Iowa's seniors did their expected thing to expected results. And then the unexpected happened from the most unexpected of sources.
Iowa's run through the 2015-16 season, and collapse at the end of that season, has been driven in large part by a quartet of seniors. And so it is fitting that, in arguably the biggest game their team has played together, it was those four seniors that determined the outcome. It was senior forward Jarrod Uthoff who led the Hawkeyes in scoring and spotted Iowa an early lead that it desperately needed. It was senior guard Mike Gesell whose second foul nine minutes into the game set off a swoon that gave back the early lead.