Voice of the Hawkeyes Board

Crowd was pretty good, especially the students that led a chant:

"These refs suck, these refs suck.."

Then we seemed to adjust to their calls, attacked the rim, got some turnovers and turned a deficit into a half time lead. And not 2nd half let down!

Re: Marge. She's a few sections down from me, mid court, about 6 rows back, she can't get into the refs as much and her kids are always sitting with her. She's a good sport.

Peter Jok amongst the crowd, paid his respects to Roy Marble at Half.

Iowa is officially on a streak, keep the dance dreams alive, beat Nebraska!

What does a "fairly good crowd" mean? I thought it was a sell-out. Do you mean something else, UI2015?

If you are referring to the energy of the crowd, it has ALWAYS been lacking at CHA since the day it was opened. Too comfy? Too cozy? No I-beams to look around? Perhaps it is only wishful thinking that any crowd at CHA could be as involved, engaged, and LOUD as those which used to be at the old Fieldhouse. Maybe that is an unfair comparison and only a figment of my old imagination and memory.

Barta should consider electrifying those seats down close to the court. When a Hawk score happens, an electric shock is sent through the seats- anything to get them ALL off their arses once in awhile. That would be nice (and fun) to see!

As we discussed back before the season even started, the back half of the conference schedule really set up nicely for Iowa to make a serious run at the Big Dance. One thing the selection committee looks for is how you've played in your last ten games. If Iowa can win four of these last five, there won't be too many teams playing that well at that stage of the season, especially when you consider the difficulty of the B1G this year.

Yeah the sell out was nice, I meant the energy and noise level. Iowa was on a run for the last portion of the game and people would stand, then sit back down just to stand again 5 minutes later. Why not just keep standing and cheering until the good runs stop for a few minutes? It just never makes sense to me how some people would rather go to a basketball game and sit the entire time without cheering. I guess CHA is a bad environment anyways, it doesn't hold sound well and there are way too many staircases compared to amount of seats per row. Watch games at other Big Ten schools and compare their seating to CHA. No wonder it's not as hard to win their for road teams, it's not set up that well for fans honestly. I wish I could have seen a game at the Field house.