I don't think Richmond was better than the Hawks as a whole, but they were when it mattered and that's all that really counts. Same way that I don't think Hampton was better than ISU.
Tough day for EIU hoops hopes
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The whole studio composition is strange to me. I recognize Candace Parker and Seth Davis, and am generally familiar with the guests they've had on so far (Huggins, Martin etc). In general I feel like Candace knows her stuff and is probably the best one on the booth in terms of analyzing the games. Not sure what her bias against ISU is, but probably just because we don't have an A-list talent on the team. Anyone with eyes watching the game could tell you Johnny Davis struggled that evening.
Seth Davis has always been a pompous buffoon, I never take anything he says seriously. Rex Chapman is, well, at least a snappy dresser if nothing else. Struggled to stay awake whenever he or Huggy try to say anything. I couldn't even tell you the name of the middle guy, who I think is the 'host'.
The only problem I have with Huggy is him wearing his WVU pullover on the set. I don't think people need to see the shirt to know who you are, Bob. I also don't think he really wants to be there but must be getting paid enough for him to show up and grunt out a few sentence fragments every 5 minutes or so.
All in all just terrible chemistry in this group. TBS/Turner or whoever comprised this group must not have screened them or conducted enough interviews to see if it could work or not. I miss Shaq, Barkley, and Ernie Johnson. Get those 3 guys back and throw Candace Parker in with them and you'd have a winning formula IMO.
Pardon my eye roll, but that's what I always heard from the Iowa fans back when Iowa State was beating Iowa regularly in football. I'm just amused by the fact that the scoreboard settles every argument, unless your argument is with an Iowa fan.
The NCAA tournament isn't about who had a better season / resume. What matters is who's better that day. Sure, Iowa State would likely beat that Hampton team 9 times out of 10, but it doesn't matter. Iowa would not beat that Richmond team 9 times out of 10. Probably 6-7 times out of 10. Richmond was a veteran squad with solid guards and made Iowa work for every single shot. Those types of teams have given Iowa fits all year long.
I think Iowa's biggest problem was that they came in way too confident. Iowa had played and beat much better guards than what Richmond brought to the table. They were everyone's media darling, just won the BTT and came in flat and got bounced. That is on Fran and the players.
Sure there is. An upset is when one team who's thought to be better than the other team gets beat by the other team. However, it's head to head competition that decides who's actually better.
For example, take last year's CyHawk football game. Going into the game, Vegas favored Iowa State. And as shown below, Iowa State led Iowa pretty convincingly in the meaningful statistics. Unfortunately, those meaningful statistics included turnovers, and Iowa State had 4 vs 0 for Iowa.
Given that turnover margins have a large degree of randomness to them, someone using your logic would conclude that Iowa State was just unlucky that day and they actually have the better football team. Do you concede that Iowa State was the better team last season?
Of course not. Turnovers in football are a huge part of the game. Iowa values the ball and defense. ISU played a very sloppy game. Iowa won the head to head, had a better season and finished ranked.
Also, those stats are so misleading. Iowa sat on the ball for the last quarter in a half and used a prevent defense for the 4th quarter.
I think ISU was probably the better team than WVU last year and probably Texas Tech though. Though those weren't huge upsets by any means, I feel ISU was probably better than those teams.
So Iowa was far worse than Purdue and Wisconsin, like they didn’t even belong on the same field with them. We don’t even need to talk about Michigan.
Glad you agree
There is definitely some truth to that. It's debatable if it was their biggest problem.
This is terrible. Best fans in the country (sorry for the long ass link)...
This is definitely the biggest basketball related story in the state of Iowa right now...
Thanks, KCCI.
I get what you're saying. Yes, they're searching for ways to keep Iowa b-ball in the news, but people are ******.
I can't stand Bobo and Connor but they're right--this is across the board for how college athletes are depicted/treated online.
CF has a few posters that fit in this group.
CF has a few posters that fit in this group.
