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By The Numbers: Iowa & Oklahoma State's Season So Far

By The Numbers: Iowa & Oklahoma State's Season So Far

We take a look at how Iowa and Oklahoma State's season has gone so far in anticipation of their mega dual on February 24th.

Feb 15, 2019 by Andrew Spey
By The Numbers: Iowa & Oklahoma State's Season So Far
The Hawkeyes and Cowboys are on a collision course scheduled for impact on Sunday, February 24th in historic Gallagher-Iba Arena. Both teams are loaded, with marquee matchups slated for just about every weight. Both teams have also gone through plenty of changes this season. We breakdown their respective journeys below. 

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The Hawkeyes and Cowboys are on a collision course scheduled for impact on Sunday, February 24th in historic Gallagher-Iba Arena. Both teams are loaded, with marquee matchups slated for just about every weight. Both teams have also gone through plenty of changes this season. We breakdown their respective journeys below. 

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Below is an interactive graph that hopefully shows up and functions properly on your browsing device of choice. It shows the team the number of team points earned from hypothetical placement at the NCAAs based on the top 20 rankings, plotted over time. Each new week of rankings provided a new set of points for both Iowa and Oklahoma State. 

And just in case something went haywire in the embedding process, here is a screen shot of the same graph.

Here are the raw numbers used to create that graph.

DateIowaOK State
10/31/1880.572.5
11/6/187876
11/12/187876.5
11/17/187670
11/26/187667.5
12/4/187357
12/11/1873.551.5
12/18/1872.552.5
12/25/187748
1/1/1975.552
1/8/1975.562
1/15/197074.5
1/22/197772.5
1/29/1975.574.5
2/5/1967.574.5
2/12/1973.570.5


The Hawkeyes and Cowboys have been neck and neck all season long. To further illustrate that point, below is a (hopefully) interactive graph of the team rankings (also based on team scores derived from the top 20 rankings) of each school throughout the season.

Ignore the fact that the rankings are all negative numbers, that was the only way I could get Google Sheets to reverse the order of the horizontal access. And the embedding doesn't work, here is a screen shot.

And finally, the raw numbers.

DateIowaOK State
10/31/1834
11/6/1834
11/12/1834
11/17/1834
11/26/1834
12/4/1834
12/11/1836
12/18/1836
12/25/1836
1/1/1934
1/8/1934
1/15/1943
1/22/1944
1/29/1934
2/5/1953
2/12/1934