Locked On Hawkeyes - Daily Podcast On Iowa Hawkeyes Football & Basketball - Instant Reaction - Iowa Hoops beats Illinois behind Tony Perkins 32 points

Episode Date: February 6, 2023

Instant Reaction - Iowa Hoops beats Illinois behind Tony Perkins 32 pointsTrent Condon is back after a huge victory for Iowa as they beat Illinois 81-79. Tony Perkins was the man as he finished with a career high 32 points including 25 in the 2nd half of the game.The rivalry ramped up with the news from the Orange Krush Illinois student section this week and it seemed to entergize Hawkeye fans and the environment at Carver Hawkeye Arena was incredible.Plus, a look towards the rest of the season and what is still in front of Iowa including 4 of the next 5 games on the road. A look at the Hawkeyes NCAA Tournament resume including having the 4th most Quad 1 wins in all of college basketball.Caitlin Clark and the Iowa women also had a big week and Trent breaks things down on that front as the women get ready for another top 10 match up this week with Indiana up next on the road.Support Us By Supporting Our Sponsors!LinkedInLinkedIn jobs helps you find the candidates you want to talk to, faster. Post your job for free at Linkedin.com/lockedoncollege Terms and conditions apply.Built BarBuilt Bar is a protein bar that tastes like a candy bar. Go to builtbar.com and use promo code “LOCKEDON15,” and you’ll get 15% off your next order.FanDuelMake Every Moment More. Place your first FIVE DOLLAR bet to get ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY DOLLARS in Free Bets – win or lose! Visit Fanduel.com/LockedOn today to get startedFANDUEL DISCLAIMER: 21+ in select states. First online real money wager only. Bonus issued as nonwithdrawable free bets that expires in 14 days. Restrictions apply. See terms at sportsbook.fanduel.com. Gambling Problem? Call 1-800-GAMBLER or visit FanDuel.com/RG (CO, IA, MD, MI, NJ, PA, IL, VA, WV), 1-800-NEXT-STEP or text NEXTSTEP to 53342 (AZ), 1-888-789-7777 or visit ccpg.org/chat (CT), 1-800-9-WITH-IT (IN), 1-800-522-4700 (WY, KS) or visit ksgamblinghelp.com (KS), 1-877-770-STOP (LA), 1-877-8-HOPENY or text HOPENY (467369) (NY), TN REDLINE 1-800-889-9789 (TN) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hawkeyes get it done once again at Carver Hawkeye Arena, this time against the border rival Illinois, 81-79, and the coming out party for Tony Perkins. I told you, just wait. TP was great. We talk about it on Locked on Hawkeyes. Our Locked on Hawkeyes, your daily podcast on the Iowa Hawkeyes. Part of the Lockdown Podcast Network.

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Well, that was fun, wasn't it? Iowa getting the win against Illinois, 8179. It was a nip-tuck affair. It walked away. It was just a fun college basketball game. Seeing Carver-Hawkeye Arena busting at the seams like it was, seeing the crowd as into it as they were throughout that one. You know, the week that was and the buildup to it starting,

they had a little earlier game with the Tuesday game this week, a little bit more of a buildup. But, of course, what happened with the student section from Illinois, the Orange Crush? They were going to come over orange clad, making a bunch of noise and all sitting together. Alas, that didn't happen though. There were plenty of Illinois fans in attendance. And I think that also added a little bit to just the mystique and the fun that we saw in the matchup. And that is really what a rivalry game is supposed to be like, right? You got both sides in there. Yeah, obviously a decided advantage for the home team, Iowa, but

the Illinois fans, they showed up. They were loud, and they had plenty to cheer about throughout most of this one. Were there a lot of fouls? Absolutely, but it's the way it should be. When Iowa has their best chance against the teams that are grabby, the Illinois, the Michigan States, the Wisconsin's of the world, when they're playing those teams, well, how Iowa beats them is the officials do their job and

they call fouls and they don't allow them to be so grabby time in and time out and it was good to see obviously that was the case we got to start with the play of Tony Perkins and we've talked about Perkins saucy a lot this year I am a bona fide fan boy I have loved something about him even dating back to his freshman year when he didn't play a ton, but I always felt like he was the kind of guard that just, it felt like I would never had, right? That slashing type of guard, the ability to get into the paint, the pull-up game that he has, that is such a rarity in all levels of basketball anymore, where it's all about either getting to the rim or getting three-pointers. And yes,

