***Official 2024 NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament Thread***

[AlaCyclone]

Andy Katz might CRY.

 

[AllInForISU]

Makes one wonder what we could have done against Illinois if we didn’t trap all the time and let the rapist go off on us early and often with wide open 3’s.

The defense was not the problem Thursday. Unless you are saying Iowa State would have scored more than 6 points in the first 10 minutes by changing the defense they ran all year.

 

[trevn]

Hot take? Clingan is better than Edey

It’s not even close. He takes UConn to a different level on both ends of the court.

 

[Marcelason78]

Shannon finally gets a call. If it was Iowa State, he would have had half a dozen this half. Andy Katz may be crying off camera.

 

[BCClone]

Hot take? Clingan is better than Edey

Not hot.

 

[madguy30]

Makes one wonder what we could have done against Illinois if we didn’t trap all the time and let the rapist go off on us early and often with wide open 3’s.

Probably still not shoot very well on offense.

 

[Peter]

Illinois looks worn out after playing us two days ago. Zero energy or effort. UConn just had to roll the ball out today.

 

[helechopper]

Timeout so Brad Underwood can take his shirt off and spray his team with a water gun to wake them up.

 

[exCYtable]

UConn is 3 of 16 from 3 and still up 30.

 

[Spam]

We were Illinois' super bowl.

 

[Cardinal2001]

there's a way to beat uconn, Creighton blew them out

 

[cowgirl836]

there's a way to beat uconn, Creighton blew them out

Give them food poisoning???

 

[ISU_Guy]

Uconn is just having fun at this point.

I think a normal representation of our teams is ISU is probably about 10 points better than Ill, and I think Uconn is just 20-50 points better than everyone else.
so either way we would have hit a wall tonight.

 

[SolterraCyclone]

Makes one wonder what we could have done against Illinois if we didn’t trap all the time and let the rapist go off on us early and often with wide open 3’s.

I wouldn’t judge on this game. We might have kept it within 30 by playing better transition D and slowing the pace. But it still would have been a rout

 

[helechopper]

The elite 8 is an honor to be a part of, but maybe ISU just found its silver lining in that Illinois loss.

I’d rather lose by 3 to the B1G tourney champs and a 3 seed than lose by 50 to UConn.

 

[jctisu]

there's a way to beat uconn, Creighton blew them out

Yeah at home and shooting out of their minds. Neutral court? Not going to happen. Home court is so massive. UConn didn’t look good at Allen Fieldhouse and if they would have played us in Hilton I think we may have won. But that’s solely home court advantage.

 

[mynameisjonas]

Hot take? Clingan is better than Edey

Agree, and we will have proof of that next week.

 

[Pitt_Clone]

Seriously, a 30-0 run? WTF.

 

[Jer]

It’s hard to imagine a scenario where you’d rather lose a close game in the Sweet Sixteen rather than make it to the Elite Eight and get beaten badly. We might have seen that unimaginable line crossed tonight…. maybe. I can’t imagine saying that but watching Illinois getting castrated live on TV looks like Saw X.

 

[alarson]

Hot take? Clingan is better than Edey

And he does it without getting absolutely babied by the officials the way Edey does. Not even a question who is better.