mathewson10 wrote:And with a 1st year coach & no point guard they were able to make it to the semi final game of the MVC tourney losing only to a team that made it to the final four. What's your point? Was ISU over hyped? Yeah, they lost their coach & the one player that made the team work. Ppl overhyped them because of their NIT performance the previous season. I don't get to vote on the rankings. I knew we weren't going to be as good without Nic Moore.
The point is that the IlSU program is completely unstable, and predicting where they will finish in the league is like a blindfolded monkey throwing a dart. The point is that you're trying to pull a "history" card and pretend everyone were fools to predict IlSU to finish at the bottom of the league last year, when in reality IlSU made them look just as foolish by picking them at the top of the league in 2013.
There is no trend for IlSU. The 2013 team was undoubtedly more talented than the 2014 team, but performed worse (though the league records are incomparable, as the 2013 team would've beat the crap out of the 2014 team). The 2013 team underpeformed because they lost key players from the previous season? And it isn't reasonable for folks to think that won't happen with the 2015 team?
Made it to the semi final game of the MVC tourney? Seriously? So, they won 1 game, and then got blown out? That's what you're going with?
