basketball, the financial part of it. You know, I look at, I think for most people, I would say a majority of people, the headliners and the most realistic candidates out there are Ben McCollum, Pat Drake, and Darren DeVries, if you can talk him into coming back home after a year at West Virginia. But both of those guys, neither of them are dynamic personalities. They're not rah rah guys, excite the fan base kind of personalities. And do you need a guy like that? This, this fractured Iowa fan base to get them not just back inside the building

Starting point is 00:14:00 and, and getting ticket sales going, but just to reinvigor the fan base. Do you need somebody with a different kind of, I guess, basketball DNA and just kind of the way they're wired? A guy maybe more like a Steve Forbes that has that kind of personality. There is something to be said for that. To have a, you know, he's not coming, but like a Bruce Pearl He's not coming but like a Bruce Pearl Type personality guy who's gonna You know and Forbes he's done that too or you know same things with him where he's out On the Wake Forest campus like handing out tickets and stuff like that he's you know got a little PT Barnum to him

Starting point is 00:14:47 That I think you need and let's not lose sight of this too. They are also going to embark on a $65 million renovation of Carver Hawkeye Arena, and you need the men's basketball coach to be kind of the front-facing guy for that in a lot of ways to help spearhead that because you know I and I mentioned Jane Jensen will be involved and sir Tom Brands will be involved but the men's basketball coach has to kind of lead that charge too and along with Beth Getz and her team so that that's gonna be that's why it's important you know Fran has done a terrific job at Iowa, I think he's resurrected the program,

Starting point is 00:15:28 got it back on its feet, got it to a Dr. Tom Davis level. I think Trent, you would agree with me on that, right? Absolutely. In hindsight, I think a lot of people overrate the Dr. Tom Aaron, certainly, you know, after Roy and BJ Annette graduated. This is what Iowa basketball was in the nineties.

Starting point is 00:15:44 Make the tournament more often than not, win a game, and then that's what you're going to get. And probably that sweet 16 run, I think probably tainted a lot of people's memories of what it was for a decade. Yeah, but it's been, you know, solid. Solid is a solid is a nice word. But one thing Fran hasn't really embraced a whole lot, and I think he'd fully admit this probably, that he's not one of those guys that's going to go out and sell the program kind of stuff. He leaves that to the marketing people. He's a basketball coach, and I think that's how he views himself.

Starting point is 00:16:18 And that's a fair way to look at things. I mean, that's just, that's his job is to be the coach of the basketball team, develop those players. Um, but I think I might need somebody who's just going to be a little more rah rah on that stuff and be willing to go on, you know, Miller and Condon from time to time and talk up the team and, you know, go on, go on different podcasts, things like that. I think that's a, that's something that would be effective for, you know, if there is a change that's made. It does make a lot of sense. And I think there's so much that still needs to be done. I brought

Starting point is 00:16:52 up, you know, reinvigorate the prime time league. And even if, you know, you and I is not involved anymore, like they once were, even if it's just a couple of guys, and I don't know what the rules are now for those summer leagues that they're able to put together. I know Randy Larson did it. And sadly's not with us anymore but you need to bring something like that back because it's not about the box scores right it's not about anything like that but think of you went to those how many times I went to those I did a radio show from a prime time league 20 years ago now it was something though it wasn't about the actual game it was a talking point for you to write an article for me to talk about on the

Starting point is 00:17:26 air for people at Casey's to talk about it. You need to get that back and get Iowa basketball back to being a conversation piece. Yeah. Or just something, you know, and even last night where they were given, you know, $2, two other beers, $2 pretzels. And God bless Haka Alves for telling those guys, anybody in line that sent a picture, I'll Venmo you the money for your beer.

Starting point is 00:17:52 I mean, that's just, that's him. He's a great dude. But they didn't have many students there. There just weren't, just not many students there. So they've got to get that student population back. I think that's, that's really important. Um, moving forward. Basketball, it is now a fight to get into the big 10 tournament. And sadly, as we talked about a week ago, our hopes of Vegas might be off the board, but, uh, and there's a few

Starting point is 00:18:23 Hawkeye fans, I'm sure that would have made that trip out there. We'll see about that on that front. Let's jump over to the women's basketball side. Want to talk to you about the matchup coming up this weekend. To be honest, I gave them no shot against USC. Of course they pulled the shocker there. There was also a little extra juice in the building that day with Caitlin Clark on hand. This is a different one with UCLA. And if Lauren Betts is able to go, if she's even close to 100%, a post player like that, incredibly difficult to deal with. Do you give Iowa against a healthy UCLA team, do you give them a shot on Sunday? I give them a shot just because I just saw USC beat this UCLA team, you know, just last week. So you never know getting on the road.

