Possible Nightmare Scenario

[knowlesjam]

If that plays out what will give me nightmares are the games we couldn’t close out or should have won. (TCU x 2)

...and Baylor x 2.

 

[Thomasrickj]

If that plays out what will give me nightmares are the games we couldn’t close out or should have won. (TCU x 2)

Don’t forget the K-State game at home and Baylor at home and on the road.

 

[intrepid27]

I don’t know why people like KSU and TTU so much more than they like KU.

Because they are NOT KU. For me, everyone that is not KU starts with 50 out of 100 possible points of likability. It gets adjusted from there depending on game results, fan interactions, etc.

KU starts with 0 of 100 points and gets adjusted from there.

 

[FinalFourCy]

Isn't the quandary an ISU win or losing and keeping Kansas from winning the title? It kind of seems like the OP would rather see us lose than let Kansas win the conference.

Not only a win, but a win against what would be a top-10 team and one that has decent seed implications, potentially also allowing us to tie for our most Big 12 wins in the past 18 years.

Not a quandary.

 

[Cyclonepride]

While I 99.99% agree with this, you can’t disagree that it would make a home loss to TTU sting 0.01% less if they ended KU’s streak that night.



But yes I want ISU to win out.

Saving that 1 square millimeter of red ass isn't going to help me much lol

 

[CycloneErik]

Not a quandary for me. I want ISU to beat TT regardless of the scenario.

How is anyone managing to overcomplicate this?

Cyclone wins are good.

 

[IASTATE07]

Not only a win, but a win against what would be a top-10 team and one that has decent seed implications, potentially also allowing us to tie for our most Big 12 wins in the past 18 years.

Not a quandary.

Yeah I'm not sure why the OP used the word quandary.

 

[Rolling Clones]

Yeah I'm not sure why the OP used the word quandary.

Yeah you're right, "quandary" was not the appropriate word there. Edit complete.

 

[surly]

The enemy of my enemy is my friend.

 

[CloniesForLife]

Texas Tech is really good.

They have been murdering people since their game in Lawrence.

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What am I looking at? Nothing is labeled.

 

[Sigmapolis]

What am I looking at? Nothing is labeled.

Those are "game scores" from Barttovik.

http://www.barttorvik.com/team.php?team=Texas+Tech

The scores are your percentile relative to the 353 teams in men's college basketball for your performance on a given night. Scoring a 99 means you were better than roughly 99% of other CBB teams that night, so roughly top three or four in the country.

0 = you played like the worst team in the country
100 = you played like the best team in the country

Since the loss in Lawrence, TTU has been obliterating people...



...and gotten nothing but 99 and 100 for game scores.

Their "worst" game was beating Oklahoma, a team fighting to make the tournament, by 12 in Norman. Beating up decent/good teams like that on the road is not easy. That was their worst game of the run, too. TTU has found an extra gear since their trip to Kansas.

They have been playing like a Top 5 team the past few weeks.

 

[CloniesForLife]

Those are "game scores" from Barttovik.

http://www.barttorvik.com/team.php?team=Texas+Tech

The scores are your percentile relative to the 353 teams in men's college basketball for your performance on a given night. Scoring a 99 means you were better than roughly 99% of other CBB teams that night, so roughly top three or four in the country.

0 = you played like the worst team in the country
100 = you played like the best team in the country

Since the loss in Lawrence, TTU has been obliterating people...

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...and gotten nothing but 99 and 100 for game scores.

Their "worst" game was beating Oklahoma, a team fighting to make the tournament, by 12 in Norman. Beating up decent/good teams like that on the road is not easy. That was their worst game of the run, too. TTU has found an extra gear since their trip to Kansas.

They have been playing like a Top 5 team the past few weeks.

That's cool thanks!

 

[cyclones500]

TCU x2 but also home to KSU. It's those close losses that hurt the most.

Also, BU in Waco was there for the taking.

 

[4theCYcle]

Also, BU in Waco was there for the taking.

Yeah, which I would say the dreadful losses were the home KSU, @Waco/home baylor, @TCU and @KU because they were all lost by 4 points or less.

 

[Cydkar]

Not a quandary for me. I want ISU to beat TT regardless of the scenario.

Kind of a no-brainer to me. What the standings are is what they are.

 

[cyclones500]

Yeah, which I would say the dreadful losses were the home KSU, @Waco/home baylor, @TCU and @KU because they were all lost by 4 points or less.

Somehow I forget how close we were to winning at KU (maybe that's built-in expectation "absorbing" a loss at Phog). Bummer how even 1 more win among any of those and we'd still be in realistic mix to at least tie for the title.

But I don't want to ignore close wins that might've tipped it the other way -- at OU, vs. UT and at OSU weren't slam-dunks.

 

[spitfyr36]

but I'd like the streak to die and knock the arrogance off KU's fan base. .

I doubt that ending the streak will change that.
They already have a built in excuse with injuries and players leaving/suspended.