*** Official #5 Marquette vs #6 IOWA STATE Game(Day) Thread ***

[snowcraig2.0]

I agree with whoever said it earlier in the thread: Smart is so much more likeable now that he's not at Texas. Nothing but compliments.

Well **** I am a Marquette fan now.

 

[TABack]

In order to be considered with the 2000 team, they need to win the Big 12 regular season and tournament titles, and make the Elite 8.

This team is really good but it will be a huge task.

What if they don't do the first two but make the final 4?

 

[cayin]

Big 12 may be having a down year at the right time for us.

By “down year,” I mean possibly only the 2nd best conference and maybe only 9 tourney teams.

it is definitely down this year. Houston has lost 3 already. Arizona sucking. 1-4 in the Big East Challenge unless Tech pulls it off. What makes you think it is the second best conference?

 

[FerShizzle]

Jefferson had a quiet 15 and 12. Hopefully sign of things to come. Heise getting more comfortable and Chatfield continues to give solid minutes.

Very worried about Lipseys shoulder and Milan getting only 17 minutes is interesting although it looks like he’s regressed defensively and TJ just not having it.

With how much scoring and efficiency they can get from the 3 bigs, his offense isn’t as much of a necessity as it was last season.

 

[ClonesFTW]

Playing Heise over Milan in the 2nd half worked on the defensive end, Milan got beat twice off the dribble and I saw TJ look right to the bench.

 

[CycloneErik]

Except we don't win time outs. We got schooled bad on timeouts, allegedly.Effort! Timeout rot has set in!!

Did people post that?
I was just listening during my couple hours of toilet cleaning, but John and Brent kept mentioning our points on inbounds plays.

 

[CycloneErik]

1 goes down, 2 down at Duke, 4 lost last night, 5 went down to us. Will we be #2 if we handle 0-8 Jackson State?

Yes.

 

[CycloneErik]

In order to be considered with the 2000 team, they need to win the Big 12 regular season and tournament titles, and make the Elite 8.

This team is really good but it will be a huge task.

This team is ahead of that team at this point.

 

[CycloneVet]

Jefferson had a quiet 15 and 12. Hopefully sign of things to come. Heise getting more comfortable and Chatfield continues to give solid minutes.

Very worried about Lipseys shoulder and Milan getting only 17 minutes is interesting although it looks like he’s regressed defensively and TJ just not having it.

It was a tough assignment for Milan. He didn’t match up well with those guys

 

[iowastatefan1929]

What if they don't do the first two but make the final 4?

Dream Season

 

[Peter]

I agree with whoever said it earlier in the thread: Smart is so much more likeable now that he's not at Texas. Nothing but compliments.

Shaka has always been a great coach and a standup guy. Texas was a bad culture fit for him. He’s so much better at Marquette.

 

[inCyteful]

Shaka has always been a great coach and a standup guy. Texas was a bad culture fit for him. He’s so much better at Marquette.

Texas is where good coaches go to get ****** up..

 

[alarson]

I agree with whoever said it earlier in the thread: Smart is so much more likeable now that he's not at Texas. Nothing but compliments.

probably easier to be complimentary when his prior experience vs Iowa State was all vs Steve Prohm teams.

 

[inCyteful]

It was a tough assignment for Milan. He didn’t match up well with those guys

Milan should be in a good position to have a good game in Iowa City.

 

[GetAwesome]

Marquette, Kentucky, Kansas all go down. Auburn is in a fight with Duke as we speak. And UK has to play Gonzaga this weekend as well.

We might be #2 or #3 for CyHawk week.

 

[TABack]

Dream Season

Agreed. I'd rather have the tournament success than winning the big 12

 

[1SEIACLONE]

Shaka has always been a great coach and a standup guy. Texas was a bad culture fit for him. He’s so much better at Marquette.

Just a poor culture fit at UT and while he was bringing in great talent, many were one and done. He seems like the type of coach that needs to be at a BB school and not a school like UT that is football first, football second and then spring football third.

 

[Taz4President]

What if they don't do the first two but make the final 4?

Equally acceptable. And the more I think about it, a Final 4 trumps conference titles. Final 4 requires great play, consistent play over several games and is a pretty ultimate test.

 

[jdoggivjc]

Marquette, Kentucky, Kansas all go down. Auburn is in a fight with Duke as we speak. And UK has to play Gonzaga this weekend as well.

We might be #2 or #3 for CyHawk week.

In Seattle, no less. UK was probably fraudulently rated in the top 5 to begin with. Sure, beating Duke was a good win for them, but outside of that they have played NOBODY.

 

[Marcelason78]

Remember that AP voter that had us at 18?

Been doing my share voting him down on the Poll Tracker.