I guess Iowa's collapse will start in March this year...

[CyDude16]

As much as it sucks, if he keeps beating us every other year his job his safe.

He’s 3-6 v. Iowa State.

 

[Cyrocks]

I didn’t even get to watch the Iowa game, as I had an intramural game of my own. Sorry you missed me so much.

I give you credit for finding the time out of your busy schedule to come over to an Iowa State message board to talk about an Iowa loss. Mighty big of you.

 

[Cyrocks]

It’s tough to win on the road in the Big Ten...such a difficult conference from top to bottom. No gimmes outside the KenPom Top 100 in the Big Ten- the only conference in America where that is the case.

Rutgers and Ohio State didn't have a problem winning on the road this weekend. Michigan State found it quite easy to win on the road at Iowa last week.

 

[JP4CY]

It’s tough to win on the road in the Big Ten...such a difficult conference from top to bottom. No gimmes outside the KenPom Top 100 in the Big Ten- the only conference in America where that is the case.

LOL the depths you are reaching to try and make awful points.
Rutgers is currently 100, WV is 101, that's not a huge difference.

Let me give you a Kenpom take. Big 12 has two teams worse than 44th, B10 has five.

 

[SECyclone]

LOL the depths you are reaching to try and make awful points.
Rutgers is currently 100, WV is 101, that's not a huge difference.

Let me give you a Kenpom take. Big 12 has two teams worse than 44th, B10 has five.

Boom

 

[ca4cy]

Born and raised in iowa. Was it a grammatical error? I pretty much suck at language arts.

I assume he's referring to your spelling of defense with a c. I wouldn't lose any sleep over it.

 

[Pitt_Clone]

I feel like they're going to pull off enough wins in February to make the tourney, but if they don't would it be the biggest collapse in the Fran era?

 

[JP4CY]

Boom

Another one, half the B12 teams are Kenpom top 25. Only conference in the country!

 

[cycloner29]

I didn’t even get to watch the Iowa game, as I had an intramural game of my own. Sorry you missed me so much.

Guess this is something between you and yourself.

 

[Cyclonepride]

I feel like they're going to pull off enough wins in February to make the tourney, but if they don't would it be the biggest collapse in the Fran era?

The bar is high here, but I think they can do it.

 

[cyrocksmypants]

Born and raised in iowa. Was it a grammatical error? I pretty much suck at language arts.

Haha, no, just an observation of how you spell defense, like they do in Canada, Great Britain, Australia, etc.

 

[cyrocksmypants]

The bar is high here, but I think they can do it.

I don’t know. Weren’t they like, as high as #3 the year they ended up losing in the play-in game?

 

[Cyclonepride]

I don’t know. Weren’t they like, as high as #3 the year they ended up losing in the play-in game?

Yeah, something like that. It's going to be very tough to win enough to get to that team, and then lose enough to fail that hard. I'm sure they can do the latter half though.

 

[BillBrasky4Cy]

As much as it sucks, if he keeps beating us every other year his job his safe.

Why would that suck? I would be fine with sacrificing a P5 road game every other year if that keeps Fran at Iowa forever.

 

[Cyched]

Why would that suck? I would be fine with sacrificing a P5 road game every other year if that keeps Fran at Iowa forever.

I mean the initial suckage of losing to the Hoks. Pretty clear that our team has moved on from that game, while that's still their crowning achievement.

 

[madguy30]

I don’t know. Weren’t they like, as high as #3 the year they ended up losing in the play-in game?

Looked it up...they got to #10 in 13-14 and lost in the play in game, got to no. 3 in 2015-16 and lost to Villanova (real) 2nd round.

Actually won some games to close out the 14-15 season.

It's really not so much that Iowa's had that bad of teams...they're just a house of cards. If that's a real trend then it starts at top and makes CSP's trend of not having good in-bounds plays look minute.

 

[knowlesjam]

They play 2 ranked teams the rest of the way...both at Carver. They also have 2 games against Rutgers, 2 against Indiana, etc.

They play 1 game each against the top 4 teams in the conference.

Nice to have that beautiful, unbalanced schedule.

 

[Rural]

They play 2 ranked teams the rest of the way...both at Carver. They also have 2 games against Rutgers, 2 against Indiana, etc.

They play 1 game each against the top 4 teams in the conference.

Nice to have that beautiful, unbalanced schedule.

So, they'll either collapse or be a total fraud.

 

[Gunnerclone]

So, they'll either collapse or be a total fraud.

That’s usually what a sub 100 defense will get you.

 

[Remo Gaggi]

Agree with you, however, it's their version of the NBA Finals.

Even with the win this year he's only 3-6 vs ISU, looking down the barrel at 3-7 his superbowl next year.