Locked On Hawkeyes - Daily Podcast On Iowa Hawkeyes Football & Basketball - Instant Reaction - Iowa comes back to shock Michigan State 112-106

Episode Date: February 25, 2023

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What just happened? How did it happen? Iowa comes roaring back, down huge late in the ballgame with just a minute 34 remaining. The Hawkeyes were down 13 points. It's over, right? Not for this Iowa Hawkeye team. Five three-pointers down the stretch,

and they come back to force overtime and ultimately win it. 1-12 over 1-0-6, an instant reaction. Locked on now. Iowa finds a way to get it done. Our Locked on Hawkeyes, your daily podcast on the Iowa Hawkeyes. Part of the Locked on Podcast Network, your team every day. We'll be right back. Hey, everybody. I'm Trent Condon, and this is a Locked On Hawkeyes podcast.

Thanks for making Locked On Hawkeyes your first listen every single day. We're available wherever you get podcasts, Apple, Google, Stitcher, you name it, Spotify. We're there, and you can also find us on YouTube as you see my buddies behind me here, Apple, Google, Stitcher, you name it, Spotify. We're there, and you can also find us on YouTube, as you see my buddies behind me here, Roy, BJ, Ed, for the old-timers, and you can see us on YouTube. Hit that subscribe button while you're there. Five-star reviews on this podcast sphere. That's what we're looking for as we look to get in front of more Hawkeye fans. Here we are, Iowa, in a day that it just looked like it wasn't going to

happen. Michigan State was outstanding. Iowa was not playing good defense, and even when they were playing good defense, Michigan State just kept hitting shots right over top, and it didn't matter if it was from the three-point line or if there was a second left on the shot clock, and it was a fadeaway jumper. Time after time after time, Michigan State was hitting the shot. The defense was bad. No two ways about it. But you come to this team again and what they are, and it's so difficult at times to wrap your mind around how this Iowa basketball team is doing what they're doing. What defines this level, right?

And that's what I believe Iowa basketball in general is. This is the level that has a realistic spot for them to be. Good enough to make the NCAA tournament. More times than not, that's what I believe Iowa basketball in general is. This is the level that has a realistic spot for them to be. Good enough to make the NCAA tournament. More times than not, that's what they are. But taking that next step, something will have to change. Well, it's defensively. I mean, if I was going to get to that next step on a consistent basis, look, anybody can have a one-year run in the NCAA tournament.

We just saw St. Peter's do that a year ago. Anybody can have a run in the big dance. But we're talking about sustainability. They've got to be better on the defensive end if that's going to happen. Offensively, before the ridiculous stretch the last couple of minutes. We're going to run through everything and relive it because, boy, it was so much fun. I was just happy that I extended the DVR time so I'm going to be able to watch this one, time in and time out. That one's going to be some summer viewing, no doubt. We'll go back to watch this one, time it and time out. That one's going to be some sub reviewing, no doubt. We'll go back and watch that one.

But to do it in this fashion, to pull this off in a game where, frankly, you have no business winning that basketball game. And yet they do. The resiliency of this team, the fight that they have. And we wondered after the Wisconsin game, where that going to be? You know, is that going to show up? We know Connor McCaffrey has that. Absolutely. He doesn't have the skill set to always back up exactly what he's trying to do as a leader. He's not as talented as most of the guys on this team. He just isn't. But the will that he has to go along with just

enough skill gets things done. And you want to see that out of Chris Murray. And maybe these late game heroics are going to be what snaps him out of the funk that he was facing. At one point, he was one of 15 over the last couple of games from three. He started to heat up a little bit as the game went on. But you think of the comeback that they had here. Think of the comeback they had against Indiana earlier this season. The comeback against Michigan, even though it didn't end in a victory, go back to December, and they come back and force overtime against Wisconsin. Another game where they looked completely dead in the water, and they got it to OT,

and they got a lead in that one, and it slipped away. This team, now we're talking about all-home games, and they got to prove that they can do something away from home. Not just road venues, they're only going to have one left, and that's Tuesday against Indiana. I think that is just setting up for an incredibly difficult spot for the Hawkeyes. But we're here to celebrate today. We're not, we'll worry about that when we get to next week. Let's enjoy this one and let's look back. First of all, 112 points, right?

