Can Cyclones knock off Kansas?
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I'm adding all games played vs. conference opponents. So conference tournament games, games where teams had to go into Phog Allen and play 5 vs. 8, mind boggling ISU road loses, silly to predict games that KU lost, and games played in a HS school gym in Dallas were all included.
I think you just have an inflated idea of how good they were last year is all. Texas was so bad they got their coach fired and Baylor was wildly inconsistent.
Last year Baylor was ranked every week from Dec 22nd until the end of the year and was a 3 seed in the NCAA tournament. You think Baylor is going to be a 3 seed or better this year?
Um, Texas made the tourney last year. Neither are as good this year. I didn't say they were great last year. Baylor was pretty solid though
Who knows. Hard to predict how the rest of the teams ranked nationally in the 12-30 range will do. Kentucky just got punked @LSU, Marquette won @ #8 Providence and #23 UConn just lost at home to a mediocre Temple team. Nothing would really surprise me this year in that part of the rankings. Baylor will have more opportunities for big wins than the majority of teams fighting for similar seeds. Do we really think they'll go 0-6 against KU, OU and ISU?
And Texas is projected to make the tourney barely again this year, too. http://espn.go.com/mens-college-basketball/bracketology
Texas isn't as good right now without Ridley, but they have looked ok. Shaka will have them playing well at the end of the year.
Baylor? Not as good. West Virginia is probably better than last year, too.
Baylor? Not as good. West Virginia is probably better than last year, too.
Well at this point Baylor has shown me nothing that will make me think they are at least a 3 seed and maybe better than that
4 or 5? Quite frankly, with a long grind and a 6 1/2 player rotation, and no Naz, I'd take that now. If it's better, than it will be even more fun.
I just looked at last year's bracket... last year's three seeds included 8 loss ISU, 9 loss Baylor and 10 loss Oklahoma. It's not crazy at all to think that if Baylor, who was 10-2 in non-con, can go 9-7 in the Big 12 (I don't think anyone would call that unrealistic) that they might earn a #3 seed. Winning Big 12 games gets lots of respect on Selection Sunday apparently.
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Dude, you're hilarious! KU fans are whining and crying about the no-call and KU won.
Thus proving one can win and still be butt-hurt.
