Your Iowa Hawkeyes fell short in a teetering affair that featured 22 lead changes, 80-75.
With CJ Fredrick out from a lingering injury from the Indiana game, Keegan Murray got the start. And we got yet another glimpse of this team’s bright future in his 8 point 8 board night.
But we’re here to talk about tonight, not the future.
Iowa and Illinois traded blows, keeping the score within reach the first 10 minutes of the game. The Hawkeyes built an 8-0 run to finally amass a 6 point lead, the largest of the night.
Connor McCaffrey was looking like he was on was his way to having the best game of his career with an early 3 and a couple other made lay-ups, stuffing the stat sheet in the absence of CJF.