Iowa finishes 13th in coaches poll

[HaydenHawk56]

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[HaydenHawk56]

A fitting number for how unlucky they got to play a fast and well rested opponent in the 2nd round.

 

[hawkeyesgonewild]

I know we wanted more but 13th in the country is not bad thanks hawkeyes.

 

[HuckFinn]

So, Iowa was the third highest ranked team in the BT. Good for them. The 12 teams ranked above Iowa all look like darn good teams to me. I am lazy. I wonder where those 12 teams were ranked prior to the big dance. In other words, did the big dance have a very heavy impact on the final rankings? If so, should that be the case? Not arguing, just curious.

 

[HuckFinn]

Hmm. Just took another look. Given the points assigned from those rankings, Iowa could easily have been top 10. And I see Iowa went from 5 to 13. That had to be primarily big dance impact, right? Also, take a look at the position rank increases for some of the top 10. Big dance again? Tail wags dog? Maybe.

 

[chucktownhawk]

Well, at least we finished ahead of Oregon, lol

 

[PCHawk]

Well, at least we finished ahead of Oregon, lol

We won the same amount of tournament games.

 

[SomersHawk]

Has it been since the 80s that the Hawks finished this high?

All in all it was a blast being highly regarded and highly ranked from wire to wire. Every team but one wanted their season to end better. Good job Hawks!

 

[WindsorHawk]

Has it been since the 80s that the Hawks finished this high?

All in all it was a blast being highly regarded and highly ranked from wire to wire. Every team but one wanted their season to end better. Good job Hawks!

And we’re the only team celebrating the National POY.

 

[BryceC]

So, Iowa was the third highest ranked team in the BT. Good for them. The 12 teams ranked above Iowa all look like darn good teams to me. I am lazy. I wonder where those 12 teams were ranked prior to the big dance. In other words, did the big dance have a very heavy impact on the final rankings? If so, should that be the case? Not arguing, just curious.

There is a case to be made that the tourney should have a bigger impact this year just because we didn't see much non conference play. This was pitting a lot of conferences together in a way we really haven't seen this year.

Even metrics went totally haywire - KenPom had a bunch of the Pac12 teams very low, and they went up a LOT after the tourney.

 

[Hawkfnntn]

That's about right I suppose. Woulda been nice to be in top 10 but...

 

[Fryowa]

There is a case to be made that the tourney should have a bigger impact this year just because we didn't see much non conference play. This was pitting a lot of conferences together in a way we really haven't seen this year.

Even metrics went totally haywire - KenPom had a bunch of the Pac12 teams very low, and they went up a LOT after the tourney.

This is the Achilles heel of basketball rating systems. They don't have any interconference analysis. Even when teams do play a bunch of non-cons in a normal year the vast majority of them are non-P5, so that doesn't really help.

Kenpom, Sagarin, and others do an amazing job of statistical comparison among teams that play each other in the same pool (i.e. a single conference), but when you throw all of those conferences together in one list it's not near as rigorous.

However, they are still LIGHT YEARS ahead of some ridiculous popularity contest bullshit like the AP and Coaches polls.