Not to mention I bet all the KU fans in attendance will be cheering for us
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Not to mention I bet all the KU fans in attendance will be cheering for us
Lot of the KU fans will have left and gone to a bar/restaurant I suspect after their game.
CycloneErik
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I always forget how much coaching matters come tournament time. It’s encouraging that TJ can out coach an interim head coach and Greg Gard (who I don’t think is great). But Jim Larananga is a good tournament coach. It will be exciting to see.
I don’t want this to come off as me having doubts, if anything I feel reassured.
I don’t want this to come off as me having doubts, if anything I feel reassured.
Looking at their stats especially minutes they aren't terribly deep. They have 5 guy with 900 + minutes. Next 3 highest guys in minutes are 492, 459, 276.
Like I said in another thread......the closest defense they have played to ours is Virginia.......and lost both times. The guys play like they did today we are probably looking at a 3rd game against KU next Sunday assuming they get past the Friars.
Miami looked awfully good against Auburn on both sides of the ball!! Going to be an absolute dog-fight Friday night!
Hell I hate watching us. Lol.
Cannot wait.
We are at an advantage in that we are a super close plane ride. Miami has to go a long ways to get up to Chicago.
Let's go get an elite 8!
I think Ames to Milwaukee was just barely over the NCAA minimum distance for a chartered flight instead of a bus trip. Not sure what the team will do in Chicago (probably whatever they did 6 years ago for the same venue and same round of the tourney).
Chicago is further than Madison, but we just played in Milwaukee, and Google Maps is telling me United Center is 9 miles closer to Hilton than Fiserv Forum is.
Heavy advantage over Miami. As someone else mentioned, they only have 3000 fans per home game, they have a smaller alumni base, and they don’t have nearly as many alums in Chicago (can someone check this on LinkedIn search function which shows it for different schools in Chicago metro area?). I bet KU has bought a lot of tickets as well while Providence based out of RI is much weaker.
Miami airplane trip looks to be around $425 for that weekend round trip and is 3 hours while driving is 20 hours.
Plenty of Cyclones and some Jayhawks in Chicago.
Miami’s three best players are all 6-foot-5 and under. Best matchup yet for Iowa State.
