The wild roller coaster ride that is Mike Rhoades’ first year as Penn State men’s basketball coach took to the road in Iowa City, seeking to boost their win streak to three games and pull off a sweep over the Iowa Hawkeyes, whom they defeated a few weeks ago in Happy Valley. As we all have learned by now though, winning on the road in Big Ten play can be a rather tall task, and tonight’s game proved to be no exception to the rule.
With their NCAA Tournament hopes hanging by a thread, Iowa came storming out of the gates like a team that knew it couldn’t afford to lose this particular game: ripping the nets with their shooting ability, forcing PSU into taking low-percentage shots and pressuring them into turnovers.