Guarantee no state has had 3 different teams beat 3 different no.1's in the same season. Iowa & ISU may have a chance to beat a no.1 Mary & Kan before the season's over also! Crazy!
No.1 against Iowa, UNI, & ISU
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UNI beat No.1 North Carolina and Iowa over #1 MSU. ISU will play probable No. 1 Oklahoma Monday. Confusing post but can happen, maybe twice for the Hawks.
My bad about confusing post. In my crazy head it makes sense but probably could've worded it better.
Helps the RPI/SOS as well as potentially our ranking if Oklahoma drops another one. Still feels so wrong.
Holding our breath here... Iowa's won a Rose Bowl more recently than Iowa State has beaten a #1 team (1957).
ISU 77, OK 75 with 9 seconds left now
ISU 77, OK 75 with 9 seconds left now
Final score ISU 82, Oklahoma 77
It's been done! Three #1's down!
They stormed the court again this time. Hard not to. Hope no one got hurt this time!
It's been done! Three #1's down!
They stormed the court again this time. Hard not to. Hope no one got hurt this time!
Just had a cyclone buddy text me and proclaim that the inbounds play called by Prohm, was the best coaching move he's ever witnessed. "Didn't even know you could do that, and I know a lot about basketball." Granted, he's a idiot.
He's an idiot and obviously doesn't know a lot about basketball.
Thus why I posted this. I assumed the rule was common knowledge, and the play-call not all that uncommon.
Drake records miracle 4 wins in St Louis, sneaks in as 16 seed, beats the number one team.
Iowa State has beaten Kansas 3 of the last 4 times they have played including in the last two conference tournaments where they beat Kansas both times. They have also won 4 of 6 in that time frame against ever ranking Oklahoma. Kansas has been #1 several times in recent years but just not the week that ISU played them this season. Maybe Kansas will be #1 when they play at Hilton next Big Monday.
Oklahoma was ranked #3 when ISU lost at Oklahoma, a game they should have won as ISU lead all but 6 minutes of the game. At 20 wins and only 8 losses against ranked teams in the last two seasons and up to and including the present season ISU is tied with some team for most wins against ranked teams in that time. I chose that time frame because that is what the article said at the Cyclone web site. Still lots more games left for them to play against currently with ranked teams so that total could grow, or not.
Good luck to all the Teams in Iowa. What helps one of the teams helps them all.
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How much of the Iowa-ISU game did ISU lead? But you'll never convince an ISU fan that Iowa blew that one and that it was a game Iowa should have won. That being said, I think it was that game that led to Iowa's current play, so I can't complain.
ESPN sent out that North Carolina teams did it in the late 90s (maybe 98-99?). That's the only other instance.
Personally, I think this case is more impressive, because those NC teams beat each other. Rivals and all that, and Duke was the #1 at least twice. They were all likely overrated. Here, three "nobodies" from lowly Iowa beat three different top ranked teams, all from different conferences.
Pretty neat.
Personally, I think this case is more impressive, because those NC teams beat each other. Rivals and all that, and Duke was the #1 at least twice. They were all likely overrated. Here, three "nobodies" from lowly Iowa beat three different top ranked teams, all from different conferences.
Pretty neat.
Exactly. Was it 3 different no.1 teams or the same team twice losing while being rated no.1?
I can't get to Twitter to quote directly, but I can transcribe it from my phone. It wasn't ESPN, it was some guy called Chris Andringa. So consider the source.
"Only time 3 teams from same state beat AP #1 in one season: '97-98.
3 Duke def 1 AZ
2 UNC def 1 Duke
NR NCSU def 1 UNC
4 UNC def 1 Duke"
So there were three different #1 teams beaten. Still feels a little different when it's mostly those three NC schools beating each other.
However you view it, the trifecta from IA teams is still pretty cool.
"Only time 3 teams from same state beat AP #1 in one season: '97-98.
3 Duke def 1 AZ
2 UNC def 1 Duke
NR NCSU def 1 UNC
4 UNC def 1 Duke"
So there were three different #1 teams beaten. Still feels a little different when it's mostly those three NC schools beating each other.
However you view it, the trifecta from IA teams is still pretty cool.
And a nice statement that this time around one of the Iowa teams beats a #1 UNC team too. Season's not over yet, could be more upsets down the road soon. Especially with the tournaments ahead. Also, it's not like any of the Iowa teams are in the same conference either like the North Carolina teams were, which afforded them more time during the time of the year where each of the teams from the ACC were playing each other and therefore had opportunities throughout the year to beat each other when they likely each met each other twice.
