To be honest, things are pretty good in Hawkeyeland. Both basketball teams are overperforming. The luster of a 10-win football season hasn’t worn off. The wrestlers are looking as strong as they have in recent history.
So there’s not a whole lot to complain about, especially after a two-game stretch which locked the Iowa Hawkeyes into the tournament and sealed another .500+ Big Ten record for Fran McCaffery, his seventh in eight seasons. Things are so good, Iowa’s playing with house money against Michigan State tomorrow night for sole possession of second place. A win at Breslin Center - it’d be their fourth in my lifetime - would represent Iowa’s seventh locked-in tiebreaker ahead of the conference tournament.