Tuesday, March 23, 2021

Speculating in March 2020 about March 2021

Editor's Note: The Iowa Hawkeyes were a #2 seed in the 2021 NCAA March Madness tournament and, sadly, on Monday, March 22, 2021, the Iowa Hawkeyes were defeated by  Oregon (Ducks) by a score of 90-85. The score was tied at 46 in the first half. Then Oregon went on a 10-0 run that caused the Iowa team to be in a hole too deep to climb out of prior to the end of the game. Luka Garza will go down in history as one of the greatest Iowa Hawkeyes ever and his jersey number (55) will be retired in the not-so-distant future. It will be interesting how the team rebounds for the 2021-2022 season which is approximately 33 weeks away! Good luck to Luka Garza! Go Hawks!

This is from an article that made predictions in March 2020 about what teams would be ranked in the Top 25 for the NCAA. As you can see, the article predicted Iowa would be ranked number 7. By this time in 2021, the NCAA's March Madness should be in full swing after missing the 2020 March Madness tournament due to COVID-19. Knock on wood, there is a vaccine for COVID-19 on March 23, 2021 and, also knocking on wood, hopefully the 2020-2021 Iowa Hawkeyes are still in the hunt for a national championship which, I am guessing, will be played on Monday, April 5, 2021 - that's a guess I'm making 54 weeks ago or 378 days ago or 1 year, 1 week, 6 days ago, which was Monday, March 23, 2020.


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