Respectfully, I'm tired of this narrative, and hope this team puts it to bed. You're absolutely right that Kentucky could give Iowa State problems on offense. But Arizona has a helluvalotta length and athleticism, and Iowa State played them close two of the last three meetings. Houston is plenty athletic, hasn't stopped Iowa State from beating them. St. John's has size—or at least one of the best bigs in the country—and physicality, and Iowa State went blow for blow with them. I don't want to see Kentucky, but if Iowa State can play with the focus it had against Arizona, there's no particular matchup that worries me. Now, obviously that's the if of the tournament
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Respectfully, I'm tired of this narrative, and hope this team puts it to bed. You're absolutely right that Kentucky could give Iowa State problems on offense. But Arizona has a helluvalotta length and athleticism, and Iowa State played them close two of the last three meetings. Houston is plenty athletic, hasn't stopped Iowa State from beating them. St. John's has size—or at least one of the best bigs in the country—and physicality, and Iowa State went blow for blow with them. I don't want to see Kentucky, but if Iowa State can play with the focus it had against Arizona, there's no particular matchup that worries me. Now, obviously that's the if of the tournament
ISU might lose to Tennessee State or win the whole thing, but I am not worried. At the end of the day, just kids playing a game. That being said, Let's Go State!
Here is why I am encouraged. Ever since the second half of the ASU game at Hilton, our team has played great. And one thing that no one has really brought up, Arizona had a huge advantage on us in that they played only one game before they played us, we played two games in two days. Despite that we took them to the find possession. I think if we had fresh legs, only one game like Zona had, we take them. I doubt Lipsey goes 1/10 from the field against Zona if he had played two games in two days.
Of course we should be worried, precisely because a final four run would mean so much and this team has the best chance in modern school history. Even a better chance than the 2000 team which had to go up against Michigan State before the final four because the committee was a horrible joke and ****** ISU. This year the field is wide open, and we have as good a chance as any of the top teams. If Iowa State doesn't at a minimum reach the elite eight, I will get over it, but it will take weeks to months.
At this point, we are who we are. I don't see the FT% going up, now. Dance with them that brung ya'. Hard defense and points on turnovers.
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Only thing Im worried about is how much money its going to cost me for beer the 4 days Im in the STL.
I've lived in Nashville the past 10 years. I didn't even realize East Tennessee was in Nashville until the bracket was announced.
I was all ready to refute this so I looked up ISU's season FT%: .672. I then compared it to the conference only FT%: .672.
I think you may be right.
Jinx's died along with Campbell's career here. **** the jinx. Let's ****** win some games. Jinx's are for ******** programs
At least Tamin, Josh, and Blake have all shot better in their careers. So maybe can improve a bit.
Narrator: *everyone slowly checks their cups and fastens them*
At the end of the day this is the best cyclone team in a long time, they have a near-ideal draw and they look like they're playing their best basketball of the season right now. I know anything could happen but a deep run absolutely should be the expectation for this team, and if that isn't the expectation for some then I don't know what type of team they're waiting for. Maybe I haven't been an ISU fan long enough but anything short of a close Elite Eight loss will be incredibly disappointing and emotionally hedging by predicting early exits won't take that away if they lose early.
As a guy we all admire once said: "People expect me to do big things. I will!"
Do not fear high expectations. Embrace them. Let them fuel the excellence that brought you to this point.
Do not fear high expectations. Embrace them. Let them fuel the excellence that brought you to this point.
Just my two cents but it feels like outside of Michigan, the B1G is getting WAY too much love this year. The bottom tier is absolutely awful and I wouldn't call the middle tier super strong either. It just feels like everyone has pushed their chips all in on on these predictive analytic tools but they almost feel outdated with conferences getting bigger etc.
