The Iowa Hawkeyes struggled at times in their Sunday win over Penn State, particularly when the pressure started to mount on Luka Garza to get that final bucket to become Iowa’s all-time leading scorer. But in the end, Garza got the record and the flood gates opened. As a result, the Hawkeyes enter this week riding a four-game winning streak.
They now enter the most pivotal stretch of the season for them and everyone else in the hunt for the Big Ten title. But they’ll do so while ranked inside the top-10 nationally for the first time in three weeks after the AP released their latest poll on Monday.