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Originally Posted by alanm
Creighton plays Nebraska every year and Iowa St. a lot. But outside of those 2 no one else in the Big 12 wants to play them.  |
Southern Illinois is the same way I think... I looked at their schedule and they didn't really have any big games before conference, I doubt teams want to play them. They got in the tourney last year, won a game, then gave Oklahoma State all they could handle... Creighton was in it last year and lost on a last second play to an elite 8 West Virginia team.
Then in 2004 Northern Iowa took a Ga. Tech team that made it to the title game down to the wire. 2003 S. Illinois lost to Mizzou by 1 in the tourney... 2002 S. Illinois beat Texas Tech and Georgia, Creighton beat Florida. 2001 Indiana State took out Oklahoma. Really going back and looking at it they've done pretty well in the tourney against the Big XII, against everyone really, better than I'd expected.