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Welcome to SB Nation Reacts, a survey of fans across the NCAA. Throughout the year we ask questions of the most plugged-in Iowa fans and fans across the country. Sign up here to participate in the weekly emailed surveys.
We’ve fully entered what used to be viewed as the offseason, a time when things got really slow, news was almost non-existent and if there was anything to focus on, it was Hawkeye football. The good ol’ days, as they were, are gone.
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Now, we’re in a world where there is no offseason. Basketball never sleeps. And in the words of Michael Douglas, money never sleeps. From the moment the NCAA Tournament ended, full attention for every coach in America turned to the transfer portal. The same is true for a good portion of college basketball fans around the country.
For the Hawkeyes, there are two clear positions of need, as pointed out by BoilerHawk last week: center and point guard. Iowa is obviously losing its anchor in PG Bennett Stirtz who played virtually every available minute this season, leaving a massive void at the point. And Ben McCollum wasted no time calling out Iowa’s lack of size in the middle during his postgame comments after the loss to Illinois.
But which one is a bigger need? That was our Reacts question last week. Here are the results.
A whopping 81% of Iowa fans said center is the Hawkeyes’ biggest need in the transfer portal. Point guard came in a distant second at 18%, and everything else combined for just 1%. The fanbase has spoken, and the message to Ben McCollum is clear: get us a big man.
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Can you blame them? Iowa’s Elite Eight run ended with a 40-12 paint scoring deficit against Illinois. That number isn’t a typo. Forty to twelve. In the paint. In an Elite Eight game. McCollum himself said it after the loss: “We need some size. We just don’t have a true five.” The fans heard him, and 81% of them are nodding emphatically.
That need became even more urgent late last week when Alvaro Folgueiras…
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