Last year's non-con wouldn't have gotten ISU in the tourney if Xavier, Memphis, and at Creighton had been replaced with 2 scrub teams and a home game with St Johns
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Great highlight but the real star of that clip is the greatest floor in the history of the sport...
Some pairings definitely "meh," but Arkansas-BU, KU-UK and Texas-Tennessee should be high-end matchups.
Why the **** are we playing Missouri again
Two thoughts
1) ESPN thinks we suck and is matching us with another low tier SEC program
2) We don't generate enough TV interest to put us up against a bigger name
if they are just going to shove KU and UK together every year, why don't they just schedule an individual series between the two, and let the rest of the teams situate their own matchups. Boring to play Misery again.
I don't think it's that malicious. ESPN is trying to create matchups that generate interest. For Missouri the programs they care about in the B12 are probably 1. KU, 2. ISU, 3. Whoever is doing well at the moment. KU is locked into playing UK, so we're the default second choice. For us Mizzou is probably the number 1 choice, although it is getting stale now that we've played them so much lately.
If we are going to keep playing them we might as well dub it the Stewart-Orr Rivalry.
Play Mizzou in football and Minnesota/Wisconsin in MBB.
Those markets are fertile recruiting ground for the coaches and I assume would be reasons for those schools to avoid us.
CycloneErik
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Neither of those were malicious.
We don't generate a lot of TV interest. We have to be expected to be really good and really exciting to get those spots.
On number 2 K State drew Florida, which would be way more fun for us to have had this go around since we just played Missouri. K State is supposed to be horrendous this year and Missouri is right next door to them and old conference rivals, so why not just flip flop our opponents?
Just annoying we have so many SEC teams to choose from no team (minus UK/KU) should do consecutive games IMO.
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It’s a bummer to get Missouri again, but as I view the matchups, there might have been some limits for options, at least if it was locked in as far as home/road.
We weren’t going to get UK and probably not Arkansas or Tennessee … Have yet to play Florida, but UF on the road. Played at Miss St two seasons ago. Haven’t faced LSU in the challenge, but of course played in the tournament. (I wouldn’t have been against a rematch, I guess, and preferable to Missouri).
If ISU could have gotten a home game again it might have been more flexible.
(Edited: Auburn we did play recently, forgot about 19-20 ... also removed Alabama reference, I was confusing it with Arkansas early in the series)
We weren’t going to get UK and probably not Arkansas or Tennessee … Have yet to play Florida, but UF on the road. Played at Miss St two seasons ago. Haven’t faced LSU in the challenge, but of course played in the tournament. (I wouldn’t have been against a rematch, I guess, and preferable to Missouri).
If ISU could have gotten a home game again it might have been more flexible.
(Edited: Auburn we did play recently, forgot about 19-20 ... also removed Alabama reference, I was confusing it with Arkansas early in the series)
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