Des Moines Region March Madness

exCYtable

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It's time to aim our sights higher than we ever dreamed coming into this season. What do we need to do to get placed in Des Moines for the first weekend of March Madness?
 
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I know one and two seeds get preferential treatment for location and I think they try to fit three and four seeds in a regional location as well but not as much. Will likely need to finish first or second or top four in the big 12 to sniff a chance at that. Given the strength of the big 12 a few losses won't hurt that much.

I'd say 12 or more wins in the big 12 gives us a chance with each win above that increasing the odds.
 
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It's probably best to revisit this topic after Valentines day.

To answer your question,either a Top 3 finish in the Big 12 or finish lower and win the Big 12 tourney in KC like Hoibergs teams and it would probably be enough.
 
It's time to aim our sights higher than we ever dreamed coming into this season. What do we need to do to get placed in Des Moines for the first weekend of March Madness?

Top 4 seed and finish ahead of Texas should do it.
 
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Seems like the NCAA owes us a favor after we should have been there the first year but got screwed because we were the host school. Not that the NCAA has ever been one to do favors.
 
Gotta also hope for other teams in the midwest to not do well. Kansas. Kansas State. Missouri. Arkansas. Wisconsin. Iowa State. (Maybe) Illinois. All are capable of winning enough to see Des Moines.
 
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Defend Hilton and win three or more conference games on the road. I think thatd be good enough for 2nd or 3rd in the conference and a top 3 or 4 seed...no? 12- 6 in conference. No bad out of conference losses (Go Hawks and Uconn!). I dont think thats completely outside the realm of possibility for this team whatsoever. We are fans its okay to dream and speculate. That Des Moines/Kansas City regional would be pretty dang sweet!
 
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Defend Hilton and win three or more conference games on the road. I think thatd be good enough for 2nd or 3rd in the conference and a top 3 or 4 seed...no? 12- 6 in conference. No bad out of conference losses (Go Hawks and Uconn!). I dont think thats completely outside the realm of possibility for this team whatsoever. We are fans its okay to dream and speculate. That Des Moines/Kansas City regional would be pretty dang sweet!

Those weren't bad losses, either. Road loss to major conference team and neutral court loss to a legit national title contender. Not bad losses at all.
 
I keep reading the title as "Des Moines Register March Madness", click on it hoping to see that Randy lost hard in round one.
 

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