The thing with the Big 10 is they are constantly getting the "benefit of the doubt" with the "eye test". Right now they have six AP Top 25 teams and I'm not convinced any of them are all that good. Certainly none of them are decisively better than unranked Texas Tech.
*** Official #3 IOWA STATE vs Texas Tech Game(Day) Thread ***
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Heise led both teams in rebounding. I'd say that was a huge part of our win. Besides his 9 rebounds and 2 assists, he went 1/6 from the field. In other words, he only put up 5 shots the entire game which did not go in, and you could argue 3 of those missed shots were cancelled by the 3 offensive rebounds he came up with.
A player's impact on winning goes far beyond their shooting percentage. I trust that TJ and his staff have a much better grasp on which players will help us most on any given night.
I think Tech is good and has really grown as a team. But they simply haven’t built a resume yet.
When you are in the Top 3 - they expect you to get tough road wins like this. We aren’t used to being in this position.
Plus - what credit are you expecting? We are likely moving up to #2 in the nation due to this win. There isn’t much room to go up from here!
It is hard to rank us #1 when the only team above us is someone we lost head-to-head against, even though I think our resume is a little better than Auburn's right now. I expect we'll at least get some #1 votes, which is cool.
Yeah ge rebounded well. He always gets after it like that. My point was he was not playing well in OT and it seemed like it was time for a substitution. He has 4 fouls and was likely tired.
That’s a separate thing from him rebounding well over the course of the game.
Oh let’s not forget the best of the best in the NBA have shot an air ball or two **** happens the clones gutted out a W and whoever started this crap complaining about Nate shooting an air ball you need to chill out and we shouldn’t even contribute further posts about this crap embrace this W and the team, root like hell and go cyclones
I haven't read other posts about this, but I thought that Jefferson bobbled the ball while he shuffled his feet. The pass from Lipsey almost got past him so he didn't catch it clean. So if you don't have firm possession of the ball, it can't be traveling.
So many reasons that was the right no call. Did he catch it in the air? Did he have full possession? As you said, was he bumped off?
People tend to focus on the last disputable play when complaining when they should be focusing on the crazy missed free throws by their top shooters.
I expect Duke to get more than us even at 3
I'm starting to get worried about getting screwed out of a 1 seed. Duke and at least one out of the SEC are going to get one. Odds are the SEC gets two. Very unlikely the Big 12 gets two. Which means it's us or Houston potentially. We may need to win that game at Houston.
This is dumb. Criticism is fine but you are constantly negative no matter what happens.
Do you understand there is a difference between “Heise and Gilbert were terrible” (they weren’t) and “Heise needs to give us more offensively or not put up 6 shots per game”?? Heise helped hold their best player in check and got 9 rebounds.
There is more nuance to a game than how many points you scored or how good your shooting percentage was.
No, I'm moving on to Kansas.
I guess it's perfectly fine for posters in the football thread to whine and complain for months upon end about SEC this, Big 10 that, everything is so unfair, Arizona St was national champs if not for the refs, ESPN is biased, im never watching the playoffs again, but anyone says one word about a playing having a poor game then it's not acceptable.
Some of you need to take heed of this in bold. It shouldn't be hard to understand, but for some it obviously is.
Toppin also shuffled his feet on ~every post touch. The 10+ points TTU got out of that more than makes up for the two that we got, even if JJ legit traveled, which he didn't.
