.The Iowa Hawkeyes are stroking their wounds coming from a spectacular 20-19 rivalry reduction versus the Iowa Condition Cyclones.In spite of shutting out the Cyclones in the first fifty percent as well as leading 13-0 at halftime, the Hawkeyes' frustrating second-half efficiency left behind sightseers with lots of questions.Some of those was actually Iowa mind regulation football train Kirk Ferentz's selection to pick a two-point sale try out.After Iowa Condition scored its first touchdown of the time with a 3-yard goal grab from senior Jayden Higgins with 8:48 left in the 3rd fourth, Iowa answered with a 7-play, 79-yard travel that finished with a 3-yard goal fly younger operating back Kaleb Johnson.With the Hawkeyes leading 19-7 after Johnson's touchdown plunge as well as 4:47 remaining in the 3rd quarter, Ferentz and also Iowa opted to try for a two-point sale to likely prolong the Hawkeyes' bring about 21-7.The two-point try out failed as graduate quarterback Cade McNamara couldn't associate with freshman pass receiver Reece Vander Zee in the section of the end region.Afterwards, Ferentz was actually inquired about his selection to pursue the two-point transformation." Yeah, I imply, I presume possibly the controversy would certainly be actually is it untimely, that sort of trait. That placed our company at 19-7. I presumed it provided our team our ideal opportunity to gain the football video game, and also to me the greater problem is our team not at least acquiring one goal out of those pair of basket chances. Our team had the round down inside there close. That is actually certainly a region our team are actually visiting must improve on," Ferentz stated.The reasoning for trying the two-point sale try makes sense. Convert the two-point shot and also Iowa State would have needed a set of touchdowns and also extra indicate match the soccer video game.Rather, Iowa State redshirt freshman kicker Kyle Konrardy's 54-yard field goal wound up as the game-winner as opposed to embodying a prospective game-tying basket try if the Hawkeyes had actually selected for a dab try earlier.Contact/Follow our team @HawkeyesWire on X as well as like our page on Facebook to follow continuous protection of Iowa news, details and also point of views.Adhere To Josh on X:@JoshOnREF.