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Starting point is 00:00:00 survive in advance. It wasn't pretty, but Iowa gets the win and punches their ticket into the sweet 16. Cynthia Falter, the difference in this one. We break it all down today. Locked on Hawkeyes. You are locked on Hawkeyes.

Starting point is 00:00:14 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 find podcasts. You can also find us on YouTube.

Starting point is 00:00:48 While you're there, make sure you hit the subscribe button. It helps us get in front of more Hawkeye fans. Today's episode is brought to you by FanDuel. Make every moment more. New customers join today and you'll get $200 in bonus bets. If your first bet of $5 or more wins, visit fandueluel.com slash LockedOn to get started. A win for the Iowa women as they march on to the Sweet 16 for the second consecutive season. This one,

Starting point is 00:01:12 as it has been in the round of 32 the last couple of years, was incredibly difficult. A West Virginia team that came in with a game plan and boy, did they play it at a high, high level. Ultimately, though, Iowa does enough to get the victory. And it really going to be remembered, I think, for a long time as a Sydney-Folter play.

Starting point is 00:01:31 One play late in the game that was proved to be the difference in a tie ball game. But as we go through it and look at this basketball game, you saw early on, West Virginia jumps out to a 5-0 lead. Their physicality that they played with was something that Iowa knew was going to be the case coming into it. There's no doubt about that, but it really impacted what Iowa wanted to do and that style of West Virginia. Not a big team.

Starting point is 00:01:56 We talked about that as we previewed things yesterday here. That was exactly what they were going to do this evening. The physicality, I think, at times took Iowa out of what they wanted to do. It slowed them down. They were able to play West Virginia at the tempo they wanted this game. They played their game plan basically to perfection outside of foul trouble. I mean, this is exactly how it had to go in a night where Caitlin Clark got it going a little bit. After the slow start, Iowa down 5-0.

Starting point is 00:02:24 Tie it back up then here comes west virginia again they came roaring back three three pointers in the first quarter for caitlyn clark but she finishes the game with just three assists against six turnovers and something that we're just not accustomed to that is a season low in assists for caitlyn clark this season though the three pointers that she made early in the game were all hugely important. Had one late in the second quarter. That was a second quarter, though, that was not a thing of beauty. And every single time throughout the course of this evening

Starting point is 00:02:54 where it felt like Iowa was going to maintain control, that they were going to grab a hold of this one and really maybe cruise into the victory, West Virginia had a response every single time until late in the basketball game. I'll mention the second quarter after Iowa gets down early, come back, take the lead 2015 going into the second quarter. Iowa scores just six points in the second quarter. I can't remember a game offhand that Iowa scored six points in a quarter. That's just not the style of play that they are in. I mean, this team, even well before Kaitlin Clark,

Starting point is 00:03:26 is such a good offensive team year in and year out under Lisa Bluter. It's just not anything that you anticipate is going to happen with this squad. There are going to be times that they're outscored. We've seen that happen plenty of times in the past, but not like this. And to get a victory in this style of game, I think, says a lot about this squad. Six points, you go into the halftime locker room with a 26-24 lead. But they come out of the third quarter locker room, once again, heating up from the outside, getting everything going.

Starting point is 00:03:53 I thought Stolke was outstanding on what she was able to do inside in a very physical game. I mean, the way that they allow some of the just muggings at times inside in the post play is something that is just, it's not an enjoyable watch. You know, a style like that is not a fun watch unless it's your team and you're winning playing basketball games that way. But inside, just in general, in women's college basketball, it is something that needs to be cleaned up.

Starting point is 00:04:18 For the betterment of the sport, you can't allow the kind of physicality. I mean, you look late in the game you had the hook where Stolke went down to the ground and because her arm was grabbed and hold held on to she wasn't able to brace her fall falls on her face looked like that could have been a substantial injury luckily not the case for Hannah and for the rest of us Hawkeye fans that that wasn't the case but just so physical inside I thought she did some great things, had four block shots in the game, a double-double for her with 12 and 11. She was really good.

