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Game Thread - Iowa State

Isu is bad on offense but Pitt has played much bettter D and is rebounding much better as well. They’ve caused some of the poor offense

Yep. I think we made things very difficult for them. They were shooting poorly but we never gave them a chance to get in rhythm.
 
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Gotta love that game. All the talk about great defense wins games. Nonsense. Bad defense loses games, but you only win games one way....you put the ball in the hoop more then your opponent. If you can't hit shots, you don't win very much. ISU was horrible offensively. They made Mississippi State look like the Golden State Warriors.
 
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Gotta love that game. All the talk about great defense wins games. Nonsense. Bad defense loses games, but you only win games one way....you put the ball in the hoop more then your opponent. If you can't hit shots, you don't win very much. ISU was horrible offensively. They made Mississippi State look like the Golden State Warriors.

The basketball gods caused that Mississippi State miss at the end. They knew Mississippi State vs Iowa State would be a 15-12 game that would make people gouge their eyes out.
 
Great win today!

Hail to Pitt.

We’ve got to do a lot better though on offense. We only made 14 baskets, just like State. Thankfully the guys made 25/29 FT, and we even had two more rebounds than did State.

Just wonderful, though.

First NCAA win since the 2014 victory over Colorado.
 
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Can someone explain to me how was Iowa State a six seed? They were hot garbage.
Get a black board and throw out some pi r squareds and a few derivatives and an integral or two to find the area under the curve and it is clear as day that it is justified by a fetzer valve...Come on man, do you need a refresher? its all ball bearings now...
 
Gotta love that game. All the talk about great defense wins games. Nonsense. Bad defense loses games, but you only win games one way....you put the ball in the hoop more then your opponent. If you can't hit shots, you don't win very much. ISU was horrible offensively. They made Mississippi State look like the Golden State Warriors.
Yep...said that early on in this game. I was like - if ISU can't score the ball, no way they beat us. Virginia has shown us over and over again - just having defense won't take you far in this tourney.
 
Had to miss the second half because of a doctor's appointment (they didn't even have basketball on in the waiting room). Heard the final on the way back home. Glad we recovered.
 
And just maybe judging them on a one game sample size isn’t quite fair. They had a historically bad shooting game. Our D was pretty good, but they couldn’t throw it in the ocean today.

Glad they picked this one to play their level worst.
This is what happens when you try shooting with alien tape.
 
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