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When you only play 3 conference road games against ranked teams and they are all in the top 5, you don't HAVE to win any of them. Beating top 5 teams on the road doesn't prove you belong in the tournament, it proves you can beat any team in the nation.
 
PCHawk said:
When you only play 3 conference road games against ranked teams and they are all in the top 5, you don't HAVE to win any of them. Beating top 5 teams on the road doesn't prove you belong in the tournament, it proves you can beat any team in the nation.
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Interesting note: Villanova's only loss is an away game against a ranked team. ISU and Wisconsin have not played any ranked teams away from home
 
HawkeyeNTexas said:
I thought ISU was a better team last year and Iowa won. (At home) I thought Iowa was a better team this year and lost...(away)
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Sure happens like that quite a bit, doesn't it. That home floor advantage with the crowd, and refs most often shift their calls in favor of the home team and against the visitor. That's why everybody seems to whine about the calls when they lose an away game. LOL

If you can win most/all of your home games and then come back home with wins at about half of your away games, you'll be just fine. Hard to win on the road, even against teams that are not as good as you are.

And let's face it. How much difference, really, is there between the #50 team and the #40 team or the #30 team and the #20 team on any given gameday? When it takes so few players to put together a really great team, it's no wonder there are a TON of truly great basketball teams.
 
Hawkzilla said:
Sure happens like that quite a bit, doesn't it. That home floor advantage with the crowd, and refs most often shift their calls in favor of the home team and against the visitor. That's why everybody seems to whine about the calls when they lose an away game. LOL

If you can win most/all of your home games and then come back home with wins at about half of your away games, you'll be just fine. Hard to win on the road, even against teams that are not as good as you are.

And let's face it. How much difference, really, is there between the #50 team and the #40 team or the #30 team and the #20 team on any given gameday? When it takes so few players to put together a really great team, it's no wonder there are a TON of truly great basketball teams.
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There a lot of good basketball teams. There are a lot of teams capable of beating each other on a given day...teams ranked 20 to 50. There are not "a ton of truly great basketball teams." IMO
 
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