The full WNIT bracket is available here – Iowa is one of six Big Ten teams in the field, including Minnesota, Nebraska, Michigan, Northwestern, and Rutgers.
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Dunphy is also a Philly native, and a graduate of LaSalle University. In making my picks, I pour over an assortment of metrics – record over the last 10 games, losses by five or fewer points, number of upperclassmen in the starting lineup, etc.
As one might gather from a face-value analysis of this matchup, the three-point line will be of utmost importance.
The Atlantic Ten and the Big Ten collide when the #10 Temple Owls square off with the Iowa Hawkeyes on Friday.
“It’s a tournament; you lose you’re done”, Uthoff said. “I played against teams that he coached in high school. So it’s a great Philadelphia family”. Adam Woodbury leads the Big Ten Conferences in rebounds, while Uthoff has blocked more three-pointers than 300-plus Division I teams this season. The Hawkeyes only really have to worry about teams like Temple and then Villanova, unless they advance past the first weekend.
Temple’s Jaylen Bond, center, prepares to shoot the ball with teammates during practice for a first-round men’s college basketball game in the NCAA Tournament on Thursday, March 17, 2016, in NY. He has been impressed by what he has seen in the Hawkeyes. “They are really a good team, and I think this is a whole new world, the NCAA Tournament is a fresh start for everybody”, Dunphy said. It’s great we get to be so close to home.
“Especially now that we’re in the tournament, every team is going to give it everything they’ve got”, Wagner said. “So you learned how to coach and take pride in coaching without the best players”.
“AJ has a chance to play at the next level and so you have to make him uncomfortable”, Prohm said.
“Someone had told me, but I told them not to tell me who or where”, coach Tim Cluess said. So I would see him all the time. “And he’s been able to do that in the city that he loves, where he grew up and where he lives”.
After further thought, he added, “They make you beat them”.
They talked a lot about the Temple Owls basketball tradition. They had just one win over a Top 50 RPI opponent (Indiana).
Dunphy spent most of his day going over the UConn loss, but as the selection time neared, he, like past year, left the players in the locker room and took a walk around the court at the Liacouras Center. Unfortunately, on Friday afternoon, one Philly native will celebrate and move on, while another looks to next year and the future.
“I know they are a very talented team, but I don’t know too much about them”, senior forward Aaron Rountree said.
With such similarities between the teams, it might come down to who can execute their gameplan better.
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Seven players are averagaing at least 10.0 points for Iowa State, they are: Georges Niang (19.8), Monte MOrris (13.9), Abdel Nader (13.1), Nazareth Mitrou-Long (12.0), Jameel McKay (11.5), Matt Thomas (10.7) and Deonte Burton (10.0).McKay leads in rebounds with 8.9 while Morris tops in assists with 6.9 per game.
