SpiderRico
Well-Known Member
In response to Homer's Negative Nancy post, I figured I'd post my own as to why Iowa WILL win the Big 10.
1. We are the deepest team in the league. In an 18 game grind, this will pay off big time come mid-late Feb when everyone's legs are gone and everyone else is sucking wind
2. With the exception of MSU, the toughest games remaining are all at home.
3. We have shown a great knack so far of dispatching with the middle-to-lower tier teams in the league. While everyone else is struggling with NW, we blow them out by 52 combined points. While everyone is struggling with Minnesota, we put a 20+pt beat down on them. Nebraska has been scaring quite a few teams, but we beat them by double digits. Until we are challenged by a team in the 5-12 range in conference, I will continue to assume that we will handle them.
4. Michigan's offense is destined to stall. Their offense, built largely around the 3 point line, can't keep up the torrid pace it's set so far during the conference season. They will have nights when they go 4-20 from 3 and when that happens, they don't have anything to fall back on.
5. MSU's guards will hit the wall. Appling and Harris are playing killer minutes halfway thru the B1G season due to injuries. That will catch up to them as we hit the homestretch of the conference season. MSU goes as those two go and they don't have anything in the way of backups for them. Getting Payne back will help, but Dawson won't be back until the last couple games of the regular season. They will stumble.
1. We are the deepest team in the league. In an 18 game grind, this will pay off big time come mid-late Feb when everyone's legs are gone and everyone else is sucking wind
2. With the exception of MSU, the toughest games remaining are all at home.
3. We have shown a great knack so far of dispatching with the middle-to-lower tier teams in the league. While everyone else is struggling with NW, we blow them out by 52 combined points. While everyone is struggling with Minnesota, we put a 20+pt beat down on them. Nebraska has been scaring quite a few teams, but we beat them by double digits. Until we are challenged by a team in the 5-12 range in conference, I will continue to assume that we will handle them.
4. Michigan's offense is destined to stall. Their offense, built largely around the 3 point line, can't keep up the torrid pace it's set so far during the conference season. They will have nights when they go 4-20 from 3 and when that happens, they don't have anything to fall back on.
5. MSU's guards will hit the wall. Appling and Harris are playing killer minutes halfway thru the B1G season due to injuries. That will catch up to them as we hit the homestretch of the conference season. MSU goes as those two go and they don't have anything in the way of backups for them. Getting Payne back will help, but Dawson won't be back until the last couple games of the regular season. They will stumble.
