Iowa # 15 in latest AP Poll

[DDThompson]

If the season ended today what seed would this give Iowa?

Should be a four. Palm has Hawks as a five.

Palm's

5-
KY - four home games against weak SEC than @FLA = they move up to 4 slot but another loss to FL puts them back to 5.
L'ville - still @Cincy, @Mem, @SMU to go. Yikes. Lotsa potential to get to a 3 or drop to a 7?
OSU - weakest 5 and probably their ceiling unless couple teams crumble.
Iowa - take care of business and will finish a 4 - tie B1G RS and win BTT, then 3sd.

4
ISU - they beat Mich/IA on home floor. Someone said that heads-up doesn't matter when looking at NCAA seeding. Yeah, right.
Tex - they deserve it now. they'll deserve higher after coming on up side of this: @ISU, @KAN, Bay, @OK, TCU, @TT. They won't.
Mich - resume isn't any better than Iowa's. They did lose to ISU, Duke, AZ. Iowa lost to ISU, Nova. More points for losing.
VA - nonsense. a tepid resume. but it's the ACC, i get it.

3
Duke - playing good ball. and it's the ACC. i get it. i bet they end up a 2.
C-ton - they've destroyed Nova twice who gets 2sd. perfect sense.
MSU - B1G co-leader. getting all shaky except vs. Iowa. Of course.
Wisky - they have a lot of quality wins. Another rd of 32 exit. If he were at Iowa, the Tom Davis haters would think TD was reincarnated with a bad hair and a thin jaw line.

2
Cincy - nice wins Pitt, SMU, Conn, @Mem, @L'ville = but...I dunno. I'm not impressed with AmAt: the bottom half of that league is five Evansvilles.
Nova - when a 3 seed blows out a 2 seed not once, but twice, it's no fluke: switch the seeds Palm.
SDST - Ok. this is west version of the AmAt conference only not as weighty at the top.
Kan - they will step into a 1 seed if AZ keeps trending down.

 

[WindsorHawk]

You realize this is a home game right? Not worried...2nd easiest game left.

This.

 

[kctom]

Nice work DDT.

One thing I might add:

It's ALL about the RPI. It is the anchor that will forever weigh Iowa down from where they belong. Lunardi knows this and that is why he has them as the 4th seeded B1G team down on the 9th or 20th S line. Massey Composite has iowa at 11, and KenPom, Sagarin, and BPI all have them in Top Ten, but it won't matter.

RPI, RPI may you RIP...

 

[DDThompson]

Nice work DDT.

One thing I might add:

It's ALL about the RPI. It is the anchor that will forever weigh Iowa down from where they belong. Lunardi knows this and that is why he has them as the 4th seeded B1G team down on the 9th or 20th S line. Massey Composite has iowa at 11, and KenPom, Sagarin, and BPI all have them in Top Ten, but it won't matter.

RPI, RPI may you RIP...

Agree. Hate the RPI. That makes Iowa's ceiling probably a 4 unless conference and tourney championships.

A B1G RS Champ should be a 2 seed. I don't care what the RPI says. The Committe will 'make up for it' by squeezing 5 B1G teams between seeds 3-5.

 

[ATLHawkeye]

You realize this is a home game right? Not worried...2nd easiest game left.

Yeah, I realize it, but it still makes me a little nervous. They looked very good. These types of games are hte ones the bite you in the ***. We also should have beat OSU and MSU at home... but we didn't. I do hope you're right.

 

[tm3308]

Yeah, I realize it, but it still makes me a little nervous. They looked very good. These types of games are hte ones the bite you in the ***. We also should have beat OSU and MSU at home... but we didn't. I do hope you're right.

I think you might also be overlooking the possibility that Indiana might just be folding the tents. That loss against PSU was more than deflation-worthy. It effectively ended their NCAA hopes and even if that wasn't the case, blowing that big of a late lead is pretty crushing. Especially for a team so young.

 

[bcl20]

Yeah, I realize it, but it still makes me a little nervous. They looked very good. These types of games are hte ones the bite you in the ***. We also should have beat OSU and MSU at home... but we didn't. I do hope you're right.

There's a pretty big drop off between Purdue and Michigan State/Ohio State

 

[bcl20]

I mean, I'll be nervous too. I always am but we should win that one by a bunch if we try.

 

[tm3308]

Nice work DDT.

One thing I might add:

It's ALL about the RPI. It is the anchor that will forever weigh Iowa down from where they belong. Lunardi knows this and that is why he has them as the 4th seeded B1G team down on the 9th or 20th S line. Massey Composite has iowa at 11, and KenPom, Sagarin, and BPI all have them in Top Ten, but it won't matter.

RPI, RPI may you RIP...

Agree. Hate the RPI. That makes Iowa's ceiling probably a 4 unless conference and tourney championships.

A B1G RS Champ should be a 2 seed. I don't care what the RPI says. The Committe will 'make up for it' by squeezing 5 B1G teams between seeds 3-5.

If Iowa wins the B1G RS, they'll be no worse than a 3 seed. The RPI should improve if we keep winning, especially since that would include wins over MSU, Minnesota and Wisconsin. Throw in a win or two at the BTT, and you're looking at a solid 3 seed; anything more than that, and you're at least sniffing a 2 seed (and our RPI would be more in line with that seed, too).