They might of done a lot better if they would of developed Percy Gibson. I see he is transferring out of Iowa State.
"We would have won it all if Niang didn't get hurt."
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They might of done a lot better if they would of developed Percy Gibson. I see he is transferring out of Iowa State.
hawkforlife9
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We could of won it all had we found a way to beat Tenn in OT.
iasportsguy
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I am impressed my post has made it this far.
WindsorHawk
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If Michigan State had been healthy they would have won it all. Appling was playing at about 30% IMO. If one of Arizona's studs hadn't gotten hurt earlier in the year they had a good chance. Niang isn't the only college basketball player that got hurt this...maybe the only guy on a team with a 6 man rotation.
Not true. KY was within a basket or two the whole 2nd half. ISU had to make a huge run to even get in striking distance of UConn.
I was just trying to make them happy. If you don't think thats in their minds then go over to cyclonefanatic.
The have a good point.
TheIowaHawkGuy
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They could've also been 13-0 in football if only "what if" too...
WindsorHawk
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This is technically true based on final score. However, they went to OT to win their 1st game so...
Connecticut and Kentucky got hot at the right time and had some luck. This year's tournament looked like this would be the case before it ever started IMO. There wasn't a dominant team that looked like they could get away with a sub par effort and advance...because they were just that good.
WindsorHawk
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Back to the title of the thread...It's highly unlikely Iowa State even wins the conference tournament if Kansas' Embiid is healthy.
agree
ForeverHawk
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If Iowa would have won all their games, they would have won it all???
hawkeyebob62
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Not sure they could have "won it all"...but losing a top player mid-tournament is infinitely more painful/agonizing than having it happen mid-season or at least before the tournament starts.
Cyclones had a great season and a nice tourney run. Beating UNC should get Hoiberg some kind of award, him and the Mercer coach.
Iowa didn't really need to win all their games, but they did need to win their last game to win it all. There were a lot of teams that could of won it all this year, including Iowa and Iowa state. I'm kinda glad Kentucky didn't.
thejumper5
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tm3308
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He's the only key guy that got hurt DURING the tournament. MSU and Arizona had time to adjust to their injuries, while ISU had to make adjustments on the fly in a single-elimination tournament. There's a significant difference there.
thejumper5
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Willie Cauley-Stein says hi. (Not that he would have made a whole lot of difference for Kentucky. His biggest role was as a defensive stopper on the inside, and that is something that UK didn't have any trouble at all with against UConn.)
Injuries happen to teams all the time. Winning the NCAA Tournament takes a little bit of luck, and injury luck is something that ISU (Niang), Kentucky (Cauley-Stein), Kansas (Embiid), Arizona (Ashley), Colorado (Dinwiddie), Michigan State (Appling, others), Michigan (McGary), and others didn't have this year. Yeah, ISU's injury happened at one of the worst times possible, but I don't think it's fair to say that Niang's injury was any more significant that some of the others on the list.
