Updated: 28 January 2013 | 6:25 am in conversations
Will the Iowa men’s basketball team make the NCAA tournament?
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Iowa called the right play, isolated the right defender and had the right amount of time on the shot clock. But none of it mattered when the shot didn’t fall.
With the score tied late in regulation, Iowa guard Devyn Marble found himself one-on-one against Purdue’s Ronnie Johnson. Marble’s floater with three seconds left failed to fall, sending the game into overtime. The Boilermakers then scored on six of their eight overtime possessions to beat the Hawkeyes 65-62 Sunday at Mackey Arena.
Iowa (13-7, 2-5 Big Ten) has lost 11 of 12 to Purdue (11-9, 4-3) and six in a row at Mackey.
Do you think the Hawkeyes still have a reasonable chance at earning an NCAA tournament bid, or does Sunday’s loss make that possibility unlikely?
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Will the Iowa men’s basketball team make the NCAA tournament?
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Roflmao, with just the thought of the Iowa Hawkeyes could possibly be going to the NCAA tournament.
Its not looking good right now. They have 11 games left! I would assume they will need to win at least 21 games to make it! That means they need to win 7 of 11???????? They are having trouble closing the close ones and that comes with experience! Im thinking NIT at this point. Look out next year though!
As I watched marble dribble the ball between his legs and wander around the court aimlessly, looking to be the hero, I wondered why are we not getting the ball inside the paint and just win the game with a bucket or sink 1 of 2 free throws in regulation? At the end of the season. the hawks will look back at this Purdue game and the MSU game and go to the NIT.
Not if we don’t find that one player that can put us on his back in the last minute of the tight ballgames and get us over the line, we won’t. Last year that was Matt Gatens, but he lacked the supporting cast. This year, it is no one, at least not so far..