From a ranking/tournament/national perspective, it's better to win 98-93 than 58-53

[biasedHAWKEYE]

Just fyi for the posters concerned about there being "no defense." This was a very good OOC win last night, and two good OOC wins in less than a week (Xavier and Notre Dame). I'd contend that they are even big wins for the program, as we haven't had many good OOC wins in the past decade...

 

[InGoodCo]

Re: From a ranking/tournament/national perspective, it's better to win 98-93 than 58-

but you're just biased.... I'm sure of it.

 

[HaydenHawk56]

Re: From a ranking/tournament/national perspective, it's better to win 98-93 than 58-

It is much better watch, much more fun, and can certainly attract recruits. My concern is can Iowa put up 80-90 points every game against the better competition with our streaky shooting? Even more importantly, Iowa better not be giving up 80-90 points on average on defense. On the season, we are not, but we have played a lot of bad teams.

Hopefully we can get the opponent scoring down 15 points or so at least. Post defense needs to be much better than what we saw last night. I love offense, but you can't be a flood gate on defense either. We need to fix our weak-side and low post defense.

 

[biasedHAWKEYE]

Re: From a ranking/tournament/national perspective, it's better to win 98-93 than 58-

It is much better watch, much more fun, and can certainly attract recruits. My concern is can Iowa put up 80-90 points every game against the better competition with our streaky shooting? Even more importantly, Iowa better not be giving up 80-90 points on average on defense. On the season, we are not, but we have played a lot of bad teams.

Hopefully we can get the opponent scoring down 15 points or so at least. Post defense needs to be much better than what we saw last night. I love offense, but you can't be a flood gate on defense either. We need to fix our weak-side and low post defense.

Agreed with all points. The positive going forward is that if we need to put up 90+, the team has shown that it can do it.

 

[Xerxes]

Re: From a ranking/tournament/national perspective, it's better to win 98-93 than 58-

I think ND will have a very good season and this win will mean a lot more to the "no defense" crowd later on in the season. Could be proven very wrong but they looked like an athletic team that moves the ball well and just ran into a team that was better offensively last night.

 

[PCHawk]

Re: From a ranking/tournament/national perspective, it's better to win 98-93 than 58-

Sometimes teams shoot well against a team playing good defense. That's what happened against Villanova. The only game we were really bad in was last night and I chalk that up to being worn out.

 

[volhawk50]

Re: From a ranking/tournament/national perspective, it's better to win 98-93 than 58-

Does it help at all in the Sagarin and Pomeroy and all the formula rankings? I know for sure it helps the viewers. I'd rather see hands on the rim and ball hitting the net than whatever Wisconsin and Nebraska are doing.

 

[tm3308]

Re: From a ranking/tournament/national perspective, it's better to win 98-93 than 58-

I can't figure out what all the fuss is about when it comes to giving up 93 points last night. The guys were completely worn out from the Bahamas and the 24-hour trip to get home, and people are surprised that they didn't have a stellar defensive performance?

We played an ENTIRE ******* SEASON of great defense last year. We've played great defense in all but one game this season (and it's obvious as to why it wasn't great last night). But because of that one game, everybody's worried that we won't be able to stop teams in conference play?

Come find me when you figure out a time when we'll play 4 games in 6 days, with a grueling 24-hour trip to get home between the third and fourth games on what would already be a pretty quick turnaround, during the conference slate.

Jesus ******* Christ, people.

 

[Linesetter]

Re: From a ranking/tournament/national perspective, it's better to win 98-93 than 58-

Does it help at all in the Sagarin and Pomeroy and all the formula rankings? I know for sure it helps the viewers. I'd rather see hands on the rim and ball hitting the net than whatever Wisconsin and Nebraska are doing.

I wouldn't want to be Nebraska either but it's hard to say someone wouldn't want to be a Top 8 team (Wisconsin). They'll put up some points, hell that big guy scored 43 in a game

Just keep playing well and the ranking will go up for the hawks. No doubt

 

[BryceC]

Re: From a ranking/tournament/national perspective, it's better to win 98-93 than 58-

Does it help at all in the Sagarin and Pomeroy and all the formula rankings? I know for sure it helps the viewers. I'd rather see hands on the rim and ball hitting the net than whatever Wisconsin and Nebraska are doing.

Iowa actually dropped 5 spots in Kenpom after the game. Likely because defensive efficiency dropped.