A team starting off hot, running into adversity, regrouping and coming out strong in the last part of the season? Literally never happens!
*** Official #11 IOWA STATE vs West Virginia Game(Day) Thread ***
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A team starting off hot, running into adversity, regrouping and coming out strong in the last part of the season? Literally never happens!
Yeah noticed they both showed up at the end of the game.
This is my optimistic view. That game had more emotion, and adversity than any we've had, or likely will have the rest of the season, including the ncaa tournament. They were down 18 in the first half!
I think you are on to a bit of something here.
This team is a great TEAM. Anyone can be the leading scorer any night. But when yiu need that ONE last bucket, you gotta have an alpha dog. Kane. Niang. Fizer. Etc. So maybe that is a very small weakness, in close games.
ok, truce. is your point that you don't care what seed the team comes in as; that they will play to their potential as the tournament plays out?
And zuriclone. There really should be a pinned list, so everyone completely ignores them
And just wait until the tourney when it doesn't matter what happened like 3 days prior anyway!
Well we are screwed then. Pack it up for the season and don’t bother playing in March. Also hand Purdue the title because we know the top-ranked team/overall 1 seed always wins…
30 fouls on ISU
19 fouls on WVU, with them in the bonus under 3 minutes into the second half.
The inconsistency between officiating crews in the Big12 is what drives me nuts.
19 fouls on WVU, with them in the bonus under 3 minutes into the second half.
The inconsistency between officiating crews in the Big12 is what drives me nuts.
That's my angle personally.
Get in, and see what happens, no matter the seed. Especially currently.
After thinking about it for awhile. I'm glad we didn't adjust for the refs. **** them. We play our game.
Nope my hope is to win the conference and get as high of a seed as possbile BUT if it doesn’t happen I lose zero sleep nor care because if they have shown me they can play at a certain level a few times in conference play, which this team has, then give me a tournament run any day of the week. Ideally both a great regular season and post season happen together but if they don’t, it’s way more fun to be one of the last 16 or fewer teams playing in March while everyone else is at home. I only get upset when we lose in the tournament because then it’s over and I wanted to see a magical run, which has now been shown year after year to come from any team from any seed really for the most part.
As I'm slowly cooling off tonight, I am cognizant that we are tied for 2nd in the Big 12 with Kansas (and KSU), would have taken that if offered it at the beginning of the season for sure. This team plays hard and is in every game (at least since New Years). Am I not entertained? Yes, I am.
{And I'm still really annoyed that we were inches away from a big road win tonight, and didn't seem to get a fair shake. But, we're still in a good spot overall for the season...}
{And I'm still really annoyed that we were inches away from a big road win tonight, and didn't seem to get a fair shake. But, we're still in a good spot overall for the season...}
Larry was the best at working on the officials we’ve ever had. Orr would get on em’ from time-to-time, but not to the degree as LE.
Valid point, but thing is most coaches in this league will take away option 1. And why there are so few road wins.