Starting point is 00:04:49 In a day where Kate Martin just didn't have it going, they were able to find different avenues. And certainly one of those was Sydney Fulter. Back, though, and looking throughout the course of this game, I walked away so impressed by West Virginia. And we talked about the history as well. Two years ago, it was a loss at home on a weekend afternoon against Creighton in the round of 32.

Starting point is 00:05:14 It was a frustrating one and a game where the shots just were not falling from the outside. And ultimately, they were able to get it done. A year ago in the round of 32, it was Georgia that gave Iowa everything that they wanted. And that one came down to the wire and Iowa had to pull this one out. And the same thing here.

Starting point is 00:05:30 So I will say this to you. If you're going to use this game as some kind of indictment that this team can't win a national championship, that this team can't get back to a Final Four, get back to playing in the national championship game, and you point just to this game, I think that's unfair. And Kaitlin Clark said it after the game.

Starting point is 00:05:49 This is one of the hardest rounds of the NCAA tournament. You're at home, and you have the juice at home, but you also, you have all the pressure. You have all the pressure in this game. And we've seen teams that have gone awry. You know, a year ago, Stanford, a number one seed, went down to Ole Miss. We've seen this happen plenty of times in the past. In Iowa, it's about surviving and advancing. It's something that, for whatever reason, has been a trouble the last three years. They found a way to get it done, and ultimately, that is the difference. Speaking of difference, Sydney Fulter

Starting point is 00:06:18 was the difference. We'll get into her big play and take a look forward for this Iowa basketball team. Plus, coming up today, we got some news and notes, some different Hawkeye nuggets that are out there, some different things, some rumblings, some things that we're going to pass along to you, and a little bit of the rumor mill that is out there. We got a little football. We got some men's basketball.

Starting point is 00:06:37 We'll get into all of that here throughout the course. But it's Instant Reaction Podcast here after iowa wins 64 to 54 as they beat west virginia and move on to the sweet 16 and now make the easy trip to albany new york the ncaa has screwed this up mightily this is a travesty it really is for a scroll for a sport that is growing by leaps and bounds for a sport that is now in the national spotlight. To have two sites for the Sweet 16, fine. That's what you want to do. A year ago, it was Greensboro or South Carolina.

Starting point is 00:07:15 Makes a lot of sense. Obviously, the power team from a year ago until they faced the Iowa Hawkeyes in the Final Four. And they also put it out in Seattle. So you come back this year and and you put it in Portland, and you put it in Albany, New York. These are not easy destinations. And we're not asking for things just to be set up for Iowa,

Starting point is 00:07:35 though it'd be great. That's not the case. But to have sites like this, not major hub cities, not places that are easy to get to, not places that are drivable for fan bases across the country. To put them in far outposts. If you're going to put it in New York, don't put it in Albany. Albany? Come on. Put it in New York City. I mean, do something there. Let's liven things up a little bit. Actually put it in a place that people can get to

Starting point is 00:08:02 a lot easier than it is to get to Albany. Because we know there's a lot of Hawkeye fans that will love to make this trip. And though there'll be plenty that'll make their way out to New York, it's not cheap. It's not an easy place to get to. It's a long drive. It is difficult. Put in Hub Cities. Put in Denver. Put in Atlanta.

Starting point is 00:08:19 Put in Chicago. Put in Dallas. Put in places that make sense. If you're growing your sport, you want to continue to grow your sport. Yes, it'll sell out. It's not about that. The TV numbers will be immense. But you want to have the best environment possible.

Starting point is 00:08:32 Grow up. And that's what you need to do. You need to grow your sport. Growing your sport is not putting in these little outposts and making it good for schools like Connecticut or easy for West Coast schools. No, this is a national sport. Act like it. This is a travesty.

Starting point is 00:08:49 But I will be there. And that's the most important thing for what we're doing. Let's get into SIDA Falter, Caitlin Clark, and the crew. Dive deeper into the matchup. And before we get into our news and notes here on the Hawkeye Front, it's an instant reaction podcast. Iowa with the win, 64-54 over West Virginia. Colorado is up next.

