Iowa basketball is a cardiac episode waiting to happen. The Hawkeyes, apparently deciding that their buzzer-beating win over Northwestern wasn’t thrilling enough for their fans, took the tension to a new level with their shocking last-second win over Rutgers. Joe Wieskamp’s miracle shot to beat the Scarlet Knights will long be etched into the memories of Hawkeye fans due both to the incredible degree of difficulty associated with it, as well as the bizarre circumstances that led up to it.
As thrilling as the endings of Iowa’s previous two games have been, there is some concern that the Hawkeyes have needed to rely on last-second heroics to defeat two teams that they are demonstrably better than.