I could see both being a bit higher than that, especially the men, with all the losses over the last week.
2023-2024 MBB computer projections thread
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haven't looked at this site yet this year but found it interesting that 5 bracketoligists didn't have us making the field as of 1/12
Might not want to get your hopes up too high as one of the commentators mentioned this weekend: (paraphrasing) when everybody looses, nobody looses, and according to votes we were 38th in votes in the last AP
Some of those are older brackets(1/9) but yeah still strange to me. Though one is Andy Katz...so makes a bit of sense with him.
I can't remember the last time we had a half-decent backup PG.
We've had some great starters... but almost nothing off the bench for that role, some guy who can take the point 10 minutes per game while the main guy rests and play another 10 off the ball.
Gilbert and Jiggy Curt are better than the options the past few years, but I still hold my breath whenever Tamin isn't on the court. Everything on both ends just seems to go so much better with him out there.
Senior Kane (maybe more a SG)/freshman Monté maybe?
Bubu?
Monté/sophomore Nick (don't remember him being used at as PG more a F that year)?
Nick/freshman Haliburton (again TH was mostly an off-ball SG that year)
If edozie would have gotten more minutes we could have really done something special.
I'm perfectly comfortable with our guard rotation. Yes, we're always going to be better with Tamin on the court, as he is one of the best point guards in the country, but the combination of Gilbert/Jones/Pav fill in for him pretty darn well IMO.
I was going to suggest Stinson-Blalock as viable PG backup combo, but that wouldn't qualify as "off-the-bench" situation.
Only look at brackets from those who are good at it.. See the link below:
Not a back up since they were starters but one thing about the 99-00 team was how interchangeable they could be with Horton and Nurse to handle pg duties.
I made this post looking at how this team has improved on the "four factors" relative to the previous couple of years, and I think it's cool to see that there is basically no area where Iowa State has a significant weakness. This team can win in so many more ways than Otz's first two teams.
Many don't start updating more than once weekly until February.
Right now our resume says 8/9 seed but our NET and analytics says 3 seed. The answer is probably in the middle.
We were 38 last week.
My guess is #23 this week.
Colorado St, Clemson, Gonzaga, and Texas will drop out. Marquette will drop to the top 25 edge.
Dayton, Ole Miss, Texas Tech, and Iowa State should slide in.
We did lose a game due to free throws this year.. ranked 216 on FT% is an area we should improve on
We should be a better free throw shooting team on paper than how we performed in Orlando. That was a nightmare. Hopefully things are trending up..
I think below the top 12 teams or so, the overrated claim is probably valid.
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