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Starting point is 00:11:10 but it was the difference in this one. The sequence with about two minutes to play in the ballgame as Gabby Marshall, a little bit late getting over, but gets the block shot, a deflection that leads to a run out for Iowa. The ball settles into the hands as it kind of flutters there near the free throw line after the block from Marshall into the hands of Sidney Affolter. Another rebound for Affolter. She gets it. Caitlin Clark's right next to her.

Starting point is 00:11:33 Sid puts her head down. Gets to midcourt. Does a little spin. Sees the defender out on her right hip. Spins the other way. Comes back to the top of the key. And then sees a lane. And this is why Sidney Affolter, as we've talked about throughout the course of this season,

Starting point is 00:11:47 is so important to this team. She can handle it. She can rebound. She can drive. She can shoot. She can do so many different things. She is a complete basketball player. With her size and her versatility, she is a huge cog of this Iowa team.

Starting point is 00:12:02 And if Iowa's going to make a run back to a Final Four, if they're going to win two games in Albany and punch their ticket to Cleveland, Zinnia Fulter has to play at the level that we saw from her tonight. And really what we've seen from her over the last five games. After the injury to Molly Davis, this is what you need out of a Fulter. She is a player that can hurt you in so many different ways of what she does on both ends of the floor. That play, though, two minutes to go, tie ballgame. Everything's tightened up. I mean, the fan base, you could feel the nervous energy in the crowd. It was really a scene unlike anything that we've seen throughout the course of this season. You go back to the home loss against

Starting point is 00:12:42 Kansas State back during the non-conference portion of the season. There was a little bit of that angst, but it was still so early in the season. You know, there was a lot in front of you. It wasn't going to cost you anything in the grand scheme of things. And you could feel it at that time. But this was completely different because you lose this one, it's over. I mean, it's as simple as that. And you could feel that inside the building.

Starting point is 00:13:03 It was not, I guess, a normal crowd that we're used to, and one of the reasons is the style of play that West Virginia played, and they're out there just kind of handsy, playing very physical and making it incredibly difficult. But then taking the drive, getting to the rim, taking the contact, maybe create a little bit of contact, absorbing it, going up, finishing with the left hand, get the three-point play, and finally some breathing room. One of the craziest aspects about that play was that it was only made field goal of the fourth quarter. As they score 16 points in the fourth quarter, the other 14, though, came from the free throw

Starting point is 00:13:41 line. Just one bucket in the fourth quarter. They went a long stretch without making a field goal. They had a stretch of over eight minutes without a field goal. That one, though, absolutely huge. The defense was outstanding. And something needs to be said about that. This is a team that has obviously been built on offense,

Starting point is 00:13:59 been built on Kaitlyn Clark and her great playmaking ability and what she does. But to play defense the way that they did against West Virginia, really commendable. They're open shots, but they changed defenses. A huge aspect, too, is just not just about the defense. And though they gave up some open threes that West Virginia just missed, I loved what they did with the triangle and two. I make the decision right away when they went out there a couple of different times, go with that triangle and two. I'm making the decision right away when they went out there a couple of different times, go with that triangle and two. They were just going to face guard Quinn Early and Harrison. They're two guards, really two point guards out there that are so good defensively, but also can hurt you on the other end. I'll hold them to seven to 17 shooting overall in the basketball

Starting point is 00:14:37 game. That was monstrous. And ultimately both of those players fouled out of the game. It was huge, but another aspect that needs to be mentioned, and we talked about the rebounds from Hannah Stolke with the double-double with 12 and 11, 10 rebounds from Kate Martin, 8 from Kaitlyn Clark, 7 from a Folter. All these different players is they out-rebound West Virginia. The physicality of West Virginia, though Iowa's taller, still playing a physical team like that to out-rebound them and do it while you're playing so much zone defense, that's tough to do.

Starting point is 00:15:11 And Iowa really maintained the edge on the glass that was monstrous in this one. Just 5-22 shooting from behind the arc. Iowa overall 7-47 from the field in this game. Look, there's a lot of Iowa teams in the quarter century of Lisa Bluter coaching. There's no way they can win with only 17 made field goals. You just can't.

Starting point is 00:15:31 And yet they found a way and they move on here. Gabby Marshall doesn't score, but that block shot will be remembered for a very long time. And what she did defensively, both events, Harrison and Quinn early, she was really good on that front. We mentioned a falter, 13.7 rebounds, two assists in the events, Harrison and Quinn Early. She was really good on that front. We mentioned a falter.