I know analytically people will tell you that the pull-up jumper is not a great shot anymore. Long two is not a great shot. Well, it is for Tony Perkins. And he got going in the second half. Just a dominating performance from him. 25 points in the second half. 32 for the game.

And he could just get to his spot. Hit that pull-up jumper. It was a thing of beauty. Getting to the free throw line consistently. Knocking down the free throws then on top of jumper. It was a thing of beauty. Getting to the free throw line consistently, knocking down the free throws then on top of it. It was a sight to behold. And, you know, with Perkins, there has been times this year where he's been relegated to the bench.

You go back, and when Iowa started to turn their season around with that victory against Indiana earlier this season at Carver, when they were down huge early on, what was it, 21-4, something like that, and they came roaring back and ultimately got the victory there that was a game where we didn't see a lot of Tony Perkins late in the game there's been other times this year where he's been pulled and he sat long stretches but the one thing that I've always liked to see when you get a glimpse over at the bench at the sideline is he was still engaged yeah was he frustrated at times absolutely or there are times that maybe the

head hung a little bit more than you wanted sure but he's a competitor and he's a guy that wears his emotions on his sleeve. That's another component for this team. And another reason that I still have hope that this team could be more than just get in the NCAA tournament, that there's more there. And it's something we saw earlier in the year. Maybe it dissipated when Connor McCaffrey obviously didn't play in the game against Eastern Illinois. You had Chris Murray that was banged up during that stretch in December after the Duke game. And he sat out with the plantar fasciitis, but they have these emotional guys.

They have these guys that really wear their heart on their sleeve when they're out there on the hardwood. Tony Perkins, absolutely one of those guys. And it's very simple, but when he hits a shot or two he becomes even more engaged he's locked down defensively we know what a good defender Perkins can be and you couple that with his ability off the bounce to do a lot of different things it's not just about putting his head down and getting to the rim or getting into the lane for that soft jumper but he can knock down an open three. But you couple those things together, it's just the kind of guard that Iowa

has had many of these guys throughout the years. Another guy that is that way is obviously Connor McCafferty. And he was early on, you saw maybe the picture of him and Brad Underwood over there. Brad Underwood, by the way, he's an incredible coach. The buttons that he has had to push to get this team reengaged, he hated his team earlier this year. And he's got a really good one once again with the Illini. I respect the guy.

He looks tough. He looks like a guy that'd be easy to hate, but I got a lot of respect for Brad Underwood and what he's done. He said back in Big Ten basketball media days, he said, you know, you can have anybody in the Big Ten if you're in a fight. And he said Connor McCaffrey, and maybe that's what they were talking about and laughing about during the game at one point.

But, you know, Conor is another one of those guys that has that emotional edge. Philip Rabracha, another one. And you saw it. There are times he has not played his best at times this year. He has been so much better and consistent, I think, than anybody, though, could have anticipated this year. But that emotional edge that this team has, this want to, going back to the Northwestern game earlier this week, where Rabacha said, we're just not losing on Chris street night.

