The Hyball: Well, That Wasn't Great

By Bobby Loesch on February 24, 2022 at 12:00 pm
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The Hyball is a weekly Iowa men's basketball column.

Guess we gotta talk about it.

My thought, watching in real time, was "100% fired."

The replay, in some ways, did do Juwan Howard some favors. For the rest of us? No, no favors. Just dumb, dumb PUNCH vs. SLAP discourse which served absolutely no purpose. Like a punch was the death penalty and slap was nothing at all.

Then came the takes. Ohhhh, the takes. Michigan homers. MSU fans out the woodwork. The racist dog whistle industry business was booming.

Honestly, it felt like everyone was wrong. Michigan people needed to back the fuck up, the outrage crew needed to probably chill a little, and, in the end, was the suspension not relatively appropriate?

Guess not. Ugh -- eat shit, J-Bo.

In the end, the only take that made me go "Yep" was from Brian Cook:

Seriously, if you're a Wisconsin fan and you don't have an active Twitter account that has "I Am Embarrassed That Brad Davison Is On This Team And I Think He Should Be Kicked Off Wisconsin's Basketball Team", I don't want to hear from you.

Because that man tries to injure people. He runs around the basketball court trying to injure people. He did it in this game, twice.

I want to be careful when I say this, but there's definitely a racial component here, right? Brad Davison has the crew cut, runs around, and the announcers don't mention it. They don't bring it up, the fact this is, you know, a piece of shit. He's a piece of shit. He's a shithead. He's an asshole. And he tries to hurt people. We don't talk about that. We don't talk about that. But we talk about a little scuffle at the end of the game that doesn't mean anything.

What Juwan Howard did was wrong, should be punished. Brad Davison has done worse than that five or six times in his career, but, because he's got plausible deniability, because it's set up so they can just kind of chuckle at it, he's not a big deal. But this is a big deal, and I can't really think that there's anything other than some issues there.

[...]

Greg Gard condones it. Greg Gard doesn't say anything about it. Greg Gard sticks up for his shithead player. And to me, that's worse. People talk about how Wisconsin basketball cheats the game, and they do. People get mad about it, and they should be mad about it.

[...]

Things got a little heated. Cooler heads prevailed. There will be a suspension. Whatever. Let's move on with our lives.

 blugggggghhhh

/throws up double birds, falls backwards into swimming pool

The Hyball

"If we ever stop talking, send me a song."

Last Week

2/17 - Michigan 84, Iowa 79: Actually thought Iowa would win this game but still really regret not betting on Michigan with that +4.5 spread; that jumped out the second I saw it. Additional thoughts:

- Moussa and Keegan are my two favorite players in CBB, so it was so cool to see them on the same court

- Conversely, Connor/J-Bo/Caleb Houstan on the same court... less ideal

- Keegan seemed as aggressive as we've seen him all season (the shooting line is a touch skewed due to the missed dunks, but I think we'll really need that going forward)

- oh boy

Little did he know that would be the high point of the week.

- The ending:

wank wank wank wank

2/19 - Iowa 75, No. 18 Ohio State 62: Ohhhhhhhhhhh, this one ruled. Definitely thought "Prolly the best win of the season by far, right?" before realizing we... had zero wins against ranked teams until this game.

oh also this was cool:

PV weighed in:

Even got a positive Connor stat out of it:

2/22 - No. 25 Iowa 86, Michigan State 60: This one had the Luka back/Carver party element the tOSU road win did not...

...and though the margin of victory was even bigger, still favor the previous win a little bit more. This Sparty team is broken; they look completely different than the team who beat Michigan, 83-67. Can't imagine it's as simple as a home vs. road thing, but, in the end, I do not care.

Haha.

I lost three bets on this game. That one, the over, and MSU +6.5. Would do 'em all again for that outcome, though.

/nods

CROWN US, TOMMY.

THANK YOU TOMMY.

GOOD GAME TOMMY.

This Week

2/25 - No. 25 Iowa at Nebraska: ok cool hook 'em

2/28 - Iowa vs. Northwestern: Guess who just transferred?!

Caitlin Corner

Coming to Iowa City this weekend to watch my first ever Caitlin Clark home game. Still trying to rope the wife in, but she upgraded her status from Doubtful to Probable earlier this morning. Ahhhhh, so damn hyped. Taking back-to-back games against Indiana was exhilarating.

also this was funny

Brad Davison Is Definitively A Senior.

Thanks, as always, for your nothing contributions to this sport.

Glad no one learned anything.

...especially that guy. Am I a pearl clutcher to be somewhat blown away he wasn't suspended?

Hearing his voice was something that never needed to happen in my life on Earth.

Obligatory Michigan Section
The Mini-Hybrid

brb sobbing uncontrollably for the next seven hours

Bill Walton's Western Civilization 

Don't get me wrong, big fan of the majority of the content I post in this section, but this week's really was a favorite:

No Context College Basketball
Wrapping It Up...

(me leaving Carver, Sunday evening)

Bobby Loesch is a weekly contributor to Go Iowa Awesome. Follow him on Twitter @bobbystompy or email to bobbyloesch [at] gmail.com.

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