Starting point is 00:15:45 13.7 rebounds, two assists in the game. The four blocks and the double-double from Stolke. In a game where just four players even score a point for Iowa. Incredible. Vierbach played 10 minutes, didn't get a bucket. Four minutes apiece for O'Grady and for Taylor McCabe. McCabe wasn't able to squeeze off a shot. You saw O'Grady just didn't have it, and they're going to need her.

Starting point is 00:16:08 I still maintain they're going to need Addison O'Grady to have a good performance against somebody, and it might be coming up this week against Colorado. We'll continue to break that game down here throughout the course of the week. Tip-off time has been set for the matchup against the Buffaloes. Of course, the team that they saw a year ago in the Sweet 16, that one was a tight one. Four-point game, I believe with about five minutes to go before Iowa eventually pulled away and got the victory, setting up their matchup with Louisville in the Elite Eight game out in Seattle. This Colorado team returns four starters from a year ago.

Starting point is 00:16:42 They also, their fifth starter this year is a transfer from Michigan. Seen a whole lot of Iowa redemption, payback. Those are going to be big storylines throughout the course of the week. That will be a 2.30 tip off Central Time on Saturday afternoon. ABC will have it. It'll open up at noon with LSU against UCLA. UCLA had to come roaring back to beat Creighton, LSU against UCLA. UCLA had to come roaring back to beat Creighton, the one that came down to the wire, and a nice victory for UCLA.

Starting point is 00:17:10 A team that is going to be fun to watch, and we'll see LSU on the other side of that. We talked about the difficult matchups here that Iowa got and the quote-unquote bracket of death that they got. It's tough. Colorado is going to be an incredibly difficult matchup. As mentioned, we'll talk about that more throughout the course of this week and dive a little bit deeper, but for those starters back from a year ago, difficult matchup. As mentioned, we'll talk about that more throughout the course of this week and dive a little bit deeper. But for those starters back from a year ago, I think that's going to be

Starting point is 00:17:29 a huge part of what we talk about there. On that side, though, LSU-UCLA should be a really good one. I'll be interested to see what the point spread is when that comes out. FanDuel, when the NCAA tournament bracket was announced, LSU was the betting favorite to come out of the region. We'll see if that's something that continues. Let's see, right now, Albany, here we go. We got updated. Don't have point spreads yet for the games coming up as we sit here late on Monday night into Tuesday morning. But they do have the odds to win the Albany 2 regional. Iowa is now the betting

Starting point is 00:18:06 favorite at plus 110. LSU, the second betting choice at plus 145. UCLA at plus 460. And there's Colorado at 16 to 1. Now their path is going to be difficult. They'd have to beat, of course, number one seed Iowa, and then the winner of LSU, UCLA. Colorado, talked about it last year. They're right there with Iowa. Had a chance to win that game. A team that played for a national championship and the first game of the season, by the way, Colorado not just beat LSU. They absolutely wiped the floor with the Tigers. LSU is playing much better than they were back at that time and all kinds of weird stuff that was happening during the non-conference portion of the season with Angel Reese and Kim Mulkey. We'll see if she's

Starting point is 00:18:44 going to be suing the Washington Post. What an idiot she is. Oh, boy. She's bothersome. Hopefully we won't have to worry about her until next Monday night in an Elite Eight matchup. But before that, we've got a lot on our plate. Still 16-1 for the Buffaloes.

Starting point is 00:18:58 Made dumber bets than that, certainly in mine. The other one that is up is the Albany Regional, the Albany One Region, South Carolina, a huge betting favorite there. They're minus 750, meaning you got to lay 750 bucks just to win 100 back if you want to bet on South Carolina, or 75 to win 10 bucks. Maybe a better way to look at it for most of us out there. Notre Dame, the second choice at 10 to 1. Oregon State at 13 to 1, and there's Indiana at 36-1 after they come back and get the win. LSU had to come back to beat Metal Tennessee, and they blew them out eventually in their round of 32 game.

