Barta sez decision on in-state basketball games could come soon

[PantherFan]

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iowa sucks, fran sucks, their schedule sucks, iowa fans suck...shocking that they decide that UNI isnt worth their time.

Iowa State fans say the same things and Iowa is still playing them home and home.

[clenz]

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Really, you think that Iowa will be in the top-100 RPI with that schedule? I doubt that, even if they go 11-2. Their OWP and OOWP are going to be bad.

Iowa's RPI going into B1G play will likely be between 250-300 (likely closer to 300)....even a B1G schedule can't really help that.

[9YRPLAN]

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Iowa State fans say the same things and Iowa is still playing them home and home.

im sorry but there are long-standing rivalries between iowa and isu in every major sport. and grocery shopping.

[9YRPLAN]

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Iowa's RPI going into B1G play will likely be between 250-300 (likely closer to 300)....even a B1G schedule can't really help that.

theres absolutely no chance in hell that this will be correct.

[06panther10]

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im sorry but there are long-standing rivalries between iowa and isu in every major sport. and grocery shopping.

This is exactly it, right here. Iowa does not view UNI as a peer in any single way or form, despite the fact that UNI is also a Division 1 athletic program, and a very successful one at that. "Well of course we are going to play Iowa State, why wouldn't we?" and then, "We shouldn't be playing games in Cedar Falls, that's ridiculous."

Its the same line of thinking that allows so many dual UNI/Iowa fans justify and take comfort in the fact that its OK be fans of both, yet that same person thinks it would be blasphemous to cheer for both Iowa and ISU simultaneously. Iowa fans think of UNI, like UNI fans think of Wartburg.

Iowa/UNI have been playing each other annually in basketball for something like 25 years. That isn't long standing enough? UNI competes against Iowa in virtually every single sport.

[9YRPLAN]

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do you consider minnesota and wisconsin as UNI's peers?

because the only difference is an imaginary line drawn by glaciers and dudes with farms.

[06panther10]

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do you consider minnesota and wisconsin as UNI's peers?

because the only difference is an imaginary line drawn by glaciers and dudes with farms.

In some respects yes, and in some respects no. But you cannot dismiss the fact that we are fellow in-state D1 athletic programs as nothing. That is not a meaningless detail.

[06panther10]

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I can't tell you how many times I've had this exact conversation--

Person: Who's your team, Iowa or Iowa State??
Me: UNI.
Person: Well, yeah, I cheer for them too. But you gotta be an Iowa or ISU fan, so which one?
Me: Why would I cheer for either of them?
Person: Well, its OK to be an UNI fan too (this is where they typically tell you how much they enjoyed UNI's win over Kansas), but they are at a different level, so...

UNI fans have chips on their shoulders, and rightfully so. They want the respect that they feel they have earned, and most Hawkeyes just simply do not think they are worthy.

[TH1974]

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LOL-age....

[jnutt]

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I can't tell you how many times I've had this exact conversation--

Person: Who's your team, Iowa or Iowa State??
Me: UNI.
Person: Well, yeah, I cheer for them too. But you gotta be an Iowa or ISU fan, so which one?
Me: Why would I cheer for either of them?
Person: Well, its OK to be an UNI fan too (this is where they typically tell you how much they enjoyed UNI's win over Kansas), but they are at a different level, so...

UNI fans have chips on their shoulders, and rightfully so. They want the respect that they feel they have earned, and most Hawkeyes just simply do not think they are worthy.

that or "Whose your REAL team?"

[casbern]

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I can't tell you how many times I've had this exact conversation--

Person: Who's your team, Iowa or Iowa State??
Me: UNI.
Person: Well, yeah, I cheer for them too. But you gotta be an Iowa or ISU fan, so which one?
Me: Why would I cheer for either of them?
Person: Well, its OK to be an UNI fan too (this is where they typically tell you how much they enjoyed UNI's win over Kansas), but they are at a different level, so...

UNI fans have chips on their shoulders, and rightfully so. They want the respect that they feel they have earned, and most Hawkeyes just simply do not think they are worthy.

100 times this.

[TH1974]

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5 million times that.

[9YRPLAN]

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I hate to break this to you, but you see Iowa shirts on UNIs campus roughly ten times more often than that conversation takes place.

[06panther10]

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I hate to break this to you, but you see Iowa shirts on UNIs campus roughly ten times more often than that conversation takes place.

Are you purposely trying to prove my point now? Well done.

[sivert]

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Iowa's RPI going into B1G play will likely be between 250-300 (likely closer to 300)....even a B1G schedule can't really help that.

theres absolutely no chance in hell that this will be correct.

The way I figure it, if Iowa goes 11-2, they will have an RPI of about 100. And if they go 8-5 (very possible*), they will have an RPI of around 150.
*Losses to UNI, Iowa State, Texas, Texas A&M, and VaTech.

My guess is that Iowa will enter the B1G season around 125 RPI. Their RPI will most likely get worse slightly during B1G play.