***2025-26 Mens College Basketball Thread***

Cyched

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Haven’t watched much of either team this year but both of these teams are terrible.

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I don’t hate Drake, but it’s a zero sum game. If not Iowa St, it’s a “what can this do for Iowa St” view point on everyone else

I don’t cheer for the little guy anymore. We are the little guy now. The Big 12 needs every at-large we can get

And I always root against Drake and UNI. The state and State hardly support Iowa St sufficiently as it is.

To trivialize, I think we can all agree Drake being at the level of Creighton would not be good for Iowa St. We don’t need to fight for sponsorship or ad dollars or attention, or even people spending money on Drake

I get some view Drake so lowly that patronizingly rooting for them is a nothing burger, but given my college interests are 100% with Iowa St, I’ll root against them and any other school fundamentally parasitic to Iowa St

On a similar note, hopefully UNI all these D3 schools in Iowa eventually get culled to help Iowa St in the demographic cliff
Well said. Agree completely. This represents the correct opinion/view that an Iowa State fan should have. IMHO :)

It is very good for Iowa State when the Big 12 does good things.

It is not good for Iowa State when Drake or UNI does good things.
 

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Why do some of you hate drake so much? I'm not saying anyone needs to root for them, but I don't get the animosity.

I'll get dumbed and disliked for this, but I stand by it; there is a certain vocal minority of Cyclone fans who don't want any other in-state school to have any sort of success, because they think it hurts Iowa State in some way.

Now, being an admitted ISU/UNI dual fan I obviously disagree with this, and I feel it makes an already insecure fanbase look even more insecure and petty.

Just going to write it, as annoying and aggravating as it is, there are reasons why the fanbase out east refers to us as "Little brother."
 

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Local team Southern Illinois Univ Edwardsville heading to the dance for first time. Turned D1 around 2008 and been getting their skulls crushed for years. Then, gained some traction. New coach a few years ago put a pair of scissors above the locker room door. Used them yesterday. Fun story. Not much of that left anymore.
 

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Well said. Agree completely. This represents the correct opinion/view that an Iowa State fan should have. IMHO :)

It is very good for Iowa State when the Big 12 does good things.

It is not good for Iowa State when Drake or UNI does good things.
No team from the current MVC is going to become anything big. The league is not a mid-major any more. It’s a shell of what it was and is just another Summit or Horizon level league.

McCollum will get hired somewhere and they’ll be back to the drawing board.
 
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ISUChippewa

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Local team Southern Illinois Univ Edwardsville heading to the dance for first time. Turned D1 around 2008 and been getting their skulls crushed for years. Then, gained some traction. New coach a few years ago put a pair of scissors above the locker room door. Used them yesterday. Fun story. Not much of that left anymore.

I watched some of that game last night. They were down early, and then just flipped a switch and blew SEMO out in the second half of the second half. Good story, and good for them.
 
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Nebby will get it close then have some absolutely awful possessions

And some pretty passive defense.

I think I've seen he's changed his approach but it looks like Hoiball to me.
 

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Fun game right now between Winthrop and High Point for the Big South Championship on the Deuce.

I love these kinds of games in March, almost as much as the Big Dance itself. These teams playing in these low major conference championships are teams we could be playing in our first round game, like SDSU last season.
 
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