.The Iowa Hawkeyes are stroking their cuts coming from a magnificent 20-19 rivalry loss versus the Iowa Condition Cyclones.In spite of shutting out the Cyclones in the first half and leading 13-0 at halftime, the Hawkeyes' disappointing second-half functionality left behind sightseers with loads of inquiries.One of those was Iowa head soccer train Kirk Ferentz's choice to choose a two-point sale try.After Iowa State scored its own initial goal of the day along with a 3-yard touchdown grab from elderly Jayden Higgins along with 8:48 left in the 3rd one-fourth, Iowa responded with a 7-play, 79-yard travel that finished along with a 3-yard touchdown fly jr operating back Kaleb Johnson.Along with the Hawkeyes leading 19-7 after Johnson's touchdown plunge and 4:47 staying in the third one-fourth, Ferentz as well as Iowa decided to pursue a two-point conversion to possibly stretch the Hawkeyes' result in 21-7.The two-point shot failed as graduate quarterback Cade McNamara could not connect with freshman wide receiver Reece Vander Zee in the section of completion zone.After that, Ferentz was asked them about his choice to try for the two-point conversion." Yeah, I imply, I believe possibly the argument would be actually is it too early, that sort of factor. That placed our team at 19-7. I believed it gave our company our greatest possibility to win the football video game, and to me the bigger concern is us not a minimum of receiving one goal away from those pair of basket possibilities. Our experts had the ball down inside there close. That's clearly an area our company're visiting must improve on," Ferentz mentioned.The logic for trying the two-point transformation try makes good sense. Convert the two-point try and also Iowa State would certainly have needed a set of touchdowns and additional suggest match the soccer video game.Rather, Iowa Condition redshirt freshman twist Kyle Konrardy's 54-yard basket ended up as the game-winner rather than exemplifying a potential game-tying basket attempt if the Hawkeyes had actually elected for a dab make an effort earlier.Contact/Follow our team @HawkeyesWire on X and like our web page on Facebook to comply with recurring coverage of Iowa headlines, details and also point of views.Observe Josh on X:@JoshOnREF.