Nebraska 98th in RPI

H8IAST8 said:
Ideally we beat Nebby, face 11 seed NW in the BTT and Nebby plays someone else and wins on neutal court returning them to the RPI 100.
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They could beat Purdue in the BTT...assuming Iowa, Purdue and Ohio State all win this weekend giving Purdue the 7th seed. I don't know how much that will help their RPI but I assume losing by 30 to a good team in the 2nd round will give them a boost so...
 
WindsorHawk said:
They could beat Purdue in the BTT...assuming Iowa, Purdue and Ohio State all win this weekend giving Purdue the 7th seed. I don't know how much that will help their RPI but I assume losing by 30 to a good team in the 2nd round will give them a boost so...
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Isnt Purdue locked into 8 vs 9? I thin k Nebby would play Iowa, Minny or Illinois.
 
I would of thought by this stage of the season we would be beyond predicting we will crush anybody. Everytime we start to feel good some scrub team upsets us, for the love of god won't you people learn?
 
I want Iowa to win, Minnesota to lose and Illinois to lose. Considering all of the close losses, injuries, etc. it would be nice to end the conference season alone in 6th place. Last year we were hoping we could somehow get in the NIT and play for 69th...looked like a long shot but it happened. This year we are hoping to make the dance with the NIT a given. This is a step in the right direction regardless of where we land. We should also have a .500 record in the conference and no worse than a tie for 6th place.

There have been some ups and downs but it's been a good year and I have enjoyed it. There have been far more highs than lows for me personally despite the tough losses. We beat ISU. We beat Wisconsin on Chris Street night. We beat Illinois and Minnesota. I anticipate beating Nebraska on Eric May day.

We played hard even when things weren't going our way. It would have been easy for Fran to lose this team but they hung in there and kept playing to the best of their ability each and every game. This is a tribute to the quality of our entire coaching staff and the players putting on that Iowa jersey each and every game. I wear my Hawkeye apparel with pride and my head held high.
 
H8IAST8 said:
Isnt Purdue locked into 8 vs 9? I thin k Nebby would play Iowa, Minny or Illinois.
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Purdue can get the 7 if Illinois, Purude and Minny all finish 8-10. Purdue beats Minny and OSU beats Illinois.

Purdue would be 2-1 against MN and ILL.

Minnesota would be 1-2 against PU and ILL.

Illinois would be 2-2 against PU and MN.

That would then match up Illinois and Minny in an 8/9 game and that would be real interesting, IMO.

A team that finished 8-11 in conference games would be fighting for an at-large bid.
 
Another tidbit to this RPI is Virginia Tech sitting at 156, a win at Wake Forest on Sunday might get them below 150 taking away a bad loss.
 
hawkinn3 said:
I would of thought by this stage of the season we would be beyond predicting we will crush anybody. Everytime we start to feel good some scrub team upsets us, for the love of god won't you people learn?
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I am not worried about this weekend's game, but realize the importance of it as the next step. Yes, not to be overlooked or all this talk is moot.
 
H8IAST8 said:
Ideally we beat Nebby, face 11 seed NW in the BTT and Nebby plays someone else and wins on neutal court returning them to the RPI 100.
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This would be the ideal scenario. If ISU stays in Top 50 and Nebraska stays in Top 100 in helps Iowa on both counts.
 
One stat I never see is loses outside the top 100. Right now I think we have 2. I bet there has never been a team miss the tourney with 2 +100 losses. Also if Va Tech can get into the top 150 we will have 0 bad losses.
 
Another stat rarely mentioned is the fact that Iowa has played 11 games against the top 50. How many other bubble teams are anywhere near this number? I suspect many of these teams would have losing (or worst than current) records against the top 50 if they played them 11 times. It's a grind.
 
We would be a lock for the tourney if 3 of our bottom 4 teams had RPI's 50 higher. To me that's stupid.
 
WindsorHawk said:
I want Iowa to win, Minnesota to lose and Illinois to lose. Considering all of the close losses, injuries, etc. it would be nice to end the conference season alone in 6th place. Last year we were hoping we could somehow get in the NIT and play for 69th...looked like a long shot but it happened. This year we are hoping to make the dance with the NIT a given. This is a step in the right direction regardless of where we land. We should also have a .500 record in the conference and no worse than a tie for 6th place.

There have been some ups and downs but it's been a good year and I have enjoyed it. There have been far more highs than lows for me personally despite the tough losses. We beat ISU. We beat Wisconsin on Chris Street night. We beat Illinois and Minnesota. I anticipate beating Nebraska on Eric May day.

We played hard even when things weren't going our way. It would have been easy for Fran to lose this team but they hung in there and kept playing to the best of their ability each and every game. This is a tribute to the quality of our entire coaching staff and the players putting on that Iowa jersey each and every game. I wear my Hawkeye apparel with pride and my head held high.
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Being an NIT lock, and having that make for a disappointing result is nice.
 
PCHawk said:
We would be a lock for the tourney if 3 of our bottom 4 teams had RPI's 50 higher. To me that's stupid.
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Agreed (assuming that's true). Or let's say 100 points higher, against teams 200-250. You are still playing pretty weak teams.. I don't see how that should make a team "more worthy" of an NCAA bid, just because your RPI would be a little higher. You still hadn't really beaten anybody. Just as long as you can prove yourself within conference play and whatever other legit teams may be on your schedule.
 
1977Hawkeye said:
Agreed (assuming that's true). Or let's say 100 points higher, against teams 200-250. You are still playing pretty weak teams.. I don't see how that should make a team "more worthy" of an NCAA bid, just because your RPI would be a little higher. You still hadn't really beaten anybody. Just as long as you can prove yourself within conference play and whatever other legit teams may be on your schedule.
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Exactly. What's the difference between a guaranteed home win vs a terrible team and a guaranteed home win vs a really terrible team. I guess you can make the argument that there is a slightly higher chance of an upset so it should be worth something. But we are 25-30 RPI spots lower then all the other teams with the exact same resume then us (other then those bottom teams).
 
PCHawk said:
Exactly. What's the difference between a guaranteed home win vs a terrible team and a guaranteed home win vs a really terrible team. I guess you can make the argument that there is a slightly higher chance of an upset so it should be worth something. But we are 25-30 RPI spots lower then all the other teams with the exact same resume then us (other then those bottom teams).
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This isn't new information, which makes it aggravating to hear Fran talk about scheduling light because of the freshman.

Fine, schedule light, but don't schedule like an idiot. You can find a ton of likely wins that won't kill your RPI.
 
Hawkstrat said:
This isn't new information, which makes it aggravating to hear Fran talk about scheduling light because of the freshman.

Fine, schedule light, but don't schedule like an idiot. You can find a ton of likely wins that won't kill your RPI.
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It's easy to say that, but we did need a 20 point comeback to beat Gardner-Webb early this season, if we play more teams in the 150-200 range instead of 250-350 range, we might have a few more losses.
 
hawkfan33 said:
It's easy to say that, but we did need a 20 point comeback to beat Gardner-Webb early this season, if we play more teams in the 150-200 range instead of 250-350 range, we might have a few more losses.
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I would agree with that(and GW is 187). But I think its more about avoiding so many 300+ and replacing with 200+, and maybe one or two 150-200 teams.
 
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