If Iowa played in the B12...

[NottiBoy]

Big 12 basketball is horrible this year. True. I see only 4 teams in the tourney.

Kansas, Oklahoma State, Iowa State, Baylor. Maybe Texas as a long shot if their freshmen get really really hot.

 

[hawkfan33]

The original post is stupid because we wouldn't finish second in the B12 and also because it assumes we are better than all of the teams I mentioned, even though if you look at our recent history and theirs we should not be considered even equals to any of them.

Yes, if we were in the B12 our NCAA path would be easier. I didn't say that conference was better than ours. But to, in one fall swoop, assume that we are better than all of the teams I mentioned, when as of yet we haven't beaten one quality team aside from ISU at home is quite a stretch.

Can you honestly call us, based on some tangible proof, a better team this year or program than Baylor, West Virginia or KSU? All three of those have been to the Elite 8 or Final 4 very recently and would have to get the nod over Iowa right now. Texas is down this year so far, but they are an overall proven quality program. I just think that you have to be a Big Ten homer to say we would be second in the B12 this year, based solely on the fact that we just beat ISU in IC.

And I say this while being as big of a B10 fan as anyone, but I do live in KC and I see the B12 on a very regular basis.

So you think we finish 3rd?

 

[hawkfan33]

Kansas, Oklahoma State, Iowa State, Baylor. Maybe Texas as a long shot if their freshmen get really really hot.

LOL Iowa State and Texas ain't making the tournament.

 

[NottiBoy]

LOL Iowa State and Texas ain't making the tournament.

So how many teams do you see? 3?

 

[hawkfan33]

So how many teams do you see? 3?

3 at most. The conference sucks outside of Kansas.

 

[NottiBoy]

3 at most. The conference sucks outside of Kansas.

Kansas and the little 9.

Not sure we'd run the table, though. We beat the clownz, but those losses to VT and WSU still sting.