Conference record predictions

[CyPunch]

In true Cyclone fashion, what looked to be a favorable draw preseason has flipped to one of the most difficult schedules in the Big 12. Thanks BYU and Oklahoma. We play most of the bottom teams just once.

If we are .500 or better in January you should feel really good about things.

Prediction: 9-9 + 1 win in KC. 6 or 7 seed in the Dance.

 

[VeloClone]

.500 would be my expectation. Biggest issue is we need a couple of quality wins in that 9 games because we don’t have one yet

You do realize that 7 of the next 9 are NET Q1 games, right? There will be plenty of opportunity for quality wins. If the team goes .500 in conference there is no doubt in my mind that those wins will include some quality wins. It's pretty much impossible for them to win half of the conference games and not have some quality wins. In fact as of right now, 12 of their 18 conference games are Q1.

 

[AvonLakeCyclone]

I think we go 9-9. And I do believe 8-10 in this conference is good for the dance.
I'm concerned that poor free throw shooting will cost us one or more games, and the tendency to not close out a half strong (which is related to missing too many front ends of 1 and 1's and not running teams off the three point line).

 

[CYEATHAWK]

In true Cyclone fashion, what looked to be a favorable draw preseason has flipped to one of the most difficult schedules in the Big 12. Thanks BYU and Oklahoma. We play most of the bottom teams just once.

If we are .500 or better in January you should feel really good about things.

Prediction: 9-9 + 1 win in KC. 6 or 7 seed in the Dance.

Playing Texas, Kansas and Baylor just once.

 

[cyclones500]

I have it as 10-8. Going 8-10 wouldn't surprise me - anything less I think would be underachieving and definitely disappointing.

Not sure I would expect anything better than 11-7, although you never know.

I did a game-by-game guess, several could go either way. I’m not sure how “good” ISU is, but I have the same uncertainty for several conference mates (notably BYU, KSU, OU). First half of schedule looks daunting.

L Jan. 6 at Oklahoma
L Jan. 9 Houston
W Jan. 13 Oklahoma State
L Jan. 16 at BYU
L Jan. 20 at TCU
W Jan. 24 Kansas State
L Jan. 27 Kansas
L Feb. 3 at Baylor
L Feb. 6 at Texas
W Feb. 10 TCU
W Feb. 13 at Cincinnati
W Feb. 17 Texas Tech
L Feb. 19 at Houston
W Feb. 24 West Virginia
W Feb. 28 Oklahoma
W March 2 at UCF
W March 6 BYU
W/L March 9 at Kansas State

Games like Kansas and Houston (at home), might be L’s that are “coulda/shoulda” wins. We’ll probably have a “dud” loss at some point, I won’t try to speculate what game that’d be, at this point.