Starting point is 00:19:07 Uh, but boy, I really do like the UCLA team. They're very good. Um, they've got a lot of talent. They've got really good depth, I think really good coach. So, um, yeah, I, it's going to be a, it's a busy, it's going to be a busy weekend at Carver Hawkeye. When you got, uh got the men's team host in Washington, you've got UCLA and you got the wrestlers on the mat Sunday

Starting point is 00:19:30 night too against Okie State, number two versus number three. That will be a big one. Conclude the regular season. Oklahoma State, they've found some money in those couch cushions too for the wrestling program, as you saw with Drey Sean Rossa some of the speculation about that is maybe Oklahoma State and Iowa should combine forces to try to beat Penn State would that work? They might yeah, you know, I think Oklahoma State's probably got a little oil money

Starting point is 00:19:58 there's there's money and then there's oil money and that's the oil money is different and And then there's oil money and that's oil money is different and it's more plentiful. And I think that's how you get Taylor down there is you tell them, hey, you're going to have X number of million dollars available to go out and shop. So that's like there's three programs in the country right now that have that those resources that are going to be available to them. And that's Penn State, Iowa and Oklahoma State. And magically, those are the three best programs in the sport this year.

Starting point is 00:20:29 So we have a lot going on in this changing, evolving world of college athletics. And with the NIL, the way that it's going to look going forward, the $20 million now, Title IX doesn't have to be split evenly like the previous regime or now the current regime says, no, we don't have to worry about that. There's so much changing, everything is going on. When you look big picture just at the University of Iowa,

Starting point is 00:20:50 the athletic department for the University of Iowa, is Iowa in a good space going forward, not knowing exactly how this is all gonna play out, how it's gonna look? Do you believe that Iowa though as a whole is in a good spot? I do, I think Beth has been planning for these days. And I think anybody, honestly, I think anybody in the big 10 and the SEC is

Starting point is 00:21:15 going to be in good shape because they're going to have the TV money that's coming in now. I do think, and this is just specifically about men's basketball in a lot of ways, but I think there's some naivete out there among some college administrators and such that think that just the house money is going to be enough to, and you don't need kind of what I'm calling the over the top money that is the traditional collective money right now, that's not going away folks. I mean, there's still going to be that out there.

Starting point is 00:21:50 And I think there's some folks who think that maybe that's just going to, the collectives are going to go away. No, they're not. There'll be maybe a little bit different formation. And I'm just amused They're hiring an accounting firm, the NCAA as I believe to try and police fair market value for things that are paid to, to, uh, student athletes, uh, at various schools. How are you going to determine that? Good luck. Um, it's just,

Starting point is 00:22:21 it's going to be messy, but I just, I think men's basketball at Iowa, you know, they're getting, you know, Chad Lysenko had a story this week, uh, mentioning that the men's basketball program is 1.5 million. Uh, and that's, that's an accurate number, but that's the bottom probably three or four in the big 10 right now. They've got to get that number in addition to what they're going to get from the house thing, which is probably 2.5, 3 million, I would think. They're going to have to get that up to three to four million on the outside stuff to, I think, elevate the program.

Starting point is 00:22:58 Little football talk to wrap things up. We're talking with Tom Kakert, HawkeyeReport.com, part of On3Media. What a first go to quarterback recruiting. So for my Lockdown Hawkeyes podcast, I had our recruiting analyst that I talked to earlier in the week. He absolutely loves Cash Herrera. And he said if Peyton fells own, if they can get a visit from him and get him locked up, he can't remember two guys that not just had the arm talent, I was had arm talent guys, but coupled with the athleticism of both of these dudes, I want to start with Cash Herrera. Not a huge recruit when you kind of look at the national side of things, but this is somebody that Tim Lester identified right away. What you're continuing to hear about him.

Starting point is 00:23:39 Yeah, I think what I've been understood is that Tim is very interested in getting getting two guys in in this class. They're open to it because there's guys that are going to be open to it. Because what you're seeing with quarterback recruiting is really interesting because there's a lot of schools that are just like, yeah, we're not probably going to do the high school thing anymore. We're just going to go find a quarterback every spring in the portal or every fall or winter in the portal and we're going to try and just do it that way. So that means you're going to be able to get a Falzone all of a sudden who's really, really talented. I think he's more talented than Herrera and you just got to take the kid and if you can develop him. And I'll tell you this, um, Tim Lester loved Jimmy Sullivan too.

Starting point is 00:24:30 It was the freshman quarterback. So they could kind of get a pretty nice little pipeline going, but here's the other part of the equation with quarterback. As we know, the most impatient position in the history of sport, you know, if they're not playing, they're gonna put their name in the portal and get somewhere where they can play. And generally, you don't play two of them at a time. So that's gonna be the challenge moving forward.

Starting point is 00:24:54 But you know, this year it's probably gonna be obviously for now, and then we'll see what they do for backup. Well, and the other part about the Fels Zone recruitment that's so interesting, he has a Penn State offer, but Penn State's already got a kid in this class, a Troy Hoon, who's highly regarded himself. So is it a slow play or they just kind of keeping him back there?

