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Officiating is always bad in the big 10. They hire amateurs to officiate their football & basketball games. When you have a physical game like that and one team shoots twice as many FTs as the other you take it and smile.

Minnesota got the edge from the officials tonight. You have to take it when you get it.

Iowa shot 13 FT. Minnesota shot 28 FT

Iowa can't afford Koi. They can't even afford the guy they just lost. They're getting guys from the FCS ranks.

Doesn't the football program only get about 15 million of the 20? I thought I heard most B1G and SEC schools are doing 75% to football and 25% to men's and women's basketball combined.

The 180 by Iowa this season is pretty striking. They play a very slow pace on offense and typically run the shot clock down each possession. They also play functional half court defense. That style would have made their former coach's head explode.

I don't know Bob personally but I'm fairly certain that was sarcasm

I've heard Wisconsin has money coming in but I doubt he wants to go to a rebuild like that. No chance Iowa has the money for him. They shop at the bargain rack in the portal. Even if they did Ferentz wouldn't let him play offense.

You could see this coming before the season even started. PJ took him to B1G Media days as a true sophomore when there were several upperclassmen with much more invested into the program. Then went out of his way to pump him up individually in interviews even though PJ is such a team, not an...

Both teams had some penalties to kill or allow the other to extend drives and backbreaking self-inflicted mistakes.

I included that in a later post. Wisconsin and Illinois were also 2-1 vs MSU during that time frame.

During the East/West era, 2014-2023, here are the records of B1G West teams vs Michigan, Michigan State, & Penn State: Wisconsin 5-7 including a loss to PSU in the B1G Championship game Iowa was 5-11 including losses in 3 B1G championship games to Michigan & Michigan State. NW was 5-10 Illinois...

I go with 2024 as the starting point. Conferences expanded to the current lineups, did away with divisions, started the 12 team playoff.

Check out head to head records from 2014-2023 of Ohio State, Michigan, Penn State, & Michigan State vs any team in the old west division. I'm pretty sure only Wisconsin has a winning record vs any of those teams during that time span. (EDIT- I was incorrect on this statement. Wisconsin...

I wouldn't argue that the SEC gets the benefit of the doubt when it comes to rankings but outside of fan bases of Minnesota, Wisconsin, & Iowa you'd have a difficult finding anyone who thinks the old B1G West and old SEC West were even in the same ball park. The argument is just absurd. It's...