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ISU is 2nd with 3 wins. Only WV has more with 4. ISU has more than OU, KU, UT. Aside from the two Tinsley years, the only time ISU has had more is last year with 4, and we have 4 more chances to tie or surpass that this season, starting this Wednesday with Texas Tech. Good defense can lead to success on the road and help avoid upsets come March.

I'll go on the record predicting we win more road games than any of Hoiberg's teams and match his best conference record of 12-6.
 
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CyFan61 said:
Too bad we have two home losses.
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Yeah, I've been wondering the past few weeks what made FH better at home and Prohm better on the road (guessing it's defense and Hoiberg's teams shooting better at home). Even some of our road losses were games we looked good in...I'd take our @OU effort any night and the second half @UT was very good. If we can play like we did @OU I like our chances @KU, especially if OU has already eliminated them from a title.

As frustrating as this year has been at times, I think this team is already better on the road than our previous 5 teams were.
 
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The 3 road wins are against bottom 4. Not saying they aren't good wins because we lost to #10 on the road last year, but we haven't beat anyone on the road that's in the top 5.
 
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SwirlyBird said:
Buzz Killington with the first reply.

I think this is a good stat to put things in to perspective. Especially with the strength of the league this year.
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Sorry, not intending for that though I do see how it reads that way. Glad that we are getting some road wins, as those are huge. That success has just been kind of cancelled out with our unusual Hilton woes. Just 3-2 in Ames in Big 12 play so far.
 
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awd4cy said:
12-6 just doesn't really look possible. I think 11-7 is our ceiling. Who really knows though.
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We are 6-4. We have Texas, TCU, Kansas State, and Oklahoma State left at home. 4-0 in those is certainly possible. Texas Tech, Baylor, West Virginia, and Kansas are left on the road. If we manage to win Wednesday in Lubbock, then grabbing just one of those last three - which would be tough, but not impossible - would get us to 12-6. With that said, I'd put my money down on 11-7 as the most likely outcome right now, which would have been a pretty big disappointment if I told myself that in November.
 
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CyFan61 said:
We are 6-4. We have Texas, TCU, Kansas State, and Oklahoma State left at home. 4-0 in those is certainly possible. Texas Tech, Baylor, West Virginia, and Kansas are left on the road. If we manage to win Wednesday in Lubbock, then grabbing just one of those last three - which would be tough, but not impossible - would get us to 12-6. With that said, I'd put my money down on 11-7 as the most likely outcome right now, which would have been a pretty big disappointment if I told myself that in November.
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If you told yourself that on January 13th (when we were 1-3 in conference) you'd have taken it in a heartbeat.
 
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Still doesn't change the fact road wins are hard to come by. Puts into perspective nearly every other Cyclone team in history not only loses all their road games against the top teams but also the bottom teams in the conference. Even if we go 0-4 in our remaining road games, we're still the 4th most successful Cyclones team in history on the road.

ISUcyclones11 said:
The 3 road wins are against bottom 4. Not saying they aren't good wins because we lost to #10 on the road last year, but we haven't beat anyone on the road that's in the top 5.
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Last year's team also lost to Baylor. So this year we have exactly 1 additional home loss, to a top 15 team, which is hardly "unusual Hilton woes."

CyFan61 said:
Sorry, not intending for that though I do see how it reads that way. Glad that we are getting some road wins, as those are huge. That success has just been kind of cancelled out with our unusual Hilton woes. Just 3-2 in Ames in Big 12 play so far.
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Why doesn't 12-6 look possible? We are favored to win our 4 home games and Wednesday's road game at Tech. We need to then steal 1 of the remaining 3 road games, and we have a 45% chance (per Kenpom) to win at Baylor. That hardly seems impossible.

awd4cy said:
12-6 just doesn't really look possible. I think 11-7 is our ceiling. Who really knows though.
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Hopefully we can steal back 1-2 of our home losses. We still have game at Baylor, WVU and KU so there is some opportunity there.

I would not be surprised if we get at least one of those back.
 
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