Big Ten Basketball

Mr.Hockey said:
I did too

And these losers might not cover. Indiana should be forced into CBI
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IU looks like absolute shit. If we had more than 6 scholarship players we might be beating them right now.
 
Also, LOL at the Badgers.

Still goddamn degrading we lost to them. Simply bad lucky that Chucky Hepburn shot the game of his life. It was his worst shot selection game of season per metrics and he averaged 1.9 pts a shot lol.

But boy is it an absolute rush having those fuckers as a Q3 loss. Lets go for Q4!
 
Indiana should still be tournament banned
 
ericd7633 said:
IU looks like absolute shit. If we had more than 6 scholarship players we might be beating them right now.
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yeah good fight

I was hoping for more from this season, but Battle has regressed and and I underestimated how bad our guards would be

Seeing some good things from young kids, so if we can at least build something, but Ben needs to show serious improvement in year 3 and tourney by year 4
 
PnkPanther said:
yeah good fight

I was hoping for more from this season, but Battle has regressed and and I underestimated how bad our guards would be

Seeing some good things from young kids, so if we can at least build something, but Ben needs to show serious improvement in year 3 and tourney by year 4
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This game was more proof that while Battle isnt an elite shooter and needs guard help, he needs to play the 4 to be successful.

Next years team is best off if they can get a solid transfer PG. Tell Garcia to go to Romania. Roll with Battle at the 4 and Evans/Payne at the 5.
 
Lol. Illinois lead Wisconsin 20-16 at half.

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If the BTT started today:

Wednesday (March 8)
#12 Ohio State (3-7) vs. #13 Nebraska (3-8), 5:30 p.m.
#11 Wisconsin (4-6) vs. #14 Minnesota (1-9), 8 p.m.

2nd Round (March 9)
#8 Iowa (5-5) vs. #9 Michigan (5-5), 11 a.m.
#5 Illinois (6-4) vs. Ohio State/Nebraska winner, 1:30 p.m.
#7 Penn State (5-5) vs. #10 Maryland (5-5), 5:30 p.m.
#6 Michigan State (6-5) vs. Wisconsin/Minnesota winner, 8 p.m.

Quarterfinals (March 10)
#1 Purdue (10-1) vs. Iowa/Michigan winner, 11 a.m.
#4 Indiana (6-4) vs. Illinois/Ohio State/Nebraska winner, 1:30
#2 Northwestern (6-3) vs. Penn State/Maryland winner, 5:30 p.m.
#3 Rutgers (6-4) vs. Michigan State/Wisconsin/Minnesota winner, 8 p.m

Has to be the first time Wisconsin is playing on the first day, and maybe the same with OSU(at least since going to 14 teams). Gophers with their normal spot of playing on the first day. I think this will make 8 out of the last 10 we've played on the first night.
 
ericd7633 said:
If the BTT started today:

Wednesday (March 8)
#12 Ohio State (3-7) vs. #13 Nebraska (3-8), 5:30 p.m.
#11 Wisconsin (4-6) vs. #14 Minnesota (1-9), 8 p.m.

2nd Round (March 9)
#8 Iowa (5-5) vs. #9 Michigan (5-5), 11 a.m.
#5 Illinois (6-4) vs. Ohio State/Nebraska winner, 1:30 p.m.
#7 Penn State (5-5) vs. #10 Maryland (5-5), 5:30 p.m.
#6 Michigan State (6-5) vs. Wisconsin/Minnesota winner, 8 p.m.

Quarterfinals (March 10)
#1 Purdue (10-1) vs. Iowa/Michigan winner, 11 a.m.
#4 Indiana (6-4) vs. Illinois/Ohio State/Nebraska winner, 1:30
#2 Northwestern (6-3) vs. Penn State/Maryland winner, 5:30 p.m.
#3 Rutgers (6-4) vs. Michigan State/Wisconsin/Minnesota winner, 8 p.m

Has to be the first time Wisconsin is playing on the first day, and maybe the same with OSU(at least since going to 14 teams). Gophers with their normal spot of playing on the first day. I think this will make 8 out of the last 10 we've played on the first night.
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They play on Thursday too. So 1 of those teams will not be getting out of Weakling Wednesday anytime soon.
 
Help me make sense of Iowa re the tourney @ericd7633

13-8 blah
5-5 in conference blah

Probably the worst loss in the country to EIU triple blah

But

5 Q1 wins ( only 6 teams in the country with more )
Decent metrics ( 35 in NET )

Are we thinking they're pretty safety in a like a 8 or 9?? Or are they closer to the play in?
 
rmilia1 said:
Help me make sense of Iowa re the tourney @ericd7633

13-8 blah
5-5 in conference blah

Probably the worst loss in the country to EIU triple blah

But

5 Q1 wins ( only 6 teams in the country with more )
Decent metrics ( 35 in NET )

Are we thinking they're pretty safety in a like a 8 or 9?? Or are they closer to the play in?
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Id say safely in right now in that 8/9 range