I mean, the first half, it's back and forth. It's up and down. But as Iowa, late in the ballgame? Looks like this thing's over. So, Fran McCaffrey gets the technical foul. So, he gets the tee. Should have been a jump ball, probably. But that's going to happen, right? Uless gets called for the foul.

He thought it was a jump ball. I agreed. Is my view a little tainted? Sure. Iowa felt like they were getting a bad whistle. I get there was frustrations. And I get frustrated with the frustrations. You know what I'm saying?

I get frustrated with the frustrations of the players and Fran. It's like, all right, just, just move on. And there's too many times where complaining to the officials and odd and odd. I think it goes too far personally. That's not to discredit Fran. Both things can be true. Does Fran take it too far sometimes? Yeah, absolutely.

But also, you got to give him credit because his teams respond to these. And really, outside of what we've seen the last couple of games, they've been able to respond after Fran's been ejected. There's been plenty of times that they've come back

either after technical or after an ejection and come back and got the win, including this one. Now, the part of it, getting the tee after a bad call. OK, that's fine. I mean, it looked like the game was over at that point. It's not going to matter.

Say your piece, yell at Kelly Pfeiffer and move on. But the staring down, that's that's a step too far. What are you going to do, Fran? Punch him? The stare down, the tough guy. That was a little bit too much for me. But ultimately, hey, it worked. And he's got scoreboard, right?

Trent, you got nothing. You're sitting here, you're glad to watch the game. He's there. And what he did, he pushed the right button that worked for him. He's got scoreboard. Credit to you, Fran, because you got that one. Not a good look, but it worked. We're going to run down the end of this game.

Just how nuts it was from that technical foul. We're going to go through, react. We're also going to look at this big picture. What does this mean now for Iowa basketball? As they were trending for their third consecutive loss, a road trip to Indiana on the horizon. And it was getting scary in a hurry. We were talking about the Fran fade. And it was getting scary in a hurry.

We were talking about the Fran Fade, and we were talking about the February meltdowns that happened, not the last two years, but most of the previous years before that. We're going to get into that, what this means for Iowa basketball, just how good a shape they are now to be an NCAA tournament team. Don't have to worry about bubble talk. They are in. Are they? We'll get into that as well. Lots of fun coming up here today

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partner of the NBA. Well, as we are back here on Locked On Hawkeyes, I'm Trent Condon, and I will tell you I was on the right side of this one. I had Iowa minus five. You've been listening to the podcast for a while. If you've heard me on the radio throughout the years, you know

I'm not exactly the most optimistic Hawkeye fan. I struggle with that and my teams in general. I had a good feeling coming into this game, and boy, did I feel dumb for 39 minutes. I just felt like that absolute moron during 39 minutes of gameplay. But this team didn't quit. Let's run through it and relive what we saw in the 112-106 comeback victory for the Hawkeyes down late in the game. After the technical foul, Tyson Walker steps up to the free throw line as he hits three out of four. Missed one in there. Okay. Sanford comes down,

misses. Perkins gets a tip. 141 to go. Quick quick foul Michigan State makes 2 out of 2 so there's the 13 point lead 91-78 if memory serves in that one after the hall free throws with a minute 30 left 3 pointer from Peyton Sanford timeout

quick foul Hogan goes to line hits a pair come the other way again we are talking about at this point a 12 point game Connor misses a layup Quick foul. Hoger goes to line. Hits a pair. Okay. Come the other way. Again, we are talking about, at this point, a 12-point game. Connor misses a layup. Chris gets a putback.

And foul. Still a minute 15 left. It's still a 10-point game. This isn't going to happen. Then a turnover. Perkins has a look at three misses. Now, any faint hope they have at this point It's over Rabracha gets the foul

He fouls out of the game Alright this thing's over It's all academic with 1.06 left Both free throws are made again Iowa comes down under a minute Connor chucks up a three No good Peyton Sanford rebounds

