Just hoping that KSU doesn't wet themselves at the sight of a KU jersey like usual this year. They can go ahead and lose to everyone else.
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Just hoping that KSU doesn't wet themselves at the sight of a KU jersey like usual this year. They can go ahead and lose to everyone else.
I disagree. I don't mind KU. At least KU at the top gives the league respectability. KSU and Baylor being there fuels the weak conference narrative.
KSU I don't mind so much but Baylor doesn't deserve anything ever.
Barttovik has a three-way tie at 11-7 projected right now...
Texas Tech, Kansas, and Iowa State
Heck, with things as they are, going 12-6 might win it outright.
I would imagine that 13-5 would almost certainly.
That allows us to go 9-2 the rest of the way. That will not be easy and nor would 8-3.
Whoever goes on their run now wins the conference.
Baylor won't be able to sustain this level of play the rest of the year without Clark. They still have road games at the other 4 top contenders left also.
The name does, sure, but their product on the court is dog crap. I don’t think 1 year of Kansas not winning makes the big 12 weak.
Really like where ISU is at right now. They have played KU twice and TT once. Have TT and Baylor in Ames yet. Still think they can get KSU there with a little better shooting than last time. As far as I'm concerned ISU has been the best road team in the Big 12 so far this year.
The rest of the games on our regular season schedule sorted from highest win expectation to lowest win expectation per the Barttovik projections.
We are currently 4-3 and projected to go something like 11.5 and 6.5 above.
Going 12-6 could very well win the conference. Going 13-5 is close to a guarantee.
We need to do the following...
-- not lose at home again... 10-3
-- win in Morgantown, mostly because I will be there in the second row... 11-3
-- pick off one, ideally two, of the games in Manhattan, Norman, Austin, or Ft. Worth
-- going 2-2 of those four challenges would be hard but not impossible... 13-5
-- if the starting five keep it up and Lard and Wigginton really turn it back on, look out
...do that... and it might actually happen.
I’ve been tossing back and forth going to Morgantown. Have you been before? How long of a trip is it?
I always do it for MBB and FB when I can. It is only 3:30 hours if you time it right exiting DC relative to the traffic, which I admit can be kind of troublesome.
It is a very pretty drive if you can manage to do it in the daytime, too. The fall colors on my way to the football game in 2017 was definitely a highlight of the season.
I do this trip whenever the football or basketball team plays in Morgantown on a weekend since this is the closest ISU gets to DC. It’s not a bad drive at all and there’s hardly ever traffic and everyone goes really fast. I remember driving there in 2017 for the football game and I was going 110 down a hill and someone zoomed past me on the left going at least 120. The average speed once you get past Cumberland is probably 85. It can be done in right at 3 hours if you don’t hit traffic.
Over under on De Sousa suddenly becoming eligible starting with Saturday's game?
Agree, better than KU. With Kansas dropped back down ISU controls its own destiny. ISU can beat Purple Kansas and Baylor yet. They don't have another chance at KU.
+1 for a road win, -1 for a home loss. Tries to balance out differences in conference schedule as you go along.
I have it at work but I'm not there yet.
Dont quote me but basically home loss are -1, home win and road loss are 0 and road wins are +1.
