PowderBlue wrote:rlh04d wrote:I did not watch the game, since I was watching WSU. It took a 23 free throw advantage for ISU to barely squeak by a team consistently at the bottom of college basketball over the last few years. That is not good.
LOL Thanks for helping me understand how uniformed and irrelevant your opinion is on this topic. I was hoping maybe you had seen the game and gotten some perspective.rlh04d wrote:Your team played poorly. Get over it.
That's a far cry from 'in trouble'. Played poorly? I guess, but definitely on the defensive end for the first 30 minutes. In trouble? Very much remains to be seen.
It took a 23 free throw advantage, multiple opponents fouling out, and overtime to beat a team with two seniors on the roster that hasn't been in the top 200 RPI in four years.
Perhaps that tremendous crowd of 3,159 threw ISU off their games?
Maybe if I had decided to ignore Wichita State's tremendous performance against a team that's made the NCAA tournament four years out of the last five, I could have TRULY drilled down into the nuts and bolts of why ISUb's performance was not, in fact, pathetic, against a bad team coming off consecutive 300+ RPI seasons, and why the fact that they had to play five players in excess of 33 minutes actually belies tremendous depth.
But sure, obviously that tremendous performance says nothing but amazing things for the rest of the season. IUPUI's probably going to pull off a miraculous turn-around from sub-300 RPI to around 150, ISU's clearly got tremendous depth, and I'm sure there's a million other excuses for why that awful performance actually implies nothing about future struggles. Good luck!
