Iowa Hawkeyes in Another Late Season Swoon

The Iowa Hawkeyes are in a swoon.  They lost their second straight game Wednesday night against Wisconsin, their first home loss in over a year(excluding the loss to Augustana in an exhibition).  This came a week after a bad loss at Penn State.  That was after a loss at Indiana and a close win at home to Minnesota.  So, after staring the conference season at 10-1 and in sole possession of first place, they have fallen a game and a half behind the Indiana Hoosiers at 11-4.  Does this sound familiar?  Well, it should.  Two years ago, the Hawkeyes were ranked number ten at one point, and were ranked 15 and 8-4 in conference, before losing five of their last six to end the season.  They lost in their first game of the Big Ten Tournament, and getting knocked out by Tennessee in the First Four, meaning they were one of the last four teams that received an at-large bid.
This year was thought to be different, with them starting four seniors and one junior, with all of them on that  2013-14 team that collapsed and that 2014-15 that advanced to the Round of 32.  This team looks like what happened two years ago.  The bench has disappeared, which was one of their strengths early on.  They lack much offense beside giving the ball to Jarrod Uthoff and Peter Jok and letting them shoot threes.
Of course, last year the Hawkeyes lost two awful games right in a row vs. Minnesota and at Northwestern to fall to 6-6, and they finished 12-6. 
The Hawkeyes this year still have a chance to win the Big Ten regular season title.  If the Hawkeyes win out, which includes a home game against the Hoosiers, and Michigan State wins out, or if Indiana loses out to Iowa and Maryland.  So, the Hawkeyes still have a good chance to complete the goal of the Big Ten title.  If so, the Hawkeyes will almost clinch for sure the first and second rounds of their pod will be played in Des Moines and as a top four seed. But first they have to beat Ohio State at Value Center Arena in Columbus, where they have won the last two games played there between the two teams.  They have more than enough time to get the season back on track, or to continue this slide.