Dear Old Gold is FanSided’s Iowa Hawkeyes fan site. The Site Expert, Andrew Wade, was kind enough to give Badger of Honor some insight into this season’s Iowa hoops squad heading into Friday’s matchup between the Badgers and Hawkeyes at Carver-Hawkeye Arena.
Similarly to Wisconsin, Iowa’s off to an awesome start to the year after what looked to be a pretty miserable 2017-18 season. How are Hawkeye fans feeling about this squad right now?
I would say cautiously optimistic. Iowa returns it’s top nine players from last year and essentially has two new four-star players (Connor McCaffrey redshirted last year due to illness and freshman Joe Wieskamp).