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#16 Illinois. #19 Iowa. A shitty arena. Massively hungover Illini fans from watching the Bears game Saturday night. Hopefully the team takes a different approach than the fans and finds a way to bring appropriate aggression and energy to what could be a VERY easy game to be sleepy and get run out of the gym with the 11am Sunday start.

Iowa is ranked #19 in the country, and also ranked #18 in the NET. Iowa is 0-2 in Q1 games with a blowout loss @ Michigan State and a close loss @ Iowa State (in a game where Iowa looked very much like the better team for the bulk of the game). They have 3 Q2 wins, most relevant being a comfortable win at home against UCLA. However, most of their wins have been against bad teams at home. They've run up those scores quite a bit.

We need to shoot well and defend well to win. Getting physical with Iowa would also be a good thing.

Also, fuck Iowa.