Every year, college sports columnist Pat Forde makes a “dream\/nightmare” scenario for each NCAA tournament team. Usually these are in good fun, but for whatever reason, he has it in for the city of Ames.<\/p>\n
This year, in the best case for Iowa State,<\/a> the Cyclones win a national championship(!)* and Ames “is so grateful it devotes millions to making itself less dismal.” In the worst case, a loss in the first round**, “Ames will remain dismal for the foreseeable future.” He did miss a couple things that would truly<\/em> make it a worst-case scenario, though: Kansas winning a national championship over Greg and Doug McDermott’s Creighton team.<\/p>\n Forde also slighted Ames two years ago<\/a> in his best\/worst list.<\/p>\n *We have a 1-2%<\/a>\u00a0statistically significant<\/a> chance!<\/p>\n **I will NOT bow to the Orwellian “second\/third round” gibberish. Look, NCAA, you officially call it the “Round of 64\/32” with the play-in games always called “First Four” and no harm no foul. But implying that 60 teams get byes is ridiculous.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Every year, college sports columnist Pat Forde makes a “dream\/nightmare” scenario for each NCAA tournament team. Usually these are in good fun, but for whatever reason, he has it in for the city of Ames. This year, in the best … Continue reading