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Date Posted: 07:58:25am 12/22/05 Thu,
Author: JoeStag
Subject: Re: Guy - I hope you are right
In reply to: AlwaysAStagFan 's message, "Re: Guy - I hope you are right" on 09:59:08pm 12/21/05 Wed,

Iona's credentials are that they beat a top 25 Iowa State team, and did it on the road in convincing fashion. They also have won 3 away games which is always impressive. But I think Iowa state is the only team that Iona beat that has a winning record, so I think Iona has to beat more than one winning team before they will get serious attention for Top 25. The next 3 games are against winning teams...... Kentucky, Seton Hall and Fresno State.

If they beat Kentucky, they almost assuredly would be in Top 25.

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[> [> [> [> [> [> [> Re: Guy - I hope you are right -- GuyF, 01:40:02pm 12/22/05 Thu, [1]

I will challenge your comment re beating teams with better than .500 records. In the eyes of the committee, the RPI is just so much more important, and Iona has 4 wins vs top 100 teams and a fifth vs a top 130 team. I think the committee is more impressed with a team that's 0-3 but played OK vs Duke, Texas and UConn than a team that's 3-0 with wins over Morgan State, Prairie View and Howard.

We will learn more about Iona in these next 4 games (all against top 100 teams). Again, 3 of those 4 are on the road (Kentucky, Seton Hall, Fresno State), so even going 1-2 in these games wouldn't kill us, as long as we then come home and beat Manhattan. But yes, we need to beat Kentucky to be ranked.

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