Early Basketball Bracketology

[Dawgg]

Men - Last Four Byes

Men's Bracketology: Texas is ahead of schedule

One reclassification has strengthened Texas' case to be a Final Four contender.

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Women - First Four Out

Women's Bracketology: South Carolina debuts as No. 1 overall seed for 2026-27

With the additions of Jordan Lee and Oliviyah Edwards, the Gamecocks top our first look at next season's NCAA tournament.

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[theoriginalSALTYdog]

Men - Last Four Byes

Men's Bracketology: Texas is ahead of schedule

One reclassification has strengthened Texas' case to be a Final Four contender.

www.espn.com

Women - First Four Out

Women's Bracketology: South Carolina debuts as No. 1 overall seed for 2026-27

With the additions of Jordan Lee and Oliviyah Edwards, the Gamecocks top our first look at next season's NCAA tournament.

www.espn.com

I wouldn't get too hyped up over this team and can't see them making the field. Too many holes in the lineup. Plus, their D is horrible. ISU exposed us.

 

[Dawgg]

I wouldn't get too hyped up over this team and can't see them making the field. Too many holes in the lineup. Plus, their D is horrible. ISU exposed us.

I don’t disagree. I think the Iowa State game really lowered my expectations for the men’s team. Losing is one thing, but a comedy of errors like that was just embarrassing and hard to watch.

My expectations were already pretty low for the women, but I believe Madison Francis is going to be a star.

 

[patdog]

I don’t disagree. I think the Iowa State game really lowered my expectations for the men’s team. Losing is one thing, but a comedy of errors like that was just embarrassing and hard to watch.

My expectations were already pretty low for the women, but I believe Madison Francis is going to be a star.

I didn't really have much expectations for this team to start with. I have less after Monday night. It's one game, but damn.

 

[85Bears]

44th ranked transfer portal class, not sure how anyone thought that would help this team

 

[BulldogBlitz]

I thought you quit.

 

[MSUDC11-2.0]

I’ve got major concerns. The only possible positive spin I can come up with is it’s one game and maybe Iowa State is really good and made us look worse than we are.

But yeah, early returns are not promising on this group. And we’ve got a tough nonconference schedule before we even see an SEC team.

 

[Dawgg]

I thought you quit.

Who?

 

[thekimmer]

I would say this projection is generous based on what I saw Monday night.

 

[onewoof]

ISU may win every home game this season. Or close to home game. They are probably a top 10 team, we shall see.

 

[leeinator]

I'll wait until about 10 games in before deciding what we are.

 

[DesotoCountyDawg]

Two games in and we are writing them off. A-typical.

 

[DawgatAuburn]

ISU may win every home game this season. Or close to home game. They are probably a top 10 team, we shall see.

Yes on the home game part, but this game was on a semi-neutral court about 4 hours from Ames.

 

[onewoof]

Yes on the home game part, but this game was on a semi-neutral court about 4 hours from Ames.

guessing they win 10 out of 10 games there as well

 

[DesotoCountyDawg]

Iowa State also returned almost their entire roster from last year. That makes a big difference especially early in the season

 

[Dawgg]

Yes on the home game part, but this game was on a semi-neutral court about 4 hours from Ames.

Yep. It was a home game for ISU the same way Nashville would be a home game for us if we played Miami. Closer? Sure. Home? Eh.

 

[DawgatAuburn]

Iowa State also returned almost their entire roster from last year. That makes a big difference especially early in the season

OK maybe they brought back a lot of the same players but they lost their two top scorers and another one nearly in double digits.

 

[onewoof]

3500 ISU fans 100%

 

[Shmuley]

After Monday, I’d say we have lots of room for improvement

 

[dickiedawg]

Well at least it's familiar territory for us.

 

[MSUDC11-2.0]

To be fair it’s not just the Iowa State game… we looked pretty shaky for the first 60% of the UNA game. We were down 9 early in the second half.

 

[Scottfield1]

Yep. It was a home game for ISU the same way Nashville would be a home game for us if we played Miami. Closer? Sure. Home? Eh.

Exaggerate much. A better example would be playing in Biloxi, where it would also considered an extremely heavy State attendance. No different than the game state just played. Choosing a city in another State is such the response you would expect from this board.

 

[Dawgg]

Exaggerate much. A better example would be playing in Biloxi, where it would also considered an extremely heavy State attendance. No different than the game state just played. Choosing a city in another State is such the response you would expect from this board.

The goddamned game was in South Dakota, idiot.

 

[DesotoCountyDawg]

The goddamned game was in South Dakota, idiot.

Sioux Falls is in the southeast corner of the state next to the Iowa border. I’ve been there several times. It would be like Mississippi State playing a neutral site game in Memphis…or like Southaven where they played Utah last year.

I mean they literally talked about on the broadcast Iowa St playing neutral site games close to home so they still get a home crowd feel.

 

[msudawg1200]

According to Google Maps he Sanford Pentagon in Sioux Falls is 3 hours and 59 minutes from Iowa State, and the Mississippi Coast Coliseum is 4 hours and 8 minutes from our campus.