Your Iowa Hawkeyes blew a five-point lead with a minute to play in regulation to drop its first conference game of the season, 102-95 to unranked Minnesota.
Poor shooting, turnovers and a lack of transition defense plagued Iowa in the first half. While Luka Garza struggled early—just 5 points but 8 boards—Minnesota’s Marcus Carr played the role of That Guy by scoring 15 points on 5-8 shooting. Iowa didn’t have an answer for him defensively—save for Joe Toussaint, more on him later—and it looked like the Hawkeyes were dead in the water until Joe Wieskamp came alive.
He scored 7 consecutive points in the final minute and a half of the first frame, and caused Minnesota’s only turnover of the half at the very end when he swiped the ball from Carr.