Three games and three wins into the season, Iowa entered the Thanksgiving extended weekend with a chance to play some quality competition and to potentially come away with a top 25 ranking. Now, four days later, and with a tournament record of 1-2, that top 25 ranking probably isn't happening for a while.
It's not that Iowa played horribly in the Advocare International. No, that was Wichita State, who was running out their B squad on the court. Instead, Iowa played well, for the most part. What hurt them, though, were two terrible ten-minute stretches against Dayton and Notre Dame, followed by the inability to close out those games after they had made late comebacks.