Amazing half so far my Iowa Men’s Basketball controlling the pace, playing fantastic D and getting good shots. Not Fran Ball!

As good as Iowa Men’s Basketball played in the first half, ISU had matched it and then some. Great team with so many weapons and stifling D.

Basically, No.4 ISU having trouble beating last year’s Drake team at home. Go Hawks!

NFL refs don’t call holding like NBA refs don’t call traveling. It’s absolutely ridiculous.

Merry Christmas everyone! Especially the Minnesota Vikings $40 million D tackles that don’t want to tackle in Christmas and risk hurt hurting anyone. Both have been highly disappointing.

This Viking offense looks familiar to Hawkeye fans. It’s Brian Ferentz and Deacon Hill.

Bizarro world when Nebraska is a basketball school and Indiana is a football school.

According to the crowd, Purdue had committed no fouls tonight.

MBB HALF: Iowa 34, Purdue 31. 20 strong minutes in the books, but 20 big ones to go at Mackey.

Man, to not call that on Smith when he pushed Bennett Stirtz out of bounds and follow it up with a call on Manyawu...

They called a foul of Koch for this. I’ve never seen that called before. Ridiculous.

Enright was flat-out hugging Stirtz off the ball that entire possession before they called that charge. Ridiculous.

Iowa’s defense went from smothering to Fran defense. I like smothering better.

Nice half for Iowa. Some defensive let downs but very sold overall.

Purdue undercuts our player going for the ball, no foul. But foul on Iowa doing same thing.

Iowa playing uninspired ball. No spring in their step at home. Bad look at home if you want to fill Carver against a team they should beat by double digits.

What happened to this Iowa Men’s Basketball team. Playing uninspired ball at home. No hustle. After a good game last weekend, now just the opposite. Sloppy.

Hawks gutted out a win even though offense wasn’t there tonight. Shows why Fran is gone because his teams lost when offense wasn’t on. D matters.

Great win for the Iowa women against a very good team that will make an impression on the selection committee. Take care of the ball, take care of business.

Shooting just over 20% for much of the first half, a Fran team with no defense would have been down big early and likely never recovered. I love Ben ball.Iowa Men’s Basketball