.The Iowa Hawkeyes are licking their wounds coming from a remarkable 20-19 competition reduction versus the Iowa State Cyclones.Regardless of shutting out the Cyclones in the first fifty percent and also leading 13-0 at halftime, the Hawkeyes' unsatisfying second-half efficiency left onlookers with a lot of questions.One of those was Iowa mind football instructor Kirk Ferentz's decision to select a two-point sale shot.After Iowa State scored its own 1st goal of the time along with a 3-yard goal grab from senior Jayden Higgins with 8:48 left behind in the third one-fourth, Iowa responded with a 7-play, 79-yard ride that ended with a 3-yard goal run from younger running back Kaleb Johnson.Along with the Hawkeyes leading 19-7 after Johnson's goal dive as well as 4:47 staying in the third quarter, Ferentz and also Iowa opted to try for a two-point transformation to likely extend the Hawkeyes' trigger 21-7.The two-point go stopped working as graduate quarterback Cade McNamara could not associate with freshman pass receiver Reece Vander Zee in the edge of completion area.Later on, Ferentz was asked them about his decision to try for the two-point conversion." Yeah, I imply, I believe perhaps the discussion will be actually is it too early, that type of thing. That placed our team at 19-7. I presumed it provided our team our finest possibility to succeed the volleyball game, as well as to me the greater problem is our team certainly not a minimum of acquiring one goal away from those 2 field goal possibilities. Our company possessed the sphere down inside there close. That is actually clearly a place our company're heading to need to improve," Ferentz said.The reasoning for trying the two-point transformation make an effort makes sense. Turn the two-point go and also Iowa Condition will have needed a pair of goals as well as additional lead to match the volleyball game.Instead, Iowa Condition redshirt fresher kicker Kyle Konrardy's 54-yard basket ended up as the game-winner as opposed to working with a prospective game-tying basket try if the Hawkeyes had actually chosen for a PAT try earlier.Contact/Follow our team @HawkeyesWire on X and also like our web page on Facebook to comply with continuous protection of Iowa information, keep in minds and also point of views.Follow Josh on X:@JoshOnREF.