Especially if we both get put in the west. That would make the fan aspect of the site moot.
We would destroy Nebby. They’re the epitome of a Fred team. Great offense as long as they’re not being guarded tightly. No defense to speak of. Once Illinois put the clamps on Nebraska couldn’t do anything right yesterday.
Purdue is overrate. Detroit is closer for fans etc. but I understand others opinions.I don't think Arizona is very good at all.
Disagree on destroying nebby...their 3 pointers and swinging far side is byu style
Watched the game yesterday and their offensive ball movement and spacing could give anyone troubles. I don’t think they’re awesome and their defense left a lot to the imagination.Disagree on destroying nebby...their 3 pointers and swinging far side is byu style
Because wins have to count for somenting at some point. Playing good teams and losing, then beating up on a bunch of terrible Big 10 teams doesn't do much for me but go ahead and support them I guess.
Wonder if J Tang has the team gathered for the celebration too?Here is a link to Iowa’s selection Sunday thread for those interested
But 6 regular season championsOnly 2 automatic qualifiers in the first 8 teams....
A number 2 seed leaves the team with a chip on thier shoulder for being slighted for not being a 1 seed. Never thought I would be able to a 2 seed is a slight in my lifetime.We want to be the Midwest 2 and get Purdue(in theory) in Detroit not az in LA.
I don't think this would be talked about if our noncon schedule would have been flip flopped with UNC. Really the only thing the national media's got favoring a blue blood. They'll make a bs decision on this metric and we'll have to accept it as a rational argument which it's not.Yep it's a bad metric, and even from the perspective of it supposedly being a goal of the NCAA to encourage better non-conference matchups, it doesn't really achieve that stated purpose. Buy games are buy games and those are bad teams for everyone. Most of the actual strength in most teams non-conference schedules comes from neutral site tournaments scheduled years in advance and determined in large part based on prestige. Programs have little to no control over this portion of their schedule, and even when they do it's unpredictable. Texas a&m was supposed to be good. Virginia tech was considered a possible tournament team. Iowa and the Big East challenge should have added two more power five games, but Iowa underperformed compared to where they have the last several years and we were given garbage by the Big East. How exactly is overvaluing this crappy metric supposed to change any of that?
That's what they do.They talk about our schedule, but nobody seems to care that UCONN has 9 quad 4 wins, the same as us.
He loves us this yearI'm looking forward to the yearly tradition of Seth Davis picking us to lose earlier than we should.
It's dumb, but it's an argument that a lot of people are willing to accept unfortunately. It's why I don't have much hope for a 1 tomorrow. The selection committee let us know they were going to hit us for the non-con with their mid-season seedings. So instead of a 1 we will most likely get a 2, which will still be amazing.
So they beat 2 tournament teams all season? That's a classic NIT resume.That's what Indiana State did. Just sub in Missouri Valley for Big 10. Oklahoma at least beat Iowa State and BYU. Indiana State beat Drake.
That bid has already been stolen. Dayton was the only AL in that league. Same with the AAC though I'm not as convinced that FAU is as safe as some people do.