They will have to go on a pretty big skid to miss the tourney
 

rmilia1 said:
Help me make sense of Iowa re the tourney @ericd7633

13-8 blah
5-5 in conference blah

Probably the worst loss in the country to EIU triple blah

But

5 Q1 wins ( only 6 teams in the country with more )
Decent metrics ( 35 in NET )

Are we thinking they're pretty safety in a like a 8 or 9?? Or are they closer to the play in?
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IMO, I think they are pretty safely in at this point. Probably in the 8/9 range. They have the quality wins, good predictive metrics, and like you said a NET of 35. When you look at teams in and around the cut line, they just have better resume metrics(even though their SOR and KPI aren't great). It's really the quality wins. If you're looking for a comp, think of a better resume than what Rutgers was last year. Rutgers was just about .500 against Q1/Q2(9-10), but had 3 additional losses in Q3/Q4. The committee looked past those 3 bad losses and put them in the PIG. Iowa only has one bad loss and it'll stay that way unless they lose to Minnesota or Nebraska at home(not sure if that's even on the schedule but that would qualify as a Q3 loss). So I think avoiding another bad loss, and going something like 5-5 puts them in pretty good shape, to even avoid Dayton at that point. 18-13 at that point, with probably 11 Q1/Q2 wins. That's pretty strong despite the Q4 loss. At 18-13, a good comp would be slightly better than Michigan last year, and they avoided Dayton and got an 11. 6-4, likely puts you in the 8/9 range.
 
ericd7633 said:
IMO, I think they are pretty safely in at this point. Probably in the 8/9 range. They have the quality wins, good predictive metrics, and like you said a NET of 35. When you look at teams in and around the cut line, they just have better resume metrics(even though their SOR and KPI aren't great). It's really the quality wins. If you're looking for a comp, think of a better resume than what Rutgers was last year. Rutgers was just about .500 against Q1/Q2(9-10), but had 3 additional losses in Q3/Q4. The committee looked past those 3 bad losses and put them in the PIG. Iowa only has one bad loss and it'll stay that way unless they lose to Minnesota or Nebraska at home(not sure if that's even on the schedule but that would qualify as a Q3 loss). So I think avoiding another bad loss, and going something like 5-5 puts them in pretty good shape, to even avoid Dayton at that point. 18-13 at that point, with probably 11 Q1/Q2 wins. That's pretty strong despite the Q4 loss. At 18-13, a good comp would be slightly better than Michigan last year, and they avoided Dayton and got an 11. 6-4, likely puts you in the 8/9 range.
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Yeah i tend to agree

I have no idea what to make of this team. I feel like we could lose to anyone or beat anyone and i wouldn't be surprised in the least

Its very stressful lol
 
Good win tonight

NW looks much much better than they've been the last few years. Should be a tourney team
 
Just fucking pack it in. Brutal.
 
Mr.Hockey said:
I just went to check the score and just about shit myself.

My god.
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I didn't watch much of it, to many other good games on, but when I did, it was pretty fucking bad. Just run off the floor. Henley isn't a B1G caliber player, neither is Carrington probably. JOJ would be a good piece and Payne is probably a starting caliber B1G player. These FR haven't panned out, and it's showing.
 
ericd7633 said:
I didn't watch much of it, to many other good games on, but when I did, it was pretty fucking bad. Just run off the floor. Henley isn't a B1G caliber player, neither is Carrington probably. JOJ would be a good piece and Payne is probably a starting caliber B1G player. These FR haven't panned out, and it's showing.
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JOJ definitely has potential if he can get any sort of jump shot. Hes already a clear cut power 5 body. Payne would be ideal if he developed some sort of additional skillset aside from just being a big bastard under the hoop. But I agree hes BIG10 caliber bare minimum.

Henley has good phsyical tools and can play some D. But hes woof in terms of skill. May develop but not sure how much PT he can get if you want to win to see if he develops. Carrington didnt make shit but his shot looks solid. Just not sure aside from getting rebounds he will ever had the ability to do anything else. I think his ceiling is solid bench shooter.

They just really gotta figure out that roster. Because even if Evans and Christie are gods. Its not a balanced roster as ive said many times.
 
Quite the situation going on between Illinois and Iowa.

Think Iowa definitely looks the worst here, pretty fucking low. But the Orange Krush are not exempt from critque at all.
 
Mr.Hockey said:
Quite the situation going on between Illinois and Iowa.

Think Iowa definitely looks the worst here, pretty fucking low. But the Orange Krush are not exempt from critque at all.
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I don't see how Iowa looks bad

Orange Krush falsified their ticket order to get a huge discount and they got busted

Iowa then refunded their money and gave the tickets away for free to the organization they were ordered on behalf of

Best guess is the Orange Krush has been doing this for awhile and is just salty they got caught and will now not be able to do it going forward

No one is preventing then from buying tickets at full price and attending the game

They're just not a B oys & Girls club so they don't get that discount lol
 
rmilia1 said:
I don't see how Iowa looks bad

Orange Krush falsified their ticket order to get a huge discount and they got busted

Iowa then refunded their money and gave the tickets away for free to the organization they were ordered on behalf of

Best guess is the Orange Krush has been doing this for awhile and is just salty they got caught and will now not be able to do it going forward

No one is preventing then from buying tickets at full price and attending the game

They're just not a B oys & Girls club so they don't get that discount lol
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The deal they got though was a standard group ticket rate. And they are still a non profit that raises money for charity and got donations. They go to games all the time. The reason why the Krush are not absolved is because they decided to pose as a Boys and Girls club. But Iowa was petty as fuck pulling back the tickets. Now a bunch of donations have to be refunded.

Basically it was within Iowas right to do it with their tickets. But it was a really lame move to make a situation out of something that should have been nothing.
 
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