For the second time this season, the Iowa men’s basketball team must pick itself up after a dispiriting loss to Michigan State. While Iowa rarely escapes East Lansing with a win, many fans believed the Hawkeyes were capable of pulling off the upset against Michigan State in their rematch at Carver-Hawkeye Arena, making the Hawkeyes’ collapse during the final fifteen minutes of the game especially difficult to swallow. Just as Iowa’s shooting started to go cold, the Spartans began to assert themselves offensively and impose their will on the boards, turning Iowa’s eight-point lead into a double-digit deficit in the blink of an eye.