Iowa basketball

CHICAGO-- The Hawkeyes are making a quick exit from the Big Ten Tournament after falling 73-69 to No. 13 seed Ohio State on Thursday afternoon.

FRAN McCAFFERY: We're just going to move on to the next game. We had pretty decent defensive effort going on, and we kind of had our defensive guys out there a little bit more, and I wanted to be able to play loose and try to get going in the second half. I think we thought we had it, and we fumbled it again. Fran, the pace of the game, especially in the first half, was that a big factor? Did you feel like you guys had a good mojo coming in here like you did last year? When I felt that we made a run, they were able to make runs of their own and get stops. Describe that on the floor when you just can't stretch it out and the other team just keeps coming and coming. They got a lot of talent, a lot of scoring. TONY PERKINS: We just tried to deny the ball, get steals, get a quick basket and tie the game. I mean, I'm not sure about the call at the end, but it just didn't go our way, I guess, and they got the ball back. But both sides of the ball, I feel like we did pretty well. KRIS MURRAY: I feel like we got open looks we wanted to get.

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Iowa forward Filip Rebraca walks off the court after losing a men's basketball game between Iowa and Ohio State at United Center in Chicago on Thursday, March 9 ...

7 seed before Thursday’s loss, but the defeat to the sub-500 Buckeyes will likely drop Iowa to a No. “Make sure we win, make up for today.” I think you have to give them credit. “We shot 50 percent from two [point range], didn’t make many threes in the game,” McCaffery said postgame. Iowa was projected as a No. “They just weren’t falling.”

The Hawkeyes are headed home early from the Big Ten Tournament after an underwhelming showing against Ohio State. The takeaways for Iowa.

This was true until a shift happened in the second half. Until then though, this was not the prettiest. It should be because of the Hawkeyes’ performance. The action just felt like it was going at a snail’s pace. The jumpers just weren’t falling. That is the nature of the conference tournaments. There was a general chaos around the team and especially so down the stretch. They let Ohio State hang around this entire game, and in the end, it bit them on the backside. Iowa quite simply messed around and found out in this one. They shot poorly from all areas away from the rim and were unable to reliably sink a jump shot. Don’t even both reading the rest of this story (please do still) because that’s the ultimate feeling that we’re all going to take away from this game. [things that we’ve seen from Iowa](https://hawkeyeswire.usatoday.com/lists/iowa-basketball-hawkeyes-ohio-state-buckeyes-big-ten-tournament/) were on display in this one.