Iowa ends an up-and-down regular season on a winning note.
Iowa's NCAA Tournament aspirations took a significant blow when they lost at Penn State earlier in the week, so there wasn't quite as much riding on Saturday's Senior Night regular season finale for the Hawkeyes as we expected a week ago. Iowa's at-large aspirations became exceedingly tenuous after that loss -- at this point Iowa likely needs a semi-miraculous run in the Big Ten Tournament to make it back to the NCAA Tournament. So the game with Illinois was mainly about pride and sending out this senior class with a win.