After losing to Hampton it felt like a season of failure. And for years you got reminded of losing to a 15 seed
OU PG Bijan Cortes Taking A Leave Of Absence
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Things are a bit different these days in college BB. The pressure to win is greater than ever. The players are literally under a microscope. The TV viewer can study your every pore, your every mistake, your questionable haircut, that big missed free throw, over and over and over.
I just have a hard time agreeing with this. To me, it's kind of a combination. You win the regular season title, it's awesome, but if you lose in the first round of the NCAA it is somewhat tarnished. If you end up 5th and make the Sweet 16, it was a great season. Personally, if ISU isn't going to win the conference, I don't care if they end up 2nd or 6th as long as they do well in the big dance. No one remembers conference standings if you don't win...they remember what you do in the big tournament.
Seems like this guy always kills us. That said, I hope everything with him is okay.
Spoken like someone who is a fan of a team that got to play the only 16 seed to advance to the 2nd round ever....
To me the regular season is about winning your conference. Not conference tournament, but rather finishing top of the standings. Once that's out the window like it has been fairly early on every year for ISU since 2001, it's all about the big tournament in March. 2nd place is for the biggest loser.
We have a player with Butthead hair, so not really in a position to criticize
She'll/He'll be the 1st one over here bragging about it...
...in italics.
Don't worry tmcats will also do plenty of that on other boards.
Big 12 championships since the turn of the century.
Iowa State 2
Kansas State 2 (both shared)
I dumbed your post because they had 2 titles just in the last decade with Bruce Weber of all coaches. We've went through 5 coaches and many great teams in the last 22 years and still only 12-6 and 11-7 type finishes.
You realize Kansas and K-State fans are really the only ones who care about league titles because they actually won them?
Let's say Iowa State won one with Hoiberg, then Prohm was able to win one with his 2019 NBA team, I guarantee you Iowa State fans would take the regular season more serious.
Every other fanbase in the league has similar excuses.
Iowa State "We have our Big 12 tourney titles and Sweet 16s".
Baylor" We have our sites set on national titles and Final 4s".
Texas Tech "Well, we went to the national title game with Beard".
TCU " We're just happy Dixon is here and getting us to the tourney on a regular basis".
Oklahoma " Buddy Hield got us to a Final Four"
Oklahoma State " We're just happy anyone shows up to games anymore"
West Virginia " We're just happy the Big 12 allows us to join the conference"
Texas "Vince Young took us to a national title game in football".
Lol, you didnt even know who Bijan Cortez was before this thread.
The hell if I didn't. He's had several good games against ISU in the past. I understand you are no longer watching ISU games so perhaps you missed them. Understandable.
They haven't played Oklahoma since early January, I didn't miss anything. I stopped watching after the Oklahoma State loss in Ames.
Why would I do that? I don't care or know much at all about K-State basketball. I'm simply giving my opinion on why a K-State fan would be interested in Big 12 titles and we aren't.
I'm not the one who started it so go ahead and attack me for simply responding to other posts you've deemed off-topic.
