Who was the best modern Iowa State Men's Basketball Team?

[20eyes]

Izzo said straight up that ISU was the best team that MSU played that year. That game was the defacto National Championship and it took home cooking in f^cking Auburn Hills, Michigan to beat us.

 

[Cjreimer]

Jury is still out on this year's team but the conference is so good this year. Also a matchup between this year's team and some of those Hoiberg teams would be really interesting

This year’s team - let’s see how it all happens!

 

[c.y.c.l.o.n.e.s]

Interesting bit of trivia that I just saw while looking up some stats. Due to losing 2 of their first 5 games (Drake, Cincy) that 1999-2000 team did not crack the AP top 25 until January 31st when they entered the polls at #20.

 

[cyclones500]

Interesting bit of trivia that I just saw while looking up some stats. Due to losing 2 of their first 5 games (Drake, Cincy) that 1999-2000 team did not crack the AP top 25 until January 31st when they entered the polls at #20.

I recall it taking quite a while to get ranked, but didn't know it was THAT far into the season (Without research)

 

[c.y.c.l.o.n.e.s]

I recall it taking quite a while to get ranked, but didn't know it was THAT far into the season (Without research)

I was stunned when I saw it.

 

[cymac2408]

99-00 team lost 5 games...

Stinker vs. Drake when they were trying to figure things out
#1 Cincinnati at tournament in Hawaii
2OT at Oklahoma
OT at Colorado (Fluke 3 by Walls to send it to OT)
at MSU that should have been a Championship game match-up. Final 4 at the very least.

I was at the Drake game and thought the sky was falling.

 

[Prone2Clone]

I was at the Drake game and thought the sky was falling.

I remember thinking, welp, another **** season.

 

[NoCreativity]

I was at the Drake game and thought the sky was falling.

Didn't Royce's team lose at Drake also?

 

[theshadow]

I was at the Drake game and thought the sky was falling.

Thankfully, the only social media at the time was a couple of primitive message boards.

 

[CYdTracked]

99-00 team is the benchmark for success right now. Until a team makes the Final 4 this is not even a debate. That Team should have been a #1 seed after winning both regular season and conference tournament championships and instead had to play the eventual national champions just a stones throw away from their campus. We've had some teams with potential since then but none have ever come 3 minutes away from the final 4.

 

[Drew0311]

The 99-00 team played as hard as this year team with a billion times more talent. Two first rounders. A second rounder and some future European pros.

 

[NoCreativity]

I think the '00-01 team would be ranked 2nd. That team continued where the previous year left off, it's just a shame they fizzled out at the end because they had Elite 8 potential.

 

[cyclones500]

Didn't Royce's team lose at Drake also?

Yes.

 

[Remo Gaggi]

99-2000 team. De facto national champion. Denied by bad officiating.

 

[cymac2408]

Didn't Royce's team lose at Drake also?

Yes they did

 

[cymac2408]

I think the '00-01 team would be ranked 2nd. That team continued where the previous year left off, it's just a shame they fizzled out at the end because they had Elite 8 potential.

Basketball wasn’t fun anymore from what I have heard. I coached a High School basketball coaches son in baseball. He said that the first 45 minutes of practice was conditioning and beating the $hiite out of each other rebounding. He was invited up by Eustachy and he wondered how they had a full roster.

 

[Drew0311]

Basketball wasn’t fun anymore from what I have heard. I coached a High School basketball coaches son in baseball. He said that the first 45 minutes of practice was conditioning and beating the $hiite out of each other rebounding. He was invited up by Eustachy and he wondered how they had a full roster.

I have heard similar stories. The end of Larry at Iowa State should have been really good. Except rumor had spread that it was brutal to play at Iowa State.

 

[Cyinthenorth]

I have heard similar stories. The end of Larry at Iowa State should have been really good. Except rumor had spread that it was brutal to play at Iowa State.

Makes you hope that TJ's style doesn't have a similar effect over time

 

[BryceC]

I have heard similar stories. The end of Larry at Iowa State should have been really good. Except rumor had spread that it was brutal to play at Iowa State.

We know now it wasn’t rumor

 

[JVAR]

99-00 team is the benchmark for success right now. Until a team makes the Final 4 this is not even a debate. That Team should have been a #1 seed after winning both regular season and conference tournament championships and instead had to play the eventual national champions just a stones throw away from their campus. We've had some teams with potential since then but none have ever come 3 minutes away from the final 4.

Completely agree. I could be wrong as I often am, but I think MSU was also the top overall number 1 seed. So not only were we not given a 1 seed, but the worst 2 seed. I think if we would have been given just a better 2 seed even in a different region, we would have made the national championship game and maybe beat MSU.