Top 25?

[cydave]

Re: Top 25?

Except by UNI.

True. I was talking more during the Big 12 season when teams figured out that we didn't have any outside threat, and he was our only player.

[williebat]

Re: Top 25?

Well he did pretty much single handedly beat UNI in Cedar Falls last year. He is also ranked up there as one of the best returning players in college basketball.

I remember that game and was not that impressed by Brackins. He seemed slow and clumsy. If I remember the reason we lost that game was because of us. We played horrid just as we did for most of the first half. We could not have beaten Wartburg that night. Yet it was still close. Overtime I think?

Maybe you are right Brackins is a stud. Maybe he got better since the UNI game.

Personally seems like hype to me.

[Newsbreaker]

Re: Top 25?

FYI, Dick Vitale's pre-season top 40. No UNI.

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/dickv...ory?id=4361336

[williebat]

Re: Top 25?

FYI, Dick Vitale's pre-season top 40. No UNI.

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/dickv...ory?id=4361336

Sienna at 35. That is going to be a good game for us.

[UNIpanther99]

Re: Top 25?

FYI, Dick Vitale's pre-season top 40. No UNI.

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/dickv...ory?id=4361336

I used to like him... And he does try to stick up for the "little guy" at tournament time, but this list is full of a lot of Digger Phelps-highlighter green Kool-Aid.

[UNIpanther99]

Re: Top 25?

Sienna at 35. That is going to be a good game for us.

I think Katz has Sienna at like 17 or 18.

[ubuntuCAT]

Re: Top 25?

I remember that game and was not that impressed by Brackins. He seemed slow and clumsy. If I remember the reason we lost that game was because of us. We played horrid just as we did for most of the first half. We could not have beaten Wartburg that night. Yet it was still close. Overtime I think?

Maybe you are right Brackins is a stud. Maybe he got better since the UNI game.

Personally seems like hype to me.

slow and clumsy? maybe in overtime after he had played the entire game and was STILL scoring.

[cydave]

Re: Top 25?

I remember that game and was not that impressed by Brackins. He seemed slow and clumsy. If I remember the reason we lost that game was because of us. We played horrid just as we did for most of the first half. We could not have beaten Wartburg that night. Yet it was still close. Overtime I think?

Maybe you are right Brackins is a stud. Maybe he got better since the UNI game.
Personally seems like hype to me.

He did. A lot better. He improved so much over the season last year, it wasn't even funny.

[williebat]

Re: Top 25?

He did. A lot better. He improved so much over the season last year, it wasn't even funny.

So maybe I am not so off in thinking he was not all that impressive when I saw him play UNI. I don't follow ISU so I only saw him play that one game.

Hope he has one bad game this year and the rest he kicks butt!!!

It would be great to have the MVC and BIG 12 conference champs in the same state!!!!

[cydave]

Re: Top 25?

So maybe I am not so off in thinking he was not all that impressive when I saw him play UNI. I don't follow ISU so I only saw him play that one game.

Hope he has one bad game this year and the rest he kicks butt!!!

It would be great to have the MVC and BIG 12 conference champs in the same state!!!!

He probably played worse against Iowa. He had a couple of poor games in the non-conf. So, yeah, if you only saw him play in that game or a couple others in non-conf. then you wouldn't be as impressed. He really stepped it up in conference play.
As far as your final quote... UNI could very well be MVC champs again, but I doubt ISU will be Big 12 champs. I'm shooting for more around .500 in conference play, and that should put us on the bubble for the tourny.

[TravelingPanther]

Re: Top 25?

I remember that game and was not that impressed by Brackins. He seemed slow and clumsy. If I remember the reason we lost that game was because of us. We played horrid just as we did for most of the first half. We could not have beaten Wartburg that night. Yet it was still close. Overtime I think?

Maybe you are right Brackins is a stud. Maybe he got better since the UNI game.

Personally seems like hype to me.

I personally thought Brackins smoked us in that game. Whether it was because he was great or we had a poor gameplan, I don't know. But that game sucked.

[9YRPLAN]

Re: Top 25?

i am anxious to see the "new" jordan match up with brackins this year

[SteinPizza]

Re: Top 25?

I used to like him... And he does try to stick up for the "little guy" at tournament time, but this list is full of a lot of Digger Phelps-highlighter green Kool-Aid.

What do you expect? It's up to the mid major teams to prove they belong in this list by pulling upsets, not the other way around. This has nothing to do with making the tourney, but more his informed opinion of the nation's top 40 teams based on talent and record last year.

[TravelingPanther]

Re: Top 25?

i am anxious to see the "new" jordan match up with brackins this year

He should match-up much better. A good performance against Brackins would help his draft stock.

[UNIpanther99]

Re: Top 25?

What do you expect? It's up to the mid major teams to prove they belong in this list by pulling upsets, not the other way around. This has nothing to do with making the tourney, but more his informed opinion of the nation's top 40 teams based on talent and record last year.

Right... But having Butler, Gonzaga, and Sienna as your only Mid-Majors in the top 40 doesn't exactly tell me he's done much research at all. And even the three he did pick deserve more respect than he showed them.