Wisconsin was down one point to Iowa when the two teams went into halftime. After the break, it was almost all Badgers, scoring 14 more points than Iowa the rest of the way. After the game, Hawkeyes head coach Ben McCollum took to the podium for his post-game press conference, and his quote about Wisconsin will make any Badger fan smile and chuckle.
McCollum said, “Letting Boyd get downhill to his left was not part of the game plan. I won’t tell you the game plan in case we have to play them again, because the game plan was actually pretty good; we just didn’t execute it.”
Ben McCollum says Iowa’s game plan wasn’t to let Boyd get to his left all night long
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What a great quote for Wisconsin. McCollum basically admits that Boyd ripped the game plan to shreds and made Iowa play on its heels for the entire game, but especially the second half. When a coach says that they had a game plan but it wasn’t executed, that’s simply a way of saying, “The other team controlled the game.”…