What does that mean?This past season UNI lost four top players to the portal, including their two top scorers (Heise, Born, Wolf, Henry) plus lost two other starters (Bond, Taylor) to injury and still won 20 games and battled Bradley for 2nd place in the Valley.
In 15 of the last 16 years he’d be COY.
You don't think Darian DeVries deserved the award in 2021, Wardle deserved COY in 2023, Josh Schertz deserved it in 2024, and McCollum in 2025? Are you saying Jacobson should have won the award those years despite not winning anything? Or that he would have won it those years with this year's 20-13 record, a 3rd place finish, and a quick exit from the tournament with an embarrassing loss to the #11 seed?