Yes we would be joining very rare company. I think it helps that tonight's loss was a close one.
Are we even a tournament team?
- Thread starter ISUCyclones2015
- Start date
I'll bet the farm we fall to the 7 line. Guarantee it
Man I don't know, I would think like an 8 or 9 after losing two more.
It’s like last year. The committee will place us 2 seeds worse than we are projected. Would be interesting to compare last years resume to this years. Last year 7-11 in Big 12, this year 8-10. Last years non conference was far better with Creighton win on the road, and a blowout Iowa win. This years UNC win didn’t do much, and Villanova is terrible.
I think its a sypmtom of the Big 12 being a meatgrinder and highly respected, and college basketball as a whole being down. Otherwise most years we're praying we get in the play-in game.
For some reason people in the know have us in without question. However, going 3-10 to finish the season is bad and probably shouldn't be allowed. If I was a bubble team that got hot late in the year I'd be pissed
Would love to somehow get 1 more Quad 1 win on Saturday. I give us a 5% chance. Even though we're losing we've had a 2nd half lead in almost all 17 of our B12 games. Incredible.
Then that bubble team should have done better earlier.
I agree that recent games should probably be weighted a bit more, but to completely disregard the first half of the season seems like an odd thing to do. The team who got hot late in the year missed opportunities early in the season.
Okie State and WVU would be NIT bound if not for ISU. I can't understand how they haven't won more games. They both seem loaded to me.
It’s a very real scenario that we play our first game in the tourney without having won a game in 30 days. Has that ever happened before?
You can have a good “body of work” but if there’s not a pulse on that body when it’s time to make selections, it will be a tough call.
You can have a good “body of work” but if there’s not a pulse on that body when it’s time to make selections, it will be a tough call.
Last edited:
But that 1st half of the season includes wins against Villanova and UNC. Once thought of as great wins, now are teams looking like they may not even make the tournament.
I was once under the impression that we were a top 3 seed but that was when we were 14-3. 3-9 since then makes our 1st half of the season wins as fools gold. Caught Baylor and TCU at home shorthanded and a Gabe buzzer beater at TCU, we could easily be looking at a below .500 team.
Yet, we're not. Wins against KU, Baylor and Texas count just the same as losses to OkSt, OU, and WVU.
I understand what you’re getting at but with that logic, is the team who’s hot now a bit of fools gold also (given poor early/mid season performance)? You can throw out the PK invitational for ISU, we still have quite a few very good wins early/mid season excluding Nova and UNC.
Think that reaffirms what we're saying....team is playing hard on defense, staff getting the most out of them, but offensively challenged teams struggle to win close games when they continually have scoring droughts.
(also...Tre King needs to figure out how to play defense, he can do damage on the block and the boards next year. Has the body to muscle up in there, get fouled, seems to be solid free throw shooter. )
