Iowa State is now not seemingly invincible at residence. The Cyclones misplaced to West Virginia 72-69 at Hilton Coliseum for his or her third residence lack of the season and eighth loss of their final ten video games whole. Iowa State has now fallen to 11-12 towards the highest three quadrants.
That places them extra in step with Oklahoma State and West Virginia than the opposite Large 12 groups within the area. They’ve a greater total document than these two, which is saving them for the second, however with their poor run of play and remaining schedule, I am including them to the bubble. In the event that they lose their two remaining video games – at Baylor and the primary spherical of the Large 12 Match – the committee might need to swallow onerous to place them within the area.
They’ve fallen all the way down to a No. 8 seed in Tuesday’s bracket. That might be the perfect seed ever given to a group that was under .500 towards the highest three quadrants within the 30 years I’ve been doing brackets. Due to the power of schedule within the Large 12, it’s not unreasonable to suppose {that a} group from that league with such a document might get somewhat larger seed than earlier than, however not a lot.
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Take a look at Palm’s newest bracket, full area of 68 and all of the groups on the bubble on the Bracketology hub.
One other odd factor concerning the Cyclones schedule is that each one however 5 of their video games are both Quad 1 or Quad 4. In order that Quad 1-3 document doesn’t get a lot assist outdoors of Quad 1.
Evaluate their résumé to their in-state rival, Iowa. The Hawkeyes and Cyclones are every residence courtroom heroes, with simply 4-9 information off their residence courts. Iowa has the head-to-head end result, which was performed at Iowa, naturally.
Iowa is one sport forward of Iowa State in total document and above 13-10 towards the highest three quadrants largely on account of eight Quad 2 wins.
It’s onerous to say which the committee would favor in seeding – the group with the face to face end result or the group with the stronger schedule. It’s a good factor recency bias is not an element or ISU may not be within the bracket in any respect proper now.
Michigan has changed Oklahoma State on the backside of the bracket following the Cowboys loss at residence to Baylor. OSU has a highway sport left with Texas Tech earlier than the Large 12 Match.