anyone catch on that BYU got dropped to a 6 because they can't play sundays?
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I'm looking at ESPN Bet and they have UConn, Houston, Purdue, Arizona, UNC ahead of us. We are tied with Auburn at +1600
Wazzu really struggles to score at times. That's actually a really good matchup for Drake.
People here are more worried about Drake than other 10 seeds because of familiarity. They've seen Drake play and know they're good and that makes it harder to be rational.
It's very obvious they are trying to set a precedent about not scheduling weak non-cons for NET purposes. And I don't think it so much about "gaming the NET" as it is about having a marketable product in November and early December. I think they know if everyone decides to play SWAC teams they have nothing to put on TV.
I'm looking on FanDuel and see UConn, Houston, Purdue, Arizona, UNC, Tennessee, Creighton (WTF?!), Auburn, and Marquette ahead of ISU. FanDuel has us at +2300.
The one thing Drake is going to have going for them will be fan support. All of those Creighton fans will be wearing their blue and cheering for the Dogs. As a 2 seed Iowa State didn't get the "home court" that a lot of people think we did... Creighton fans hold a lot of tickets so basically anything hitting the market is from Kansas fans selling off their passes.
I’ve not been impressed with Wazzu the couple games I watched of theirs. And that includes one of their wins over Arizona.
I don’t know if Drake will be favored but I’ll take them moneyline and to cover if favored.
Edit: Drake is +1.5. I just dropped some coin
Bump from last night but how is San Diego State a 5 but the rest of the MWC is in the 9-11 range with 2 play-in games? There's absolutely nothing about their resume that differentiates them from the other 5 MWC teams.
FAU and Michigan State were seeded way too high also.
FAU and Michigan State were seeded way too high also.
I'm interested to see how the refs call these games. Will they handicap the Big 12 teams for physical play? The line between foul and physicality is already thin, how much tighter will the calls be? The Big 12 style of play really opens them up to be subject to officials discretion.
So now I'm curious. DK has us 8th at +2000 behind UConn, Houston, Purdue, Arizona, UNC, Auburn, Tennessee.
Bet MGM has us 8th at +1800 behind UConn, Houston, Purdue, Arizona, UNC, Tennessee and just behind Auburn.
So it looks like between the major ones we average out around 8th at somewhere around +1900.
One thing I noticed this morning is our being in the East was mostly a geography problem this year. If Arizona is the 1 seed instead of UNC then were out West as we're the farest away from LA against UNC/Marq/Tennesse. Still disagree with having us at 8 overall but some of this is just location luck.
Absolutely. I think they were going to give Baylor a 2 seed if we didn’t absolutely throttle Houston Saturday.
I tried this point in another thread and got blasted for it. Careful here.
You know for as much as some fans are complaining about our seeding. You should check out the UConn fans, some of them are furious that we are in their region. They don’t want us in their region since we just pummeled 2 good teams.
Hopefully we carry a 2014 Kentucky attitude, where we make a run and just say, you shouldn’t under seeded us.
Hopefully we carry a 2014 Kentucky attitude, where we make a run and just say, you shouldn’t under seeded us.
Well, from my memory of the Big Ten's era of playing Battle Ball ...maybe? It seemed like it was an issue come March back then. But a lot of things seem to be an issue come march...
He hasn't played well against ISU the last 2 years. He was terrible against us last year when at Baylor as well.
It’s okay to forget about everything that happened before February for Kentucky.
