Four players at the Five Guys photo op.
That is some Grade-A foreshadowing.
Edit: Derp. That is an AI-based joke, right? Pretty good if so.
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Four players at the Five Guys photo op.
That is some Grade-A foreshadowing.
Edit: Derp. That is an AI-based joke, right? Pretty good if so.
Sorry if your Cyclone fan self image doesn’t permit acknowledging reality, and minimizes Iowa’s performance at all costs. Even the name-calling to boot!
My Cyclone fandom is not that fragile.
Even if the worst comes to pass tonight…we’ve been advancing further than Iowa in the tourney for a generation now. It’s okay to let them have one every so often.
Yes…. now I’ll let the raw Iowa fan in me out. So people can understand I’m not a robot and I had to get were in at emotionallly & fandom wise through a lot of heartaches in my sporting life. But I don’t like playing Iowa State and I don’t like losing to Iowa State in football…. Honestly in basketball when you play 30 games a year it’s really not that big of a deal to… I didn’t even watch the Iowa/Iowa State, Iowa men’s basketball game this year.
But in football, it is still way better to play and beat or lose to for that matter, a good rival than a piss poor one. And you’d have to be a really sharp cat and readily capable of articulating your point to convince me otherwise.
I just don’t agree this year. He’s the assist leader, third leading rebounder, steals leader, 9.3 ppg, just below Sandfort on efg, 38% from 3. He’s first for ORtg at 131.7 and DRtg is 96.5. Numbers hold up in conference play as well.
I’m still not overly impressed with Purdue, but that’s probably partially because I just have never liked them very much. But they lost to the three best Big Ten teams, Michigan, Michigan State, and Illinois all at home if I’m not mistaken.
As for Illinois, I read more about men’s basketball this year than I watched, but I don’t think there were very many people, I guess outside of here and maybe other big 12 fans that didn’t think Illinois was really good.
They along with Michigan State, Michigan, Arizona, Iowa State, Houston I guess Duke, and then the flavor of the week in the SEC have been considered pretty strong all year long.
Only true in your mind…. in fact, I know way more Iowa fans that have this attitude than Iowa State. Don’t give me wrong plenty of Iowa State fans they’ll similar to me, but it’s out there and you really don’t have to look very hard.
I’m surprised but numbers don’t lie. I think I’ve been unfortunate to have watched him on some unproductive games where he was playing more like a bench role guy. But he’s definitely better than I thought.
Well, obviously, we don’t live in a vacuum and it doesn’t work that way… And I suppose we could ask most any fan base the same sort of question but it wouldn’t be a hard decision for me…
But as a thought experiment, That’s CC all the way…. she literally changed the dynamics of how Iowa was viewed in many capacities and if I’m not certain, I believe I saw a graph that suggested the Iowa women’s basketball team might’ve had top five viewership this year may be higher than that.
As far as that goes, I believe the same was true of Iowa State.
More importantly, obviously, Iowa didn’t win it all… But the list of teams that have made it to two straight championship games in any sport is very, very small.
I run into rival fans, (and not Iowa State fans, in fact, out here most Iowa State fans I run into like CC) but rival fans that like to try and shade her… and I always have the same answer, no problem, but if she wasn’t relevant and hadn’t done things, you wouldn’t even be here complaining about her
That’s what she did for Iowa… This Iowa men’s basketball team is really just a feel good story at this point in time.
I, however, am in no way indicative of a typical Iowa fan, at least I don’t think, I don’t interact with that many of them anymore
Well, I guess if that’s how you view it, one fan base is always gonna be a nightmare to the other one. That’s not how I would look at it, but I realize many do.
3-7 and then the elite 8… Yes, I would imagine that scenario of events would be very hard to replicate. I doubt that’s what they’re going for…
That is 100% the reason why I don’t talk **** about Teams pretty much anymore… The blowback is awful. After 40+ years of sports watching I generally expect the unexpected and then if I am just a ******** and constantly talking trash about my rival, it is eventually going to come back on me.
It always does… Much easier to live this way. Be happy.
I didn't evee expect to see a TNG college basketball meme but I am here for it.
One of the best TNG episodes
3-7 is actually more indicative of the season than ncaa tournament
The tournament is a crapshoot. One game, winner moves on events are exciting for fans, but can lead to highly misleading results
Which is why next season will be very interesting for Iowa: do they revert back to the middle of the conference like they did all season, or can they demonstrate they are in the top tier of the conference?
Time will tell. The last 3 games have given Iowa fans optimism, but it’s only been 3 games out of 36. So if I were an Iowa fan, I would be enjoying this run, but being cautiously optimistic about next season
