Locked On Hawkeyes - Daily Podcast On Iowa Hawkeyes Football & Basketball - INSTANT REACTION: Iowa Hawkeyes Women dominate in NCAA Tournament, 3 Hawkeyes Wrestlers go for GOLD Tonight

Starting point is 00:00:00 Rapid reaction after Iowa gets it done in the opening round of the NCAA tournament. The women roll 92-57 over Murray State. We break it down, take a peek forward to the next round, press some wrestling. All today, Locked On Hawkeye. 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.

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Starting point is 00:00:52 fivehourenergy.com to find over 15 flavors to choose from. Need one now? Grab a five hour energy shot at your local grocery or convenience store. Stock up today and stay energized. Well, an energized second half as Iowa runs away from Murray State. Ninety-two fifty-seven, the final in this one. A dominating performance as Iowa gets it done. Five different players in double figures. Every single player that played got into the score column. Uh two players off the bench in double

Starting point is 00:01:25 figures. A little bit of everything in this one and a lot of good to take away in this win against Murray State. Murray State came in one of the top three point shooting teams in the country. They shoot it with volume and they shoot it with profensity. However, that was not the case in this one as Iowa was able to run them off the three point line. Haley Pock a poke, excuse me, saw a lot of her at high school and Waterloo, Waterloo West high school, really good player. And you saw how Iowa was able to disrupt her running her off the three point line. And then we saw early in the second half, a half when Caitlin Young, the best player for Murray State went down that this thing was going to turn into a laffer.

Starting point is 00:02:03 And that's exactly what happened. I'llosing a player of that capability, which is something that Murray State wasn't going to be able to overcome. This was all about Iowa. And this was about a lot of different things as we've talked about a little bit of a slow start that's to be expected. He'd been off for a couple of weeks. Remember it's the inverse of what we see at the conference tournament time on the men's side with the Missouri Valley Conference. On the men's side, they go first. Then it goes into the big schools. It flip-flops here on the women's side.

Starting point is 00:02:32 So the Missouri Valley Conference, that finished up last weekend when Murray State earned the number, earned the conference's automatic bid, winning Arch Madness. Well, it's not Arch Madness for the women's side because they played in Evansville this year after playing the Quad Cities the last few seasons up that aside, they I would came out a little bit flat little bit slow. But again, you've been off for a couple of weeks. That's going to happen. But you saw this I would team of what they are to the lead, what they did at the end then of the second quarter. I thought that was really eye opening. That's a four point game. I think it was, and a little bit of inside,

Starting point is 00:03:09 outside, good shooting overall. Really the story of the first half though, was the play of Ava Hyde and Hyde and gets to a career high points in the first half of the game. You see the skillset that she has and you could understand why Ava Hyde was one of the more highly regarded players that I was ever got in the recruiting world because you see the skill set that she has at six foot four, her ability to move. She is a player that has a very much a fluidity to her game. I saw that in a couple of different plays, including that step through that she was able to do going up with the left hand, just the acceleration and Jan Jensen, her tutelage. And we go through in the past as her

Starting point is 00:03:50 as an assistant coach and think of the development of the post positions and the growth that we see out of so many of these players year after year. And sometimes you see them as freshmen and they look so completely different by the time they're upperclassmen and certainly in their senior year. We already have this skill set with Ava Hayden. And it's exciting to think of what still can grow out of this what's still very well could be coming from what she's going to be going forward and and I was going to have a decision not just for next season as we'll we'll look ahead. But for this year likely it's going to be Oklahoma Florida Gulf Coast is what a couple of games in the tournament recently. It's a good team. And it's not to say upsets don't happen at

Starting point is 00:04:29 the same level in the women's tournament that we see in the men. You anticipate that Oklahoma is going to be fine, but regardless, Iowa, what they have a decision against Oklahoma if they advance to a sweet 16 and likely face Yukon who? jumped out 6616 by the way at halftime over Arkansas State 6616 alright But again that that's also the divide that you see in women's college basketball

Starting point is 00:04:57 Back to the topic at hand and the inside outside what you do because A Ava Hyden is playing at a level right now where you can't keep her on the bench. If she played 17 minutes in a blowout, if she keeps playing like this, she's gotta be commanding 20, 22, 24 minutes a game. That's where you're going. But you also need to have Hannah Stolke out there. And you want her, her athleticism,

Starting point is 00:05:22 her ability to run the floor. Although she was in foul trouble and that led to Ava going into the game earlier. You saw them towing around with that a little bit more than the second half. And I think Jan Jensen and the staff knows that if there is going to be a deep run, that there's going to be a win against Oklahoma, they're going to have a shot against a Yukon and a Sweet 16. That there's going to be moments where you're going to have to shot against a Yukon and a Sweet 16. That there's going to be moments where you're going to have to play both of those players

