I liked seeing Hunter put up those teardrops in the paint in the last few minutes. A shot that will serve him well down the road.
*** Official #1 Baylor vs #8 IOWA STATE Game(Day) Thread ***
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If our name was Villanova, we would move into the top 5 after this loss.
We have legit earned that ranking. Nova lost to Baylor by 20 and fell only a few spots to 9th the next week. We deserve something similar.
Are we the 10th best team? Not in my opinion, but NOT because we lost. The offensive limitations likely to just have too many games in which we're "had more shots fallen" imo.
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Not a stat you will see in the box score, but we did an awesome job at winning 50/50 loose balls today. Sometimes that’s luck, today it was all about effort. They made their own luck. If they win 50/50s like that the rest of the year, I think we’ll be happy with the conference record.
TJO needs to do something to get Enaruna more touches and minutes going forward.
Feel great about rest of season in Big 12, despite the loss. Solid bunch
Bob Jones gave good minutes today. If he can produce like that for 5-10 minutes a game, that will be big.
Yeah not our shooting night. This graphic sums it up. Baylor did have a little something to do with it! Great D by them. But not all shots were contested obviously.
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Need to find a way to get GK out of this multi game offensive slump.
Will BU shoot that many well-defended clutch shots the rest of the year? Heck will they shoot 50%+ against defenses that are not as good as ISU’s the rest of the year? If they do, they are definitely odds-on-favorite to repeat as national champs. Any Cyclone loss stings - but EXTREMELY proud of these guys for never quitting - even til the last horn. Had Grill’s 3ptr gone in to cut the margin to 3 - who knows, maybe the noose and pressure causes BU to unravel? Will be interesting to see how we fare in our rematch with them in Wacko.
And why do we care here on this thread? Why do we need to bring Iowa up again? Tell me.
6 turnovers. 0-2 shooting. ONE rebound. 25 minutes. That’s really bad.
once they all drop the last bit of last season’s data I’ll go back to looking more at a mix of computer rankings anyway.
The Big 12 is usually the only league with 70% or 80% good teams. Human polling is pretty worthless for our conference with that reality.
I have said before this is the type of system that Michigan State makes deep runs with. Just wait until we get a couple highly ranked junkyard dog types.
One of the first games in which we "could" have won, there were "what-ifs", but didn't in which it is not upsetting.
For me, part of that is because of the last two years. As much as I don't believe in long rebuilds in CBB, it is impossible to ignore the starting point.
The second part is Baylor is just that good. I don't know what their "A" game is, but if it is notably better than that, then Covid is the only thing stopping them from repeating. I don't think we had our "A" game, maybe B+ when you consider a lot of it was Baylor.
