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Yeah, tell that to the selection committee.

MSU has beaten Kansas, Providence, Louisville and Florida this year. You can argue that they aren't the same team since Valentine's injury if you want, but they were no paper tiger.

Iowa's student season tickets do cover break games. It was all students in that section against Michigan and that's how it was when I graduated in 2013, so I assume it hasn't changed.

If providing the students with a top-10 team hosting another of the Big Ten's best programs isn't enough to do the trick, then **** them. They've been offered a damn big carrot this year with this team, but it seems they'd prefer getting beaten with the stick. They shouldn't get the best seats...

1. Classes started two days later. If you're seriously going to suggest that there weren't at least 60% of the students in town at that point, I really don't know what to tell you. Most people were back before MLK Day when I was in school. 2. That doesn't change the fact that the students who...

We'll see how he develops going forward, but at least this year, he makes me think this is the type of role that a freshman Basabe would have played on a team like this.

I'm not necessarily complaining about their schedule, just that I have a hard time seeing them lose 6 games. 4 or 5, sure. But 6 would require them to lose every remotely meaningful game from here on out.

I think you've got Indiana too low, frankly. They play the other top teams (Iowa, MD, Michigan, MSU and Purdue) 6 times, and I don't see them losing all of those games (or winning a couple and then dropping a pair against the garbage that is the rest of their schedule). I don't buy them as a...

15-3 (@Maryland, split @IU/Illinois, @Michigan if LeVert is back at 100%). Maryland feels like more of a tossup to me, though. They really seem to be have the same glazed over look in their eyes that Ohio State had for most of the football season. That's going to bite them in the *** against...

I'm still concerned about the road game at IU just because that will be a very tough environment, but yes. Gesell/Clemmons should be able to keep Yogi in check as long as they don't run into foul trouble.

Definitely a very beatable team.

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And considering that the committee doesn't say anything until Selection Sunday, we have no idea how they would actually pick. Lunardi's job isn't very tough at all. It's 100% driven by web traffic, because it's meaningless guesswork that will bring fans to the site in droves. In other words...

Iowa up to a 2 seed in Lunardi's bracketology. http://espn.go.com/mens-college-basketball/bracketology

Generally, I'd agree with this. But when you're talking about being in line for 1-4 seeds, those little things can be the difference. Teams looking at seeds in that range have all taken care of business.

The students have to show something to warrant that. Besides, the seats they have are not god-awful. There aren't really any terrible seats at Carver.

When I was in school, most students were absolutely back in town by Sunday. The dorms reopen on Saturday, contract dining starts Sunday. They're paying for that whether they're in town or not. It's not a viable excuse.

Win the next three, and we might be looking at one, anyway.

Good thing I had to leave town, I guess. I was really bummed about having to miss this game and the McCaffery-Bohannon matchup.

Considering that Fran has beaten Izzo just three times in 6 years, I don't know if you can argue that he hasn't been handing Iowa its *** since Lickliter got canned. Izzo has never said stuff about Iowa's teams that were intended to be shots. He calls it how he sees it. Iowa's teams haven't...