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Rivers rationale:
There was no bigger Hawkeye basher on the planet than me earlier in the season. I'm not at all saying that Iowa is anything better than mediocre at best right now but I will give Todd Lickliter's team some due as they are improving and double digits or so at home in what should be a low scoring game is fine with me here.
IU has won and covered three of their last four and in the last trio of games just look and feel like a better team than what they were earlier. As a home dog they upset
Thad Matta's team has picked it up of late and are a quality 14-6 even with losing Turner for a month or so. But they did just blow that double digit lead in
Take out the impressive comeback win in Purdue and the Buckeyes have done extremely little on the road. If the team that upset the Boilermakers shows up here than the Hawkeyes could get outclassed a bit but this is a conference game where the home dog is getting a bit too much, period.
The pick:
