Thought it’d be good to make a thread about this since we talk about schedule/ and where we stand in just about every thread
and ESPN gives Iowa St a 53% chance to win though admittedly I don’t believe in that metric.By the way,
Iowa state is getting a crack at #1 ranked North Carolina today. If they win this we could be possibly heading to play a road game against a top 15 team
5:30 tip off on ESPN. UNC only 5 point favorites. Seems ISU is highly respected
It’s definitely useless this early in the year.Kinda crazy that even if UNC beat Iowa State they would have gone into Sunday’s game as the undefeated #1 team in the country but would have opened as an underdog against Yukon on a neutral floor. They’ll likely be dogs or pickem against Alabama. Shows just how useless the AP poll really is
I'm hopeful we go into Ames and give Iowa State fits and eek out a victory. It has a feel similar to last year's game going to Indiana, where we had a real shot to win it, despite an awful flagrant call against Mathis that caused him to be ejected early in the first half. I think this year's team is better than last, so why not?Iowa St knocks off UNC.
I think it’s safe to say we will officially have a shot to knock off a top 25 opponent on the road on December 4th
Bart wishes he was Ken! Or probably any other name besides BartKenPom update: Now ranked 46th after beginning the season at 37 and peaking at 33 after the Nebraska game. Were 43rd going into the Iowa State game.
KP projects us to go 20-11 (11-9). That would be bubble city.
Bart Torvik is far more bearish on us having us at 74th projecting 19-12 (9-11) and giving us a 13.2% chance to make the tourney.
I agree with you 100% bucketshardy. 12-8 and a top 4 finish in the Big East and we have to be playing Friday night in the BET, thats what’s needed to make the Tournament. Anything less than that and we are not getting in with our SOS.Calling it now- need to go 12-8 in the BE with one of those 12 wins vs UConn/Creighton. Set expectations accordingly.... less than 12 wins -> No Tourney
From Zach………….
The first NET rankings are out and St. John’s is # 71
Seven of the nine games are Quad 3 or lower
NET strength of schedule is 245
Three opponents ranked 348 0r lower
Big East has only one team…UConn…in top 30