*** Official #6 IOWA STATE vs #2 Houston Game(Day) Thread ***

[ISU4Life]

 

[ESciGuy]

Going to have to fight, bite, scratch and claw for everything tonight. Houston is TOUGH on their home floor, so they're not going to give it to us. We're going to have to take it. If we are sharp tonight, we are good enough to do that.

 

[drmwevr08]

 

[CycloneVet]

Clones 61-59. Lipsey cashing it in high off the glass buzzer beater to win!!!!!!

I’d also take a beatdown. My heart would appreciate it.

 

[Clonefan32]

Coming out hot will be important. It's not a team you can afford to get down double digits to. It's a veteran team so I'm hopeful the road environment wont be too much for them.

 

[riceville98]

I’m so nervous I could puke everywhere.

I shouldn’t be though. A loss here isn’t the end of the world and this team has exceeded my expectations. But damn I want a chance at the title.

We can still get the title if this one's an L Just gets much harder and we have to have help

 

[c.y.c.l.o.n.e.s]

Winning a Big XII game is tough
Winning on the road is tough.
Traveling to Texas for a Big Monday game after a hard fought Saturday win is tough.
Beating a top 5 team is tough.
Houston is tough.

Winning a Big XII road game on Big Monday against a very good top 5 Houston team will be very, very, very tough.

Yet with all of that said, these guys keep finding a way to win so I am not going to doubt them.
Go Clones!

 

[riceville98]

Rebound, Rebound, Rebound.

and make shots, make shots, make shots. (the few times that we have good ones)

 

[clones2005]

Let's go Cyclones! Shock the world (at least the world outside of Iowa )!

 

[c.y.c.l.o.n.e.s]

Feels like this game should start with a cage match.

I don't think there are any teams in the country that come out with more emphasis on punching the other team in the mouth right away.

If we can be there with them (within 2 scores) at under 16 TO, it will come down to 1 or 2 plays at the end. If we go down multiple possessions early it is going to be a long night.

We need to somehow keep Jamal Shead in check if that is possible. In Hilton, it seemed like every time I would start to fell comfortable about the game he would come down and hit huge shots to keep Houston close.

 

[Malty Flannel]

I think UH does a much better job of taking care of the ball than they did in Ames. We will need to shoot 50/40/80 to have a chance.

 

[pourcyne]

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[riceville98]

I have a hard time predicting an ISU win in this one. It will be a low scoring rock fight, I'll go 60-58 Clones win

 

[mj4cy]

Going to have to fight, bite, scratch and claw for everything tonight. Houston is TOUGH on their home floor, so they're not going to give it to us. We're going to have to take it. If we are sharp tonight, we are good enough to do that.

If we can hit a couple threes early, it'll really open up things. Otherwise they are going to clamp down hard and it'll be tough.

 

[CoachHines3]

houston is an analyitcal machine

 

[Cyched]

 

[madguy30]

I have a hard time predicting an ISU win in this one. It will be a low scoring rock fight, I'll go 60-58 Clones win

I'd love even a chance at this outcome.

I'm feeling a night where it feels like Houston is all over the place and railroads ISU a bit.

Then the big challenge is staying the course Saturday.

 

[bosco]

What's a little weird is the ML for this game is +345. Meanwhile our odds of winning the B12 is 220.

Guess Vegas thinks our odds of losing and winning out and Houston to stumble later on is higher then us winning this game.

 

[riceville98]

What's a little weird is the ML for this game is +345. Meanwhile our odds of winning the B12 is 220.

Guess Vegas thinks our odds of losing and winning out and Houston to stumble later on is higher then us winning this game.

Anyone know what HOU has left to play? I know they finish with home VS KU

 

[bawbie]

Stat I’ll be watching tonight: points off turnovers. I like ISU chances if they have 20+ points off turnovers

I said this in another thread- but it bears repeating. In Ames we forced 16 turnovers and turned it over 12 times - but the points off turnovers we won 17-6. The 16 turnovers is the most Houston has had on the season by far - they had 12 in one scrub non-conference game and in conference play their high is 10. In their recent loss at KU, they turned it over 3 times. So I absolutely agree with this.

One other thing to watch - points in the paint. We won 22-18 in Ames, and both defenses greatly value defending the paint. Keeping them under 20 is huge.

Also - we won by 4 in Ames and went 18-22 from the FT line. BRE went 4-4!!