What are your expectations for next year?

Seeing several references to next year's conference schedule being tougher but couldn't find anything on the school site. Where r u guys getting the schedule info?
 
Ok.... I believe we all will expect an NCAA birth next year. I know just a birth would seem the next logical step but I must say I would be disappointed with just a birth. I feel this team is going to be deep next year and as I said in another thread our chance to make a run.

What seed do you expect for the NCAA tourney?
Do you expect or anticipate a sweet 16 run? How about elite 8?

Answers to my own questions.... With the returning talent and depth we have and as well as Marble is playing I would expect a 4-5 seed with a trip to the sweet 16!!

Impossible to tell or predict at this point. It's a long way off, too many "bad" things can happen, as well as too many "good" things.

If we get an injury or two, that can badly skew things. If more B1G opponents' player go early to NBA, we may finish higher in conference and get an "inflated" seed, or we could stay healthy all year and get some great bounces to go Sweet 16 or Elite 8. Or, we could have worse officiating than we have seen this year to give a subtle "nudge" to the favored programs.

There are too many variables right now. September/October is when we'll have a better feel.
 
Seeing several references to next year's conference schedule being tougher but couldn't find anything on the school site. Where r u guys getting the schedule info?

Its a fact that it will be tougher. Every 2 years the teams on the conference schedule change. With an 18 game conference schedule each team plays 7 teams twice and 4 teams once.

The last 2 seasons Iowa has played MSU, OSU, Michigan and Illinois once and all the other teams twice per year. That will change next year and Iowa will play all those teams plus 3 more twice and get 4 of the following 7 teams only once per season:

Wisky
Minny
PSU
NU
Nebby
Purdue
Indiana
 
2006 comes to mind (Iowa as BTT Champ, #3 seed)...since then, there has been no reason for us to track it too closely...


OSU won the BoneG title that year. Iowa won the BoneG tourney title.

I still think you may be correct though as I believe OSU was a 2 seed in the tourney that year.
 
OSU won the BoneG title that year. Iowa won the BoneG tourney title.

I still think you may be correct though as I believe OSU was a 2 seed in the tourney that year.

That's because the B1G still sucked as a conference. It was definitely on the upswing, but still nowhere near where it had once been or where it is now.
 
OSU won the BoneG title that year. Iowa won the BoneG tourney title.

I still think you may be correct though as I believe OSU was a 2 seed in the tourney that year.

I am sure OSU had #1 seed in 2007, and pretty sure you are right on 2006. Would be (mildly) interesting to track and see B1G recent seed history. Illinois was a 1-seed in 2005. Since then, I really don't know. When you don't get a seat at the bar, you tend not to ask "what's everybody drinkin?..."
 
Iowa returns all its starters (counting Gessell as a starter even though May has started lately).

Iowa adds Utoff and Jok. Both Former "Mr. Basketball" in the state of Iowa.

Iowa will be more experienced and veteran, after already being able to hang with any BIG team this season (multiple losses by single digits).

Other teams are losing multiple key players.

Iowa has a BIG player of the year candidate in Marble.


Seriously the Hawks should be Top 3 in conference and make it to at least the Sweet 16 next year. This team is already good and will be getting better. Especially if Fran can solve the 3-pt shooting deficiency.
 
Seriously the Hawks should be Top 3 in conference and make it to at least the Sweet 16 next year. This team is already good and will be getting better. Especially if Fran can solve the 3-pt shooting deficiency.

I dont think you are thinking the bolded part through.

There is a decent chance OSU could have everybody back. There is a good chance MSU could have everybody back except Nix. That right there puts the Hawks at 3rd. Wait and see what happens with Michigan and Indy's early entries. Wisky hasnt finished lower than 4th in Bo Ryan's entire tenure. B1G will be very tough again next year.
 
I dont think you are thinking the bolded part through.

There is a decent chance OSU could have everybody back. There is a good chance MSU could have everybody back except Nix. That right there puts the Hawks at 3rd. Wait and see what happens with Michigan and Indy's early entries. Wisky hasnt finished lower than 4th in Bo Ryan's entire tenure. B1G will be very tough again next year.

Couldnt agree more. This NIT run is awesome, however, we need to keep in mind who exactly it is against and not get ahead of ourselves like so many like to do.
 
I dont think you are thinking the bolded part through.

There is a decent chance OSU could have everybody back. There is a good chance MSU could have everybody back except Nix. That right there puts the Hawks at 3rd. Wait and see what happens with Michigan and Indy's early entries. Wisky hasnt finished lower than 4th in Bo Ryan's entire tenure. B1G will be very tough again next year.


I'm not saying it won't be tough, but Iowa does a pretty good job of player development under Fran. That's not just a luxury reserved for other BIG teams anymore. The prior Iowa regime did a really good job of getting players to transfer, so I think most of us are still getting used to the idea of developing Basketball players at Iowa.

Woodbury needs another 15 pounds of muscle, and Gessell needs a foot that doesn't hurt every time he takes a step.

Fran has made significant progress from year to year, and within each season. This will be one of the deepest Iowa Bball roster of all time, with each player being a threat to make a big play. I think losing Eric May will have a bigger impact than some people expect, but by conference season they should hopefully have it figured out. If Iowa can solve the outside shooting deficiency, this team could be absolutely lethal next season.

I know people want to temper their expectations, but Iowa hasn't had this many pieces in place since I was in grade school. Iowa played MSU and OSU to the wire. The first MSU game was without Marble. The OSU game was on the road. I'm not saying Iowa is going to be able to win all of those tough games next year, but I think they can do a lot better than this season. 4 or 5 more wins in conference next season puts Iowa in contention to win the championship. It's not far fetched at all.
 
2006 comes to mind (Iowa as BTT Champ, #3 seed)...since then, there has been no reason for us to track it too closely...

Seem seem to have been confused by Alf. The team that wins the most conference games during the season is the conference champion, not the team that wins the BTT.
 
Sweet 16 would be great but they could have a record similar to this years if not a game or two less just because of the tougher schedule they'll have. If hawks can get a 7 seed or better then the sweet 16 talk is much better possibility. Being a 8-9 seed is rough. Playing the 1 seed in the 2nd round makes getting to sweet 16 pretty tough unless your Wichita St
 
IMO being selected as a #14 seed to face off against an Alford coached UCLA first round would be fun to see. All jokes aside I'd be satisfied with a top 8 seed and finishing top 5 in the conference (with no early entries). Hard to forsee where we'd end up if a number of the elites in the conference declare early.
 
Top 15 and at least a first round tournament win is what I expect, with an outside chance at a run for the Big Ten title IF a lot of the big time players from other schools don't come back. (By Big Ten title I mean regular season championship, not an Alford Title).
 
Top 4 finish in the B10, 24+ wins going into the tournament. Whatever happens in the tournament happens, it's too tough to judge a team based solely on their tournament results.
 
Isn't it nice to be able to project what may happen in the future of this team without having to take into account that one or more of our best players will be transferring out? I love that.
 
Isn't it nice to be able to project what may happen in the future of this team without having to take into account that one or more of our best players will be transferring out? I love that.


Dont remind me. I hate thinking about the crippling effect the Lick era had on the Hawkeye program.

;)
 

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