***Official 2026 NCAA Tournament Thread***

[AlaCyclone]

And they went to monitor like 147 times in the Texas-Purdue game...

It was AWFUL!

 

[AlaCyclone]

They’re not making the title game.

Time will tell. Hope it is the Cyclones who knock them out!

 

[1UNI2ISU]

DeVries is a huge downgrade from McCollum. DeVries won at Drake with his kid that was a high recruit and some P5 fallback transfers in the ****** Valley.

After they fired Fran I was hoping Iowa would get DeVries and not McCollum.

And Darian never won a regular season title while having the best roster in the league for 3 years.

He's WAAAAAY overbaked

 

[CY88CE11]

NEVER ! They don’t deserve any of this

Least of all, their fans. They don't support them all year (decade?), but now that they've gotten lucky a couple times, they're back in? Nah, bro.

 

[NYCYFan]

What would you have proposed instead? Houston was the top 2, so they got the closest region. Florida was the last 1, so they got last "choice" of regions.

For the #1 to be closest to home since they were the highest seeded team. Seems simple to me. It is the South region after all and Florida is pretty far south

 

[12191987]

DeVries is a huge downgrade from McCollum. DeVries won at Drake with his kid that was a high recruit and some P5 fallback transfers in the ****** Valley.

After they fired Fran I was hoping Iowa would get DeVries and not McCollum.

Exactly. Read it again.

I’m a Cyclone fan. DeVries is my platonic ideal of Hawkeye TJ.

 

[cmhawks99]

You seem cool, so:

Congratulations!

Now I’m going to have to double up the disdain for other Hawkeye fans to keep things balanced.

More than anything I love wit & humorous comebacks…that’s a fantastic one

 

[JP4CY]

DeVries is a huge downgrade from McCollum. DeVries won at Drake with his kid that was a high recruit and some P5 fallback transfers in the ****** Valley.

After they fired Fran I was hoping Iowa would get DeVries and not McCollum.

Iowa definitely appears to have got the Xs and Os grinder coach.
Indiana was an old and experienced team and they were so mediocre this year.

 

[CycloneErik]

I think Awaka just may have been fouled there.

 

[CIAFarmer]

That was a bit over the top by the Arkansas player

 

[12191987]

Time will tell. Hope it is the Cyclones who knock them out!

I am so confident of it I bet money on the Cyclones for the first time since 2011 Drake.

You see, I only take the sure things.

 

[AuH2O]

Exactly. Read it again.

I’m a Cyclone fan. DeVries is my platonic ideal of Hawkeye TJ.

I hope you can will McCollum to UNC and DeVries to Iowa into existence. Make it happen.

 

[JP4CY]

That poor woman that had to interview Sampson.

 

[CY88CE11]

For the #1 to be closest to home since they were the highest seeded team. Seems simple to me. It is the South region after all and Florida is pretty far south

So, move the whole region to Florida? You know these are set years ahead of time, right?

 

[Letterkenny]

It's the classic "we know we don't have as much talent as you" approach in basketball. The more talented team will likely pull away when there's lots of possessions, so limit possessions and hope for the best.

Mike Fratello's Cavs did it in the 1990s NBA for about five years with some modest success.

Butler made back to back championship games playing very similar.

 

[cyclones500]

And they went to monitor like 147 times in the Texas-Purdue game...

I saw only bits & pieces of that game, but there was a review around 2:07, when UI-NU was somewhere around 3:30 remaining, I went back & forth, it seemed like 7 minutes of stoppage in the Purdue-UT game. What were they reviewing??

 

[1UNI2ISU]

We've got one game that's going to be 105-100 and another one that's going to be 55-53.

Man, I love college basketball

 

[CY88CE11]

How's that on Flemings?

 

[NYCYFan]

So, move the whole region to Florida? You know these are set years ahead of time, right?

It's stupid for a 2 seed to have homecourt advantage over a 1 seed. What's the point of "rewarding" a team a 1 seed if they have to play on the road to get to a Final 4. I don't know, they should figure out a way for it to make sense.
If Iowa State was the 1 seed and had to go on the road in a regional final, how would you feel about it?

 

[12191987]

I hope you can will McCollum to UNC and DeVries to Iowa into existence. Make it happen.

Now that is a better Hawkeye hypothetical.

Would you rather Iowa hire DeVries to replace McCollum after this year and lose to Arizona or for McCollum to stay at Iowa for 15 years and beat Houston?