Starting point is 00:05:47 together and going into next season. Absolutely. That's going to have to be the case. Taylor McCabe doing her thing. Couple of three pointers out of her fear about a couple of outstanding defensive sequences again. We've talked about this a ton, but to see Kylie fear about just what we're seeing from her on the defensive end today

Starting point is 00:06:05 compared to even the beginning of the season, the growth that she has made. I really believe it goes to that game against USC and what she was able to do bottling up for long stretches. Juju walk-ins. She's always been a good defender. She's always been a good athlete, but it just felt like at that moment it went from, yeah, she's good to now she's at an elite level. And he saw that a couple of different times. Asidya Falter, her ability to get to the rim

Starting point is 00:06:32 and understand angles too when she gets there, another good performance out of her. Lucy Olsen, 12 points, 12 assists, couple of rebounds, couple of steals. She was all over the place, also herself, battled foul trouble. That was kind of a story until that surge at the end of the first half. That's a four point game, 34-30, I want to say it was, before the eight-nothing spurt to end things. And the fouls were building.

Starting point is 00:06:56 Stulkey was in foul trouble, and Olsen was in foul trouble, and the Falter had a couple. And you're just kind of left wondering, is this going to be one of those weird games? Not the case. And then you go to the bench. And we met Geneva Heiden. But Taylor Sremlo, able to do what she was able to do.

Starting point is 00:07:12 You see the growth out of her. Grady came in, now the third post. But maybe there's going to be more of an avenue for her to play. And then some of the other players. And you're getting in there and getting a couple of buckets, uh, seeing Jada Jimfee get a score. I'm a Callie Levine and her first ever college bucket that she gets on the reverse layup had a couple of sys running the point for them. Just the depth of the squad. They're not going away. I will women's basketball

Starting point is 00:07:41 is here to stay. And you saw that once again in display and a win against a good Murray State team. So let's take a peek forward. Let's say it is Oklahoma. So a couple of numbers for you for Oklahoma. I think the first one that we need to know for Monday, if it is the Sooners, obviously that'll be playing on their home floor is the pace that they play at. This is one of the fastest teams in the country. In fact, by tempo, the fastest team in the country. 77.8 possessions per game. That's the tempo that they play at. Iowa doesn't play at that tempo. 155. So this is a game and along with the two posts that we talked about playing together with Stalky and Haydn.

Starting point is 00:08:29 Who is going to dictate pace is gonna be a big part of it. We'll talk more about the matchup when it comes to fruition on Monday's podcast. Couple other numbers for you. For Oklahoma to maybe chew on before we get there. Not a great three point shooting team. 32.3% on the year. That's 127th on the country. So, you don't, they don't shoot it great from the outside, even playing at the fast pace. They want to get downhill, they want to

Starting point is 00:08:51 get to the rim. That's how they play. Finally, on the other side, they give up a lot of three pointers. So, dictate pace, knock down your three pointers. Iowa's got a chance to pull the upset and move on to the Sweet 16. Will it be them for sure? Well, we will find out and we will be with you on the Mud Bay Podcast previewing whoever that matchup is in the round of thirty-two. We continue here Lockdown Hawkeyes taking a peek at the wrestling team. How about that wrestling team? Yes, it's not going to end in a national championship and there's plenty of disappointment in the team

Starting point is 00:09:26 title race, even in a tournament for Penn State standards, if they didn't wrestle to their heights, well behind. Nebraska looks to have things solidified at second, but Iowa with three finalists tonight. It's a good thing and something to build on. We'll talk about that as we continue. Little Wrestling Talk plus the latest on Ben McCollum, the Drake Coach and soon to be Iowa Coach. More to come here on that.

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Starting point is 00:12:40 cave as we sit and get ready for tonight's finals. Now there's going to be some maneuvering that's going to be happening but it will conclude at heavyweight as it will be Stevenson Gable Stevenson for Minnesota going for another

Starting point is 00:12:58 national championship in that one get a kickoff though a little bit different they're going to go to eighty four as it will be at a hundred pounds of course Strachi and what we've seen from him just absolutely ridiculous going for his fifth national championship, but he'll be facing the national champ from a year ago at 184 and Parker Kekkeisen and Kekkeisen

Starting point is 00:13:18 undefeated in regular matches. They wrestled in a all-star match earlier this year went to overtime and Starachi was able to get the win there. McAnally from Minnesota boy. He was really good in that semi-final match, but that aside. So that's where things are going to start. Then we'll get into a back to normal kind of a set up the way that they're going to have that going back to 125 pounds. So it'll be Drake. I yellow pretty early. He'll be the third match of the evening. Um, and he'll get a rematch and what he wanted against Bird who stuck him in the Big 10 finals. I like Drake's chances. I really do to getting this done. You go a little bit deeper. Mikey

