NCAA Tournament March Madness

#5 Iowa St

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Projected seed: 2

This projection makes sense because Iowa State’s résumé features multiple signature victories away from home and at neutral sites — a dominant road performance at Purdue, a rewarding trip to Baylor and convincing neutral-site wins over Mississippi State, St John’s, Creighton and Syracuse — which demonstrate the program can win on hostile floors; its clearest blemishes are road defeats at Kansas and Cincinnati that expose vulnerability in tough environments. The Big Twelve slate has already supplied meaningful tests and the remainder of the schedule presents clear chances to lock the profile with high-visibility games at home against Baylor, Kansas and Houston while a true measuring stick awaits at Arizona on the road and trips to BYU and Utah offer additional ways to improve or erode standing. That combination of high-end wins, damaging road losses and straightforward opportunities to add marquee victories is exactly what keeps Iowa State positioned among the top seeds.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/3F Dickinson342W88-50
11/6Grambling279W102-62
11/10(N)Mississippi St83W96-80
11/17Stonehill341W96-57
11/24(N)St John's20W83-82
11/25(N)Creighton65W78-60
11/26(N)Syracuse77W95-64
12/3Alcorn St344W132-68
12/6@Purdue9W81-58
12/11Iowa23W66-62
12/14E Illinois309W78-53
12/21Long Beach St236W91-60
12/29Houston Chr306W89-61
1/2West Virginia58W80-59
1/7@Baylor52W70-60
1/10Oklahoma St72W83-71
1/13@Kansas14L84-63
1/17@Cincinnati56L79-70
1/20UCF45W87-57
1/24@Oklahoma St72W84-71
1/29Colorado8094%
2/1@Kansas St8686%
2/7Baylor5291%
2/10@TCU5175%
2/14Kansas1471%
2/16Houston661%
2/21@BYU1550%
2/24@Utah11491%
2/28Texas Tech1874%
3/2@Arizona127%
3/7Arizona St7894%