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Andrew Downs and Rob Howe back with you once again.

Rob, what's up, man?

Busy time, Andrew, as we were talking before we started to record, things are coming at us fast and furious right now. They absolutely are. There's so much to get to. And obviously, we're going to start with Iowa men's basketball, this team, senior night tonight over at Carver Hawkeye Arena. But before we get to tonight's game and looking at the seniors and things,

I wanted to recap a little bit of the win Saturday against Penn State.

77 to 68.

I was 20th win on the season, 11th in Big Ten play.

And not a great start for this team and not a great start for Luca Garza,

but you get CJ Frederick back,

Joe Weisskamp had a little more of an himself game, another great game from the three

bench players, and a great end of the first half and a fantastic start to the second half was

really kind of the story of the game as Penn State never really threatened in the second

half.

No, and when I was watching that game early on, I was like, man, uh-oh, this Penn State team looks pretty good.

They are good.

So that's a solid win for Iowa without question. And, you know, it just, Iowa was done that this year at home.

They kind of feel their way in the first half sometimes and then just find a time.

It happened to be at the beginning of the second half the other day.

It was later against Wisconsin and Ohio State and Michigan.

But they have that run.

They get that, you know, they put it together.

And those guys said the other day that they were not happy with how they played in the first half, had a one-point lead, but did not play that well in the first half, especially defensively, came out and kind of put their foot down to start that second half.

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