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

[alarson]

It's damn near a miracle we may head into halftime only down 5-8 points.

Hell, it could be 3 right now if they hadn't straight up handed houston 2 points.

 

[Raiders70]

Shuffled his feet...no call but give them the timeout of couse.

 

[jctisu]

The Houston board is hating on Fran

Well they are dumb as hell then because the officiating has been horrendous.

 

[cycloneworld]

Wow! They were able to 8,000 fans to a game. WOW!

Our women get 2k more than that every game.

 

[CYDJ]

Dude is a bigger fan than most of us lol

I love Fran, but no.

 

[JP4CY]

Took hard punches. I'll take that half.

 

[madguy30]

Guys whatever happens tonight, we have a ******* good team to be down 5 on the road against #2 with these **** ass refs

It's been a mess and they're right there in a place where most conference teams get lit up bad.

It's almost a better sign than the wins at home.

 

[ca4cy]

I don't usually ***** about officiating but this is freaking ridiculous.

Great job to be down 5 playing 5 on 8.

 

[Cyclonepride]

Good Lord, I need a nap. Our guys are every bit as tough as we thought they were. Hard to believe they fought their way to a close game while getting no calls at all. One hell of a half.

 

[alarson]

The Houston board is hating on Fran

I'll note the houston posters in the reddit game thread are even calling out the refs for home cooking.

 

[2speedy1]

How is 8,000 an arena record for a Big 12 school?

I mean the Brand new arena for Baylor only holds 7k, when their old one held 10k, because they said it was too big and couldnt fill it up.

UNIs arena is that big.

 

[Thomasrickj]

Considering this lopsided effort by the refs it’s amazing we are only down by 5 at the half.

 

[cal-cyclone]

great zone def on the last play. WE ARE IN THIS!!!!

 

[stormchaser2014]

Forcing them to take another timeout there is huge.

 

[Walden4Prez]

I will eat crow from my earlier post about the fat lady singing. This team doesn’t give up.

 

[caulkasian]

Coach, how do you plan to "piss down your leg" in the second half

 

[pulse]

Waaah Sampson. Gilbert was playing with 2

 

[Prone2Clone]

I'll take being down 5 at half after that first 20 minutes (and poor officiating).

 

[tim_redd]

Hit a couple more shots, get a few less terrible calls from the refs in the 2nd half and we got this!

 

[inCyteful]

That is the grittiest performance by an ISU team I have ever seen and it isn't close.