SIA if this has already been posted but I found it and got caught up clicking through to a bunch of the sites. Good old Jerry Palm has us as a 7 seed while every other one I looked at has us as a 5. Thought I'd post it if anybody had the urge to look at more bracket guesswork.

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The last three games have seen a very different rotation pattern from before. Mostly, I think, because we didn't have enough guards to play the 4 guard lineup. In reality, we likely didn't since Grill's injury. Jaz's big game maybe fooled us a bit, but our scoring has had difficult stretches since Caleb's injury.

With everyone healthy, physically and mentally, we seldom had no one hot or semi-hot. Now, we are 3 guard, one who is not a shooter, and have little rotation depth. Our best combo yesterday, in my opinion, was Holmes, Kalscheur, Watson, King, and Ward. Not because of offense, but it seemed to be the most defensive energy.

We will go as far as Kalscheur and Holmes can take us. Jaz is adding nothing right now, but in his defense, we are not doing much, if anything, to set him up to do anything. Sure wish we had a top-notch offensive player. It is a bit like having the WR that demands man and a half or even double coverage. Makes everyone else better.

Way to go, 3000 career points 1 of 14 Women in NCAA history to accomplish that.

Great ambassador for Iowa State.

Nice career Ashley Joens.

While all my systems and senses are degraded, my ability to detect my wife's gas has increased exponentially. I'm typing this VERY quietly from the basement where I'm setting up a bed now.

Anyone else worry about TJs voice problems? I'm old enough to remember Maury Johns. Wasn't it lung or throat cancer that got to him? TJ sounded terrible in the postgame presser. Never sounds good. No wonder he never gets on the refs, he isn't able to yell loud enough for them to hear him. I've been a Cyclone fan long enough that I easily imagine terrible things happening when it seems we are on th way to becoming great.

Hate both but one is a traitor and arrogant bunch of jerks!

The officiating sucks. Pushing, shoving not called. Big 12 teams may get in a lot of foul trouble in the tournament.

Watching Mizzo play Tenn. back and forth game with a lot of haymakers being made by both teams.

Anyone know time and tv for tomorrow? I can’t find anywhere online and trying to urgently set up a watch party

A lot of fans staying and headed to cheer Fenn’s Femmes today?

Do most people think we’ll end up in DSM next week?

Another other trending gossip amongst Hilton South crowds? Bball players sticking around next year / Brocks chances of full recovery and qb1 / Lazard destination etc?

....that about 90% of the posts I comment on over on the Confidential Board soon end up here on "Off Topic". LOL!!!

I'm not complaining....you're doing a great job keeping us "short attention span" schoolkids in line. I tend to stray from the original point of the conversations over there!!

Thanks for all you do.

The wifi in the arena sucked all night, so it only made sense that it'd suck when trying to upload video. But the hotel wifi was able to finish the job. Here's CTJO's presser on the main stage in the press room.

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Both the Cyclones.com schedule and my Yahoo sports app on my phone are saying so.

Hearing reports he may be in the hospital after a stroke or a heart attack… not sure if reliable sources just yet but there is a lot of smoke.

Going to get this one started early! The Cyclones and Jayhawks tip off around 6 p.m. tonight inside the T-Mobile Center in Kansas City in the Big 12 Tournament semifinal round. The game will be carried on ESPN with Jon Sciambi and Fran Fraschilla calling the action. I'll be posting periodic updates from my seat in the 900 level (aka media press box) in the thread below.

.....to cover at a minimum, and hopefully the Blue Cardigan Chickens will "Self" implode.

The Cyclones and Bears tip off around 11:30 am in the T-Mobile Center in Kansas City. The game will be carried on ESPN2. I’ll have the periodic updates from the rafters of the arena (aka hockey press box).

This looks like the dreaded vote of confidence right before things fall apart. This is very strange indeed.

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First, ISU is #4 in the country in Q1 wins behind KU, UT, and BU. That is domination by the Big 12.

Fran said yesterday that ISU now has the most wins in the country against the Top 25, which is amazing.

ISU jumped from 20 to 17, which is effectively the first 5 seed. Since the committee actually has ISU above its net ranking in the earlier release of its selections, I have to believe now that is still true, and thus I believe ISU is no worse than a 4 seed right now. KSU due to their loss has moved from ahead of ISU to several spots below ISU. So did West Virginia. If Houston and KU are both 1 seeds and Houston is first, then the MW goes to Houston and KU to another region. This would mean ISU is limited to only 3 region choices, and the MW is still in play!

Iowa has dropped to #40 only 2 spots ahead of Oklahoma State, who is a last team in right now. The # 40 spot works out to a 10th seed, but Iowa was normally slightly ahead of their net ranking on most brackets, so I am thinking that they will be slightly better than a 10 seed, but this puts them on the dreaded 8-9 line.

How would you all feel about Gonzaga, Villanova, UConn, and St. Johns joining the conference in all sports except football? Put out there by MHVER, which could be very suspect. Yormark wants the Big markets with name teams, and believes that Basketball will be a major contract in the future for the league. I agree with him.

If the league expands this much, I think the league will need a domed stadium to hold all the fans for the league tourney, not sure the KC site could hold enough fans with this many teams involved.