It's actually very normal for some teams to vastly improve from game one to game twelve. It's also normal for teams to stay roughly the same. Hell its normal for teams to regress. Iowa State was a team that vastly improved, and there's no arguing that.
You can't say for sure that a more experienced version of that team would win those games we almost won, but common sense tells you that normally more experienced teams win those games.
You can't say for sure that a more experienced version of that team would win those games we almost won, but common sense tells you that normally more experienced teams win those games.