Dreaming @ HawkeyeNation
- Thread starter nfrine
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'What If's' are fun. Can only imagine how well Iowa would've done if they'd gotten to play a crappy 12 seed in the round of 32 and an overrated 1 seed who couldn't even beat a 10 seed in the sweet 16.
Um no. Neither team could have at their peak this season. Both teams run out of talent when facing teams like UNC and Nova.
Temple was probably the best team in that bracket. No way we'd get past those shooters.
I love how you argue the sarcastic rankings. You never miss a chance to call someone out.
Well if your conference would of preformed in the tourney, we wouldn't of had to play a crappy 12 seed.
That they are.
Since the clearly overrated 5 seed that lost to a 12 seed in the first round and the clearly overrated 2 seed that lost to a 15 seed in the first round accounted for the four best wins of a certain 7 seed's bloated RPI, that 7 seed would have been a 9 seed like it clearly should have been all along. If the overrated 7 seed hadn't had an inflated RPI all season long, it would have had a chance to play a no 1 seed in the round of 32 as a 9 seed and not needed a tip-in to beat a overrated 10-seed that was on almost everyone's last four in prognostications and could've avoided the 2 seed champion. Sure, if the overrated 7 seed was playing as a 9 seed it would've probably gotten throttled just as badly by a 1 seed since it would have drawn the 1 seed in the round of 32, but we're talking semantics at this point. Whether you lose by 19 or 30 or whatever, it's really the same. But like you said, the 'what if' game is fun.
I guess when you played the BIG 10 basketball (or football) teams last year that Iowa did it was pretty easy to think you were WAAAAAAAYYY better than you actually were. Oh, yeah, I forgot they almost beat a one armed QB in the FB Championship game.
The irony of an Iowa fan complaining about someone else benefiting from playing a weak schedule...