Instant Reaction Podcast, hawkineation.com.

Andrew Downs with you here on a Saturday afternoon.

I believe it's Saturday.

It's, you know, these holiday weeks have thrown my game off a little bit here.

But yeah, Saturday afternoon as Iowa gets another nice win this week,

a 35 win over Rutgers, number 10 Iowa, number 14 Ruckers at the Rack,

which would have been electric today. Can you imagine, A, what that atmosphere, what it

would have sounded like, what it would have felt like if the game played out the exact same way

with a full Ruckers Athletic center or whatever the rack stands for.

But then you wonder how things would have been differently.

Would the game have been called differently?

Would Keegan Murray have not been able to hit those clutch free throws late with a, you know,

enemy crowd shouting in his face.

Things that will never be able to answer, but one thing we did answer is this Iowa team is

tough and doesn't give up and is a very good team because that's a good Rutgers team that

I would just be a really good Rutgers team who played really well and really made Iowa

look not great at times

and really showed, I thought at times, some real gaps between the two teams as far as, you know,

defense and at times kind of the just energy level. But in the end, Iowa leaned on Luca Garza late in the second half, and that tends to work.

It worked again today as I was able to close it out.

And free throws were huge.

Fowl discrepancy was big in this game, and Iowa had, I think, in the double bonus for the last

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