This Iowa basketball season has had a number of storylines running throughout. Of course, atop everyone’s mind is where exactly this team will finish. We entered the year with sky high expectations and for the first half+ of the year, Iowa lived up to the hype. The Hawkeyes have spent the vast majority of this season ranked in the top-5 nationally.
Then starting shooting guard CJ Fredrick went down with an injury in the second half of Iowa’s home matchup against Indiana and the wheels fell off almost instantaneously. The Hawkeyes would lose that matchup, as well as four of their next five.