***2026-27 Mens College Basketball Thread***
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I think Miami is better than Oklahoma State. We would never know because Oklahoma State would never play them. I know that's not your point but if below average P5 teams won't play them how are they supposed to prove they are a good team?
I just found out Nijel Pack is still playing (at Oklahoma). I remember him as being the first publicized $1M+ transfer (to Miami) back when NIL opened.
I think most metrics would significantly disagree.
I mean, as @jdoggivjc noted, other mac schools played P5s so its not that the P5 won't play them. Its that they likely wanted too much. But even if that were true, there's a wide gap between that and what they ended up scheduling. There were also plenty of midmajors they could have scheduled.
So I haven't seen much of them and they're not as aggressive on the hedge or as high on kenpom as ISU on D but VA reminds me a lot of ISU.
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It was really nice to see us play well against top level competition though. Makes me feel good going into the dance instead of going in on a slump.
Agreed but it's important to remember: ISU could have won last night, and won tonight and still fall flat on their face next Thursday or Friday.
It's happened to ISU and maybe every other program out there one way or another and it's why people love March Madness.
JP should look at getting that painting lady from the Duke Virginia game have her do that at halftime of Iowa-ISU then auction it off for we will.
And there's a stunner every year, right? Some team that all the experts say is firmly in and gets left out? Can you imagine the meltdown, LOL?!
I am today years old learning Cameron Boozer had a twin brother Cayden playing with him.
Carlos Boozer's younger brother Charles played for Iowa State. Too bad we couldn't have gotten the rest of the family too.
We learned from 2 years ago when we steamrolled the Big 12 Tournament that they're not going to bump a team more than an entire seed line (since we were flirting with the 2-3 line then as well), and that performance only solidified the final #2 for us, when we thought that performance could push us to the final #1. The #1 seed was lost to us this year when we lost to Tech at home (I don't think we would have been punished for losing at Arizona that much, and they put us into projected #1 after losing to BYU). Of course, the Cincy and TCU losses hurt our chances as well.
Iowa State is a team, when laser-focused, is as good as any team in America. It's just too often we're not laser-focused, and often don't have the ability to overcome those bad nights.
(If going by Lunardi), well, who do you (potentially) want? Duke in DC, or Michigan in Chicago? Because as of right now, we're paired with Duke and UConn is paired with Michigan. And while Chicago is about as equidistant as you can ask for for a 1-2 pairing in the Tournament, if Duke isn't playing with a full deck, that may be who we want. And the way Virginia is playing Duke tonight, I like what I see.
Another thing - if Duke isn't playing with a full deck... who's to say they don't get popped along the way and we end up with a region WE control?