Starting point is 00:19:34 There's good matchups, and we saw a lot of good ones here tonight. Indiana, congratulations to them. Mackenzie Holmes and company moving on and giving us two teams from the Big Ten in the Sweet 16. But again, 2.30 will be the tip time for Iowa-Colorado Saturday afternoon. And then next Monday night, the Elite Eight coming out of this region is what we will see. We continue Lockdown Hawkeyes. Some news and notes.

Starting point is 00:19:57 Caden Proctor has a foregone conclusion that he is leaving the University of Iowa for Alabama, going back to, well, his first destination out of high school. A lot of rumblings about that. I'll tell you what I know and what I have heard. We'll get into that. A few other things as well. We got a little baseball note for you. Little men's basketball to get into as well as we continue.

Starting point is 00:20:19 Rolling through an instant reaction. Iowa moves on to the Sweet 16 on the women's side of things with the win against West Virginia. Stay right there as we continue. This is Locked on Hawkeyes. This week's March Madness bracket highlight is brought to you by our friends at Nissan. Each week, we're picking one team that stands out, a team that pushed it further than the rest.

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Starting point is 00:21:28 As always, thanks for making Lockdown Hawkeyes your first listen every day. All right, it's out there. It is rumblings. It is a whole lot of conversation about the big man, Caden Proctor. And though he broke the hearts of many Hawkeye fans out there, the potential of solidifying an offensive line that has been bad the last two seasons, helping out, getting guys in a more natural position, and the improvement that we thought we were going to see this season, that's off the board. He is leaving, and most

Starting point is 00:21:58 everybody anticipated it was going to be Alabama. But there's been rumblings. Now, is it just that? It was going to be Alabama. But there's been rumblings. Now, is it just that? Is it message board fodder? Is it Twitter? Is it Facebook? Is it Instagram?

Starting point is 00:22:12 Wherever your social media choice is, because it's out there. The kid in Proctor is not going to Alabama. He's staying in the state of Iowa and not in Iowa City. He is going to Ames. What I can tell you is when these rumblings began. And we told you right here on Locked On Hawkeyes about those rumblings back in December that Caden Proctor was potentially going to be looking around for a new home and that Iowa City was likely the destination. We had that right.

Starting point is 00:22:34 It just didn't last as long as we hoped for. The Iowa State angle, though. When those rumblings were first starting, what I was told is that there were overtures made with Iowa State. And very quickly, he realized, or his camp realized, that the NIL money wasn't there. It just wasn't close. And it was something that was just, at that point, not negotiable. Now, that is just that.

Starting point is 00:23:01 Rumblings, there's nothing concrete. There was no conversation with even, I don't believe the NIL group. I think it was a general understanding though, about what it is and what Iowa state football players were getting, but those conversations have revved up again and they have been out there and they have continued. Is there a big Iowa state booster that can make it? Well, there is, there's certainly Iowa State boosters that have the money that could make this right. Does Matt Campbell want to make it happen? We will see. But for any hope, any glimmer of hope that you might have,

Starting point is 00:23:32 the transfer portal for football still isn't even open. Caden Proctor is going to come to his senses and everything's going to be all right. Don't hold on to that. Likely the only chance you're going to see Caden Proctor play in Iowa City next season is going to be in week two with Iowa State. I don't think it's a great shot. I still think that it is a 98% chance that he is back in Alabama and that's where it is. But I know conversations happened well before we got to this point with Iowa State. Can they make it work? I know ultimately is what Caden Proctor wants. I think the young man has got a lot of bad advice.

Starting point is 00:24:07 I think he doesn't have the right people in his ear. And I also have a concern about him willing to put in the necessary hard work to hit his apex. Natural talent is through the roof. Not just the physical style, but the dominating nature that he can be as an offensive tackle. But when you make your way to Iowa City and you're not with teammates, you want to live alone. When you're going to sporting events by yourself, there's just something off. There's something off really from the get-go of this and the way that it was in just his two months that he was a part of the Iowa football program. It's going to take work.

