Meh. You have to be a good team to be in the 7 seed range.
UNI got some bad breaks as far as teams they thought would be good not being so great and got stuck in a bad exempt tourney. They've made up for it by being nearly flawless.
It will all work itself out in the end and we'll have a chance to prove it on the floor in March.
Generally... a team ranked in the AP Top 10 has already proven how good they are during the regular season. UNI is an exception to the rule and will ultimately have to prove their worth in the NCAA Tourney. That is where they will be exposed as a complete fraud.
I hope Lunardi's latest bracket is accurate. I would love to see a potential 2nd round matchup between UNI and Arkansas (a team ISU destroyed). The Hogs would run UNI out of the arena. That is if the Panthers survive a 1st round matchup against Louisiana Tech (which I'm not convinced that they would).
I don't mind UNI... never have really but their fans are getting a little too big for their britches these days so I definitely would like to see the Panthers get bitchslapped in the NCAA Tournament.
I enjoyed the hell out of Drake's great season years ago and their fans did it the right way. They enjoyed their teams success without going off the deep end and thinking their program suddenly had turned into Kentucky. In Cedar Falls I'm sure the chatter is centering around where they will hang their national championship banner in their high school gym. Ridiculous.