Iowa State will play Missouri State on Friday, December 18th.
The other game involves former MVC rivals, Drake and Wichita State.
The other game involves former MVC rivals, Drake and Wichita State.
Iowa State is participating in The Hall of Fame Classic at the T-Mobile Center in Kansas City
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When you can give up a home game to play a Q4 CUSA team that could no longer compete in the Valley, you just have to do it.
shoot might as well play Drake in Caseys Center if we're doing neutral site 200+ ranked games
I may be in the minority here, but I am fine with this. There was a lot of talk last season from the mid majors about P5 teams not wanting to play them in non conference as the P5 teams felt there wasn't anything to benefit from those games. I don't mind ISU playing a mid major opponent each season. In fact, I think many more P5 teams should follow suit.
This has to be a pretty good pay day for us to give up a home game. Then again the students will be gone and we would normally playing like Grand Rapids State or some no name team at this time. So might as well take the pay day and possibly play Drake.
Based on the single date in the announcement, it could just be one game. In 2024 they had 4 teams play on a single day. All other years it has been tournament style with two days and a Champion named. Nebraska won it last year.
I read this first as we are playing Missouri and I thought that was a great get. Then I realized I missed the State and my feelings changed.
Honestly, this is awful. What's the point? Why deal with a neutral site game to play the equivalent of a 15 seed?
Last year we played Syracuse, Purdue, Creighton, St Johns's . This year Missouri state.
I love the dedication of ISU fans to travel, but I question the sanity of any fan that attends this game (assuming they don't already live within 30 minutes of the arena).
