Who do you want to avoid in the first two rounds?

[HornacekFan1414]

Those 2 giants at Purdue scare me for a round 2 matchup.... Only as I see us getting in foul trouble...

 

[Clonehomer]

Those 2 giants at Purdue scare me for a round 2 matchup.... Only as I see us getting in foul trouble...

Dingleberry neutralized them enough to beat them twice.

 

[Gunnerclone]

Those 2 giants at Purdue scare me for a round 2 matchup.... Only as I see us getting in foul trouble...

They are about the most underutilized and/or under agressive 7 footers that I've ever seen. They don't want to dominate. I have no problem playing Purdue.

 

[cstrunk]

Avoid teams with height, depth and width.

Ah, the legendary cubic teams. Best to avoid them, indeed.

 

[HornacekFan1414]

They are about the most underutilized and/or under agressive 7 footers that I've ever seen. They don't want to dominate. I have no problem playing Purdue.

I agree earlier season, but I've seen their last 3 games and you could not be further from wrong in your statement..

 

[el tornado]

1st Round DO NOT WANT San Diego State

 

[jsb]

Hines who is not at all an Iowa State apologist, is a lot higher on this team that most of us are. I consider that a good sign.

 

[CySmurf]

Who do we want to avoid?
Eades, Higgins and O'Neill.

 

[Baseline23]

Just so we're clear, you understand you're talking about the winning 3 year stretch of basketball in the modern history of ISU, right? Since 1980, ISU has NEVER won more games in a 3 year span than they have in 2014, 2015 and 2016. That's both for the overall schedule and just the conference schedule. The only three year span in the same realm of productivity includes the 2000 and 2001 seasons, which were bookended with 15-15 and 12-19 seasons. So you're complaining about the best 3 year run of basketball any of us have ever lived through. If you expand it to 4 or 5 seasons, our current run looks even better.

Oh, I see. "Just so we're clear" then.

I'm happy with "just so we're clear." In fact, in fact, I'm delighted with clarity.

You're OK with NEVER making a Final Four. With only one Elite Eight appearance.
And you're "clear" with Iowa State basketball simply comparing itself against its own accomplishments, instead of, say...oh, I don't know, Kansas'.

That's a very convenient way to calibrate one's accomplishments.
It would be interesting if, every November, ever ISU fan were asked whether that way of being being clear was satisfactory to them.

 

[BoxsterCy]

My list of posters to avoid is much longer then my list of teams I wish us to avoid.

 

[Spanky]

I try to avoid egg salad before getting in small cars.

 

[cygrads]

Anyone from the b12

Including the refs!

 

[ISUTex]

As we await Selection Sunday, who are the teams you've watched this year that we wouldn't match up well against in the first two rounds? North Carolina and Kentucky are the top two I want to avoid. Gonzaga is a sleeper with good bigs that would give us fits too, I think.

Any team that plays like Michigan St, Wisconsin or West Virginia. The refs almost always favor that style of play in the NCAA Tournament.

 

[besserheimerphat]

Oh, I see. "Just so we're clear" then.

I'm happy with "just so we're clear." In fact, in fact, I'm delighted with clarity.

You're OK with NEVER making a Final Four. With only one Elite Eight appearance.
And you're "clear" with Iowa State basketball simply comparing itself against its own accomplishments, instead of, say...oh, I don't know, Kansas'.

That's a very convenient way to calibrate one's accomplishments.
It would be interesting if, every November, ever ISU fan were asked whether that way of being being clear was satisfactory to them.

Feel free to show me where I said I don't want ISU to get to a Final Four.

 

[DoctorUncle]

That woman with an adam's apple that has been following me around.

 

[WastedTalent]

That woman with an adam's apple that has been following me around.

 

[aeroclone]

CF BREAKING NEWS: KU IS A "BOTTOMFEEDER". Lol.

Reading fail. The home win over KU isn't recent. Things have changed alot since then. The road games with WVU and KU were just moral victories, those are worthless in March. Looking good against OSU and KSU in Ames doesn't prove much. Been a long time since we beat a tourney team away from home, let alone two back to back.

 

[Psyclone Brian]

I don't know about "who I want to avoid playing"
But I'd like nothing more than playing Michigan St. somewhere closer to home, than in their backyard!
I hate them more than anything!!

 

[WastedTalent]

Reading fail. The home win over KU isn't recent. Things have changed alot since then. The road games with WVU and KU were just moral victories, those are worthless in March. Looking good against OSU and KSU in Ames doesn't prove much. Been a long time since we beat a tourney team away from home, let alone two back to back.

 

[synapticwave]

Just so we're clear, you understand you're talking about the winning 3 year stretch of basketball in the modern history of ISU, right? Since 1980, ISU has NEVER won more games in a 3 year span than they have in 2014, 2015 and 2016. That's both for the overall schedule and just the conference schedule. The only three year span in the same realm of productivity includes the 2000 and 2001 seasons, which were bookended with 15-15 and 12-19 seasons. So you're complaining about the best 3 year run of basketball any of us have ever lived through. If you expand it to 4 or 5 seasons, our current run looks even better.

Not to be too nitpicky, but our record in 2013, 2014, and 2015 is a better 3 year run than 2014, 2015, and 2016. it is definitely the best 4 year run in our history.

Kinda amazing/frustrating that Georges worst w/l record will be his senior year, unless we make it to the elite 8 this year of course