Ok, so I still have basketball on the brain, and I have some time to blog about it. I can't wait to see who Iowa State will play in the NCAA tournament, and what their seed will be. It's been so long since ISU has made the tournament... I almost forgot how much fun it is to see them make it! Right now, according ot Joe Lunardi's bracketology projection as of February 20th, he has ISU as a #9 seed matched up with #8 Saint Louis in the first round. I really hope that we are not an 8 or a 9 seed because that would put us in a death-match with a #1 seed in the second round if we would advance. Really there is still quite a bit of basketball left to be played, and I think that Iowa State could end up being anything from a #7 to a #11 seed. Just my opinion. If that's the case, we would also play a team with a seed of 6 through 10. Who might that be?
According to the most recent bracketology, these would be the teams:
#6 seed: Murray State, Notre Dame, New Mexico, Creighton
#7 seed: Vanderbilt, Gonzaga, St. Mary's, San Diego State
#8 seeds: Memphis, Southern Miss, Virginia, Saint Louis
#9 Seeds: Kansas State, Mississippi State, California, Iowa State
#10 Seeds: Harvard, Purdue, Alabama, West Virginia
More than likely, the team that we will face will be someone other than these teams. But who knows? Murray State has been highly ranked all year, so they would be fun to play. No chance that we would play Kansas State since we are in the same conference. Harvard or Gonzaga would be fun match-ups. I hate Notre Dame, so I hope we don't play them. I would hate to lose to the Irish. A match-up with Creighton would be interesting since their star Doug McDermott is the son of former ISU coach Greg McDermott. I hope we don't play West Virginia either since we will be seeing plenty of them starting next year when the join the Big 12. I just hope that we are not an 8 or 9 seed, we play some team that we never get to see and would be a fun match-up, and I would love us to just win at least one game in the tournament. Sweet 16 would be amazing.
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