And they didn't, as they pulled away from Northwestern late in that game. That's what gives me hope here is the way this team is built in the personality of this team. Yeah. The Eastern Illinois game. I told you guys, I thought the season was over at that point coupled with the oh and three start in the big 10 it looked like the kind of deficit they weren't going to be able to pull themselves out of and here they are now winners of seven of their last nine not just in contention to being an ncaa tournament team but we can start talking about

a double buy we'll talk about this schedule a little bit later and what they have and there's plenty of big games in front of them in fact iowa now after winning these three three straight games at home four of their next five are going to be on the road and short of the minnesota game none of them easy and it's still a road game in the big den we've seen you know ohio state struggle with the gophers we've seen minnesota played well at times not the case over the weekend as they were blown out, but anything could happen in college basketball. That's still what is in front. Let's keep looking back. Perkins, what more can you say? Just an absolute stud. We will remember that one for a very long time and what he was able to put together, but it wasn't just him. No, there was plenty other

guys that stepped up into the spotlight and made some big plays. Sanford obviously hit the three late that gave Iowa the lead. Just a monster shot. That was Connor McCaffrey making the extra pass. He could have chucked it. Beautiful bounce pass right over there. Caught it in rhythm, knocked it down, and Iowa controlled it from there. Though there were certainly some hairy moments on top of it in that. Chris Murray, still wonder about him.

And one thing that I wonder about mentioned earlier, the injury, playing with that injury from back in December, does it crop up from time to time? Do we see him slow down? Now, physically, it doesn't look like he's in pain. You don't see anything like that, but you just wonder with that injury. Now he scores 19 points, has seven rebounds, three assists,

and you say, man man you want a little bit more but that also shows you the talent of Chris Murray and what he was able to do Rabracha he had a fight just to get those 13 points inside danger boy that dude he is a beast in there and Rabracha's he's going to do a lot of times including coming up this week against Purdue he gives up size he gets up, but Iowa finds a way to get it done. It was Tony Perkins. It was the defense getting stops. It was comebacks and it was the environment. We're going to talk a little bit more about that environment. What Iowa has in front of them still this season, women's basketball with the big week win against Maryland and then a easy

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Again, linkedin.com slash lockdowncollege. To post your job for free. Terms and conditions apply. Trey Cotter back with you here on the LockedOn Hawkeyes podcast. Again, thanks for making LockedOn Hawkeyes your first listen each and every day. Available wherever you get podcasts, five-star reviews, that's what we're looking for there. And if you're on YouTube, hit that subscribe button as we work to get in front of more Hawkeye fans. So the win against Illinois, the tense moments, the toughness. And frankly, the way Illinois plays, it's a difficult matchup for Iowa.

They're going to have to win the game, much like they won this one. They have to get to the free throw line a ton. Now, this is something I remember growing up, going back to the Dr. Tom days, and they always had the stat up there. Iowa's made more free throws than their opponents have shot. and that's something that Fran has also brought with him you know that ability and coupled with the zone offense the motion offense excuse me that they run guys get to the free throw line a lot and if they're going to call the game and officials are going to call the game the way it's supposed to be called and are actually free flowing basketball and keep the hands off and the holds and the checks and everything else

that seemingly everybody else in the Big Ten does. This is what basketball is supposed to look like. Perkins, we talked about what a stud. 26 of 30 as a team at the free throw line on a day where you're out-rebounded by 14. Here's what Iowa did, though. Defensively, they turned them over. And on top of that, they took those turnly, they turned them over. And on top of that, they took those turnovers and they turned them into points. That was huge in this one. Iowa

finishes the game 16 points off of turnovers, fast break points. There weren't a whole lot of them, but they outscore Illinois 7-2 in that one. Getting up, playing at the pace that they want on a day where you go 7-19, that's okay from the three-point line, but wasn't anything crazy. I would did it at the free throw line. They did it against a team that they lost five straight against. And this Illinois team, they have some dudes over there. As Shannon, absolute stud. He was a great player at Texas Tech, and it's continuing here.

