I'm actually hoping for a 12-16 seed. This team only plays against big time opponents. The only chance this team has is if they can somehow play NC, Duke, Ken, etc the entire tournament.
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Of course not. It's in the rulebook that KU is not to lose at home in conference play.
Any team that has a pulse of an interior game is a bad matchup for ISU right now because of the terrible time ISU is having defending the interior and rebounding, and that's probably going to be the vast majority of teams in the top 8 seeds.
ISU is leading the conference in scoring and blowing the conference away in FG%...yet sitting in sixth place because they just can't stop anybody. It's crazy. Greenberg said it the other night (and so have many others)...defense dances. ISU is one and done in the tourney unless they can find some way to make the defense at least serviceable over the next few games.
That's hyperbole BS. It could happen, but expecting us to lose in the first round is just dumb. We will be facing a 12/13 seed that has its own set of deficiencies.
They've got to be able to defend us too. Can those two bruises defend Niang and Burton on the perimiter? That matchup reminds me of Notre Dame a few years back. Bring on the slow footed BIG team.
Normally I would agree with you. But unless we get an effective, productive McKay to swallow up rebounds and help in defense, I wouldn't pick us against anybody. And that includes the first round. I think we'll know a lot more about our team as to how we compete at WV and KU. Not referring to wins, but rather if we have the ability to defend and rebound to keep us in those games. Poor rebounding makes it (almost) impossible to advance in the NCAA tournament, imo.
If ISU is playing a 12/13 seed in the first round, it means that they will have improved their defense from the way it has been the last 3 or so games.
I know KU will be heavily favored and it'll be played in a phog of noise and favorable whistles, but after watching K-boo get decimated by an average OSU, I wouldn't bet the wheat farm.
Just win the 1st game and see what happens. A bad UCLA team made the Sweet 16 last year because we **** the bed.
ISU is going to be a team that a ~12 will be reasonably happy to draw cause we're beatable, but a high seed is going to be unhappy with cause we'll be one of the most dangerous teams at our middling seed.
ISU is going to be a team that a ~12 will be reasonably happy to draw cause we're beatable, but a high seed is going to be unhappy with cause we'll be one of the most dangerous teams at our middling seed.
Uh....dude, lay off the weed.
Less then a month ago, KU got hosed by 19 vs OSU. I'm just saying they can be beat.
The mind is a terrible thing to waste.
Yes. Could be considered fringe-5 if you scrutinize away-from-home results, but likely solid-4 and is likely to stay that way if no additional bad losses come.
If ISU can shoot as well as UConn did in that tourney (both from field and line), that can help fuel an unexpected run.
Don't forget, though, UConn, barely survived St. Joseph's in the first round – it can be razor-thin.
and KU won at OU and TT.....something ISU didn't do. ISU has lost twice at home already....I'm sure you will predict an ISU win in Lawrence and it won't happen.
This is the least intimidating KU team I've seen in a while. Just think about what they usually have. For the past 3 years they've had legit one and done guard/combo and a dominant defensive big in the middle and in the case of Embiid a dominant defensive and offensive big to go along with the one and done guard/combo two years ago.
