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ClonesTwentyOne

ClonesTwentyOne

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What would you be satisfied with at the end of the season? IMO it's got to the point to where if we don't make the Sweet 16 it'll be a disappointment. Don't get me wrong, that's a good thing. Hoiberg has got this program to the point where we should expect more and want more. What does everyone else think?
 
You can't judge a basketball season by the tournament, it's too wild of an event. Where we finish in the conference is a more accurate measurement of how the season went. I expect us to finish 1 or 2, but won't be completely disappointed with 3 or 4.

I'd be really disappointed to finish 5th or worse.
 
I voted Elite 8, but if we had a great year finishing 1st or 2nd in the Big 12 regular season, and got bounced in the 2nd (3rd) or Sweet 16, i wouldn't be too upset as the tourney is the tourney.
 
I want to win the Big 12 conference out right. Anything after that is gravy in my opinion.
 
I've got some progressive goals this season:

1) Beat KU in the regular season (preferably on the road)
2) Win the conference
3) Defend the tourney title
4) Get in to the tourney and see what happens
 
Top three in the B12 and a four seed or higher, whatever happens in the tournament happens.
 
I would say getting to the weekend (so third round now) but that wasn't an option so I said making it to the tourney. There's just so much that can happen in the tourney that expecting to go to the sweet 16 just seems like a bit much to me.
 
This is hard to say because losing in the tournament at any time always is disappointing because you always wonder what could have happened if you had just won one more game.

The NCAA tourney is the most fun event of the season but the games I always remember best are the crazy nights in Hilton.
 
Either Elite 8 or win regular season Big 12. Don't even make the Sweet 16 and I'll be fairly disappointed.
 
I voted NIT because I thought it was funny that it was an option. C'mon, this isn't Hawkeye Nation.
 
BBHMagic said:
The NCAA tourney is the most fun event of the season but the games I always remember best are the crazy nights in Hilton.
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But how can you listen to this and not be 100% amped up???

[video=youtube;dhC5-uIJJWQ]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhC5-uIJJWQ[/video]

March Madness is the single best sporting event around IMO, and college basketball isn't even my favorite sport. It is that good.
 
Past the Elite 8 and I think I would feel like we were playing with house money by that point. Hard to predict how I will feel in the future.

Really though, as long as the team plays hard and buys into what Fred is teaching; whatever result comes of that I would be happy with.
 
I expect ISU to finish in the top 4 of the Big XII. Anything less would be disappointing in my mind. In terms of realistic goals that would be above expectations: I think that y'all could win the Big XII regular season. Conference tourney won't matter for y'all.

Tourney expectations depend on the matchups.
 
As others have said, having no options that take into account the regular season makes it harder to gauge satisfaction level. But the poll is probably simpler this way.

I chose Sweet 16.

If Iowa State has a fantastic regular season and lands a 1 or 2 seed, anything short of Elite 8 might feel like a missed opportunity, but I doubt I'd find it unsatisfactory.

It'd mean ISU got to the second weekend for the second straight season, and getting a 1 or 2 seed would almost certainly involve at least a share of the Big 12 regular season title.

If regular season is equal or a step back from last year, but we still see 2 wins in the tournament, I couldn't complain.
 
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