Starting point is 00:25:16 Because even if I would get a commitment from Felsone, here's kind of the balancing act. If all of a sudden something changes with Penn State or Hoon, Hoon maybe is looking somewhere else all of a sudden. Now Falzone's back on the board here. This is a difficult balancing act with these quarterbacks. It is. I would say it's like, you know, especially sometimes with like a class of quarterback,

Starting point is 00:25:39 I'd always wait. And there are a lot of guys are committing a little bit earlier, but there was always a point generally in the spring where Domino's just started to fall and then they would just all like One week you'd have like ten quarterbacks come in because they're all kind of being recruited by the same programs in a lot of ways and then one picks the school then the next one the next one and they all just sort of fall in line and You don't see that as

Starting point is 00:26:05 much today but boy there's been a lot of years where that's happened. Absolutely. What is left as we make our way to spring football? We'll have on the football side of things another window that will open late in the spring, another small window there. We know what, cornerback is going to be a spot that they're going to be looking at that time What else is I was going to be portaling with when we get to the spring period? Yeah, I think corners obviously one spot that they're going to really look at I think they always keep their eye open that wide receiver something Really interesting or intriguing pops up. I could see them going that that direction

Starting point is 00:26:45 I could see them going in that direction. I think they just kind of wait and just see what's out there. You know one thing that I saw last night that was interesting because we had noticed that Hayden Large's name was on the roster still. And they had their little dance thing that they do every year with the football players and the cheerleaders last night. Hayden large was out there with them. So it wasn't just like an oversight or mistake that they, I think he's still with the team, so I think we all thought he was done cause he was, you know, look, went and walked that senior day or whatever, but it seems like

Starting point is 00:27:18 maybe Hayden large back. So that kind of helps them with that, back, H back, tight end kind of position and a little more depth with Ostrenka and with Zach Ortworth there. Gonna be an interesting off season. Spring football begins late March this year. Did they push it back a little bit later? It feels a little later.

Starting point is 00:27:42 I think the calendar, yeah, I think the calendar just kind of makes it fall a little bit later. Um, it feels a little later. The calendar fall. Yeah. I think the calendar just kind of makes it fall a little bit later. Uh, so it'd be like that maybe the last week of March when they get going, but they'll have, they usually have their pro day that Monday and then they start practice on that Wednesday. Good. We need that. You know why we need that? Because we need content, local content in April and May. So push that thing back, get through basketball. Then we can get into the football. I like the way that this thing's set up, Tom. Absolutely. Same with me.

Starting point is 00:28:12 Well, Tom, appreciate your time. You guys got a ton going on. Obviously the wrestling coverage, you got the basketball coverage, football recruiting with Blair. You guys doing a great job over at Hawkeye Report part of on three a media Tom appreciate I know it's day early really do appreciate you jumping on with us today anytime my friend anytime that is Tom Kaker Hawkeye Report comm wrapping things up it's locked on Hawkeyes Trent Conn and back with you once again thanks for being with us and Locked On Hawkeyes, Trent Cahn, and back with you once again. Thanks for being with us and making Locked On Hawkeyes your first listen every day.

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Starting point is 00:29:06 So we have a weekend in front of us. Mention that Oklahoma state, Iowa wrestling meet the final regular season duel. I really do like the setup of that. Yeah. Not ending with a big 10 dual. I know that's a little bit different, but it's turned into such a fun series. And obviously the history of the two programs go hand in hand with Oklahoma state and Iowa ending the season or one of the last dualss certainly of the year each and every year. I like the

Starting point is 00:29:27 structure of that one. Iowa baseball what they have in front of them lose two out of three against South Florida starting pitching was really good over the weekend. They got a couple of big games coming up this week as well. The Iowa softball team need to take a glance at them and kind of see how things are going. But this weekend more than anything it's gonna be to me about what happens that match up against UCLA. If the Iowa women really have an opportunity I kind of see how things are going. But this weekend, more than anything, it's going to be to me about what happens to that matchup against UCLA. And if the Iowa women really have an opportunity to pull off what would be a

Starting point is 00:29:49 huge upset, really bolster that resume. And, and the conversation we've had, you know, getting up to the sixth line, how important that would be for this team to make a run, to have the ability to get into the second weekend, I believe it has to come from that spot, the more likely spot I should say coming from that spot that means getting wins and it's either. Eating UCLA or Michigan wrapping it up with the win at home against

Starting point is 00:30:11 Wisconsin to wrap up the season. That's what's still in front of him here. Monday disappointment aside, losing to Ohio State after roaring back to force overtime in that one. So that's what I'm going to be keeping a close eye on. We got you covered here.

Starting point is 00:30:24 Coming up on tomorrow's program, mentioned talking with Tom there, Scott Dockerman is going to be freshly back from New Orleans and the SEC Big Ten meetings that were happening there. So we'll get some insight into that. Iowa football, this new structure of the college football playoff, it's a good thing for Iowa football. Not great for the sport, but good for Iowa football. We'll explain that on tomorrow's program. As always, thanks for making Lockdown Hawkeyes your first listen every day. We'll talk to you again tomorrow. Until then, go Hawks!

Locked On Hawkeyes - Daily Podcast On Iowa Hawkeyes Football & Basketball - Bubble Trouble: Iowa Hoops in Danger of Missing Big Ten Tournament

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