***2026-27 Mens College Basketball Thread***
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I mean, the better Iowa is, the better the case for a 1 seed is. You want every single win to be as quality a win as it can be.
Big 10 still plays 20 conference games. The Big 12 plays is back to 18. So they only have 11 non-conference games instead of 13.
7 of those games will be buy games, similar to everyone else in the Big 10 and a similar percentage to every major conference team.
Then it comes down how bad Xavier and Ole Miss have been. The MTE's are a crapshoot also, just look how bad Syracuse and Creighton have looked instead of Tennessee or Michigan like we should have been playing instead.
My point is you can schedule however you want, but it doesn't always work out once the season starts and he's scheduling sub-300 teams to blowout just like TJ does.
All that being said, I completely agree the NET is broken, it rewards you for destroying bad teams obviously and losses against good teams count more than actual wins.
Meh. Iowa can lose every game as far as I'm concerned.
I don't think I'm physically capable of rooting for kansas state.
Let's just be the minor leagues. No eligibility expiration. No education requirements. Just the best available players not in the NFL/NBA. Only tie to the school is the jersey.
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Yeah, that takes a pretty specific set of circumstances.
Right now I don't think they're a Sweet 16 team.
They're giving up big pts to comparable teams and I just don't see that working out well if they're say a 6 seed and have to play a 3 like Houston who can lock them up.
You can cheer for them if you want to but you won't catch me dead cheering for Iowa under any circumstances.
Going through a philosophy change this year, but yeah, not a solid team at this point.
I think he's a quality guy 100% but it sure feels like UK would MUCH rather just win.
I read a report earlier this year that Pope gets fussy about NIL. Like they'll give a guy an offer $X, guy will then come back saying Other Team is offering $Y (where Y > X), will you match? Pope won't want to do that because ~ "This is Kentucky, we shouldn't have to negotiate".
"Blue Bloods" and everyone involved with them are still struggling with the concept that the main advantage that's made them exceptional for the past ~40 years (paying players) is blown up.
"Blue Bloods" and everyone involved with them are still struggling with the concept that the main advantage that's made them exceptional for the past ~40 years (paying players) is blown up.
If UK loses they're going to be 1-5 against top 25 this year.
Lol, ISU getting a 1 seed is not going to hinge on Iowa winning, stop with this crap. They can ******* lose out.
