Its not my senior season and I know Lipsey pours everything he has into this team. With that said, after the Iowa game, I am thinking long and hard about taking the rest of December to sit and get back to 100% prior to conference play. Take 3 weeks to get healthy. After Iowa, we play a bunch of cupcakes in December.
I honestly don't have words...
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Its not my senior season and I know Lipsey pours everything he has into this team. With that said, after the Iowa game, I am thinking long and hard about taking the rest of December to sit and get back to 100% prior to conference play. Take 3 weeks to get healthy. After Iowa, we play a bunch of cupcakes in December.
Heise is kicking in.
Memory fails, but wasn't he a guy that put in some seriously
"sneaky" contributions last year?
Haven't been able to see much live action.
Batemon (sp) so far?
Memory fails, but wasn't he a guy that put in some seriously
"sneaky" contributions last year?
Haven't been able to see much live action.
Batemon (sp) so far?
I was there today too! Absolutely unreal experience. Mackey only got really loud like 3 times in the first half and we responded with a bucket each time.
It was amazing being there!
Make sure Penn State doesn't need to hire a basketball coach in 2026.
Limiting Stirtz is the key to beating Iowa right now.
^^^ I hope people realize how insane 34.47 in Kenpom is
Our baseline defense is basically optimized wreak havoc on teams that rely on a guard as their best player.
Also, more so than Purdue, they have no answer for Jefferson and Milan, and Stirtz can’t foul
Speculation is talent in NCAA is more NBA like in that every mistake gets scored on and can turn into an avalanche if you get a couple
Like in NBA teams can take turns blowing each other out in back to back nights
I think 4th. We jump Houston and byu. Louisville and Michigan State lost. We beat Purdue. That gets us 5th. Then it's whether the voters like us more than media-darling uConn. I don't think we go above any of Arizona, Duke, or Michigan - all of which have really good resumes too.
Logic says that when you're undefeated, have the largest average margin of victory in the nation, and blow out the #1 team in the nation on their home floor, you should be ranked #1.
However, when you're a preseason pick to finish 5th in your conference, you're not gonna get the benefit of the doubt among many AP voters and your climb up the poll is a lot slower.
I'm expecting us to be ranked #5.
My main reason for confidence on Thursday is that if a much-less-talented team thinks "slow it down, limit possessions, win a close rockfight" is an effective strategy against a TJ Otzelberger team, I have bad news for you.
Heise was always doing a lot last year, the threes just wouldn't fall so some CFers thought that meant he should be benched because that's their only qualifier and they act like ISU has 7 guards waiting around to come off the bench and do better.
The threes started falling toward the end of the season so they finally 'saw the light'.
I'm guessing they try to get JJ and Toure in foul trouble to neutralize things.
With Lipsey back, minutes are going to be hard to come by for Batemon, but he's been good so far.
Mike Nurse was hit the year before. He was healthy for the year we lost to Drake. I was at that Drake game, Horton and Tinsely had really bad games. I think the player we didn't have was Martin Rancik. He wasn't a starter. Fizer, S. Johnson, Tinsely, Nurse, and Horton were the starters. Hockens was the guard back up and Shirley and Rancik backed up the front line. Both Shirely and Rancik had injuries that year.
