For the second time in a row, I watched the Iowa State women play at Carver-Hawkeye Arena, and for the second time in a row I was disappointed. This game was both closer and uglier than 2010. The summary of this debacle I leave to a poster on Cyclone Fanatic, who had the same thought I did:
So what can you say about this one? How about offensively it set basketball back a few decades? Bad joke, but that is what it looked like out there. Not a game you would want to take someone to in order to sell them on women’s basketball. They would never return.
If ISU plays like this in conference, it will be brutal.
A related question: Why are three* major rivalry meetings in a year always at the same school? Ideally football would be at one place and at least men’s basketball would be at the other in any given year. This could really use a shake-up, although it won’t happen because football is set in stone and the basketball teams likely wouldn’t agree to two in a row in Ames or Iowa City to create the offset. (Flip a coin. Seriously.)
*Four if you include wrestling, which isn’t really a rivalry right now. Yikes.