Iowa's issues come full circle, and its first unranked loss is its most decisive of the season.
Forget the Top-5 ranking, forget the Big Ten lead, and definitely forget the 1-seed talk until further notice. Iowa limped into Happy Valley on a recent stretch of playing like an NIT team and sure enough got beaten like an NIT team, losing in a sparsely-populated Bryce Jordan Center to lowly Penn State, 79-75. It's Iowa's first loss to a currently unranked team of the entire season, and its first loss without a lead in the last 10 minutes (or even in the second half at all, as it turns out).