Georgia
Georgia finished sixth in the SEC going 9-7, 20-9 overall. We share two common opponents in Texas Tech and LSU. Georgia beat TTU in Lubbock 66-56. They lost by six in both games against LSU.

Georgia spreads minutes out amongst ten players. Only one averages more than 30 minutes (Morrison).

Scoring

Staiti and Morrison are the only ones averaging double figures and scoring at 15 and 13.8 per game

Staiti shoots 51% from the floor, nearly all of the two point variety.

They are not a big three point shooting team hitting 31% of their 315 tries. In comparison, ISU made over three times as many three-pointers this season.

Georgia is an ok free throw shooting team at 74% attempting 447.

Rebounding

Staiti averages nearly nine per game. Georgia out-rebounds it’s opponents by five per game

Their players very rarely foul out of games. Only five instances all season.

They average 18 turnovers per game.


UT Arlington

UTA went 20-7 and 11-4 in conference play. Common opponents include Baylor (L 81-54) and Okla State (L 61-46).

They spread minutes among 8 players with three (Jacobs, Milton and Chastain) averaging over 30 per outing.

Scoring

Jacobs lead the team with 21 per game with Milton being the only other player averaging double digits (12).

The team is not a three point shooting team only attempting 387 on the year and making 27%. Benjamin and Ferrel are their top threats hitting 37% of their attempts.

Free Throws - they got to the line 564 times and made 69%. Jacob’s gets to the line the most but only hits 63%.

The averaged 14 turnovers per game while forcing 16 per game.

Two players (Milton and Ferrell) average 4.5 assists per gamep

Super excited that we get to play close to home for the first weekend. No idea if we are gonna win or not, but just glad I get to go support the cyclones. After last season, I did not think we would be dancing again this so soon. Hoping for a win of course, but if nothing else, Milwaukee is a fun destination for a weekend get away.

Who else gonna be there supporting the clones?

Bracket season has arrived in Big 12 country. Two number one seeds are validation that this has indeed been a banner year for the conference. Having 6 teams make the tournament is excellent, too. Although, if OU had advanced to the Big 12 tournament finals, it would have have been 7. But of the 6 teams in the tourney, who has the mettle to win twice in the first weekend?

You have a very interesting opponent in the first game with UTA. They are not a pushover. In fact they have a star player named Starr Jacobs. We watched her in HS here in Duncanville, TX and she was being looked at by many schools. I really never heard why she went the JC route but I suspect it may have been a grade issue. She is their leading scorer and it's not even close. In fact I think I read that she averaged 27 points a game in her last 4 games. She plays forward/post and ya'll should really enjoy watching her. UTA has a couple more girls that do well also. I'm not predicting an upset here by any means, but I am saying this should be some great competition for the Clones to get them prepared for the road ahead.

Georgia has underperformed this year IMO. They have a great coach and some very good players. If they get their chemistry together they will be hard to beat. And of course if you get by them you KNOW what is ahead. The Hawks and the Gamecocks. Would love to see the Sisters put the Hoks out of their misery so the talking heads can shut up about Clark. I really don't think you can beat S. Carolina, but then again MO & KY did. So get after it. I'll certainly be rooting for you.

In fact I really regret that I can't be there for the first round in Ames. I'd really love to watch Starr play again. UTA's first game of the season was against Baylor. I think BU already had two games under their belt. And Starr Jacobs was playing superb the first half. BU only had a 6 point lead. Then about the third play of the 3rd quarter Starr got a leg injury and didn't come back in the game. Things went south for them after that.

Anyway good luck guys. Enjoyed seeing a lot of ya'll up in KC.

Column from Ames with reaction from T.J. and players.

Anyone have any suggestions on where to find tickets? Will LSU have extras we can buy?

Why would they put both us and Wisconsin in the same session? Just stupid if you want to sell tickets.

LSU is -4.5 over Iowa State.

Wisconsin only -7.5 over Colgate

Iowa only -9.5 is a bit surprising. They'll cover big time.

Providence only -2 over SDSU? Eeek.

11 seed Michigan is -2.5 over Colorado State

Main points were about the coaching situation and how young his team is.

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Anyone have some outlier picks, or thinking of picking, in terms of pretty substantial upsets? I'm talking first round only and must be a 12 over 5 or bigger. 11/6, 10/7, 9/8 aren't upsets really these days...

I have loved Providence all year but man I think South Dakota State I could see winning and how ****** would that be because I think Iowa ROLLS Richmond by like 30.

I am close to pulling the trigger on New Mexico State over UCONN.

The one I really want to pick is Colgate over Wisconsin. I've said all year Wisconsin is playing with fire. Something like 15 wins are 6 points or less. Didn't play well down the stretch losing at home to Nebraska and early exit in Indy as well. Colgate has won 19 of their last 20 games...most of them blowouts. Gotta think about this more but I may do it.

Vermont over Arkansas seems trendy but I don't see it.

In Milwaukee as well. Lets ******* go! What a 1 year turnaround by TJ
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Just post the photo of the up to date brews on tap at each brewery you visit. MAKE SURE to POST the DATE of your visit!!!!! Some of these in the beginning should be a little out of order vs the date of visit

Men's and women's brackets. Top 5 of each get gift cards to the CF Store.

PLEASE USER YOUR USERNAME and email you used to sign up for CF for your application.

Men's Challenge

Women's Challenge

The Selection Show and reveal for the the 2022 NCAA DI Women's Basketball Championship bracket will be on ESPN at 7:00 central time today.