Starting point is 00:13:56 Caliendo at 165. Yes. 165, you know, it's waiting on the other side. But for him to punch his ticket again to get there to get another finalists uh mess and bring is an absolute stud and pulling off an upset here would be historic for Caliendo but he's gonna give it a shot and then finally we'll get to see Stephen Buchanan and beating AJ Ferrari in that semi final match was great. He'll get a Penn State wrestler on top of it and he'll be wrestling Barr. Barr comes in as the number four seed. He'll get his opportunity and for Buchanan, bouncing around, starting his career at Wyoming, an All-American

Starting point is 00:14:35 there, then an All-American at Oklahoma, and then obviously an All-American as he's at worst second place as he wrestles in the finals tonight and trying to culminate a career with the championship. So you look at Iowa and you look at the scores. Penn State with three finalists, 169 points, they have locked up another team title. Nebraska in second at 109. Iowa sits at 77 points and I don't. Not what we wanted, right? Wanted more out of this wrestling team and thought there could have been a path, at worst, to finish in second place. Winning a national championship was not likely.

Starting point is 00:15:14 As I said, Penn State didn't wrestle fully to their capabilities this weekend, and they're still going to run away with another title. That's just how different it was. But I know a lot of the conversation was at 149 and 157 for Iowa. And Kyle Parco, who gets beat in the second round, gets majored in that one by the Oregon State wrestler, and then gets beat on the backside

Starting point is 00:15:38 medical forfeit. Just wasn't there health-wise. And the same thing for Jacori Teemer. Now, if you take both of those guys and they wrestle to their full capabilities Which both of those guys have shown in the past and ability That They can wrestle for a championship that they can be there Let's give them 20 team points for both of those guys. That's with some bonus points as well. I mean even with that Even you give them 20 more points each, you're still talking about sitting at 117. You're in second, and even with that,

Starting point is 00:16:14 you're still 50 some points behind Penn State. That's the gap, and that's what it was. Let's celebrate though having three guys in the finals. There were moments you wondered, was this even going to happen? Now I think Aiello was the guy, I think most of us, myself included, was most confident was going to get there. But Caliendo is going to get another shot. Buchanan, he's going to be right there. A lot of people thought he was going to be Ferrari and that was not the case. Buchanan got the win, three nothing.

Starting point is 00:16:41 So we'll get three guys in the finals tonight and continue to build and knowing that Penn State's losing guys there can be a path. I was been there they can do it and Hope that the brands are still the right guys. Maybe this is the ammunition to say yes They can still push the right buttons. They can still have their guys peeking at the end of the year parko teamer Got hurt had injuries Happens it's wrestling

Starting point is 00:17:12 But I don't think you can read it as an indictment on the program and what they're trying to accomplish at least I don't I Know there's bigger wrestling fans out there to me And there's people that had that sentiment That it's time for a change. It's time to go another direction. I can't get there yet. You have to sell me on who else. Five Hawkeyes, All-Americans, not what we want. Wanted to be more. Ben Keeter finishing up in eighth place, an All-American finish for him. There was a note that everybody that he lost to this season was a senior.

Starting point is 00:17:49 Now that doesn't mean a senior by eligibility, because we know with red shirt years, Olympic years and COVID years and everything else that there might be some guys back. How about Patrick Kennedy wrestling way above his seed, finishing in fourth place? At 174. That was absolutely great to see. There are good stories that came out of wrestling. I'm not sure.

Starting point is 00:18:11 We'll tell the story here at the finals. I'm looking forward to that on Saturday evening. Wrapping things up, and one final note on the basketball front of things, as we will talk about Ben McCollum. His Drake Bulldogs will be facing off this evening against Texas Tech. Are we Bulldog fans tonight? Or do want Drake to take an L? Next on the Locked On Hawkeyes Podcast. The NCAA Tournament is here and so is the bracket breakdown. Locked On Podcast Network and Amazon Fire TV channels are teaming up to deliver NCAA

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Starting point is 00:19:21 So as we wrap things up here today, we're back to the NCAA tournament. A great start for the Big Ten. The Big Ten, eight and oh in the first round of the tournament. Purdue getting things started in the round of thirty-two and they are dominating against McNeese State and looking to punch their ticket into the Sweet Sixteen. Watching this Purdue team the last three weeks. Thought no way. And here they are. Shows you maybe the strength that Framicaffrey squad went through this year. So speaking of that squad, they're

Starting point is 00:19:50 kind of empty. They're really empty. Last one out of the locker room, turn off the lights kind of situation is, well the portal. This is the new reality. Look we haven't gone through this as Iowa fans. Obviously the football program in 26 years of Kirk Farrance we haven't had to deal with anything like this and the last time we went through a coaching change with Framie Caffrey 15 years ago I mean you talk about a different world. That was a completely different world and at the time they had commitments from Ben Brust and Cody Larson Roy Devon Marble and there was one more in that class but only, Roy Devon Marble, and there was one more in that class, but only got Roy Devon to stay. Cardi Larson went to Florida,

Starting point is 00:20:29 ended up back in South Dakota State. He was a South Dakota kid, and Ben Brostekhorst was a punk at Wisconsin during the course of his career. But as we look at this new reality, this is just the way it goes. There might be guys that come back, we'll see, but the question is Ben McCollum.

