Season Over

[meaning]

Let's think about that for a minute. Iowa is 19-9. If they win just one more game, that puts them at 20-11. If they happen to drop the first game in the BTT, 20-12. Do you think that's good enough? With just 2 wins over the Top 25, and our best OOC win over a team with an RPI of 48 (Xavier), and 8 OOC wins over 150+? Just thinking in terms of "resume", here, and we know how much the committee loves OOC schedule.

Iowa's saving grace may be that it doesn't currently have any losses outside of the Top 100, even with tonight's loss. But if Iowa somehow ends up 20-12 going into Selection Sunday, I'm going to be nervous.

I understand the frustration (obviously justified) ... but I think that's the difference between this year and last year -- harder schedule = couple more quality wins; couple fewer bad losses.

It's a bad stretch. I'd be stupid to deny that.

But, the difference is that our RPI was never bad enough for us to play ourselves out without a lot of bad losses. Obviously, home losses to purdue and illinois would change that. But, that would take a meltdown that I'm frankly not ready to fathom.

 

[glidinghawk]

But, the difference is that our RPI was never bad enough for us to play ourselves out without a lot of bad losses. Obviously, home losses to purdue and illinois would change that. But, that would take a meltdown that I'm frankly not ready to fathom.

If Iowa loses to both Purdue and Illinois, they will lock up a #1 seed in the NIT, unless they win the BTT.

 

[bcl20]

If Iowa loses to both Purdue and Illinois, they will lock up a #1 seed in the NIT, unless they win the BTT.

I fail to see how Iowa wouldn't be in if they lose to both those teams but then win 2 or three games in the BTT. In fact, I still think they have a shot even if they lose out completely. All would boil down to the RPI I guess.