*** Official #6 IOWA STATE vs #2 Houston Game(Day) Thread ***
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I'm gonna call this a win in my head. We played pretty well outside of the "slow start"*. Yes we could have hit a couple more free throws but that wasn't the game.
* Anyone who thinks that game was adequately officiated needs their head examined. The first half was probably the worst-officiated game I've seen all year and heavily slanted in favor of Houston.
* Anyone who thinks that game was adequately officiated needs their head examined. The first half was probably the worst-officiated game I've seen all year and heavily slanted in favor of Houston.
Nah. It's a funny throwback.
There aren't any student chants that I would say are some sort of sign of maturity.
It should be noted that Houston has beaten every conference team by 15-20 at home and have been playing really well lately.
They were looking for vengeance last night and had to dig in for it.
They were looking for vengeance last night and had to dig in for it.
I know we get a favorable whistle at home too but it's no wonder Houston is undefeated at home if that's how they are allowed to play. Never seen a team with such a long leash on pushing, shoving, bodying, and hand-checking.
Fran said something to the effect that the new Houston football coach should be taking notes (possibly referring to the amount of moving screens). Rebounds were an absolute melee. So impressed with what we did there, but getting it was only half the battle. Had to keep it through all the shoves and hacks.
In any case, losing always sucks, but this is kind of a nothingburger. A win would have been huge of course but:
- Metrics are up.
- We may drop in the AP Poll because we don't get the Blueblood Discount on losing road games to good teams, but that poll is dumb anyway.
- At least a tie for the Big 12 championship is still in play if we win out. Houston has a much tougher schedule than us in the last five games here.
- Even if we stumble at the finish line here and go 2-3, that's still 11-7 in the Big 12 which is pretty good for a team picked to finish 7th or whatever it was.
It was basically a mirror image of playing us at home. Build an early lead based on being exceedingly physical figuring the refs aren’t going to run up a foul total early. The game, and officiating, even out during the course of the game, but not enough to overcome the early lead.
Looked a lot like several home games of ours.
Too many careless turnovers, atrocious officiating, terrible free throw shooting is not a winning formula.
Oh well, 4 days rest now, hopefully Baylor helps us out, we take care of business then it's a 4 game sprint to the finish.
Oh well, 4 days rest now, hopefully Baylor helps us out, we take care of business then it's a 4 game sprint to the finish.
It's not hard to call obvious fouls. You just do it. If you don't want players to foul out, tell them not to foul.
That's right. That's on the PLAYERS to concern themselves over, which was my entire point, which you apparently missed.
I would say the second half was even, but it didn't even out the first half, which was atrocious.
Non ISU fans say the same thing about ISU, they hand check, they push, they shove.
Read any board of a team that plays ISU, ISU fouls on every possesion.
Fans seem to never see the fouls that are missed, by their team, but have laser vision when they see a missed call against their team. It's uncanny..
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Points off turnovers: ISU 9, Houston 20
Needed to flip that script, but with that said, I love the team's physicality. ISU outrebounded one of the best rebounding teams 39-30. I didn't see anything from this game that would concern me for the rest of the season. Tip your hat to Houston and move on to the next game
I thought the fatigue showed. It is a lot to ask a team to play a huge game on Saturday and then go on the road and play a team of Houston caliber on short turn around. Have a little more rest, then maybe we don’t get quite as many fouls and can cause a few more turnovers. The guys gave it their all.
