Tough day for EIU hoops hopes
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RPI is a bogus metric that undervalues defense and overvalues offense. Iowa state is barely a top 25 team per RPI. Drake is ranked ahead of them.
RPI has nothing to do with anything other than game results
It's your winning percentage, your opponent's winning percentage and your opponent's opponent's winning percentage.
Mids figured out how to crack the formula and it got replaced for the secret formula of the NET.
Finally getting around to reading about their stellar attendance at MBB games.
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Scanned Tickets Ave for MBB for 2023-2024 = 5,742 (38% of 14,998 Capacity). Average Attendance = 9,961
April 30, 2024 Update: Ave Attendance for MBB for the 2023-2024 season = 9,961. Scanned Tickets Ave (actual butts in the seats) = 5,742 (38% of 14,998 Capacity) Link to story...
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Fans don't come to Carver because Fran is an arrogant ****.
More accurately, fans don't come to Carver because Iowa doesn't win enough, because Iowa doesn't recruit well enough, because players don't want to play for Fran, because Fran has earned a reputation for being an arrogant **** to people.
He's not turning that thing around. It's just about how long UI is willing to put up with it.
More accurately, fans don't come to Carver because Iowa doesn't win enough, because Iowa doesn't recruit well enough, because players don't want to play for Fran, because Fran has earned a reputation for being an arrogant **** to people.
He's not turning that thing around. It's just about how long UI is willing to put up with it.
This guy must only watch BTN if he thinks the B1G has been the toughest conference in hoops for the last 10 years.
I found this hilarious in the DM Register:
"McCaffery believes Iowa fans “really support the team.”
“The key for us — and it’s been this way for a long time — is weekend games,” McCaffery said the day before the Ohio State game.
Weekend games are more amenable for fans traveling the roughly two hours from the Des Moines area, 30 minutes from Cedar Rapids or hour from the Quad Cities.
An 8 p.m. start time on a Tuesday, on the other hand, would mean someone traveling back to Des Moines might not make it home until midnight (while possibly having to work the next morning).
“We make it real easy for you to watch it on TV,” McCaffery said, “and they often don’t like the start times. During a midweek, you got issues with that. They show up on the weekends typically.”
To McCaffery’s point, weekend home games have experienced better turnout than weeknight home games. Iowa’s weeknight games have averaged 3,303 tickets scanned versus 6,390 on Friday, Saturday and Sunday games.
“We don’t want to use that as an excuse, but we do have to recognize that if you’re playing a weekday game at 8 p.m., then it’s going to impact who’s going to have the ability to attend,” Goetz said.
The 6,390 fans on average at Friday/Saturday/Sunday games still make up only 43 percent of Carver-Hawkeye Arena’s capacity."
"McCaffery believes Iowa fans “really support the team.”
“The key for us — and it’s been this way for a long time — is weekend games,” McCaffery said the day before the Ohio State game.
Weekend games are more amenable for fans traveling the roughly two hours from the Des Moines area, 30 minutes from Cedar Rapids or hour from the Quad Cities.
An 8 p.m. start time on a Tuesday, on the other hand, would mean someone traveling back to Des Moines might not make it home until midnight (while possibly having to work the next morning).
“We make it real easy for you to watch it on TV,” McCaffery said, “and they often don’t like the start times. During a midweek, you got issues with that. They show up on the weekends typically.”
To McCaffery’s point, weekend home games have experienced better turnout than weeknight home games. Iowa’s weeknight games have averaged 3,303 tickets scanned versus 6,390 on Friday, Saturday and Sunday games.
“We don’t want to use that as an excuse, but we do have to recognize that if you’re playing a weekday game at 8 p.m., then it’s going to impact who’s going to have the ability to attend,” Goetz said.
The 6,390 fans on average at Friday/Saturday/Sunday games still make up only 43 percent of Carver-Hawkeye Arena’s capacity."
This is so hilariously out of touch you almost have to respect it
That schedule is really poor.... just like football. And yet they are going to get $100 mil per year for that unwatchable drivel.
That's never stopped them from filling up CHA for CC on a weeknight.
I don't totally blame Iowa or Big 10 fans from being completely delusional about the Big 10 since the media and committee props them up year after year before reality ***** slaps them every March.
There's zero arguably about it. Big 12 has been the best league EVERY year for the past decade. Not on average over the course of 10 years, literally every single year for almost a decade per KenPom. Literally no one outside of the BTN would argue the Big 10 has been close to the toughest conference the past 10 years. No one.
Only those wealthy hok fans can afford those newfangled tv thingies.
They can't even attract the poor on campus students by bribing them with free pizza and drinks, that tells you everything in that article is complete BS.
So why is CHA packed for a 8PM weeknight game when CC plays? I'd like a reporter to ask Fran that question to see what excuse he comes up with next
Pretty sure Frank told people there were 15,000 when, in fact, there were only 9,000.
