Big Ten Wonk has his Iowa Hawkeyes basketball preview up. The Wonk is always a good read. A sample:
Steve Alford says last year's Iowa "team was special defensively." He's right! Last year's Hawkeyes did two things absurdly well: forcing and rebounding misses.
Only problem: that is all they did well, on either side of the ball (see below). And the players that enabled them to do those two things are now gone. The low expectations that surround this team (actual headline: "Alford Enjoys Teaching Basics to Newcomers") are, at this writing, justified.
