Agreed, we got a terrible seed for third in the big twelve, would have been fun to play somebody other than number one on almost their home court.
Why ISU lost...
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If we beat Texas in the B12 tournament we're probably in a better position to make a deeper run. Although as nice as that would be, watching the beat down of Uconn in the first round almost made getting the tough draw worth it. That was nice.
Depends on how you want to look at it. ISU shot 38 percent from 3 this year as a team - Kentucky 37 percent. The only significant difference is ISU took way more 3s while Kentucky was able to get more dunks/layups. Fred had to pick his poison tonight and he chose wisely IMO. Kentucky just shot lights out and made us pay.
I agree that he chose wisely. It just sucks that UK hit 50% of their treys tonight.
I don't know that we played well enough to win. We did give a good enough effort to get to the end with a chance.
Scotty shooting that 5 footer 2 1/2 feet on the lob, and then we missed three great looks from 3, Babb first, then two from Tyrus, if those go down, it is a completely different game.
Unfortunately, we didn't make them, and they got away from us...Still proud of the way that we competed with that team.
They were 15-64 from three their last five games. A shooting performance from them like that tonight, and we may be talking about a different outcome. Their shooting was phenomenal. Noone in the country would have played them close tonight.
we gave kentucky all they wanted when we tied them at42-42-but how in the hell do you stay with a team that lights up the basket the second half when they shoot the lights out with their 3 point shooting. kentucky has been a great story in the college basketball world when they had a great coach named adolph rupp.calipari is a fine coach.too. mcdermott really messed up our program. b4 it is all said and done,coach fred hoiberg has got iowa state's program going in the proper direction.
Next year we need to take Drake and UNI more seriously. Michigan should have been our only loss in nonconference. It put us in a hole and then we succumbed to an 8 seed. People who say it is only nonconference games probably remember McD years when that was the case. When you go to NCAA, they count in the realtime college RPI.
Chris Allen was the only other guy besides Royce that didn't play like he was scared ********. He was aggressive, and really tried to lead the team. I was extremely impressed with how he handled himself in the early part of the game where they jumped on us...
The only thing we could have done was tatoo Scottie and CA to their two guards. Our two guards have a tendency to play off the three point shooters. The announcers were chortling that they better step up into their faces, but we did not as we did not want to foul them. That strategy would work great against Syracuse, but we were playing three lottery pick guards tonight.
This...The lesson from this year is that we let opportunities slip away from us. The in-state games, also the Okie State game, both UT games...Take care of business in those games, and this group is getting ready to play next week...
Of course we could have easily lost to Okie State at home, and we probably should have lost to K State at least once. Things even out, but we had great opportunities that we struggled with.
It's all part of learning how to win. The program is in its infancy stages. We will win those games going forward...
That's one of the things about this season — should have won 2 or 3 additional games, but also could have lost a few that went our way.
Exactly. Good forwards and their guards were making some very impressive shots. Hell, could have beaten an NBA team tonight with how they played.
If you dig a little deeper the reason why we shot so poorly was because Ashley Judd's huge puffy face blocked the view of the rim.
I'm just bitter.
I'm just bitter.
I think Calipari said they make 4 threes a game. We make 9 a game and shoot 1.1% worse than them. If they shot as many 3's as we did there % would go down, the more u shoot the more likely u are to miss.Also since they don't shoot very much 3's, I assume there getting a lot better looks than us. So whoever said there a better 3point shooting team than ISU is wrong. Not that it matters, cuz they won and are the better team. just wanted to point that out.
Many posters are pointing to the 3pt shooting as ISU's downfall, which certainly played a part, but ISU also missed a number of close shots around the basket that could have helped slow UK's momentum/fast break. Something to work on for next year.
They did, though I think the Eyebrow had something to do with that. A couple of those shots were very unnatural, and I'm sure the shot blockers of Kentucky had something to do with it.