**** WBB: Turkey Day game - #15 Cyclones vs #4 South Carolina 12:30 pm on Fox ****

[cmhawks99]

Guard play

 

[Cymark86]

Geesh. People…it’s one game. USC is out for blood after their last loss and we've got a young team still finding their way. it’s ugly and won’t get better, but it’s still just one game.

Is this team that young? They played the whole season last year with a 6th year PG. plus the additions have plenty of experience.

Not a lot of athletes. At least this probably resets where we think this team can go. It will fall into a typical Fenelly team. About middle of the pack. Surprise some teams, but lose some you shouldn’t. You know what you get with Bill. Hope I’m wrong.

 

[stormchaser2014]

We play Uconn too this season? Rough.

 

[TheJackWePack5]

Just don’t think the ISU women are that good.

Decent team, top 25ish.

Still an absolutely enormous gap between the top 8 or so and the rest of the field, as verified today.

 

[acoustimac]

Free throw shooting by this team is abysmal.

 

[HFCS]

Also remember South Carolina is coming off a loss. This is a team looking for blood. They are feasting.

SC is Intentionally fouling 80 feet from basket ahead by 26 in first half…

I’ve watched a lot of basketball in my life and that’s a totally new one. This program not being #1 must just feel like permanent knife jammed in their eye to them.

 

[acoustimac]

Everything about this is why I struggle to enjoy women’s basketball. The talent gap is too great, it feels like our girls have given up, the winning coaches don’t have a problem embarrassing the other team…

You haven’t watched enough. This game is an aberation .

 

[Cyched]

Double digits coming soon!

What have you done

 

[TheJackWePack5]

We were outmatched athletically against UNI. Had to have figured the gap against USC would be significant.

 

[RezClone]

Got em right where we want em. They won't see this 2nd half blitz coming.

 

[CycloneErik]

What have you done

A bad, bad thing.

 

[cmhawks99]

Not so sure. Getting slaughtered by USC is one thing. But, there isn’t much parity in women’s b-ball. Ranked teams shouldn’t be playing close games with UNI and Drake, even if they are in-state rivals.

Meh…they are top 40 teams. SDSU, Ball St, Harvard among others have played and beat god competition

 

[CycloneRulzzz]

We need to stop the lob entry pass.

 

[acoustimac]

2-20 from the field…

 

[bozclone]

Our half court offensive philosophy is really bad against a really well coached team. 9 pts at half is a joke

 

[stormchaser2014]

2-20 from the field…

I don't think that's very good

 

[CycloneSpinning]

You haven’t watched enough. This game is an aberation .

Or…counter-argument…I watch too much. This is what happens when I tune in. I also watched the USC game last year. When I tune in, this seems to be what I see…

 

[LurkingClone]

Woof. Not the team we thought they might be for sure.

 

[ISU_Guy]

9 points. I might be able to just shoot half court shots all half and beat that score .

Iowa is going to beat this team by 20 fyi
UConn prob 25+

 

[Erik4Cy]

No excuses to only have 6 points 3 minutes before half time.

This team is fake news. LMFAO

I agree it's one game but it's also not unreasonable for fans to expect more than 3 points in a quarter.

It's also not like this team was not hyped up all year, it would be different vibes if this was not a preseason top 10 team.

These. It make come off as "harsh" to some seasoned WBB fans, but this comes with the territory of being billed as a perennial top 10 and legit title contenders.

Losing to SC isn't unacceptable. Getting absolutely boatraced is. ISU doesn't belong on the floor with them right now. If Iowa State was picked middle to bottom of Big 12, this would be understandable.

This team is not as good as people thought. UNI loss, barely beating Drake at home, and now a complete disappearing act has proved it very early on.

Can they improve? Absolutely. But this team is not even playing like a top 25 (maybe even top 50) at this point.