But really one of the biggest ones was the play out of their freshman point guard in Epps. Now, talked about before the game as we were previewing things, this Illinois team has been a whole lot different since Sky Clark got kicked off the team. And I will tell you, you got a freshman here in this Epps kid that is going to be a problem for a while in the Big Ten. His ability off the bounce, really, really good. We saw at times they had uh josh dicks on him they had peyton sanford on him a couple of times they tried connor over there and it was tony perkins in the second half that finally was able to slow him down at least a few times look you couldn't you got to stop the guy from going right and that's what he's just getting to his right hand

every single time getting into the lane and then hitting some scoop shots and some windmills and doing all kinds of crazy stuff in there you can can't let him go right. Young guy, those are the things. You got to make him change direction, and Iowa just wasn't good enough defensively to do that, but you put it all together. They found a way. Hawkins doesn't make a shot in the game. Now he gets to the free throw line a bunch, but he goes 0 for 7. You make Terran Shannon go 3 of 10. This team played well. Meyer was outstanding. He was outstanding. He was great. He was hitting shots. Didn't matter hand in his face or not. He was hitting shots from all over the place, but defensive effort was there. The effort was there and he forced turnovers.

I was never going to be a great defensive team. We've talked about this in the past. This is the reality now, 13 years into Fran McCaffrey. If you're all of a sudden hoping that there's going to be something happens that this turns into a consistent top 30 team defensively, it's just not going to happen. It's not reality. So come live in reality with me and understand if you're going to play this style, you're going to play up and down and you're going to play offensively as efficiently as they do. Now, the number two team in the country in offensive efficiency, by the way, the only team in front of them is the Boilermakers that they'll see on thursday with all of that they still are able to go out there and defensively

compete by forcing turnovers by using that pressure defense there are a couple of turnovers that were just boneheaded mistakes out of illinois but that's what the pressure is going to do keep that up love the three quarter court pressure want to see even more of it at times from Iowa. Like the way that they can shift, adjust. Never going to be great. Just be okay. Just be okay, and you're going to have a chance every single time. Now, this was fun, right? You get the three straight victories in six days at home. Had the make-up game against Northwestern in there.

By the way, get all three. Going into it, we talked about the numbers. Winning all three games, though they were slight favorite in all three of those games, winning three in a row, it was not a high probability of it happening. Well, you did it. Now it's four out of five on the road. Now they'll be favored against Minnesota. But starting with Purdue, they're going to be,

nine is the number right now at Ken Pomeroy and his site. So you have nine being the number. That's what kind of underdog I was going to be in between after the Purdue and Minnesota games, by the way, I will favor by 10, according to his metrics against the gophers on the road up at the barn, Ohio state. After that, there are three point favorite metrics like Ohio state, a lot more than the resume or the record says the Buckeyes are just a three pointpoint projected win in that one. Projected to lose by a point at Northwestern. And then you get Wisconsin, you're projected to win by one.

Another five-game stretch. We've talked about these stretches before. The last one that we talked a lot about felt like they had to go four and one. They ended up only playing four games because of the postponement of the Northwestern game. Same thing here. Keep your head above water. Can you get to three and two? Like you put the Minnesota one in the win column.

You think you get Ohio State back at home after you lost that game and the defense fell apart in the second half in Columbus. You do that, and can you still steal one of those two road games at Northwestern, at Wisconsin? I think it's a likely scenario. If Iowa goes three and two in that stretch, it sets up the final three games, home for Michigan State at Indiana, home for Nebraska.

Iowa, you do that. You're talking about five more victories in the Big Ten. Five more wins gets them to 12-8 in the Big Ten, and with it, I think a really, really good chance of having a top four seed. That means the double bye come Big Ten

tournament, and instead of having to do what they did a year ago, win four games in four days, three in three days, a much easier situation. Now this Iowa team certainly is not as deep as last year's team, basically only playing six guys. We saw a little bit of Patrick McCaffrey. That was outstanding to see. Absolutely love to see that but you know overall that's what you're going to get out of him out of Patrick playing at a high level get it done can we get him back and just a consistent score another body out there that would be really helpful here's a look right now at the Big Ten standings we'll pop them up here as I disappear for a moment for our YouTube viewers you see Purdue at the top spot they are 11 11-2. Rutgers, 8-4. Two of those losses, of course,

