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On a related note, do we know yet how the Big 12 scheduling is going to look/work going forward? How many teams will we have a traditional round robin schedule with? How many will be either home or away?
Well, we have 20 games and 15 opponents. We should play eryone at least once so that leaves 5 teams for a home and away. How they select which 5 for each team will be interesting. I imagine we will see a lot conference SOS variation.
 

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I cannot imagine basketball is anything but play all 15 teams once and 5 of those teams twice. The conference has shown no interest in having protected matchups so I doubt that starts now. I’m sure it’ll be rotate the 15 teams through every 3 years

Maybe they’ll port over the FB ones.

Wouldn’t you want Utah/BYU to have a home and home every season if you could, etc.?
 

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Still think Palm is a quack, but I like where he's got us right now: 3-seed Omaha/Midwest. Near dream scenario for us.
CW said that he was sitting by Palm yesterday at the WV game, and Palm told him that ISU still had a lot of work left to do to get placed in Omaha. I guess beating WV was enough? ISU may have some work left to do to secure a three seed in Omaha, but not a lot of work left.

I wonder if Palm thinks Wisconsin has done enough damage lately to their resume to fall below a four or five seed.
 

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CW said that he was sitting by Palm yesterday at the WV game, and Palm told him that ISU still had a lot of work left to do to get placed in Omaha. I guess beating WV was enough? ISU may have some work left to do to secure a three seed in Omaha, but not a lot of work left.

I wonder if Palm thinks Wisconsin has done enough damage lately to their resume to fall below a four or five seed.

Palm is a f*cking moron. Minus a huge collapse, Iowa State is basically a lock for Omaha and close to a lock for the MW region.
 

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One thing I always find interesting is how much weight the committee does or does not put into the Conference tournaments. If Iowa State would win out and the beat Houston in the title game, how do you keep us off the 2 line? It just seems like some years the seeding is already decided by mid day Saturday.
 

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One thing I always find interesting is how much weight the committee does or does not put into the Conference tournaments. If Iowa State would win out and the beat Houston in the title game, how do you keep us off the 2 line? It just seems like some years the seeding is already decided by mid day Saturday.
Yeah, I think it only really seems to matter when a well seeded team suffers a bad loss in their tournament, or a bubble team beats a good team (or more) in theirs. When an already well regarded team wins it, it doesn't seem to move the needle.
 
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CW said that he was sitting by Palm yesterday at the WV game, and Palm told him that ISU still had a lot of work left to do to get placed in Omaha. I guess beating WV was enough? ISU may have some work left to do to secure a three seed in Omaha, but not a lot of work left.

I wonder if Palm thinks Wisconsin has done enough damage lately to their resume to fall below a four or five seed.
Chris falls in love easily.
 

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One thing I always find interesting is how much weight the committee does or does not put into the Conference tournaments. If Iowa State would win out and the beat Houston in the title game, how do you keep us off the 2 line? It just seems like some years the seeding is already decided by mid day Saturday.

Seems that way because it is that way. They have contingencies for big upsets that would qualify a team not in but things are pretty set before the weekend. Nothing over the weekend is going to impact any Top 25 teams. The sorting hat has already selected out "house" by than. It's been my impression for years that ISU fans, because of their traditional love of the tourney in KC, always overemphasis that tournament, especially on the women's side.

A bubble team might play themselves on or off with a couple of weekday conference tournament games but that's nowhere near where we are.
 

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One thing I always find interesting is how much weight the committee does or does not put into the Conference tournaments. If Iowa State would win out and the beat Houston in the title game, how do you keep us off the 2 line? It just seems like some years the seeding is already decided by mid day Saturday.
Sure, we are probably a 2 seed (maybe a 1) if that happens. But what if we drop one of our remaining games and only win one game in the conference tournament? I don't think most people are assuming best case scenario like you just laid out.
 
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