Big 4 in Des Moines

by **MVCfans** » December 15th, 2012, 8:52 am

Looking forward to the games today. Need to get at least one victory and I think there's a shot to win both - although I wouldn't be stunned to see a sweep either for or against the Valley.

Northern Iowa
vs Iowa (-2)
1:30pm

Drake
vs Iowa State (-8)
4:00pm

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by **MVCfans** » December 15th, 2012, 2:10 pm

Iowa leads 33-26 with about 4 minutes to play in the 1st half.

by **MVCfans** » December 15th, 2012, 3:14 pm

Iowa is going to win this one. Hopefully Drake can pull a minor upset.

by **Khan4Cats** » December 15th, 2012, 3:25 pm

Iowa 12-25 from 3, UNI 2-15.....

by **Khan4Cats** » December 15th, 2012, 3:46 pm

80-73. Iowa shot lights out from 3 early and UNI was not able to get on track from deep. Mitchell with 23 for UNI, Tuttle with 18, James 15, but only 3-16 on the game from 3 is not part of UNI's game plan.

by **Jet915** » December 15th, 2012, 4:03 pm

I think that pretty much bursted UNI's bubble.

by **Khan4Cats** » December 15th, 2012, 4:06 pm

Jet915 wrote:I think that pretty much bursted UNI's bubble.

You don't think a win on UNLV's court might have any impact?

by **Jet915** » December 15th, 2012, 4:08 pm

Not much anymore. You've now lost to Stanford, Memphis and Iowa. 3 teams that will now be ahead of you in the bubble ladder. After watching UNI today, I can't imagine them beating UNLV but I guess anything is possible.

by **Khan4Cats** » December 15th, 2012, 4:12 pm

Jet915 wrote:Not much anymore. You've now lost to Stanford, Memphis and Iowa. 3 teams that will now be ahead of you in the bubble ladder. After watching UNI today, I can't imagine them beating UNLV but I guess anything is possible.

True, if teams shoot 50% from deep on us, we're not gonna beat many of them. I guess we'll see.

We still have UNLV and St. Mary's in the non-conference, those two would be as good as any win anyone else has in the conference at this point. We would definitely need to be in the top 2, maybe top 3 in the Valley to have a look at that point-no way 11-7/10-8 gets us there even with those two wins.

by **shoxrox** » December 15th, 2012, 4:21 pm

As a mid, UNI has too many losses now to get an at-large, even if they pull out a miracle in Vegas. They'd also have to pull off another miracle by going 14-4 or better in conference play to avoid a double-digit loss total. Also, UNI doesn't have too great of an RPI right now. That'd be a lot to ask of 2 miracles in 1 season.