to the Hawkeyes. And then the log jam with Illinois, Indiana, Northwestern, Maryland, Iowa, Michigan, all sitting at 7-5. Michigan State, a game back at 6-6. There's Penn State, Wisconsin, Nebraska, and Ohio State. And here's the crazy thing. You look at the standings. So Iowa is 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 0. 7 and 0 against the teams that they are tied with or above them

in the standings. And the teams below them, they are 0-1, 0-2, 0-3, 0-4, 0-5. What? 7 and 0 against the teams that they're tied with or above them. 0-5 against the teams below them. That shows you how nuts this Iowa basketball team is, what the season has been.

But we're along for the ride, and we are having a good time with it. A question that has been pondered. What is this Iowa team, speaking of the NCAA tournament, what's their resume? What do they look like right now? So there's a couple of places, excuse me, you can go. The one that I always use is Warren Nolan. Name warrennolan.com.

It was a longtime RPI site. Now it's morphed into a net site, as that is now the metric that is used. So Iowa right now is 7-5 in Quadrant 1. You think, all right, that sounds pretty good. Those are the best of the best. Those are the best teams that you're going to play. Now this is also what are Quad 1 victories. We talk about those a lot. So just to refresh as we're here in February and we're getting ready for the push towards March. Quad 1 victories are wins against top 30 ranked teams in the net, neutral, 1-50, or road victories against a top 75 team.

That is what constitutes a quad one victory. Quad two, home win against teams ranked 31 through 75, neutrals 51 through 100, and away 76 through 135. So that's what the numbers are. You can go all the way through. Quad four, of course, the lowest. Iowa, and a 7-5 record. You know, all right, sounds sounds alright. It's better than

alright. It's elite. Iowa right now is tied for the fourth most quad one victories in the country. The only teams with more of them than them right now are Kansas, Texas, and Purdue. That's it. And in the Big 12, as deep as that conference is,

everybody, basically, short of Texas Tech, is going to be a quad one, regardless of where you play them. That's how good that conference is, everybody basically short of Texas Tech is going to be a quad one, regardless of where you play them. That's how good that conference is, top to bottom. But Iowa State, Baylor, Xavier, and Iowa, all with seven victories. A couple of those teams are seven and six. Iowa, seven and five. That is incredible.

The resume is in great shape. Even with that anchor loss to Eastern Illinois, even with the 0-3 start. And you look at, boy,aska loss that's a bad loss it's not it's a quad two loss penn state oh that's a bad it's not a bad loss it's a quad two loss these are not bad losses eastern illinois yes that's a bad loss that's one that is going to be there now you hope that the committee when they're talking about iowa you, and very well could be talking about the difference between, say, being a 6 or 7 seed or a 7 and 8. You don't want to be in the 8-9 game, right?

You don't want to look there and have to see Houston in the round of 32 if you get there. You want to stay away from something like that. What you want, get in that seed range and a 6 seed. Oh, that would be pretty. Bottom half of the bracket away from a number 1. You play a 3 seed in the round of 32. Very winnnable games take a look at some of the projected three seeds right now sign up for that right now and if you can do it in Des Moines even better we definitely would

take that if we could get it the resume is in good shape even with some of the things we talked about the quad four loss there are other teams that have quad four losses from earlier this season it's going to be there it's going to be part of the resume. It's okay. You know, TCU is a team. They lost Northwestern State. Starting to bring that program up. But yes, they've lost to them earlier this season.

That's a quad four loss. There's plenty of programs out there that haven't. And again, Iowa in that game without Connor McCaffrey, without Chris Murray. You hope the selection committee. Absolutely. That is part of the conversation when they're bringing up. How in God's name do you lose to Eastern Illinois? By the way, see a player from Eastern Illinois slapping a fan.

