Maryland and Iowa are playing a pretty serious basketball game on Thursday night (7 p.m. EST, ESPN), so we got in touch with a pretty smart Iowa fan to talk about the game.
Thanks to Ross from Black Heart Gold Pants, SB Nation's equal parts entertaining and deeply informative Hawkeyes blog, for stopping by to give us a detailed outlook on Fran McCaffery's program. Be sure to follow Ross and BHGP on Twitter and check out some of the good work they do.
Other than that, let's get straight into it:
TT: From the outside, I certainly didn't see this coming.