Foul Makes a couple free throws Here we go again One out of two the free throw line for Sparty here's Connor chucking up the three with 40 seconds left I think it wasn't pretty but it found its way and then just for a moment you get that glimpse turnover Iowa's got the ball back you're doing the math in your head right you're thinking what's going to happen here ball out underneath they get it in chris murray no good patrick with the offensive rebound back to chris deep three i mean that thing what 26 feet away

deep on the wing knocks it in quick foul hogart to line for a pair he had been perfect up until that point and he continued on his perfect run iowa comes down patrick gets a wide open look at the top of the key i don't know what they were doing defensively there and the comeback continues to the free throw line Ogert with 19 seconds left two more free throws made this isn't gonna happen is it three-pointer by Connor timeout foul Ogert makes again all right gonna make the last go up for no he misses and then they bring it across connor with the flip how peyton sanford was that open i'll have no idea why michigan state didn't foul i'll have no idea how hogard who hadn't missed a free throw all day long how he misses one there i have no idea we're going to Just, you can't explain it.

It is the unexplainable. You have to see it to believe it. And we got to see it, folks. And what a fun, fun moment this was for Iowa basketball. Are there problems? Sure. Is this team great? No, they're not.

But they do it. And they get the lead in overtime. And they survive. And they cover. What a day it'd be, Hawkeye. Let's look at the box score here and break down what we saw talked about the defense it was not good i have not seen the defensive numbers yet they will come out shortly and there'll be some uh some head-scratching moments certainly in there here are your starters philip robracha he finishes with 18 points five

assists in the game he was really good early on. They kept going to him. Went away from him a little bit too much, I thought. Battled some foul trouble late in the game and ultimately fouled out of the game. How about Chris Murray? He finishes with 26 points, 8 rebounds, 4 assists. Had a couple of steals and a blocked shot. 8 of 19 from the floor, 8 of 11 from the free throw line.

Just 2 of 8 from downtown, but just enough to get it done. Tony Perkins, when they needed him, TP came up big. Three three-pointers during the course of the second half that just kept him around, right? And though it took that ridiculous comeback at the end to get there, Perkins kept him in the game. Ultimately, they just couldn't get the stops necessary to make it happen. So then you have what Perkins did.

24 points, 9 rebounds, 6 assists, 4 steals. And Perkins, how many big plays did he make on the boards? The tipping that he had. Just late game situations. He is a bulldog. He is a tough guy. He is that extra heartbeat that you absolutely need. I love Tony Perkins, and boy, to have that kind of performance, that was big.

Aaron Uless finishes. Just 16 minutes played of five points and two assists for him in the ballgame. Of course, had the jump ball that was called a foul against him that led to the McCaffrey technical that maybe turned it all around. Connor McCaffrey, 10 points, six assists. He had three rebounds in the game, ultimately fouled out of the game. He goes three of nine from the floor, including three of seven from three. But what about the free throw shooting? You know, we get a kick from time to time about him, you know, going with a little hitch there and getting somebody to do a lane violation. Ha ha ha. All right, knock it off.

Just make your free throws. You're a good free throw shooter. Too much dinking around with that. Go back, Connor, to the drawing board. Don't worry about that. Just make your free throw, okay? Don't get a little smile and, ah, the wily six-year veteran. Oh, look what he did. No, no, no. Enough of that.

Just go out there. Make your free throws, Connor. We know that you can. Sam Furtwood, 22, off the bench, including a couple of dagger threes, including the one that sent it into overtime as he goes in the game. Six of 10 from downtown. Patrick McCaffrey mentioned that three-pointer at the top of the key. That was his only three, seven points, four rebounds,

but did make a couple of plays out there necessary. Now, right when I was coming back there, midway point of the second half, chucked up an ill-advised three, but he was part of the comeback. Played some good defensive time, had a big rebound in there, just giving those little bit of minutes, right? And then we saw Josh Dix just played seven minutes, did not score in there. And that's what it was. Basically, for all intents and purposes, a seven-man rotation. That's what this team has, but they find find a way now on the other side for michigan state oh boy walker had 31 atkins had 21 hogard had 15 hall off the bench had 16 18 for hauser hauser just went behind the bottom of the net every single time a team shot ridiculous and

can you imagine being michigan state i mean you shoot shoot 60% from the floor, 11 of 15. That's 73% from downtown. 31 of 36 from the free throw line. You put 106 up on the board. You score 101 in regulation. And you're going to East Lansing with a loss in your back pocket. That's going to sting. Of course, we talked about the devastation that that university is dealing with and the athletic department.

