Jeff Goodman has ISU #11
- Thread starter dahliaclone
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So they did. My mistake. They lost AT Kansas on 3/5/16 while Kansas was ranked #1. SO they DID have a chance to beat #1 twice, but neither of those involved the tourney.
Iowa has 4 quad 1 wins and they aren’t even getting votes. How bad is that EIU loss going to **** them all year?
A couple of those won't be Q1 wins when she's all said and done though.
@ Seton Hall - 74
vs Iowa State - 15
vs Indiana - 25
@ Rutgers - 20
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vs Clemson (neutral court) - 54
Bolded teams are right on edge of flipping. Seton Hall plays a few poor teams coming up so I expect them to stay under 75 until late January. Indiana has a pretty tough stretch of games coming up. Gonna guess they drop out of 30 here soon. Clemson will be around 50 for a while and will teeter as a Q1/Q2 the rest of the season I’m guessing.
CycloneErik
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So if we have a big lead we need to let the other team catch up to increase our chances of winning. Analytics.
That was my thought but at this pt last year we were on the other side of early conference games.
We squeezed out enough but it wasn't pretty.my hopes/expectations of this squad have been all over the map this season.
This team has more pieces and are more comfortable in this system than last year. We're pretty dang good.
Just gotta stay the course. Tomorrow night’s game is such a great opportunity to add another one in the win column.
Then you’re playing with house money going into Phog Allen and you just know our guys are salivating after the bull **** that happened last year.
We have better than a puncher's chance this year. Just need too keep Caleb playing at this level. Hell if he maintains dude could win POY.
Nah he won’t win POY that’s essentially being reserved for Jalen Wilson or Mike Miles Jr. Caleb isn’t a consistent enough scorer but I could see him making 3rd team all conference
An interesting observation about Grill - his numbers are very VERY similar to his UNLV year - both in percentages and totals - he's playing exactly the same amount (33.2mpg). The only significant difference is he's shooting 20% better from the FT line and getting there more. He's also slightly better from 3 (34% vs 38%) - but that's really just a couple makes. Volume is the same.
Damn that is impressive, especially when 1 of the 2 losses was by one point at Phog Allen last year when the refs took 3 ISU points off the board in the final minute.
If you look at the EIU box scores a couple of things jump out at you, in the games they win, one of two things happen, they make 10/12 3 points or they get to the foul line around 20 times. When one of the two happens they can win the game, when both happen like they did when they played ISU, they look like a top 10 team.
Games they lose, they shoot poorly from deep 7 or less made 3 pointers and do not get to the line to make up the difference.
That doesn't tell the whole story. You can't score if you can't shoot and Jones is shooting a lot more this year then he did last year. I'd also say he's getting, on average, at least one more easy look a game due to the play/passing of Lipsey.
It's also hard to draw definitive conclusions on shooting as last years' numbers include the entirety of conference play whereas this year's only includes 3 games (for Kunc it's zero). I'd expect our numbers to go down as we won't have the patsies to boost those stats.
On the other hand Bill Self would love for ISU to come in to the Phog 4-0 to get his guys going.
Hopefully ISU pulls it off tomorrow.
It would be fitting for us to be back at the top trying to take down Kboo.
