The negativity on here is utterly insane. This is an 80 percent win. Iowa is not in our league.
People saying we need to play great or this is a sure loss are wrong. An average performance will very likely equal a win. We are better than them in almost every respect and people refuse to stop talking themselves into us being in real trouble.
Folks are saying we haven't played well in over a month. Sure...unless you ignore the second Kentucky game and the first Mississippi State game and the third Mississippi State game and the third Kentucky game. Throw all of those out the window (which featured our two best performances of the year) and yeah, we haven't had a decent game in over a month.
What's gonna happen here is that everyone will be super negative until we get to the Elite Eight, at which point everyone will be super all-in again and be expecting a win against the first team we will play all tournament long who will be favored against us. If we lose that game (which on paper we should), everyone will freak out again and a significant number of people will post, "I'm just asking...Is it time to move on from Barnes?"
This place is absurd beyond all measure.