Voice of the Hawkeyes Board

I think Iowa still has a chance albeit very small. I don't think its anywhere near as big of a no-brainer as you seem to think and I certainly wouldn't blame anyone for not having Iowa in. I do agree that Iowa is more deserving of a bid than MTSU though.

Agreed with 5%. The odds are vastly against Iowa today. It'd still be awesome if they went in our favor though.

Don't forget...............it's all about the TV money from here on out. Need to touch as many states and major cities as possible, including Boise. We already have Iowa State in, maybe. If not, Iowa must not be much of a TV market area.

RPI does not consider margin of victory or defeat, which is why the committee favors it. They don't want teams running up the score just to boost their numbers.

Iowa had plenty of chances to control their own destiny. If they had beat MSU both times, Nebraska, Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Purdue on the road they would have finish 14-4 in B10 and made it at least to the semis of the tournament. That by the way would have been a B10 title. If you count the 2 OT losses as being one point short we were 12 pts short of the B10 title. Any two of those would have put us in the tournament.

Teddy-boy Valentine ends up screwing Iowa out of a Big Dance bid.
His faux calls in the 2nd half of Friday night's game cost the Hawkeyes dearly.
If Iowa beats MSU, in Chicago, they're in the NC2A.

LaSalle? Mid Tenn St? Colorado ? Minnesota?
I think you could make a case that at the end of year, Iowa is better than over 1/2 the NC2A field.

Agreed.

I mean he only picked all 68 teams correctly and seeded all the #1's and #2's in order, as well as correctly picked the last 4 in.

Jason Lisk on how difficult it is to pick the field of 68:

"First, let’s talk about the RPI and seeding. I got 68 of 68 teams right this year. Big whoop. I really went 2 for 2, correctly having La Salle and Middle Tennessee in my field, instead of Tennessee, or Kentucky, or Virginia, or Maryland. As I noted last year, a monkey throwing darts could be trained to get 65 of 68 right, since you are given the answer on 31 of them.

If you just went by the RPI, you would have correctly called 36 of the 37 at-larges, and would have needed to only switch Southern Miss out for California to get the field right."

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Link--
http://www.thebiglead.com/index.php/2013/03/18/jay-bilas-was-wrong-about-the-committee-going-by-who-you-lost-to-it-was-the-bad-teams-you-beat-that-were-the-difference/

First of all, not a Lunardi "worshiper", but to clarify, the RPI is a look at a team's season. Also called a descriptive ranking. Sagarin, along with others like BPI, KenPom, LRMC are rankings to show the up to date strength of a team. Its called a predictive ranking.

Basically, as of right now Iowa has a Sagarin predictor score of 85.0. Indiana State's is 75.68. So thats saying Iowa is a 8.5 favorite vs ISU. Add in the 4.0 points for being at home and thats says Iowa is a 12.5 point favorite tomorrow night. Vegas has the line as Iowa -12.5. Thats what Sagarin is used for. It doesn't show anything to what kind of season they have had...which is the point of the RPI. The RPI is not perfect, particularly when it comes to SOS and opponent's SOS, but its used to show a full season's body of work, not what Vegas should use to set up the betting line for the next game.

So...

a.) Yes we played in the best league, but had a relatively soft B1G schedule.
b.) Yes we went 2-1 vs Minny and Illinois...2 wins at home, 1 loss on the road. Home wins < Road wins
c.) Yes we finished stronger...so what? We're just supposed to forget the chicken sh* t OOC and the bad start to the first half of the B1G schedule?

Hope this helps.

You think Iowa is the 29th best team in the country?

We lost to Nebraska and Purdue. We got hammered by Va Tech.

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