Big Ten Basketball

Mr.Hockey said:
Michigan is a weird team.

They have gotten A LOT of hype lately in media. Metrics have loved them. They appear to be a really good team with a fun style. TOs the only true weakness.

But if you look closely at their games. They don’t have a ton of wins to write home about. At Wisconsin will continue to age. UCLA is a disaster now. They haven’t played any other ranked teams in league or non con I believe.

And then their 4 losses even if most aren’t bad like the gophers. None are contextually good.

Arkansas and Oklahoma can’t even win a game in SEC. Wake is idk. Playing better but it’s ACC.
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Yeah, their metrics are much better than their actual resume is (WAB, SOR etc..). Right now, just one win against a tournament lock. I actually don't think UCLA will end up making it, so while that'll be a Q1 win all year, it's not gonna be a tournament win.

I think Michigan will be okay, but I think they'll probably end up on like the 8/9 line.
 
I'm going to need to get over the idea that "at some point this team is goby to play defense on a road game"

Clearly not going to occur

Legit the 2 worst offenses in the league are going to average 110 ppv against us on this road trip lol
 
rmilia1 said:
I'm going to need to get over the idea that "at some point this team is goby to play defense on a road game"

Clearly not going to occur

Legit the 2 worst offenses in the league are going to average 110 ppv against us on this road trip lol
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Hey now. We live with the fact we put 87 on Iowa and still lost by 10.
 
Mr.Hockey said:
Was coming here to post this haha

He's miserable right now. But he's absolutely right about this.
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gotta think he's going to be job searching this off-season

it only took three non-west coast conference road trips for this outburst to occur. he still has road trips at Illinois, Northwestern, Indiana and Purdue. Plus the Big Ten tournament in Indianapolis

he might be a decent fit for Syracuse.
 
"Its 70 and sunny in LA! Plus 100 mph wins and the entire city is on fire.... but we had to go to New Jersey and that zhits the worst "

Lol
 
No one feels sorry for UCLA.

They and USC started the collapse of the PAC
 
I'll qualify this with I've just now started watching any hoops outside the Big 12. The SEC has several highly ranked teams and they look good. But the top teams in the B1G look equally impressive to me. Maybe not to the depth of the SEC, but the top looks comparable to me. Am I seeing this right?

Both look much better to me than the ACC and Big 12 do this year.
 
Deep Creek said:
I'll qualify this with I've just now started watching any hoops outside the Big 12. The SEC has several highly ranked teams and they look good. But the top teams in the B1G look equally impressive to me. Maybe not to the depth of the SEC, but the top looks comparable to me. Am I seeing this right?

Both look much better to me than the ACC and Big 12 do this year.
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Yeah, it's a bit tough to say. Oregon has wins over A&M and Alabama, but both of those were very competitive games.
 
Deep Creek said:
I'll qualify this with I've just now started watching any hoops outside the Big 12. The SEC has several highly ranked teams and they look good. But the top teams in the B1G look equally impressive to me. Maybe not to the depth of the SEC, but the top looks comparable to me. Am I seeing this right?

Both look much better to me than the ACC and Big 12 do this year.
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Illinois, IMO, has the highest ceiling in the B1G. But they are inconsistent to an extent. Can beat Oregon by 30 but lose to NW (not a terrible loss, but not great) and USC (bad loss, but it was without KJ)

To me ISU is still the class of the B12. And I'd go Houston 2nd (despite the lack of quality wins).

If you took the top half of each league, I think the B1G is deeper in that regard. But I think ISU has the best shot of actually winning the title out of the two leagues.
 
ericd7633 said:
Illinois, IMO, has the highest ceiling in the B1G. But they are inconsistent to an extent. Can beat Oregon by 30 but lose to NW (not a terrible loss, but not great) and USC (bad loss, but it was without KJ)

To me ISU is still the class of the B12. And I'd go Houston 2nd (despite the lack of quality wins).

If you took the top half of each league, I think the B1G is deeper in that regard. But I think ISU has the best shot of actually winning the title out of the two leagues.
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I read it as him comparing the SEC and Big 10.
 
michaeljordan_fan said:
Yeah, it's a bit tough to say. Oregon has wins over A&M and Alabama, but both of those were very competitive games.
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Oregon's OOC resume is ridiculous. Wins @Oregon State, vs A&M, Bama, SDSU, and even the win over Stanford looks better after yesterday.
 
ericd7633 said:
Oregon's OOC resume is ridiculous. Wins @Oregon State, vs A&M, Bama, SDSU, and even the win over Stanford looks better after yesterday.
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Oregon has more big regular season OOC wins this year than maybe the 6-8 years prior (combined).
 
Red_Alert said:
I read it as him comparing the SEC and Big 10.
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Ohhh. Yeah that may be the case having read it again. There's not much to compare between the two IMO. SEC is on another level IMO. The top of the SEC is much deeper. I'd say the SEC has at least 4 (if not more) true title contenders. The B1G has, IMO, one as of now in Illinois. And that might be a stretch. Maybe Purdue. Wait and see with them.
 
michaeljordan_fan said:
Oregon has more big regular season OOC wins this year than maybe the 6-8 years prior (combined).
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Yeah, Oregon would typically struggle (relatively speaking) in OOC before finding their groove later in the year. Wonder if the opposite will happen this year?
 
ericd7633 said:
Yeah, Oregon would typically struggle (relatively speaking) in OOC before finding their groove later in the year. Wonder if the opposite will happen this year?
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I wouldn't really say they've found a groove at any point this season. Haven't seen a game against a power opponent where they played 40 minutes of good ball
 
This team may not won again this year

Embarrassing effort
 
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