WSU versus Iowa, predictions and pregame discussion

[shocks02]

I predict that I will be pissed if I have to miss this game (on the road to KC this evening). Anyone know the TV situation for this game yet?

Shockers 75
Hawkers 68

CBS Sports Network 8:30, could start slightly later than 8:30 depending on Depaul-WKU game.

[WuDrWu]

Win with D. That is all.

[SB Shock]

Red state 68
Blue state 52

[60Shock]

It's nice to win any tournament. So let's get the 1st of many tournament wins for this young team.

WSU 75
IOWA 70

[WuShock Reaper]

ojos de halcón - 58

shockers de trigo - 71

[ShockerFever]

Quote From the Hawksnest. "Lets hope the shock is all their own when the Hawks bring their own version of Shock and Awe."

They've been shockingly awful for a while now.

[Downtown Shocker Brown]

A quick glance at records (and I wasn't very thorough) shows that Wichita State is 5-2 all time against Iowa.

My prediction is we can be thankful for being 6-2 after Thursday.

75-57 Shockers.

[shock]

I browsed the Iowa forums and the usual BCS turds are predicting an Iowa win while the guys with their heads screwed on straight are telling them not so fast. Should be a good game

[SpanglerFan316]

Iowa at Wichita State, 9:30 PM ET, Nov 21 http://espn.go.com/mens-college-basketball/lines
137.0 O/U -3.5
137.0 O/U -3.5
136.5 O/U -3.5
137.0 O/U -3.0
n/a -3.5

[small tyme baller]

SHOX - 73
IOWA - 61

[1972Shocker]

Really kind of hard to figure out what we are going to get from this Shocker team from game to game. However, our foul trouble we ran into against DePaul may have a silver lining in that it may have forced 3G to spread the minutes around more than he may have done otherwise saving our legs a little. Shocks also get a couple hours more rest than the Hawkeyes.

Sully wrote in his day after blog:

The Hawkeyes press, which I think is helpful for WSU. They also played zone against Western Kentucky. The Shockers haven’t proven they can make three-pointers with regularity. Somebody is going to call them on that and it may be Iowa tonight.

Iowa may press and fall back into a packed-in zone or they may decide that it just isn't a good idea to press the Shocks and they will just pack-in a zone and dare us to beat them from the perimeter and also slow the pace of the game down.

Iowa did turn the ball over 18 times against WKU so perhaps the Shocks can do some business there. Iowa is averaging 14.4 turnovers over their 5 games.

Iowa is not exactly lighting it up form the perimeter shooting 31.5% on treys on 17.8 attempts per game. Shocks normal defense should continue to make it difficult for the Hawkeyes to do too much damage from the perimeter.

Shocks will not be giving anything away to the Hawkeyes in terms of size. In fact the Shocks should be the more physical and athletic of the two teams.

With all due respect to @Kung Wu: I have not made a specific prediction on any of our games to date and considering that we are 5-0 I am too superstitious to start now. However, I will be pretty disappointed if the Shocks do not remain undefeated after tonight. This is absolutely a game we can and probably should win. I expect a close game with a point differential of 3 to 8 points.

Go Shocks!

[1972Shocker]

I browsed the Iowa forums and the usual BCS turds are predicting an Iowa win while the guys with their heads screwed on straight are telling them not so fast. Should be a good game

Do you have links to those forums? TIA

[1972Shocker]

Win with D. That is all.

Do we have a choice? They better bring he D.

[Rocky Mountain Shock]

I had been pretty worried about this game. Iowa returns most of their guys from last year and added a very good recruiting class. But after actually watching them last night, I was not very impressed. We can't have a Howard kind of game and expect to win, but if we play well this is more than just winnable--we should win this. DePaul tried pressing us, as they obviously didn't read the scouting report. But I'd be shocked if Iowa tried that instead of zoning the f out of us, so this could be a much harder fought victory. In the end, another low scoring slug fest.

The Bird is NOT the word -- 50
WSU, Cancun Champions -- 56

[BOBB]

Somebody's 0 has got to go.