KU played Sand Diego State before Xmas @ San Diego State and won easily...I haven't paid any attention to them lately but I'm pretty sure ISU would beat them no problem. they play tough, hard nosed defense but they have trouble scoring.
Who do you want to avoid in the first two rounds?
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KU played Sand Diego State before Xmas @ San Diego State and won easily...I haven't paid any attention to them lately but I'm pretty sure ISU would beat them no problem. they play tough, hard nosed defense but they have trouble scoring.
What do I want to avoid in the first two rounds? A loss, mostly. Yep, that's my final answer. A loss.
Want to avoid our team playing at the same site as the Sqwauks. Our fan base shouldn't have to suffer more by being around those bumble bee fans when they're trying to enjoy the big dance. Lol
I've seen SDS a couple times this year, my take would be that they are elite athletes who have a whole lot of problems playing the game.
Their games are butt-ugly but anyone with athletes is something of a danger to us.
Cal and or Utah after last night. Teams full of athletic bigs, reminded me of better versions of Baylor
We are most likely a 5 seed and will play a mid major champion...either Little Rock, South Dakota St, Yale, Akron, types.....if we win we play a likely 4 seed which appears to be right now..Duke, Purdue, A&M, Indianna (Maybe). I think we would beat Duke and maybe A&M if we had another shot (don't see them hitting 3's like last time). Purdue would be a horrific match up for Isu. Niang and McKay would sit most of the game...bad bad match up IMO.
As for the Mid Major match up..flip a coin...Akron has a couple huge bigs as well but they are slow. Yale and SDSU run some nice set plays with back doors and shoot 3's so that would prob be a nightmare. I'm scared.
As for the Mid Major match up..flip a coin...Akron has a couple huge bigs as well but they are slow. Yale and SDSU run some nice set plays with back doors and shoot 3's so that would prob be a nightmare. I'm scared.
I think if Iowa St ends up a 5, then there's a very strong chance they play a smaller mid major, that won their conference tournament. The committee is well aware of the 5 vs 12 match up that consistently has mid majors winning. I'll almost guarantee UNI is a 12, and that won't be us, so Ark LR, Yale, Akron types is probably who it will be.
You were pointing to the "best three year stretch in ISU basketball." Which is perfectly valid factual claim the way you conveyed it.
However, what I'm saying is that there are other ways of interpreting this. For instance, in the contrast to the ways some of higher-achieving rivals view "success."
The usual response to my point, esp. people who like to accuse others of "negativity," is usually to the tune of "Well, we're not Kansas or Duke or Kentucky or a blueblood anyway."
This to me is just more lame apologetics.
I believe that if you polled to posters in this thread alone, the majority would be quite happy with a Sweet Sixteen appearance, and even consider that a grand success for this year. That's the viewpoint; real good then.
It's not mine. Esp. given the amount of fan support, financial support, media hype, the emphasis on b.b. here in Ames/ISU, and so on.
In short, I wanna see tangible achievement, more than just loyalty and hype. One of the banners that Hoiberg promised hanging from Hilton is what I h ad in mind.
It's that old glass half-full axiom.
Now that we are "routinely" making the tournament (which was anything but "routine" in the years preceding), we are expected to "routinely" make the final four or our season is a "failure".
Doubt it will happen as I bet MSU gets 1, but impressive resume, big win tonight, and tough to match up against.
I guess we shouldn't play our game then because no one thinks we'll win. Sure we aren't deep but we are a very good team who has taken many good teams to the wire. And I don't see a UAB happening two years in a row. But everyone is entitled to their opinion so that's my two cents
Can we please stop acting like this actually means something? Losing close games to good teams does not qualify a team as good. If that was the case Paul Rhoads would still be our football coach.
We've also taken good teams to the wire and won, like Oklahoma and Kansas. And that means something
