19 D1 wins, no big non-conf wins, and a #49 RPI is definitely not a better resume than Baylor or OK State even if both of them lose their first B12 tournament games.
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19 D1 wins, no big non-conf wins, and a #49 RPI is definitely not a better resume than Baylor or OK State even if both of them lose their first B12 tournament games.
Yeah, don't know how you could argue that when Baylor's RPI is #34 and OK State is #40
On College Gameday in Stillwater prior to the Okie State - Kansas game they were doing blind comparisons with Okie State's resume against other schools they didn't initially show by name. The first blind comparison team had a 19-9 record with similar BPI and SOS numbers. They each had 3 wins against the RPI top 50 at the time as well and every single guy on the show including Jay Bilas picked Okie State over them on who should get in the tournament. That 19-9 team (at the time) was Iowa.
Bilas was left backpedaling so hard because only a few weeks prior he had declared Iowa a "contender" to reach the Final Four and now he was picking the 8th place team in the Big XII over them purely based on resume.
People who don't think the AP, coaches polls, and even things like KenPom steer the conversation are kind of in denial. Iowa is considered a lock and an 8/9 seed after crapping the bed because they were ranked most of the year and had a high kenpom rating that a lot of AP voters base their votes on according to their blogs. Their actual resume is a good-side-of-the-bubble resume and clearly inferior to every Big 12 ncaa team except maybe KSU or WVU should they get hot and get in.
We had a better resume then Iowa does now two years ago and it took us until the very end of the season for these bracketology types to finally all put us in. At least the program is now past that stage of people doubting ISU for no reason.
