This was the perfect basketball game for Iowa Hawkeye basketball players, coaches, and fans. A win and you can claim that you're the best team in the state. A loss, and, like Chris Hassel did on Sportscenter, you can still run around like an idiot shouting "ROSE BOWL."
However, Iowa State found the greatest of ways to kick Iowa square in the nuts and walk away with an 83-82 victory, and the drama easily topped the 2013 Cyclone victory.
The Cyclones started off cold. The offense was finding open lanes but missing bunnies, while the defense had a difficult time with positioning and giving up easy buckets to fall to a 17-6 deficit with over 5 minutes into the half and allowing Jarrod Uthoff to score at will.