*** Official #7 IOWA STATE vs #1 Houston Game(Day) Thread ***

Cyched

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Yep!

Because we've been so successful in this tournament there's always a segment of fans that think we need rest and it's better to lose or believe in the curse or whatever. And it drives me crazy because this is a moment those guys won't get back. Sure we'd all trade this for a national title, but nothing is guaranteed. And I would like to believe that this is pretty magical for our guys. I hate that Tyrese never won an NCAA Tournament game here, but I'm glad he won this tournament. All of our impact players over the last 10 years have won one. That's pretty ******* cool.

Unfortunately if we lay an egg in the dance there will be a lot of “told you so” posts on here.

Never mind that literally anything can happen in the NCAA - that’s why we love it!

But if we play like we did in KC we’ll be very hard to gameplan against. Our defense alone is gonna be an ordeal for whatever 15 seed we get matched up against.
 

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Yeah love the win, just saying that we've won this lots of times and had early exits in the tourney. Would like to avoid that.

ISU has done this twice. It could absolutely happen to anyone (and basically has) but the two ISU teams that had that happen were houses of cards.

And it still means something to this team and fans that were there with them.

No matter what happens this week nobody will erase what this team has done this season.

JFC.
 

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ISU has done this twice. It could absolutely happen to anyone (and basically has) but the two ISU teams that had that happen were houses of cards.

And it still means something to this team and fans that were there with them.

No matter what happens this week nobody will erase what this team has done this season.

JFC.
Yeah. I still have GREAT memories of Fred's last team. That tournament was so much fun when we fought back every game! Andn then dropped ku in the final.
 

SEIOWA CLONE

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If this team can continue to hit 3 point shots they can go a long way in the tournament with the defense they play.
The tournament is won by teams that are hot, playing well, which ISU is, just need to get through the first game, we will be a difficult team to prepare for with one day prep time.

Need to come out focused, rely on the defense and then just go from there.
 

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This group needed this tournament.

Dynamically or whatever they may have needed that loss a week ago, to invoke a hard 'reset' and then there was no more perfect time to do it.

Now's the hard part of staying in that mode against an unfamiliar team.

Yeah, they've looked more like themselves the last 3 games than they have since the game at Houston.
 
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Tre with a great game against K st, Milan finally getting some shots to fall, and Keshon out his mini slump…luv everything about this! Proud!! Now…go 1-0!
 
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