I thought I heard during the season that Iowa hasn’t had a first round pick in forever. Definitely under Fran they haven’t. Now I’ll have to do some digging…
Edit - Ricky Davis in 1998 (who I have no memory of). Also Acie Earl in 1993 went #19. I do remember him and he actually might be a decent comp for Tarris Reed.
I would love this scenario because there are a lot of presumptuous reactions to his declaration on twitter/reddit/etc. They’re all comfortable praising it because they just assume he’ll be back. I want to see the shocked Pikachus when he withdraws and transfers
It would be interesting to see how MSU will fare if the rumor is true. So I’m assuming that they’ll roll with Hoggard and Akins backcourt and likely Pierre Brooks as the 3rd G. They’ll sorely miss Bingham’s rim protection and Gabe Brown shooting at the 4. The wing players aren’t great so I’m guessing Izzo will go to transfer portal to find wing players
Izzo is going to try and take a big bite off the transfer portal tree this year…he may not like it for the “state of college basketball”, but he likes it for the “state of his basketball program”