NCAA just posted their first NET rankings of the season and Iowa is 9th.
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Iowa is 9th in the first NCAA NET rankings of the season
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Lol wut how? I’ll take it though.NCAA just posted their first NET rankings of the season and Iowa is 9th.
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If, and big IF, IOWA wins their games they are favored leading up to Jan conf play, or winning at hone vs IL, and wining @ ISU, then they will be 13-1 with 2 more quadrant #1 wins and another q1 road win.
it’s actually possible to be a top 5 NET team come Jan1.
it’s actually possible to be a top 5 NET team come Jan1.
Wait wut?
Pretty much every metric has Iowa pretty high. They've played a bad schedule, but they've absolutely piss pounded the bad teams and have performed well all across the board. Sagarin has Iowa at #11. Massey has Iowa at #10. Bart Torvik has Iowa at #25. Somewhere in between there is probably the most accurate but Iowa has done very well this year.
I didn't get a chance to come back over here after Friday's game but just wanted to come back and say that I was really impressed with Iowa's effort on Friday. It was a heck of a comeback and some lights out shooting (until the final 0-7 the last couple of minutes). It was the first time all year that a team was able to rattle us in any way offensively -- to do it at Mackey was even more impressive.
I'm glad to see you guys getting some recognition for the B1G. Best of luck the rest of the season.
Oh and please crush Illinois. I can't stand them
I'm glad to see you guys getting some recognition for the B1G. Best of luck the rest of the season.
Oh and please crush Illinois. I can't stand them
Maybe. But Iowa did do something pretty special while winning @ Virginia and by losing @ #1 Purdue 77-70. Those two games would tend to make the others moot. Name another team that could play PU without its best player and with biased officiating and come out with a 7-point loss or better. Think hard. Could Duke? Could Ohio State? Could Illinois? Could Gonzaga? I'm not so sure I can think of anyone.
It's too early to know much about most teams, including Iowa, but at this point the Hawkeyes look like a potential top 25 team to me. We'll know more about 9:30 tonight.
These rankings are great, but the conference will tell us whether they mean anything or not. Illinois is at 48 right now so....
Correct. Need some more games to make this more valid. Good to be where Iowa is now, but the real tests keep coming.
Our margin of victory vs those shit teams early on helped the NET where RPI it wouldn't have.
There was a lot of bitching and moaning about Iowa’s soft non-conference schedule, but it appears to have been unwarranted. I think we haven’t fully processed the move from RPI to NET. I found a website that indicates Iowa’s current RPI is 70. That is consistent with my understanding of that formula, which treated a 2 point win over a 200 range school as a far better win than beating a 300 range school by 30 points. It was a dumb formula and I’m glad it’s gone.
That said, I think Loyola last year had a top ten NET ranking and got a 8 seed, which was ridiculous. Poor Illinois. Thus, I still think the polls are more important for seeding than NET rankings as the committee doesn’t seem to place too much weight on them. But better to have a high NET ranking than a low one!
That said, I think Loyola last year had a top ten NET ranking and got a 8 seed, which was ridiculous. Poor Illinois. Thus, I still think the polls are more important for seeding than NET rankings as the committee doesn’t seem to place too much weight on them. But better to have a high NET ranking than a low one!
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