Last night the Iowa Hawkeyes were bad and the Maryland Terrapins were really good. There is your takeaway.
Alright fine, I won’t end the story there, but that is seriously what the final takeaway from this game feels like. Sometimes a scoreline can be misleading, but a 96-68 loss really does say everything.
Iowa were just straight up beaten in this one. It did not look like two top 10 teams playing in a fierce conference battle. This also did not look remotely close to the Hawkeyes’ 96-82 win over the Terps back in the beginning of the month.
Everything simply went right for Maryland and wrong for Iowa. Before we push this game far out of our minds ahead of the final regular season rematch against No. 2 Indiana on Sunday, here are the five takeaways from this big defeat at the hands of Maryland.