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Has the Iowa Men's Basketball Program fallen that far? We're looking at last night's game as a positive because we improved our chances of making the conference tournament?
I get that this is sarcasm, but there is at least a little bit of truth to it. We went from hoping to one day make the Sweet 16 to celebrating staying the top 15 of our own conference.
 
No sarcasm at all. Dead serious. If we lost that game it would've been an uphill climb to get into the top 15.

(The sarcasm comes from the excitement of the win)
 
So do I now understand this correctly that the conference tournament doesn't include all of the teams, only the top 14? Because that's bullshit if it does. I just thought this thread was a joke. One of the major points of the conference tourneys is that it's an extension of the the NCAA tournament in that EVERY D1 team in the country enters postseason with the opportunity to compete and win the NCAA tournament. Now in practicality that doesn't matter because it's likely never going to be a team winning that wouldn't have made at as an at-large, but if all the sudden conferences are excluding teams then that ruins the purity of the fact that every record resets to 0-0 and every team gets to play until they lose. Some get to lose twice, but EVERY TEAM now gets a chance. Thats disappointing to me if that goes the other way.
 
So do I now understand this correctly that the conference tournament doesn't include all of the teams, only the top 14? Because that's bullshit if it does. I just thought this thread was a joke. One of the major points of the conference tourneys is that it's an extension of the the NCAA tournament in that EVERY D1 team in the country enters postseason with the opportunity to compete and win the NCAA tournament. Now in practicality that doesn't matter because it's likely never going to be a team winning that wouldn't have made at as an at-large, but if all the sudden conferences are excluding teams then that ruins the purity of the fact that every record resets to 0-0 and every team gets to play until they lose. Some get to lose twice, but EVERY TEAM now gets a chance. Thats disappointing to me if that goes the other way.
Yeah 15 teams get in. 3 teams don't get into the B10 tourney now.
 
So do I now understand this correctly that the conference tournament doesn't include all of the teams, only the top 14? Because that's bullshit if it does. I just thought this thread was a joke. One of the major points of the conference tourneys is that it's an extension of the the NCAA tournament in that EVERY D1 team in the country enters postseason with the opportunity to compete and win the NCAA tournament. Now in practicality that doesn't matter because it's likely never going to be a team winning that wouldn't have made at as an at-large, but if all the sudden conferences are excluding teams then that ruins the purity of the fact that every record resets to 0-0 and every team gets to play until they lose. Some get to lose twice, but EVERY TEAM now gets a chance. Thats disappointing to me if that goes the other way.
Following that logic, why bother with a regular season at all?
 
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