Will Iowa be ranked this week?

[BeepBeepInMyJeep]

Garza getting some major pub, and two virtually convincing performances against serviceable (probably pretty average) power 5 teams. Winning handily at Hilton still has some swag, the TT win carries more, and several teams at the bottom half of the top 25 suffered bad losses.

any chance we slide in?

 

[Suterman]

Probably not yet. We had a lot of ground to make up.

 

[HawkTex]

Garza getting some major pub, and two virtually convincing performances against serviceable (probably pretty average) power 5 teams. Winning handily at Hilton still has some swag, the TT win carries more, and several teams at the bottom half of the top 25 suffered bad losses.

any chance we slide in?

Stay under the Radar.

 

[paladinhawk]

San Diego St was ranked #25 last week No chance of passing them as they are 10-0, and beat the Hawks head to head. Seton Hall might drop out of the top 25 with the bad loss @ Rutgers.

 

[StormHawk42]

Votes yes. No ranking though.

 

[sbhawk64]

Why do people say, stay under the radar?

Why would a fan hope the team does bad enough to not get noticed. My hope is we are number 1 in the country and have a target on our head.

 

[unoHawkeye]

Why do people say, stay under the radar?

Why would a fan hope the team does bad enough to not get noticed. My hope is we are number 1 in the country and have a target on our head.

Never understood the mentality either. Lotta Iowa fans say they like to fly under the radar, but then complain that Iowa never gets the respect that it deserves. If Iowa ever wants to be a powerhouse in any sport, it needs to embrace having a target on its back

 

[ThriceHawk]

Iowa has a good chance, if they play well consistently, to win the next 4. They could be top 25 heading into a showdown at Carver with Maryland.

 

[SDHawkDoc]

Nope.

There's a whole slew of OK to good teams.

If there were a top 50 poll, the difference between #50 and #25 would be very slim.

For what it's worth, they are #22 on Kenpom. Essentially on the strength of having the #1 adjustedO.

 

[JRingo]

Could be tied for 25th with 13 other Big Ten teams.

 

[SSG T]

Seth Davis has the Hawks ranked...don't know if he has a vote, though.

 

[DodgerHawki]

Nope.

There's a whole slew of OK to good teams.

If there were a top 50 poll, the difference between #50 and #25 would be very slim.

For what it's worth, they are #22 on Kenpom. Essentially on the strength of having the #1 adjustedO.

Yes the difference between 20 and 50 is razor thin. Will make for an interesting Big 10 season.

 

[walleye hunter16]

Yes the difference between 20 and 50 is razor thin. Will make for an interesting Big 10 season.

This maybe the year a 16 beats a 1seed.
Truly incredible how many teams can be extremely good on any given night.

 

[Wango Z Tango]

On one hand sure you think Iowa "deserves" to be ranked. On the other hand let's see for a couple games how they perform without Jordan Bohannon if in fact Jordan is shutting down.

 

[HeRKeYHoPeFuL]

This maybe the year a 16 beats a 1seed.
Truly incredible how many teams can be extremely good on any given night.

What is this, 2018?

 

[StormHawk42]

This maybe the year a 16 beats a 1seed.
Truly incredible how many teams can be extremely good on any given night.

My sarcasm meter may be off but might want to check your first statement.

 

[Hawkfan_08]

I don't think we are ranked yet but may get 5ish votes.

This maybe the year a 16 beats a 1seed.
Truly incredible how many teams can be extremely good on any given night.

UMBC is very upset with you right now. Virginia gets back to back 1 seeds. Year one they get beat in the first round. Year two they win it all.

 

[HemiHawk]

Nope.

There's a whole slew of OK to good teams.

If there were a top 50 poll, the difference between #50 and #25 would be very slim.

For what it's worth, they are #22 on Kenpom. Essentially on the strength of having the #1 adjustedO.

Sagarin has Iowa at #22 with the #24 SOS. For what it's worth also.

 

[Underscore2]

Looks like Iowa snuck into the latest Lundardi bracket. I have also seen Iowa on the good bracketologists (not Lunardi) early on as last 4 out-ish range.

Nervous about Cincinnati. They were embarrassed at home. If properly motivated they do have the talent to have a good shooting night, then go right back to sucking.

 

[HeRKeYHoPeFuL]

Looks like Iowa snuck into the latest Lundardi bracket. I have also seen Iowa on the good bracketologists (not Lunardi) early on as last 4 out-ish range.

Nervous about Cincinnati. They were embarrassed at home. If properly motivated they do have the talent to have a good shooting night, then go right back to sucking.

They still play Tennessee this week, so they can do that against them.

 

[skydog0784]

Iowa ranked #25 and the "biggest positive mover" in this morning's (Mon 12/16) CBS Sports Rankings...

https://www.cbssports.com/college-b...sota-launches-kansas-to-no-1-in-top-25-and-1/

 

[TCOOL]

Didnt get one vote for the AP Top 25.

https://apnews.com/APTop25CollegeBasketballPoll

Edit, something is messed up here. The AP Poll tracker has us #28 this week:

https://collegepolltracker.com/basketball/

 

[StormHawk42]

Damn no votes. No one really thinks much of Syracuse and ISU so far this year.

 

[TCOOL]

Damn no votes. No one really thinks much of Syracuse and ISU so far this year.

See the post above yours.

 

[BeepBeepInMyJeep]

Looks like Iowa snuck into the latest Lundardi bracket. I have also seen Iowa on the good bracketologists (not Lunardi) early on as last 4 out-ish range.

Nervous about Cincinnati. They were embarrassed at home. If properly motivated they do have the talent to have a good shooting night, then go right back to sucking.

NET at 33 and other metrics in the 20s would indicate solidly in, but of course these really don't mean that much until things get pretty late on. If we lost that one, it wouldn't be devastating (8-3 non-con with 2 P5 road wins), but it's does lower the odds and the margin for error a bit. If nothing else, due to depth, there's bound to be several games during the course of the last 18 Big Ten games where we'll have our lunch handed to us. 10-10 would be enough for us to get in again, but it would be nice to have 11 or 12 to make it comfortable. There's still not a good enough idea of who's great, good, average, and horrible. We can be pretty sure Mich St. will be near the top, and that NW and Nebraska will probably be near the bottom. Beyond that, it's pretty much keno and hard to even say how strong our conference schedule even is.

 

[HawkRugged17]

 

[combes]

DePaul is 10-1 and not ranked. They also beat Texas Tech and Minnesota. No DePaul then no Iowa.

 

[Smigamorski]

Iowa more than likely won't be ranked until they beat PSU on 1/4 (assuming they win the next 2).