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The premise that Fred was unknown outside of Iowa is not true. Royce White was one of the initial high level signees and he knew Fred from his days with the Timberwolves. Paul Allen has had Fred on his radio show regularly in Minneapolis while Fred was with the Timberwolves, both as a player and...

By that group. likely essentially a wash on SOS.

not to be argumentative, but rather just to share facts, at least according to CBS Sports ISU has a better Strength of Schedule. Certainly the road win at Oklahoma State last night (since your post so a bit unfair) helped.

I like Uhl. I don't think his athleticism is being leveraged as it should. His D lapses limit him, but he is only a freshman. Will be interesting to see if he plays more 3 or 4 in future years.

Do you think the same about Jok for the Hawks, as so far this season Thomas is averaging more minutes, points and with a better 3%.

I would bet the other side of that.

Because Mr. Basketball in Iowa High Schools doesn't always translate to Mr. High Level D1 recruit.

The statistic does somewhat speak for itself. It does not however, include a few facts: 1)Several players, including African American players, had graduated before they started at ISU and thus already had their degrees (ex. Anderson, Kane, BDJ) and thus have credits towards a grad program. Will...

Actually the State of Iowa is ~87% white, not 97, but I get your point. http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/19000.html

Got a link on the whole fake degree thing?

This difference in closing games stands out not just between the two schools, but also between ISU in 2013-2014 vs. 2012-2013. Speed of play also changed, as ISU had almost 2 possessions per game more in 2013-2014 http://www.teamrankings.com/ncaa-basketball/stat/possessions-per-game. Note how...

White has always been excellent in the open floor, tough roaming the baseline against a zone D, and nifty on the offensive glass. The next level for his game will be not to disappear in the half court offense. He has the ability to put the ball on the floor which gets him to the free throw line...

Hard to argue with most of the points you raised. You mentioned Iowa should have beat ISU, and certainly could have. However, the outcome was the MO of both teams. By that I mean Iowa was not able to finish well in multiple games it had played well enough to win, and ISU came from behind in...

Do you really believe this team is built for that? In my opinion, this will be a very good 2-3 zone team with better reaction to extend to defend the 3 than they did last year. Being able to play help side D takes advantage of the length, but that can be exposed when playing man to man with so...

I actually see this team likely playing lots of zone. Great height, but not the fastest laterally. This team is plenty athletic in the open court, but moving the feet side to side in Belly Button D remains to be seen if they could sustain that. The zone was tough inside last year, but they had...

6 of the 13 scholarship players if my count is accurate: Niang, Thomas, Long, Morris, Dorsey-Walker, Custer, and a 7th if you count the Greek. 4 of those have multiple starts.

You are in. If I understand correctly, you are in as one of the last 8 at-large bids, as opposed to an automatic bid. Thus, some teams received an automatic bid, but are seeded lower than the play-in games.

Re: Apparently Baylor and ISU think the 3 point shot is just about the only shot to t Actually, ISU took the lead at about the 9 or 10 minute mark of the second half, then Iowa regained it. First half felt like Iowa should have been up 20. When they weren't at half, I thought ISU had a chance...

This isn't grounded in reality. While true Iowa has hit approximately the same number of threes on the year as ISU, Iowa has played 11 games to ISUs 7. Iowa does shoot a similar % from three (~.5% less) but has shot far fewer per game at ~17 to ISU's ~28. Thus, Iowas has made ~6 threes per game...

Was that a reference to Lamar's on-the-court game or home-court game?:)