Neither Iowa nor Michigan played poorly. We were in Iowa’s jock from the time they got off the bus. That was a top 3-5 defensive lockdown of the Pike era. They couldn’t breathe and any space they created was hurried causing a few missed open shots from Bohanon. We played as poor an offensive game as we have all year . We missed maybe 10 layups or shots within 7 feet of the basket. If we didn’t brick that night and only shot a normal % we would have won by 15 or more.
Michigan had Dickinson going and he scored 25 and we let him have his but shut down everybody else including dangerous Eli Brooks , who is their glue guy and who gets them going , Jones their point was totally overwhelmed and we harassed their freshman Houston into a bad shooting night. Dikate also played well . They couldn’t stop us as we probably should have won by 15-20 if we didn’t take our foot off the gas in the last 4 minutes.
Anything you perceived that either one of them played poorly was because we locked them down and did not give them any open threes like we have given up to other teams.