*** Official #23 BYU vs #10 IOWA STATE Game(Day) Thread ***

fsanford

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Is that true? I didn't realize that
Depends on how you look at it...
You had to play top 3 teams on the road, and only 1 of those teams played back at your place.
You played at WV who had just beaten Kansas and was much better earlier on.

You go BYU at a very hot time, vs early on when they were brutal.


Now you got CU twice in conference. Did not have to go to Baylor, got UCF a couple of times.

These unbalanced schedules are hard to judge, I think if you have to play on the road against 3 of the top 4 teams in the league and only 1 comes back to your place, its a pretty tough schedule.
 

cincinnaticyclone

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Quite possibly the worst officiating I’ve ever witnessed. Do we have any refs under 80 still?
There very well could be a shortage of refs. If you’ve ever tried to ump for a little league baseball or middle school basketball game it’s easy to understand why.
 

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Looking at mred's site it looks like we will be the 5 seed in the Big 12 Tournament regardless if we win or lose to K-State. After this marathon tonight you think TJ should either sit out or severely limit minutes for some of our guys Saturday? I know we all hate K-State/Tang but might be smart thing to do.

 
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One of those games. You plug a hole and another leak pops up.

Defend incredibly for the first ten minutes, but only score 24 first half points.

Defend incredibly hard AGAIN and get the game tied second half, but completely unable to defensive rebound going with Jefferson at the 5 the rest of the game.

Double teaming ourselves into the game to get back into it in regulation, then completely unnecessarily double teaming ourselves into 5- and 4-point holes to begin each overtime.

It really feels like our players have not come close to putting a full game together all season. The staff certainly hasn’t even come close to it. We don’t step on throats when up big. We don’t finish games well. We don’t call timeouts to end large runs. We force double teams when they’re not needed, and end up giving up wide open threes because our scramble defense isn’t good enough to scramble back into the play.

I don’t have answers other than an increase in talent being needed. The color commentator said every one of TJ’s ISU teams have overachieved compared to their talent, and I generally agree with that. Realistically, our talent needs to be better. It’s so, so tough to consistently perform at a high level as a team that has Jackson and Chat playing as much as they do. The talent just has to get better there specifically.
Barring some huge donors appearing out of thin air, the talent is likely about as good as we'll get.

Momcilovic was a pretty highly ranked recruit remember.
 
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They pulled this same **** last year. Looked like an NBA offense then couldn't do anything in the tourney against a 6th place team from the A-10.
Agree, byu has some good things no doubt, but there are major holes there too that teams can exploit.
 

Darius Bieber

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Barring some huge donors appearing out of thin air, the talent is likely about as good as we'll get.

Momcilovic was a pretty highly ranked recruit remember.
It’s not really about recruits anymore in the new era (unless it’s generational like Flagg), it’s all about transfers now.
 

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SOS may say that but we had to go to all the tough places to play without getting a reciprocal home game from a couple of them
 

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Just a big loss tonight in so many ways. Really tips the scales the wrong direction in seeding for KC and the Tourney. No warm fuzzies going on right now.

I will tell you this though. We are so damn lucky to have TJ as our coach, and these warriors like Tamin, Keshon, Curtis on our side. This team just doesn't seem to have that "it" factor, but tonight at least shows us that these guys will never give up and will battle til the end. If they can just make it to that second weekend......I hope.....anything can happen then.