Graham Couch: Iowa Basketball is a mid-major roster

Then explain how ISU could have 6 of the 7 best players between the 2 squads last year but end up similarly ranked by several different metrics with Iowa ahead in Sagarin.

You are a broken record. Always dodging every simple question with excuses and stats no one cares about. You know Twins list is right, and frankly besides maybe putting Garza on their (maybe), its spot on.
 
Then explain how ISU could have 6 of the 7 best players between the 2 squads last year but end up similarly ranked by several different metrics with Iowa ahead in Sagarin.
Who is your top 7 players from Duke and West Virginia? They have about the same distance between them in the rankings as Iowa and Iowa St., would you say West Virginia has to have at least 3 players in the top 7?
 
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How can it be 5-2 in favor of ISU when they were ranked within a few spots in RPI and Iowa was ranked higher by Sagarin?

Also, I am assuming you would have Jackson ahead of Bohannon if you were ranking last seasons squads. So ISU had 6 of the top 7 players but the teams were similarly ranked by RPI and Sagarin.

I assume they are close in KenPom as well but that is blocked at my work for some reason.

It is impossible for you to be objective.

Probably cause you consider Jeff Sagarin The King Sports Statistician and you scorned Ken Pomeroy!! Don't give the BS about CyTwins on this as you always revert back to Sagarin on rankings and I'm not going to provide you a link either Mr. Short Term Memory. Prove me wrong.
 
Here would be my all Iowa lineup this year

G - Babb
G - Wigginton
G - Shayok
F - THT
F - Lard

Bench
Young
Bohannon
Wieskamp
Talley
Griffin or Jacobson


Run a solid 9 man rotation most of the time with a chance to go 10 deep as needed
 
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@CyTwins said he was a plus defender and I disagreed.

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DBPM said Talley was a plus defender last year.

He was about what we thought he would be -- a slightly plus defender and slightly negative offensive player because of his lack of shooting, a generally versatile player who does many things well but has no real outstanding skills, so a nice switchblade to have on the bench for a good P6 team. I think he has proven he can fill that role he will fill for next year.

He is like Mario in all those old N64 games. No real strengths, but no real weaknesses, either.
 

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