This isn’t going to be a popular opinion but I really don’t think 7-11 in the big 12 deserves a tourney spot unless we go win at least one game in KC because we should be playing another ranked team. Then maybe ….but I’m still not sure. Had a great season and exceeded any and all expectations people had for the team. Like the future of the program!
Yep not popular, unfortunately ISU cannot play in a bad conference like the ACC was this year.
However, they blew out both Xavier on a neutral court #8 in the Big East, and Memphis #3 in the AAC, they beat the number 4 team in the Big East confernce on the road, blew out the #4 team in the Big 10.
They caught a break playing Mizzou, but they blew them out.
So when pitted agains 3 of the upper echelon teams of what is probably considered some of the better hoops conferences out there they won them.
Of all the conferences out there is only 1 has all of its teams with a Net of 80 or better.
Fortunately now when they pick teams they treat the season as the season and do not get caught up in conference records like years ago.
The ACC should not be granted a bunch of berths because some of the okay teams fatten up on a bunch of bad teams. But in your selection process of conference record trumping the first part of the season they would.