Yes but they were early with a young team and a significant injury. We are a significantly better team than we were in November. Purdue is the only one I can see a real argument in that scenario and I just don’t buy Purdue.
ISU up to #6...
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Missing Ward was a huge factor. They are still losses, but we aren’t the same team without him.
It's wild how the 99-00 team was ranked for fewer weeks than both of the previous two teams; and one fewer weeks than the '87-88 team (which got a 12 seed in the tournament).
Also forgot ISU had a 3-decade AP poll drought from 57-58 to 87-88.
Among other notable notables.
Goal for me is just to play hard and leave feeling hungry. @#2 in a payback game is always a long shot.
Our two transfer guards were nowhere near as far along either.
That team had absolutely no respect starting season which is kind of crazy given Fizer would have been a mid to late 1st round pick and came back.
Good goal to have. I look forward to seeing what you do on the court tonight.
I guess coming off a 15-15 season, it doesn't shock me being ignored, even if retrospectively it seems like a little higher expectation was warranted.
99-00 was odd because of course there was the Drake loss right off the bat, won a few, lost to then-#1 Cincy, then wins vs a lot of nobodies - the next ranked team was at OU (lost in 2OT).
On the other hand, ISU was 18-3 before it finally got ranked. How many 17-3 P5 teams have been unranked (regardless of schedule)?
This seems like not a coincidence that Kellis Robinett does this the week BYU comes to play at KState. Fishy
The Iowa State AP Poll oddity is again Nick Alvarez. Has ISU #14 (lowest of any voter) and Wisconsin at #17. He is one of only two voters to rank Wisconsin and has them #17! He works for an Alabama newspaper in Birmingham so not sure what he his goal is here or if he's just very bad ranking basketball teams.
I happened to catch like 30 seconds of Dan Dakitch (who is an unsufferable douche) talking to Gottlieb, and he said he was watching Princeton and Cornell, who are 2-3 in the Ivy behind Yale, and said those two teams are better than every team in the Big 10 except Purdue, Illinois and maybe MSU.
Johnny Orr brought this program from the ashes, brought Hilton Magic. Everything since then was because of what he started.
Considering we were 2-15 on Feb 2, 2021 it is quite the accomplishment that we were ranked 6th. Must have had a really hard schedule
