Iowa hasn’t been to the Sweet 16 since 98-99 and the last time before that was 87-88. That 88 to 99 gap was the reason Tom Davis was let go for Alford, who then quit(he was going to get fired) and led the the brutal Lickliter years. Fran took 3 years to rebuild that mess and has gotten them to the tournament 5 of the last 7 seasons(yes, I’m counting last year as a tournament season). Despite having 2 of those teams reach the top 10 late season collapses( in those years have led to low seeds and and 3 second round matchups vs 2 seeds. (Other season they faded so bad into the play in game) 2 years ago it looked like Iowa would break the drought after a furious rally to force OT, but the eventually fell to Tennessee. I know the expectations are higher than this, but please make it to the Sweet 16 Iowa.