Where will Iowa State end after this season?
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Voted NIT. There will be a few bumps early on with so many new guys and typical first year coach growing pains. But if they gel, there's enough turnover in the conference they could get enough wins to make it.
Not going to throw a fit if this doesn't happen, though.
Not going to throw a fit if this doesn't happen, though.
NIT is ceiling, a few games below .500 is the floor. We'll be much more competitive and then '22 is a tourney team.
You're in the ballpark.
Regular-season conference champions that don't get automatic bid (or at-large) to NCAA Tournament receive auto-invite to NIT.
The rest of the field tends to include bubble teams from multi-bid leagues.
It's different from the days when it was a 40-team field -- or when it was non-bracketed, unseeded event, when field was based a lot on attendance/fan-base viewership.
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What was that thread a few days ago? About greatest # of wins turnaround from previous season. I saw ISU right up there in # of wins gained from '98-99 to '99-00. Am I remembering correctly?
I'll go with that, haha. Why not?
I'll go with that, haha. Why not?
I believe most was 19, Iowa State's best is 17. I would be fine in beating that and getting 18+ more wins (so 20 win season).
Do we know enough of our non-con schedule to predict?
In conference I would put o/u on wins at 5. If we have 12 non-con games maybe we can go 8-4? so 13-15 would be my guess not counting Conference Tourney.
Not crazy to think we could win a 6/9, 7/8 matchup in first of round of tourney, maybe we are playing for NIT invite against KU/Baylor/Texas/WVU in 2nd round?
In conference I would put o/u on wins at 5. If we have 12 non-con games maybe we can go 8-4? so 13-15 would be my guess not counting Conference Tourney.
Not crazy to think we could win a 6/9, 7/8 matchup in first of round of tourney, maybe we are playing for NIT invite against KU/Baylor/Texas/WVU in 2nd round?
CFH's first team finished right at .500 (16-16). I love this offseason so far, but we haven't seen these guys play together in an organized, official game yet, so I'm personally willing to pump the brakes a bit here.
Without knowing what our non-con looks like I'll be happy with 10 wins total (as I've written a couple of times before). I would be happy with a record like above, and downright ecstatic with an NIT bid. If TJ somehow gets this team into the NCAA tournament after winning 2 games last season then he needs to be given a lifetime contract.
Without knowing what our non-con looks like I'll be happy with 10 wins total (as I've written a couple of times before). I would be happy with a record like above, and downright ecstatic with an NIT bid. If TJ somehow gets this team into the NCAA tournament after winning 2 games last season then he needs to be given a lifetime contract.
Iirc Fred's first team was a bit more thrown together with the 'big' plan being for the following season with RW and Co.
Perhaps with a plan for roles, strengths with what's coming in in the 'now', something a bit more gets put together.
I'm probably being overly optimistic...but I voted us to be an NCAA tourney team.
Specific opponents, not really.
We know:
- Iowa
- NIT Season Tip-Off field (but no pairings): Memphis, Virginia Tech, Xavier.
- Two on-campus games for Tip-Off (I think that's the setup)
- Big 12-Big East battle (H/A TBA)
- Big 12/SEC Challenge (H/A TBA)
For the rest, I assume we'll go heavy on low-D1 buy-game route.
I don’t think I have unrealistic expectations for the ceiling on this team (ncaa bubble) but 10 total wins would be pretty disappointing, considering it’d be our worst full season in like 40 years.
