Hard to disagree x2. After watching both teams yesterday, I question whether Iowa has the inside game to compete consistently. Sure, when they are hitting 3's and shooting high % overall, they are great. But they really struggled on the boards on both ends against Indy and, just out of curiosity, I checked the stats for all of their losses this year. Not surprisingly, they were out-rebounded in each.
42-30 purdue
52-24 ill
50-32 Iowa st
43-26 wisc
49-38 rutgers
36-31 purdue
53-43 psu
40-37 mich
41-38 ill
Of course, you can say that it's stating the obvious--who controls the boards generally always dictates who wins. But I think that's even more apparent for Iowa. They were even in good position many times yesterday, with bodies on offensive rebounders, but they weren't physical enough to secure many of the rebounds, especially 50/50s.
Iowa's offensive fireworks clearly give them the opportunity to win any game. But hard to argue against purdue which also has some pretty good offensive upside with ivey as well as big inside presence with edey and williams.
