We now have 4 RPI Top 50 Wins

H8IAST8

H8IAST8

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ISU, Minnesota, Illinois, and Wisconsin
That is more or equal to all of the following bubble teams:

St. Marys-1
Alabama-0
Kentucky-1
Mississippi-1
Tennessee-2
Temple-3
LaSalle-2
Boise St-3
Iowa St-3
Maryland-2
Cincinnatti-4
Umass-1
Virginia-4
San Diego St-4
 
We have a great resume to make the tourney except we played 300 ranked teams instead of 250 ranked teams at the beginning of the year. For some reason that matters way more then it should.
 
Should have taken care of business when they had the chance...a win at Wisconsin, home vs Indiana, at Purdue, at Nebby and home vs Michigan State would more than sealed the deal. All games that the Hawks will hopefully learn from when playing close games in the future.
 
Well I like this better than the stupid "conference standing" argument.

I can't recall off hand...didn't we have 4 RPI Top 50 wins last year as well?
 
PCHawk said:
We have a great resume to make the tourney except we played 300 ranked teams instead of 250 ranked teams at the beginning of the year. For some reason that matters way more then it should.
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Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't they mention last night that wins outside of the top 150(I think it was) don't amount to much and Iowa upping their schedule from teams in the 300s to teams in the 200s (with the same number of wins) wasn't going to improve their standing with the tournament committee as much fans would hope?

Edit: On the TV broadcast.
 
burky247 said:
Well I like this better than the stupid "conference standing" argument.

I can't recall off hand...didn't we have 4 RPI Top 50 wins last year as well?
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I think so. The only team not to make the tourney with that many good wins.
 
HawkeyeShane said:
Should have taken care of business when they had the chance...a win at Wisconsin, home vs Indiana, at Purdue, at Nebby and home vs Michigan State would more than sealed the deal. All games that the Hawks will hopefully learn from when playing close games in the future.
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Oh really? If Iowa was 24-6 with 7 top 50 wins and tied for first in the B1G, they'd have "sealed the deal?" You think?

We've got a freaking rocket scientist over here!
 
The broadcast showed 2 RPI top 50 wins since it was prior to our win. So our resume basically became twice as good in 1 day.

Also, dont believe everyone on tv.
 
HawkeyeShane said:
Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't they mention last night that wins outside of the top 150(I think it was) don't amount to much and Iowa upping their schedule from teams in the 300s to teams in the 200s (with the same number of wins) wasn't going to improve their standing with the tournament committee as much fans would hope?

Edit: On the TV broadcast.
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I didn't hear that. If that's the case, what else is making our RPI and strength of schedule so bad? It seems like the 300 ranked teams are the only difference when you compare us to other bubble teams.
 
HawkeyeShane said:
Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't they mention last night that wins outside of the top 150(I think it was) don't amount to much and Iowa upping their schedule from teams in the 300s to teams in the 200s (with the same number of wins) wasn't going to improve their standing with the tournament committee as much fans would hope?

Edit: On the TV broadcast.
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They are right but playing teams above 200 kills your SOS, you can get a way with a couple but Iowa has 7 wins over teams with an RPI above 200.
 
HawkizeTweets said:
Oh really? If Iowa was 24-6 with 7 top 50 wins and tied for first in the B1G, they'd have "sealed the deal?" You think?

We've got a freaking rocket scientist over here!
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More* than sealed the deal, Wyle E. Coyote...let's see if you can follow. Iowa's pre-conference schedule of cream puffs wouldn't be the rub if Iowa had taken care of business in games they had won and let slip away in conference. (Note that was the case in most of those games, Indiana excluded).
 
PCHawk said:
I didn't hear that. If that's the case, what else is making our RPI and strength of schedule so bad? It seems like the 300 ranked teams are the only difference when you compare us to other bubble teams.
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I believe it just means that we're all thinking a slightly better schedule was going to get it done, but it was going to take a much better schedule than we thought it would.
 
H8IAST8 said:
The broadcast showed 2 RPI top 50 wins since it was prior to our win. So our resume basically became twice as good in 1 day.

Also, dont believe everyone on tv.
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I read on the internet not to do that, so I stopped... :D
 
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HawkeyeShane said:
More* than sealed the deal, Wyle E. Coyote...let's see if you can follow. Iowa's pre-conference schedule of cream puffs wouldn't be the rub if Iowa had taken care of business in games they had won and let slip away in conference. (Note that was the case in most of those games, Indiana excluded).
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If Iowa had only won every single game on their schedule, it would have more than sealed the deal!
 
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