For the first time all season, Iowa basketball is riding a losing streak. That the Hawkeyes dropped two straight games in January in the country’s toughest conference is hardly reason for pessimism, particularly given how well the team has performed overall this season. However, for Hawkeye fans who weary of the dreaded “Fran Fade,” a term that inevitably creeps up on message boards every year in which Iowa’s play begin to tail off in the waning Winter months, this short skid could be a sign that the program could be in for more of the same in 2021.
Fortunately, the 2020-21 Iowa squad is not built like the Iowa teams that saw their performances fall off a cliff in years past.