West Virginia will eat us alive Monday. The only way we win another game is if we get into the tourney as a 10 type seed and get a mid-major like VCU or Florida Atlantic. This offense has been broken for a month now.
Are we even a tournament team?
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The dance is a recognition of a season's work. This team has enough quality wins to get in, but they are sliding to the precipice. If they lose out and lose in the first round of the conf tournament and end 17-14 …they could be outside looking in. right now they are just a horrible offensive team that can’t compete.
Man there is a whole lot of stupid in this thread. We are safely in even if we lose out
Yeah. People seem to believe you can move from a #3 seed to out of the tournament in 3 weeks.
So your opinion is we could go from an over all 11 seed to out of the tournament in that short a time?
Iowa and Iowa State would beat Drake by 30.
Well yea I would hope so, that’s 10 on 5!
I don't know about that. Tucker, Penn and Wilkins could score at will from behind the arc, and Brodie would be just fine against Jones or Osunniyi. The Bulldogs actually run an offense and are good at it. Drake would be a very tough match-up for ISU.
We are the only fanbase in America counting “top 25 wins”. Just use the quad system.
Even if we held Drake to a single Free Throw, you must be confident we could put 31 up on offense
We’d be a 6.5 Pt favorite over Drake on a neutral floor per KP.
DeVries would be the best scorer on the floor and Penn would matchup well vs Lipsey - the rest of the team is where we would have the advantage.
Wilkins is alot better shooter than Gabe or Holmes. I think it would be a really close game.
Wilkins career 2% .412
Wilkins career 3% .373
Gabe career 2% .455
Gabe career 3% .323
To me their 2% and 3% numbers are close to balancing out while one has played against way tougher competition over their career. Check out adjusted D for all the teams in each league. There are brutally bad defensive teams in the MVC.
I get it man, I go to alot of Drake games so I understand the Missouri Valley, I just think Wilkins is a better shooter. He'd probably get abused on defense in the Big 12 but I think he's a better offensive player than either of our guards.
I guess I just don't see how he's a lot better shooter when the numbers don't show it and the competition is way worse.
If we lose out NO! I don’t care about NET ranking BS, we don’t deserve it at that point
Right now I would say we’re an 8 seed. If we lose out then it could become dicey and we would be nervous on selection Sunday.
Drake plays in the Missouri Valley. It's not what it used to be. Sorry. Drake is a nice story, but their competition level is a joke. Iowa State would destroy them.
You know they actually have a player that was ranked higher in recruiting than anybody Iowa State currently has? Or that they have 3 Seniors that have played together for 5 years now? And that they all have Ncaa tournament experience? And that their 6th man off the bench played on Tech's Sweet 16 team last year?
Destroy is a harsh word considering how bad Iowa State is right now.
