The Iowa Hawkeyes lost yesterday and the world came crashing down around us. Our hopes and dreams of contending for a Big Ten regular season championship in basketball now sit along our hopes and dreams of contending for a Big Ten title in football. Silly us for ever thinking it could change.
Part of the reason is Fran McCaffery has been up-and-down this year as Iowa’s head basketball coach. The microscope is on him because when your team enters the season with rhetoric about not wanting to go undefeated but going “1-0” 27 straight times, every mistake is magnified.