Starting point is 00:24:45 He showed up to Alabama out of shape. Now he is not going through spring practice this season. Now he is going to be kind of to his own devices for the next couple of months. They had to work him into shape a year ago at Alabama. And when they did, you saw how good he was at the end of the season. That is out there. A couple other things. I want to pass this along. I mentioned it yesterday on the podcast, so I had to look it up. And we were talking about the men's basketball team. As their season came to a close after the loss to Utah on Sunday night,

Starting point is 00:25:18 more of the same, right? Terrible defense. Just brutal. Wide open threes all over the place. Just hideous. Rotations are bad. Looks like they have no clue. And I don't know what it's going to take.

Starting point is 00:25:30 Look, it's not like Matt Gatins doesn't know how to play defense, right? It doesn't know. There are coaches on the staff that know what they're doing. It's just the message doesn't get there defensively. I mean, you can't go now basically a decade and being this bad year in and year out without having something very deficient in what you're doing and what you're teaching on the defensive end of the floor. I've long maintained that the best course of action is to bring in a dedicated defensive coach,

Starting point is 00:25:55 go that route. Yaklich, who did it at Michigan, he's available after losing his job at UIC. I think there's worse places that you could go. But it came up in the conversation. And what I was done, not just to the NCAA tournament, the lack of success there, not getting to the second weekend, but even the Big Ten tournament. So I look back. Over the last 10 years after Franz got this program kind of up and running, it took a while to build that thing up.

Starting point is 00:26:20 But on the close to the NCAA tournament team in the third year, fell to Michigan State in just an absolute screw job by Ted Valentine and company in that game in Chicago in the Big Ten tournament, a win there against Michigan State, and I believe Iowa would have been dancing. But since that moment, I was played in 10 Big Ten tournaments. Of course, no tournament in 2020. 10 Big Ten tournaments in those ten, they had a Big Ten championship. That was great. 2022. Outside of that, they have lost their first game six times.

Starting point is 00:26:54 Six of the last ten years, Iowa has been one and done in the Big Ten tournament. I say, all right, what's the big deal? Iowa's usually a middle of the pack. Not awful, not great, but middle of the pack. In all six of those losses, all six ones and dones, they have lost to double-digit seeds. Double-digit seeds every single year. 2014, as the sixth seed, Iowa lost to 11th seeded Northwestern.

Starting point is 00:27:19 2015, lost to 13th seeded Penn State. 2016, lost to 12th seeded Illinois. 2017, as the seventh seed, lose to 10-seeded Penn State. 2016, lost to 12-seeded Illinois. 2017, as a 7-seed, lose to 10-seeded Indiana. And then here the last two years, losing to Ohio State. Last year, the Buckeyes were the 13-seed. Iowa was the 5-seed.

Starting point is 00:27:37 And this year, Hawkeyes the 7-seed. The 10-seeded Buckeyes got them this past season. It's not just about the big dance. It's also the Big Ten tournament. That is laughable. To have that many losses, six losses to double-digit seeds in 10 Big Ten tournaments, that's also something that needs to change. It's not just the NCAA tournament.

Starting point is 00:27:58 It's also the Big Ten tournament. One great run, and it was a great run with Murray & Company and what they did a couple of years ago. It needs to be more than that. This program, I still believe, Ephraim McCaffrey is a coach that can continue to win with the Iowa style. There's going to have to be some retooling on this roster.

Starting point is 00:28:18 What are they going to do with Tony Perkins? Does he enter the portal? Can they bring him back for another year? Can they find somebody better? Iowa's got to go shopping in the portal and they need guards. Up front, I think you're feeling good. Could use another big potentially, but it's about finding guard play. As we've seen, and we see year after year after year,

Starting point is 00:28:35 it's about guard play come March. Does Iowa have it? Certainly not the way the roster is built right now. Thanks for making Lockdown Hawkeyes your first listen every day. We'll be back with you tomorrow. A lot of football. Spring football is underway. We will hear from Kirk Behrens later today and get our initial thoughts on this spring

Starting point is 00:28:53 football season. What we're going to see. The implementation of the new offense with Tim Lester. We'll talk plenty about that. Also get you ready for Iowa-Colorado coming up this weekend in the Sweet 16 on the women's side of things and retooling that Iowa roster. What exactly that means, we'll break it down all down. Your team every day.

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