Known: We will be hosting in Ames as one of the Sixteen which is huge.
Known: Ames games will be March 18/20 or March 19/21
Known: We are either a #2 or #3.
Known: Game 1 will be a cupcake.
Known: The bracketology peeps are rarely close on who plays who.
Known: We have only lost to Top 10 teams that are defense focused. Only a handful of those in the dance.
Known: We will not be in the same regional as Baylor or Texas. LSU could be but pretty unlikely.
Known: The talking heads will be all "Oh, that's a TOUGH region!" and yadda, yadda, yadda, yadda.

Unknown: Will NCAA send regional teams to Ames and Iowa City like in 2019 to save travel money? Not like there is any other reason unless the seeding just works out that way. Neither the Cyclones or Hawks need the few hundred ticket sells from some regional team after the combined 29,000 they drew a week or so ago for their last conference home games.
Unknown: What region, that's anyone's guess.
Unknown: Not Cyclone related but I'm curious to see if Sooners hang on to hosting in Norman. I'd say 50/50.

Anyone know if there are sports books with NCAA wrestling odds? I’m only familiar with William Hill and haven’t seen anything there yet.

Post your final prediction for MBB’s seed (most important) and opponent (for fun). If you don’t think we’re getting in, just move along. Will be fun to revisit 9 hours. Keep this thread on topic and ONLY about seed/matchup-up predictions.

I’ll go first 10 seed vs. USC

Happy Selection Sunday!

Never thought after last year this would be a possibility this year but here we are. Hopefully we are in but this season is already a smashing success.

Selection Show 5PM
CBS

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Some facts to sleep on as we await our seeding/location tomorrow...

Iowa State had regular season wins against teams in their conference tournament finals from the:

• Big 12 (Texas Tech)
• Big East (Creighton)
• Big Ten (Iowa)
• AAC (Memphis)
• Southland (SE Louisiana)

Iowa State has played 32 games

• 18 of those games were against NET top 50 teams
• 23 of the 32 are against top 77 NET teams.

Iowa State has 9 Q1 wins

• top 5 in the country

Iowa State has a SOS of 11th in the country

Iowa State has a SOR of 30th

Iowa State has the #10 best Adjusted Defense in the country

Point is...this season is still insanely impressive after we won 2 last year. We're likely headed to 8/9 seed and yeah that sucks but given we are in the tourney, just making it is gravy to me. I can't wait to see how we do against non-Big 12 teams. Maybe we are toast and **** the bed...who knows. But I can't wait to see them fight another day.

Go Cyclones

So, I installed a new version of macOS on my wife's laptop and it appears the thing has completely bricked. It gets stuck on the install and I've tried everything I can think of and just went through a 3 hour chat session with support. I'm assuming I never get access to this HD again without going with one of those data recovery services. The only threads on here are from like literally 10 years ago and if I google it they are all just places you drop your computer in a drop box and stuff. Is there anybody in the metro that does this? Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks.

My column with Bill Fennelly's comments on freedom of movement after today's loss.

Sadly, there were parallels in this game to yesterdays. Fantastic first half had the sisters in firm control. Nice six point lead at the half that was fed by…you guessed it…a rain of threes. Everyone felt good at this point and hoped for more in the second. Instead…

The second half started with ISU extending the lead to nine and everything looked good. Then what shall be called “the ten seconds” happened. In a matter of ten seconds the ladies gave up a three, turned the ball over twice on inbounds miscues and gave up two more baskets. It was a struggle the rest of the way as Texas would slowly create a lead and force ISU to play catch-up for too many minutes. The defense stepped up big time to force overtime and then the wheels feel off the bus completely leading to a loss for the third time this season to the Longhorns

Observations.
The first half saw good ball movement and scoring inside and out. The second half saw dribble,dribble, dribble and players standing around watching.

Officiating - anyone who followed the game thread saw a dramatic change from half one to half two. In the first half calls were straightforward and went both ways. In the second, it was atrociously bad for even a lousy Big 12 crew. But…it didn’t cost us the game.

Coaching - the lack of immediate changes to inbounds plays, getting the team to play as a team, etc were major shortfalls. They hurt big time.

One on five - too many times we saw our guard dribble, dribble , dribble and the other players line the perimeter. We also saw single players try to drive without any understanding of where other players were. It was a big lack of team ball. The truly was too many empty possessions that could have changed the feel of the game.

Free throws - just take a look at the discrepancy in free throws and you know how this game was called.

Three point line - our biggest defensive lapse was leaving Texas players open for three point shots. Each one was a killer.

Out of bounds plays - anyone who knows Texas knows they pressure the inbounds. We failed to set screens and failed to implement the four out inbounds until it was too late.

Screens. If there is one thing we implement poorly it’s setting screens and the ball handler peeling off closely to create a defensive problem. This hurt on offense and on inbounds plays.

Turnovers and fouls - 15 and 21. Definitely influenced the game…the fouls more than anything (see officials above).

Was there good? Oh heck yes! This team took punch after punch from a team and set of officials and never quit. We managed the Texas inside game rather well. Have to give our star senior some credit. She passed Welle on the career made free throw list. Congrats!

Now the wait begins. We find out our NCAA fate tomorrow. Most prognosticators have ISU now as a three seed. Texas was a three coming into this and the teams will likely swap places.

In any case, we can all move Hilton back north and convene for what I hope is a long run in the dance.