The Iowa Hawkeyes (15-9, 7-6) head to Minneapolis to take on the rebuilding Minnesota Golden Gophers (7-15, 1-11) at The Barn. It’s not a must win game for Iowa but a simply-cannot-lose game if they hope to be comfortably in the NCAA Tournament in a month.
The Goofers are historically bad and led by first time head coach Ben Johnson. It’s his second season and the dropoff is even more stark than Richard Pitino’s last to Johnson’s first where they finished 13-17 to Little Richard’s 14-15 and held water as a top 100ish team.
That’s gone as the floor has fallen out from under them (just 17.