College sports are wild. Like, really wild. The roller coaster ride of a season for all but the bluest of bluebloods is enough to give most invested fans a brain aneurysm. That has perhaps never been more true than in the season the Iowa Hawkeyes are currently having on the hardwood.
A few short weeks ago, this team looked dead in the water. The Hawkeyes lost five of eight games in the month of December, punctuated by the biggest upset in modern college basketball history when they were not only beaten, but blown out at home by an utterly abysmal Eastern Illinois team the week before Christmas.