Yep, I'm done getting my hopes up. Just time to accept it is what it is
Today’s loss is due to Gameday.
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I've accepted it. Just isn't in our cards to capture a Big12 regular season title anytime soon.
I trust TJ to get things turned around come March and we can make a decent run.
We haven’t played like a dominant team on the road since conference play started. It shouldn’t have to come down to the last 5 minutes in every game we’ve played. I posted before the season started that we would miss Big Rob’s energy, I can’t imagine being dominated like we have been with him on the team.
When the **** have we been “dominant” on the road?
Losses suck but my goodness the things people say after is even worse. Blaming Rece Davis and gameday?
Check out the post-game presser with TJ.
You can tell the red button has been pushed.
No players out there with him.
He played 13 minutes.
Dig a little deeper.
And ISU likely doesn't beat Marquette without him.
This game was my fault. I have not been able to make a game this season. I finally went. We lost. I’ll stop going now and watch from my couch like normal. I apologize
This is KSUs 3 straight game of wins where they won by double digits...this is not a crappy team at the moment..
Or Tech, leading rebounder. People always have to find someone to hate.
On the offensive side of the floor- for sure. We could continue to let Heise play "Hot Potato" with the ball on the offensive end.
This. They have talented dudes. And they’re finally figuring out how to play effectively together.
I think our front line of big Rob, King, Ward are better at certian things than our front line this year. Jefferson is better than everyone, but collectiely the 3 from last year were better defenders and rebounders. Chatfield and Jackson are a little slow and struggle at times.
Me too. I went to the game in Manhattan last year also so I've had 2 of the most miserable experiences attending a game in person just in the last 11 months.
We seem to do best when expectations are low in the pre-season, and struggle when those expectations are high. Numerous examples of this in football and both men's basketball and women's basketball.
We haven't had many men's BB teams with high expectations at the start of the year that then lived up to those expectations.
Larry only had one team that was ranked to start the year, #25 in 2001.
Of Fred's teams, only his last team was ranked to start the year (#14 in 2015), that team was pretty steady, #9-20 throughout the year and finished the regular season at #13 and entered the tourney ranked #9, but we all know how that season ended.
Tim Floyd's 1997 team with all five starters back as seniors was pre-season #11 and ranged from #4-18 throughout the year.
The 1997 team couldn't beat a juggernaut Kansas team that was #1 almost the entire year, 34-2 and had six NBA players including Paul Pierce and Raef LaFrentz. Almost got them at home, 69-62 loss, but lost to that team three times that year. The 1997 team otherwise only really had two bad losses, a 25-point blowout to a good Colorado team on the road, and an overtime loss at home to a mid Nebraska team. They sputtered to end the year, three close losses out of the last four Big 12 games then got our doors blown off by KU again the second round of the Big 12 tourney, but made a great NCAA tourney run.
This was the team knocked out by UCLA in the Sweet 16 on the Cameron Dollar miracle layup. Had the basketball gods not blessed that shot, the next game would have been against #1-seed Minnesota (Bobby Jackson team with five NBA players), then #1-seed Kentucky with six NBA players, so I don't think they were going much further, but you never know!
I'm fairly comfortable saying this is the only Cyclone men's basketball team since 1995-2024 that had high pre-season expectations and mostly lived up to those expectations.
I went to the ASU game and the men and the women have lost every game since then
I love how this sarcastic, joking thread got THREE dumbs. Never change, CF.
On expectations and underachieving, since it happens with some frequency with all three of our main teams, I wonder sometimes how much the lack of alternative sports attention options in the state contributes. I tell my Texan wife that the Cyclones are like the Dallas Cowboys of Ames, it's the only game in town. The attention/pressure from fans and media must surely get to the coaches and players sometimes.
Compared to a team like Houston where they're probably the 4th-most popular team at best in their own city and there's seven pro teams in the state in NFL/NBA/MLB along with the college football juggernauts.
Compared to a team like Houston where they're probably the 4th-most popular team at best in their own city and there's seven pro teams in the state in NFL/NBA/MLB along with the college football juggernauts.