A gasser is lucky that wasn't happening to him. He's a guy you see standing up all the time in the front row there at Carver. Ooh, that was a scary one. No doubt about it. Well, that is Iowa's resume. It's good. I was in good shape right now. Got to keep piling up victories. Got to keep it going. And then, well, it's the biggest

test of the remaining season. It's on the road for Purdue. Purdue has been a house of horrors at time for Iowa, though. They've also picked up some nice victories throughout the years. Zach Eadie, he is a monster. Roch has got to be ready to go. Everybody's got to be ready to help out against Zach Eadie. 7'4", can get to his spot wherever he wants in the game, but Tony Perkins going back to his home state. That Chris Murray, maybe he's due for a bust-out performance where he puts up 28 points and 10 rebounds, something like that.

We could definitely use one of those. We didn't see a whole lot from a lot of the guys in this game. It's a road tilt. It's going to be tough. We'll talk about that more as the week goes on. Well, it wasn't just the men's team that had a good weekend. The women's team also got it done. The wrestlers also picked up a win over the weekend.

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You can hear from all the big names, our experts, insiders, coaches, and players locked on college basketball available on YouTube and wherever you get podcasts. As we wrap things up here, Iowa, another dominating performance on the women's side of things as team came into the week ranked number six with the win against Maryland and this road win against Penn State plus a few other things going on around the country a possibility we'll see this Hawkeye team jump up so back to Thursday night now I said on Thursday show I was hoping to get to you guys a Friday episode didn't happen and did happen I was in iowa city well i was in coralville calling the girls state

wrestling meet just an incredible incredible time watching those young ladies compete the first ever sanctioned tournament was really happy to be able to be a small part of that and be on the call on the girls website and the broadcast and the bats going on and it was quite the scene a sold out crowd just absolutely incredible to see that so got back late at night and decided I was I just was not ready to podcast I just it was too much and didn't get one to you but that game so I was listening on my drive home listening to the call and what a performance that was against Maryland Caitlin Clarklyn Clark with the 42. Cezano, so good inside. We also got to see, of course, the return in that one

as we got to see Warnock back out there again. But in a game where they get really nothing from Kate Martin, from Warnock, from Gabby Marshall, from Ali Davis, none of those players scored more than three points. And yet to beat Maryland in the fashion that they did, that was impressive. To put those kind of numbers up against the Terrapins, 96 against Maryland.

I know Brenda Fries got a lot of new players there. This is maybe not a vintage national championship contender Maryland team, but they're still really good. They're ranked 8th, and Iowa just absolutely took a good to them from the gun. And then Penn State. You think, you know, could this be a letdown spot? What's looming in front of them with the Indiana game coming up this week? It kind of had that look, right?

And what does Iowa do? They race out to a huge lead, 19-9 after the first quarter. Cruisin' as they go into halftime as they're up 45-22, and ultimately winning 95 to 51 another triple double for caitlin clark 23 10 and 14 isn't it crazy that we are now at the point where a triple double is just kind of ho-hum yeah that's kind of where we are with caitlin clark she has just elevated herself to such a spot that anything she does, it doesn't surprise us anymore. It should. You know, beautiful behind the back pass and 14 assists.

Ho-hum. Now, I had somebody check in. I saw quite a bit of this during the game on Sunday about maybe the starters playing a little bit too much late in that game. You know, wasn't this going to be a good one where we get to see deeper in the bench, we get to see some of the young ladies out there

getting a little bit more time. Was it too much? Maybe Caitlin out there late. I get it. I understand the concern, but you want it right. But they want to play and they want the numbers. And Caitlin Clark, she's chasing history to trying to become the national player of the year after last year, Boston winning that award on South Carolina.

She's going to be in the mix once again this year. Look, she doesn't have the raw statistics that Kaitlyn does, but she does play for the best team in the country. And for a lot of people that vote on this, that matters. I think it's silly. I don't think there is any doubt about it. Who should be the national player of the year? But those are just the little things.

