Monday, December 19, 2005

Opportunity Ahead

Just when one is getting down in the mouth about ISU dropping a game they shouldn't have, some possible sun on the horizon:

The Big XII is, shall we say, in transition. There isn't a single standout team yet.

A quick look at the Sagarin rankings has Colorado- yes, a team coached by Ricardo Patton- at the top of the heap in the XII. When your best win is over #125 St. Mary's, we don't know much about you yet.

Look down the schedule at the start of ISU's B12 run:

KSU (#35, SOS 269) and suddenly struggling Texas (#17, 191) at home, roadies to Tech (#171, 295) and Nebraska (#133, 307), a$m (#87, 333- weakest in the league) at home, at Mizzou (#114, 170), then home for KU (#93, 68) and CU (#10, 125). I'm not going to predict a 8-0 start, but there are plenty of winable games there. If ISU can get its offense into a flow, a strong start is there for the taking.

The next two weeks will be the key.

Peterclone




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