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Get back to me when Iowa loses to a team with a fraction of their talent.

http://www.hawkcentral.com/story/sports/college/iowa/basketball-men/2015/11/06/augustana-beats-iowa-hawkeyes-exhibition-game/75340664/
They are clearly the best team in the big 10 but I don't think they are untouchable if they happen to have an off night.

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They did lose to Notre Dame at home earlier in the year, just in case you forgot. But that probably cuts into your narrative a little.

they lost on a neutral court in a tournament to notre dame ( they finished 6th with a 1-2 record) advocare invitational

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Maryland is playing Bowie State tomorrow. How is it ok for the #2 team in the country to play a DII team in the middle of the season? Is it an exhibition or something? 

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The B1G schedule gave them a full 7 days between conference games which I presume they felt was too much of a layoff and wanted some kind of game, any kind of game. Plus, Bowie State probably likes the money it's getting to be a Maryland crabcake.


That makes sense, but does it count towards their regular season record?

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Iowa lost to Dayton just before Notre Dame too. Though, they just beat George Washington and the guy was the first President so... pretty tough team.

dayton is a really good team this year. They have a rpi of 12 and 3 top 50 wins but have one terrible lose to lasalle rpi 248. While we should of beat penn st in my opinion it's not as bad of loss as many seem to think it was. Unlv (rpi 133) is by far our worst loss this year. Penn st was a true road game unlike Unlv which was on a neutral court and as of today penn st is a top 100 rpi team ( I'm sure their win against us push them into the top 100). Really this year there are no really great teams that have separated themselves like in years past. The margin of error is small for a lot of teams this year.

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dayton is a really good team this year. They have a rpi of 12 and 3 top 50 wins but have one terrible lose to lasalle rpi 248. While we should of beat penn st in my opinion it's not as bad of loss as many seem to think it was. Unlv (rpi 133) is by far our worst loss this year. Penn st was a true road game unlike Unlv which was on a neutral court and as of today penn st is a top 100 rpi team ( I'm sure their win against us push them into the top 100). Really this year there are no really great teams that have separated themselves like in years past. The margin of error is small for a lot of teams this year.

 

I understand where you're coming from but the RPI system is completely outdated. UNLV is much better than Penn State according to KenPom, which IMO is a much better way of evaluating teams. Penn State's talent level is nowhere near UNLV's. While both are bad losses, I am absolutely willing to say that Wake Forest is our worst loss because I do agree with your neutral court argument and Wake Forest is the worst KenPom team we have lost to.

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dayton is a really good team this year. They have a rpi of 12 and 3 top 50 wins but have one terrible lose to lasalle rpi 248. While we should of beat penn st in my opinion it's not as bad of loss as many seem to think it was. Unlv (rpi 133) is by far our worst loss this year. Penn st was a true road game unlike Unlv which was on a neutral court and as of today penn st is a top 100 rpi team ( I'm sure their win against us push them into the top 100). Really this year there are no really great teams that have separated themselves like in years past. The margin of error is small for a lot of teams this year.

Really good is a strong word I think. They're certainly better than PSU, but they are getting artificial bumps from the data. Watching them play, I think they are getting overhyped based on their extremely weak conference schedule so far and a couple of good wins in November.  

 

Same thing people say about us, except the weak part of our conference schedule included 6 top-100 games which we won 4 of and the strong part of our schedule contains 5 top-25 teams. 

 

Dayton has played 2 top-100 conference games, has 3 top-100 and 2 top 50 remaining.

 

At least some team seeded lower than they should be will have an easier game than they expect during the tourney.

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