Up Next: North Carolina

[harry joy]

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Biggest game in the Mcleod: January 31, 2015
#18 Northern Iowa vs. #12 Wichita State
First Valley game between ranked opponents in 33 years

[kochrab]

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Looking at their first few games I think we could have a definite advantage at the 3 point line. They appear to not shoot it the best, but who knows for sure this season. It would probably be to our advantage to pound the ball inside and try to get them in foul trouble.

[Born-a-Panther]

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Biggest game in the Mcleod: January 31, 2015
#18 Northern Iowa vs. #12 Wichita State
First Valley game between ranked opponents in 33 years

I agree with this.

[UNIdad]

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Biggest game in the Mcleod: January 31, 2015
#18 Northern Iowa vs. #12 Wichita State
First Valley game between ranked opponents in 33 years

The Wichita State game was "bigger" in terms of significance for UNI in the season, but North Carolina is the "biggest" stand alone game. It would have been terrible for the season for us to lose to WSU at home, but it won't be if we lose to UNC.

Nonetheless, I hope we play against UNC as if our season is at stake. If we play like we did against WSU, we can win.

[Moose39]

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I just needed to put something in the text box until I could get photos up... Cmon, guys...

[run&blade]

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The original Uni home game against Iowa drew 22,000 to the dome.

I think you could put this game in the dome and you wouldn't sell 22,000 tickets. This time of year is all about football in the media. I think Kwwl talks about the upcoming Hawkeyes game in every segment including the weather.

I can see calling this game, last years WSU game, and the original Iowa in the dome game as the biggest and make a good argument.

[06panther10]

The original Uni home game against Iowa drew 22,000 to the dome.

I think you could put this game in the dome and you wouldn't sell 22,000 tickets. This time of year is all about football in the media. I think Kwwl talks about the upcoming Hawkeyes game in every segment including the weather.

I can see calling this game, last years WSU game, and the original Iowa in the dome game as the biggest and make a good argument.

I disagree. I think UNI would have no problem whatsoever putting 20K in the Dome for this. Especially with being able to sell individual game tix, which would be the case in that situation.

[unipanthers8907]

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I disagree. I think UNI would have no problem whatsoever putting 20K in the Dome for this. Especially with being able to sell individual game tix, which would be the case in that situation.

Absolutely. I work at ISU and I had quite a few coworkers who don't follow UNI whatsoever, but they wanted to know how they could get tickets to the McLeod Center to go see UNC play. They seemed pretty disappointed that there were no single game tickets. We could definitely get 20K+ in The Dome for this game.

[pantherUNIverse]

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Good to see Wes' face popping up on ESPN's basketball home page. Insider article though which I don't have access to

[BCPanther]

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We would have. We'd have priced tickets at $20-25 and sold a ton.

[GonzoCat]

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It depends on the outcome. If we win the game it will be the biggest game ever. If we lose, the WSU game last year remains the biggest game.

Winning this game would immediately gets us talked about nationally and it would continue all year and give us a decent chance at an at large tourney bid should we need one, assuming we manage 23 or more wins. It would counteract the bad loss we sustained last week which almost eliminates us from at large consideration, assuming we don't win 28 games.

[BCPanther]

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Colorado State was not a bad loss. They'll easily be a Top 100 RPI team.

23ish wins easily puts us in the discussion.

[unipanthers8907]

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It depends on the outcome. If we win the game it will be the biggest game ever. If we lose, the WSU game last year remains the biggest game.

Winning this game would immediately gets us talked about nationally and it would continue all year and give us a decent chance at an at large tourney bid should we need one, assuming we manage 23 or more wins. It would counteract the bad loss we sustained last week which almost eliminates us from at large consideration, assuming we don't win 28 games.

I'm confused about how losing to CSU is considered a bad loss when we're a week into the season...
CSU won 27 games a year ago and they are well coached. Should be in the Top 100 of the RPI this year, not a bad loss in my mind, especially at this point of the season.

Edit: I see BC beat me to it.

[Khan4Cats]

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I just needed to put something in the text box until I could get photos up... Cmon, guys...

Could you have at least spelled the arena's name right?

[Moose39]

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Could you have at least spelled the arena's name right?

Autocorrect. It happens