*** Official #6 IOWA STATE vs #2 Houston Game(Day) Thread ***

[trevn]

28-23. I will take it. We took it on the chin the first 10 minutes and came back swinging. I love this freaking team.

 

[LeaningCy]

Sharp's offensive game plan is to take fadeaway shots while kicking to draw a foul, he's not really trying to score

 

[jcf817]

I am officially not worried about this team. Just get out of this game with no injuries and heads held high. Thats all I ask. A win would be gravy.

 

[HFCS]

The Houston board is hating on Fran

If they have eyes they know ISU didn’t even touch their guy on the last two fake fts.

Should be a tie or one possession game, cougars bailed out by refs.

 

[Big Daddy Kang]

28-23 at the half. I'll take that.

 

[jctisu]

God our team is good folks. This could and probably should have gotten out of hand. But man these guys are freaking tough as hell.

Both of these teams are really good and if allowed to play like this in March can make serious noise.

 

[NWICY]

Well we are right in contention at half here.

 

[cydsho]

Down by 5 seems like a definite win.

 

[atlantacyclone]

Good officiating and we are ahead. That is incredible. More made FGs? How did they pull that off? So tough.

 

[ChickenNuggetMan]

Absolute BALLS by our team to be within 5 given everything

 

[Prone2Clone]

The Houston board is hating on Fran

Houston has a board?

 

[CycloneVet]

Well they are dumb as hell then because the officiating has been horrendous.

Normally Fran doesn’t say this much about reffing, that means it’s bad

 

[HFCS]

Sharp's offensive game plan is to take fadeaway shots while kicking to draw a foul, he's not really trying to score

NBA ended that crap this year. It’s no more.

 

[RoseClone]

I will eat crow from my earlier post about the fat lady singing. This team doesn’t give up.

It never does, why should we ever give up on them?

 

[NY Chicago Fan]

How is 8,000 an arena record for a Big 12 school?

Most schools do not have Cyclone fanbase. Not having pro sports in state helps yoo

 

[ISUTex]

What would Bill Rafferty say that ISU has?

 

[stormchaser2014]

Now we get the basket without the lid on it.

 

[HoustonClone]

The Houston board is hating on Fran

From the sound of things, although the UH crowd is loud and involved, they have a ways to go regarding basketball intelligence.

 

[Lexclone]

Took a punch and kept fighting. A few adjustments, and a win is not beyond the realm of possibilities. All in all a pretty impressive showing so far. Proud of this team.

 

[BigLame]

Kelvin Sampson complains his 1 player has 2 fouls so difficult for the team to play optimally, give me a f break.
Most of this game has been a colonoscopy of the eyes as far as watching the mugging going on by the Cougars.