Game Day Essentials: Game #16 at Iowa

[hhcmatt]

Nebraska Cornhuskers (8-7) vs Iowa Hawkeyes (11-3)

 

Date: Tuesday, January 5, 2016
Time: 8 pm, CST
Arena: Carver Hawkeye Arena
Capacity:15,500
TV: BTN

 

 

Broadcast Information

Television: Big Ten Network

Online: BTN.com and BTN2GO

Announcers: Dave Revsine and Shon Morris

Play-by-play: Kent Pavelka
Expert Analysis: Matt Davison

Iowa Info

 

Head Coach: Fran McCaffery
Location: Iowa City, IA
Conference: B1G 10
Nickname: Hawkeyes, Hawks
Mascots: Herky the Hawk
Last time out: Beat Purdue
Typical Rotation Depth: 8-9 players
Shirt not to wear: yellow, bird
Fun Fact: We only play Iowa once so this is the last time we see Nebraska native Mike Gesell
Line: Iowa by 15.5

 

Injury Reports

 

 

Williams and Fleming are two freshmen who haven't played much this year. Iowa plays all of their non-Woodbury starters a lot of minutes so losing anyone to either injury or foul trouble could cause issues for the Hawks....or could cause some unscouted dude to blow up for 20 on us.

 

The Skinny

 

Sorry, travelling this week so this will be brief.

 

Led by 4 Senior starters, Iowa has put together what might be their best team since the pinnacle of the Steve Alford era in 2006. The team has had a few close losses early but started B1G play by beating Michigan St and Purdue, a pair of teams considered in the running for the Final 4.

 

Nebraska actually being able to shoot will help against a team like Iowa that is able to play defense without fouling. Some other positives is that Iowa can be exploited for offensive rebounds and with the graduation of Aaron White the Hawkeyes don't generate a lot of fouls. Everything else though isn't so good as if the Hawks don't simply overpower Nebraska with their shooting they are capable of smothering a turnover prone Husker squad like they did to Purdue on the road.

 

The Huskers will win B1G games. It's just not going to be this one.
Prediction: Iowa 80 - Nebraka 64

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[Red Don]

Iowa Likely Starters                

No. Name                 Pos Yr. Ht. Wt. G/GS  PPG RPG  Other

5   Anthony Clemmons G Sr. 6-2 200 14/14   8.2   2.4   3.9 apg

10 Mike Gesell             G Sr. 6-2 190 14/14   9.1   3.5   6.7 apg

14 Peter Jok                G  Jr. 6-6  205 13/13 13.5  3.4   1.4 spg

20 Jarrod Uthoff           F Sr. 6-9  221 14/14 18.1  6.0   3.3 bpg

34 Adam Woodbury     C Sr. 7-1  250 14/14   8.6  6.2   56.8% FG

 

Nebraska - Likely Starters  (Nebraska Player Stats yet to be updated to reflect past 2 games)

No          Name                        Pos.       Ht.          Wt.        Yr.          GP/GS   MPG      PPG       RPG       APG

 3             Andrew White III         G           6-7         216         Jr.           13/13     27.6        17.1        5.5       0.3

 5             Glynn Watson Jr.        G           6-0         165         Fr.           13/1      21.3        7.5         2.2        2.6

12           Michael Jacobson        F           6-8         222         Fr.           13/4      12.1        4.1         3.2        0.4

31           Shavon Shields         G/F         6-7         225         Sr.           13/13     29.7      16.3        5.5         2.9

32           Benny Parker             G           5-9         175         Sr.           13/13     25.3        4.1         2.2        2.2

     Rotation

 0             Tai Webster              G           6-4         196         Jr.           13/12     26.9         9.3         3.7          2.0

10           Jack McVeigh           G/F         6-8         210         Fr.           13/0       16.8        5.0         3.1          1.0

11           Bakari Evelyn           G            6-2         178         Fr.           8/0         12.8        4.0         3.2          0.4

23           Nick Fuller               G/F         6-7         204         So.          11/0         8.5         2.6         1.8          0.2

24           Jake Hammond        F           6-10        235         So.          13/8       13.8        3.3         4.1          0.2

30           Ed Morrow Jr.           F            6-7         225         Fr.           13/1       13.6        3.1         3.8          0.2

      Bench

 4             Johnny Trueblood   G            6-4         195         Fr.           5/0          3.4         0.8         0.2          0.8

15           Malcolm Laws          G            6-1         190         So.          3/0          3.7         0.3         0.3          0.0

20           Tanner Borchardt     F            6-8         274         Fr.           4/0          4.0         1.0         0.8          0.0