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Speaking of "hot 3 point shooting" - Baylor has lost 4 straight and after leading all of NCAA in 3pt % in the non-conference, is shooting <30% in conference play. In their 3OT loss at home to TCU, in which they scored over 100 points, they made just 5 threes. They play @ UCF on Wednesday before hosting us Sat and then TTU next week before a trip to Phog Allen. Very curious if they can pull out of this skid with that schedule
You think their interim coach will care that much?
It doesn't matter too much if they're Q2 by the time we play them. It matters at the end of the season when the selection committee is looking at the team sheets that have Iowa State's record against each quadrant.
TAMU and VaTech have won a couple games after a rough section and are at sitting at 44 and 45 in the NET right now, meaning we are one of only 11 teams that all losses are Q1. That's an important point for seeding in March.
Last year we were 6-2 at this point and already had 2 conference road wins. I'd be fine with 10-8 right now. Every night is going to be a struggle in this league
I think we go 8-1 at home and 2-7 on the road.
I think we go 8-1 at home and 2-7 on the road.
I see it like this (Including Big 12 Tournament):
- 3 more wins and we play in Dayton
- 4 more wins = 8-10 seed
- 5 more wins =7-8 seed
- 6 more wins = 5-6 seed
- 7 more wins = 4-5 seed
- 8 more wins =2-3 seed
- 4-1 at home
- 1-5 on the road
- 1-1 in KC
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Yep! How quick some forget that last years team went 2-8 over the 10 game stretch from the end of January to end of February.. 3 of those were home losses.
- 4 of the next 10 are Q1a games
- basically like playing a Sweet 16 level of game
- 6 road games remaining
- only 5 home games
We do have alot better depth and our offense is pretty good this year so the odds of hitting another stretch like that are alot lower than the past 2 years.
This league is brutal though so I'm still going to take a cautious approach.
We also don't play @ WVU or @ OSU, the two worst teams in the conference by far, so the two easiest road wins aren't available. However, playing in Morgantown and Stillwater is NEVER easy
I agree and think many folks here are, respectfully, making some really optimistic projections. We have a lot of tough games remaining.
Winning 8 more games is extremely lofty in this league. Hope you’re right. To be honest I’m think more 4-5 range. The rest of the schedule is a grind. West Virginia at Hilton being the almost for-sure thing.
Maybe, but hot shooting from 3 IS harder to achieve in front of a Hilton crowd. If you told me the bottom falls out and there will only be one more win, having it be BYU would make me happy.
If only 2 more, give me at Texas.
I would be pretty surprised if we only won 4-5 of our next 11 games.
If it doesn't go K-state's way, I wonder what their crowd will do to take it out on the referees?
Obviously, they will throw stuff….
Matches their projection of their own spying on their opponents.