Well, we have 20 games and 15 opponents. We should play eryone at least once so that leaves 5 teams for a home and away. How they select which 5 for each team will be interesting. I imagine we will see a lot conference SOS variation.
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Maybe they’ll port over the FB ones.
Wouldn’t you want Utah/BYU to have a home and home every season if you could, etc.?
Me? Yes. Rivalries make college sports. The people that push the button?
CW said that he was sitting by Palm yesterday at the WV game, and Palm told him that ISU still had a lot of work left to do to get placed in Omaha. I guess beating WV was enough? ISU may have some work left to do to secure a three seed in Omaha, but not a lot of work left.
I wonder if Palm thinks Wisconsin has done enough damage lately to their resume to fall below a four or five seed.
Palm is really, really bad at this (and bowl projections). Data backs this up.
Wish more people would ignore him.
Wish more people would ignore him.
Palm is a Big Ten shill, don’t give him a second thought
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The Williams Blum podcast said he was there because he had never been to Hilton. I think it was CW that talked with him.
Palm is a f*cking moron. Minus a huge collapse, Iowa State is basically a lock for Omaha and close to a lock for the MW region.
Palm is a moron. It would be a travesty if we got below a 3 at this point. Fred's last 2 teams were 3 seeds and we have alot better metrics than those teams.
One thing I always find interesting is how much weight the committee does or does not put into the Conference tournaments. If Iowa State would win out and the beat Houston in the title game, how do you keep us off the 2 line? It just seems like some years the seeding is already decided by mid day Saturday.
Yeah, I think it only really seems to matter when a well seeded team suffers a bad loss in their tournament, or a bubble team beats a good team (or more) in theirs. When an already well regarded team wins it, it doesn't seem to move the needle.
I really don't think that bracketologists spend a lot of time worrying about location when doing their seeding.
Seems that way because it is that way. They have contingencies for big upsets that would qualify a team not in but things are pretty set before the weekend. Nothing over the weekend is going to impact any Top 25 teams. The sorting hat has already selected out "house" by than. It's been my impression for years that ISU fans, because of their traditional love of the tourney in KC, always overemphasis that tournament, especially on the women's side.
A bubble team might play themselves on or off with a couple of weekday conference tournament games but that's nowhere near where we are.
Sure, we are probably a 2 seed (maybe a 1) if that happens. But what if we drop one of our remaining games and only win one game in the conference tournament? I don't think most people are assuming best case scenario like you just laid out.