You get a triple-double, add to that tally. A little bit more, you get the headlines. I mean, on top of it watching sports center today and what do they do they don't show many women's basketball highlights but they do show a ton of caitlin clark highlights and with it iowa women's basketball highlights they are continuing to be moved around saw a game later in the season against indiana that has been moved to espn they want her on there. She draws. She draws numbers. And this Iowa team, I'm starting to believe,

more than just make the Sweet 16, maybe an Elite Eight. Could there be more there? If Kaitlyn Clark keeps playing at this level, if Cezano keeps doing her thing inside, they get a little something from everybody. I continue to love what we have seen off the bench this year in just some incredible performances from Hannah Stolke. She just goes in there, runs like a deer, great hands, catching the

ball, got to knock down those free throws a little bit more. But overall, you know, she's just such a fun player and you're excited about her future and what it's ultimately going to turn out to be. This Iowa women's team, they are fun. If you haven't had a chance to be out there to Carver, get out there and watch them. And then on Thursday, we talk about the men taking on Purdue. That'll be a huge matchup and a huge opportunity. Iowa, they got to go to Indiana. The Hoosiers, ranked number four in this week's rating. They are 21-1 on the season. They just obliterated Purdue on the road. They have won a bunch in a row.

Their only loss of the season came against Michigan State on the road. Since then, they've ripped off nine more victories in succession. They're good. They can play a couple of different ways. They'll run up and down with you. They'll grind you on the other end. Should be a fun one. Unfortunately for us Hawkeye fans, that's Thursday at 530.

That'll be a BTN broadcast. And then at 6 o'clock, the men play. Well, we'll be double-fisted watching that one. We have a busy week. We got a lot going on here. As I mentioned, going to be going on vacation. And going to have to have some things in the can. So if you're looking for Instant Reaction Podcast after Thursday, I will try.

I don't know what state I'll be in going to Mexico. So we'll see, but we got you covered. LaShawn's going to stop by. We got lost with LaShawn, plenty of football, talk to you, football fans. We got you covered this week with a lot of football, some murmuring, some murmurs out there that a possibility that I was going to get the linebacker transfer from Virginia. There's been some things on that. Nothing definitive at this point. We know they need help at the linebacker spot, and that would be a big one that they can ultimately get his services. So you have that component of it. A few other things going on on the football front. Of course, we went through last week what we heard from Kirk Ferentz in the press conference,

the possibility and the return of Brian Ferentz. Now, are there still things out there that could change? Possibility. You know we'll have you covered if anything breaks on that front. Lots of football talk with him. Hope to get Jason here, do a podcast. We're also going to have a recruiting podcast on the basketball side of things. I'll break things down with one of our lockdown correspondents.

So we'll get a look at next year's Iowa basketball team, what they have coming in in next year's incoming class. And a look to the future. Cooper Koch, part of the 2024 class. He has already committed. Jared Koch's son, a kid from Illinois that has put up some big numbers. We'll talk a little bit about him and just the way the Fran recruits it and the way that he continues to find these guys.

Really looking forward to that. So busy week here in front of us. As always, we got you covered on Locked On, Hawkeyes. Thanks again for making Locked On, Hawkeyes your first listen each and every day. For your second listen, again, check out our brand new podcast, Locked On College Basketball, with our experts, Isaac Schottie and Andy Patton, bringing you everything you need to know on and off the floor. You can hear from the big name experts, coaches, players

throughout the college basketball landscape. Locked on college basketball. Available on YouTube and wherever you get podcasts. Back at it again tomorrow. Thanks for hanging out with us here today. Boy, that feels good. Beating the Illini. Tip of the ball cap as well to the crowd.

Just how loud it was. Carver, the old girl, she can still hum. 40 years later, you get the right opponent and get a little extra vitriol in there. And Hawkeye fans, you could definitely do it. What an environment it was. What a victory for the Hawkeyes. Fun start to things as we get the week started here

on Locked On Hawkeyes. We'll talk to you again tomorrow.