2023-24 Big 12 opponents

[Connor_Ferguson]

Iowa State's Big 12 opponents have been announced for the 2023-24 season:

Iowa State MBB Big 12 opponents set for 2023-24

Iowa State's 2023-24 men's basketball opponents have been announced officially for the 14 programs set to participate in the upcoming season. The Cyclones will play two-game series with BYU, Houston, Kansas State, Oklahoma and TCU, while facing the remaining eight programs just once during the 18

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[jsb]

It’s good we get Kansas at home. But (and I know it’s silly) I sort of consider them a rival so it sucks only playing them once.

 

[StevieISU23]

Kansas wants nothing to do with ISU in Lawrence.......
What KU........yea Scared?

 

[CyPunch]

Overall this is quite favorable imo. Avoiding Lubbock and Morgantown is nice.

The only switches I would make if I could hand pick the schedule:
1. Play KU twice to maintain a 102 year rivalry game.
2. Play UCF twice. They won't be very good.

 

[heitclone]

It's not as difficult now but I already miss the round robin. This just doesn't look like it will be as beneficial from a metric standpoint, especially with such a soft non con.

 

[Statefan10]

It's not as difficult now but I already miss the round robin. This just doesn't look like it will be as beneficial from a metric standpoint, especially with such a soft non con.

It’s still likely 11 Q1 conference games

 

[MushroomPinball]

It's not as difficult now but I already miss the round robin. This just doesn't look like it will be as beneficial from a metric standpoint, especially with such a soft non con.

Sounds like Iowa State should just go undefeated then to be safe.

 

[ElephantPie]

Not surprised the Big 12 doesn't want to send Tyrese Hunter and his whiny coach to Ames one last time.

 

[Al_4_State]

Amazing home slate.

Really disappointed we didn’t have KU/OSU as home and away.

 

[enisthemenace]

Not going to Lawrence is ******* dumb.

 

[cyatheart]

I get it, but not having the round robin is really bad for the conference.

 

[Clonedogg]

Well IF we stay at 12 after OuT leave. We'll have 7-2-2 vs the current 5-4-4. So that'd be better, but man there is nothing better than the double round robin.

Edit: I originally said it be 6-3-3 with 12 teams and 18 game schedule, but that'd mean you'd be playing 12 OTHER teams. So it must be 7-2-2?

 

[CycloneRulzzz]

Karma coming back for giving Iowa crap for beneficial conference schedules. We already have a weak non-con and now a favorable conf. schedule. We may definitely need to win 20 games or more.

 

[isucy86]

Not surprised the Big 12 doesn't want to send Tyrese Hunter and his whiny coach to Ames one last time.

I'd rather go to Austin and beat the Horns in front of the home crowd. Give them a lasting memory.

 

[Statefan10]

Karma coming back for giving Iowa crap for beneficial conference schedules. We already have a weak non-con and now a favorable conf. schedule. We may definitely need to win 20 games or more.

I don’t think we will have a problem getting to 20 wins this year but Iowa got in last year with 19.. We will still play at least 10 Q1 games in the conference this year.

 

[PizzaTheHutt]

Lots of opportunity for resume building wins. We could finish with the same record as we did the last 2 years and comfortably get in. The amount of worry on this site for quad 1 and 2 games is over blown every year, there’s still plenty of them to build a solid resume this year and get a great seed. Schedule is fine IMO

 

[dafarmer]

Not surprised the Big 12 doesn't want to send Tyrese Hunter and his whiny coach to Ames one last time.

What the #### is the BIG 12 bending over for Texas, send those ######## to Ames!

 

[aeroclone08]

When is the last season we didn't play at the Phog? Ever??

 

[ElephantPie]

I'd rather go to Austin and beat the Horns in front of the home crowd. Give them a lasting memory.

I'd certainly be ok with that.
Maybe ISU will get to beat them in front of a Hilton South crowd in the Big 12 Tourney.

 

[1UNI2ISU]

Hopefully the league goes to 20 games and that way there will only be 2 teams that you don't see twice.