And you wonder what's going to be for them emotionally. They're easy to root for. Izzo, when they're playing your team, does it get a little annoying? Yeah, he does. But the respect they have for the man and the kind of person that he is, and that showed up again here over these last couple of weeks. Izzo, get it done in the tournament again. Make another run.

Let's have the Hawkeyes join in, though, on a long run. What a series this was. Two games that were completely different. The one in East Lansing, it was a grind. Both teams struggled at times offensively. Here, an absolute shootout. And you could probably say in both games, I think the better team didn't win either of the games.

Yet here we are as Iowa gets the victory, gets a split on the season season and gives them a chance. What kind of chance? Let's take a look at the resume as we continue on. This is the Lockdown Hawkeyes podcast. Trent Conant back with you one final time on the Lockdown Hawkeyes podcast. A Lockdown Now edition instant reaction after Iowa's 112-106 win against Michigan State. So let's go a little resume diving here. After the victory, Iowa moves up just one spot in the Ken Pomeroy rankings.

So they go up from 46 entering play to number 45. Now, this is also what we're sitting here in the middle of the afternoon. So this is going to change as more and more games go on. I did want to look at some of those analytical numbers though. How about this? Every player that played double digit minutes in the game, both Michigan state and Hawkeye player, every single one of them that played double digit minutes, all had an offensive rating over a hundred, a hundred's average. There was a one clunker out of guys that saw 10 minutes or more. How about that? Just absolutely incredible. Let's look at the numbers here. 156 for Tony Perkins, his offensive rating.

149 for Rabracha. 160 for Peyton Sanford. Just some nuts numbers there. Hauser, he had a 163. 152 for Walker. Atkins had a 136. It was entertaining. One other thing that you can look at here is win probability.

And boy, I mean, it was at 199.9% for a long stretch there. I will put that graphic up on Twitter. You can follow me at Trent Conner because that is just nuts to see how this thing was over and Iowa gets it done.

So we talked about what it's going to look like for this team comes selection Sunday, just on the most simple terms. All right. With the win, Iowa goes to 18 and 11 and they lose that one. They're sitting at 17 and 12,

likely 17 and 13 with a win against Nebraska. Even that's 18 wins. And you go to the big 10 tournament, certainly feeling like you, you got to win a game and maybe multiple games when you get there to stay off the bubble if you lose this game eventually it goes the other way and iowa gets the win so taking a look at the net ranking now this is entering play today and this was this was going to be a sting for the iowa resume they were 46 also in the NCAA net. That is what they use in place of the RPI now, more analytical-based.

One other thing to also look at is Iowa, who had six, seven wins. I think it was seven at one point. Maybe it was eight even. They're down to four as teams have jumped in and out of the 50. Michigan now is out of the top 50. That means that that is not a quad one victory uh wisconsin they've been kind of back and forth clemson's been back and forth the quad one victories that they had seat hall another one that had dropped out after their loss so seat

hall is down to 78 you're gonna see that the fluctuations that's out there and it's gonna got dicey in a hurry i told you not to hit the panic button after what we saw against wisconsin i was ready to push it after this one, but we got to come back. It's feeling good. Hey, I'm going to go celebrate. You'd have a cold one after that and have a little celebration cocktail as the Hawkeyes get it done here against Michigan State. We'll be back with you in your free feed on Monday.

React to that. Iowa baseball right now. They're working against number one LSU. At last check, they had a 7-0 lead over the top team in college baseball. What a monumental victory that could be if Iowa can hold on to that one. The Iowa softball team, they had a great run against UCLA yesterday. Lost that one by one. And, of course, tomorrow, the Iowa women against the second-ranked team in all the land.

Indiana will be at Carver Hockey Arena. Should be another great environment. Game day will be there also. And you can check all that out. So we'll react to the weekend that was coming into your feed right away on Monday morning. In fact, we'll have that thing posted hopefully by midnight or so on Sunday evening and get that right away into your feeds.

Iowa a winner today. Thanks for joining me here. Trent Condon with you on this Lockdown Now Instant Reaction Podcast 112-106. Oh, boy. It is great to be a Hawkeye. We'll talk to you again soon.