Starting point is 00:20:46 He is the prohibitive favorite to get this job. I did have an interesting conversation earlier in the week with somebody that grew up around Coach McCollum and we've heard the dream job thing. I'm sorry, it just drives me nuts. I've never heard any of these guys actually specifically say that. You can speculate, but that aside. When it comes to Ben McCollum, grew up a Hawkeye fan, not just a Hawkeye fan. Pretty diehard was the way that it was relayed to me, Hawkeye fan. Now, does that matter in today's environment? Does that matter if West Virginia's just throwing out a ton more money? Probably not.

Starting point is 00:21:28 But being the Iowa Hawkeye coach, I think would mean something to Ben McCollum. The offer is going to be there. Do we want Drake to win this one? Get to the sweet 16? I don't think so. I think you want to have this tied up as quickly as possible. Not only because the portal is gonna be opening and you want to get to work on that

Starting point is 00:21:48 front, but you don't want a Sweet 16 to run out of Drake and all of a sudden programs that have a lot deeper pockets, Texas, you don't want them to come calling. You just want to make this as simple as possible. Make this happen. Now there's people out there that will make you believe that this is a done deal and I don't want to say I'm one of them. I will be surprised if it doesn't happen and I believe the only way it's not going to happen that Pat McCollum is not the next Iowa basketball coach is the same thing that happened with De'erne Ruverde's happens here

Starting point is 00:22:26 It's just a financial situation that he can't say no to but keep building up those funds if you have the ability donate to the swarm collective and Make sure that you say I want this to go to men's basketball because it's an arms race that's What it comes down to is money. And as I was going to have the money not to hire Ben McCollum, the money's there to build up the war chest, to be able to compete, to bring in players, to be able to compete, to bring

Starting point is 00:22:55 in a Bennett Sturtz, a guy that looks like an All-American right now, a guy that a lot of people believe is targeted to go to Kansas State. He's got family connections there. He's from the area. A lot of K-State people in his background. And I was told weeks ago before I even knew that this was a real possibility that it was a lock that Sturtz was going to end up in K-State. Well, now we'll see. But to get a guy like that, are you going to be able to outspend? Remember, K-State gave $2 million to Coleman Hawkins. They got some money that they're investing in basketball.

Starting point is 00:23:31 I'm not asking you to invest too. Now, if you have $2 million, go right ahead. Oh, something for your boy. Let's go take a trip. Go to Vegas or something. But that aside, that's where we are. Again, I'll be surprised if it's not McCullum. We'll see what happens tonight. You can watch this team. If you missed their game in the opening round in the victory against Missouri, this Texas Tech team, I believe, is a big step up in competition.

Starting point is 00:24:01 I thought that Missouri team was a bit of a fraud. I didn't think that they were built regardless of who their opponent was going to be to make a deep run. And obviously that was the case or the few things I've got right. Um, but watch this Drake team, watch the way they play, watch at times the lack of athleticism, physicality, and yet how the way they play defense, the way they rebound, the way they're disconnected. It's also gonna be

Starting point is 00:24:30 interesting because Ben McCollum, one of his closest friends in the coaching business, is on the other side in Grant McCaslin of Texas Tech who is an outstanding coach in his own right. That's what's happening this evening and then if it does happen, if Drake loses tonight, I think it'll come together quickly. I really do. Well, with that, I got a little cold. I don't think it's cold. I think I just got something in my throat.

Starting point is 00:24:56 We're gonna cut it off for today. Iowa gets the win round of 32. We'll dive deeper into the matchup against either Oklahoma or Florida Gulf Coast, who comes out the winner on that one on the women's side. Head coaching duties, we will keep an eye on that. And if anything breaks over the weekend, I will be right with you as well. That's why it's important. Hit subscribe if you're watching right now on YouTube. If you're listening on the podcast side, make sure you subscribe. Also, five star reviews.

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Locked On Hawkeyes - Daily Podcast On Iowa Hawkeyes Football & Basketball - INSTANT REACTION: Iowa Hawkeyes Women dominate in NCAA Tournament, 3 Hawkeyes Wrestlers go for GOLD Tonight

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