***Official Iowa State vs. West Virginia Gameday Thread ***

[HFCS]

How man times has ISU played West Virginia?

[cycloneG]

How man times has ISU played West Virginia?

First time will be tonight.

[Bobby45]

Go Cyclones beat up the Mountain Men................

[chuckd4735]

I'm rather surprised this is the first match-up ever between the two schools. It seems that is something that is very rare anymore in college basketball, especially when you are talking 2 BCS schools.

[Rabbuk]

Inb4 game starts. Class is gonna drag on today gentlemen.

[Wesley]

Well hell yeah we win. Hoiball is better than Huggyball at this point.

[cyclones500]

I agree. Huggins is a very good coach. I wouldn't get too cocky and just assume we win. I am not saying we WONT win, but I think it will be close.

You're on the right track.

If the struggles of Texas and West Virginia have a lot to do with youth and inconsistent scoring, Huggins can probably squeeze 8 to 10 points more out of a similar situation, compared to Barnes.

And WVa won at UT.

An advantage I see — Hoiberg's teams appear to make hay on opponents that don't shoot/score well.

This should be a win, but probably only single-digit. In preseason I said 76-72. I'll stick with that to be safe.

[Clones21]

Live and die by the 3 ball. Hope we can hit our shots, or this one is going to be too close for comfort. We SHOULD win this game by 12+ points.

[ISpyCy]

Mr. Huggins needs to be reminded of how kick *** Hilton Magic is.

[Cydkar]

Their freshman, Henderson, won't be making the trip. They can't afford to lose players.

[cmjh10]

Is it 8:00 yet?

[VeloClone]

So far in Big 12 play they have scored 57 on the road in OT shooting 30%, scored 64 at home shooting 50% and scored 57 at home shooting 30%. They have only scored over 70 points a few times away from home the entire season. Not to say that they can't score 70 in Hilton but I certainly wouldn't predict it.

ISU shoots a ton of FT's - hopefully they take advantage of the "1 and 1" and "and 1" opportunities.

ISU 70 - WVU 58 in a game that is closer than that until the very end.

[alarson]

Their freshman, Henderson, won't be making the trip. They can't afford to lose players.

Yeah, thats a decent loss for them, losing a starter and a good amount of minutes played, avg'd 11 pts in conference so far (their second most), put up 23 against michigan.

[cyhiphopp]

So far in Big 12 play they have scored 57 on the road in OT shooting 30%, scored 64 at home shooting 50% and scored 57 at home shooting 30%. They have only scored over 70 points a few times away from home the entire season. Not to say that they can't score 70 in Hilton but I certainly wouldn't predict it.

ISU shoots a ton of FT's - hopefully they take advantage of the "1 and 1" and "and 1" opportunities.

ISU 70 - WVU 58 in a game that is closer than that until the very end.

Yeah, I can see ISU pulling away and breaching the 70 pt mark on late FTs when WVU is forced to foul.

[chuckd4735]

Mr. Huggins needs to be reminded of how kick *** Hilton Magic is.

Huggins has coached in Hilton one other time, and Hilton Magic was on a leave of absence at that time.