My twins were born four years ago on January 31, 2003. The Hawkeyes gave me (or maybe them) a present by managing to beat Michigan on the road last night on their birthday. Good job Hawks. Way to fight back from an early deficit, play tough defense and win a game.
I won’t start claiming that the Hawkeyes are going to run the table or anything crazy like that. I still think they will be an inconsistant team with some bad losses and some nice wins. Yesterday was a nice win.
I am impressed with how well Tyler Smith seems to be adapting to the Big 10. Let’s see if he can hang on in the later games of the season when he starts to wear down. I think he will. He seems like he’s going to be a real player that will do some very good things over the next few years.
The good thing about the win is it keeps the Hawks 4-4 in the conference and provides the team with a pretty good road win. If they have any dreams of getting into the NCAA tournament, they are going to have to win more games than they lose from here on out and some of those need to be on the road…unless they can manage to run the table in the Big 10 Tournament again.