Big Ten Basketball

MAIZEandBLUE09 said:
I see Illinois is going full UCFacts
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I can understand their gripe. But if we're being honest, the 3 games Michigan couldn't make up were at PSU, at NW and home against IU. Michigan is like almost 100% winning all 3 of those games, all the time. And therefore would have finished 17-3.

Here's hoping we get to see them in the B1G tournament.
 
ericd7633 said:
I can understand their gripe. But if we're being honest, the 3 games Michigan couldn't make up were at PSU, at NW and home against IU. Michigan is like almost 100% winning all 3 of those games, all the time. And therefore would have finished 17-3.

Here's hoping we get to see them in the B1G tournament.
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It would be like Indiana claiming a B10 title in football because they had more wins than OSU. With Covid, it was very much understood going into any of these sports seasons that teams were going to have to cancel games. They're coming off a bit like babies to me. There's also a reason there's a tournament.
 
MAIZEandBLUE09 said:
It would be like Indiana claiming a B10 title in football because they had more wins than OSU. With Covid, it was very much understood going into any of these sports seasons that teams were going to have to cancel games. They're coming off a bit like babies to me. There's also a reason there's a tournament.
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Not really considering Illinois beat the crap out of Michigan H2H without their star player
 
MAIZEandBLUE09 said:
It would be like Indiana claiming a B10 title in football because they had more wins than OSU. With Covid, it was very much understood going into any of these sports seasons that teams were going to have to cancel games. They're coming off a bit like babies to me. There's also a reason there's a tournament.
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I'd disagree with that comp. IU lost the H2H and OSU was undefeated. IU won 85% of their conference games, OSU won 100%. That's a pretty big discrepancy when looking at win %. Plus on top of it they lost the H2H.

With basketball it's alot closer. Michigan won 82% of their conference games, Illinois 80%. Illinois with the H2H win. Plus Michigan benefitted from playing an easier schedule and having more home games than away games. Like I said, I don't think it matters because I'd think Michigan would have won those 3 canceled games anyway. But I understand Illinois' frustration.
 
ericd7633 said:
I'd disagree with that comp. IU lost the H2H and OSU was undefeated. IU won 85% of their conference games, OSU won 100%. That's a pretty big discrepancy when looking at win %. Plus on top of it they lost the H2H.

With basketball it's alot closer. Michigan won 82% of their conference games, Illinois 80%. Illinois with the H2H win. Plus Michigan benefitted from playing an easier schedule and having more home games than away games. Like I said, I don't think it matters because I'd think Michigan would have won those 3 canceled games anyway. But I understand Illinois' frustration.
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Home and away really meant nothing this year. There was no crowd. Michigan had to face 3 top 10 teams in the final 6 games. And ended with two games against our biggest rival in Basketball. Since the postponement, 4/8 games were against top 25 teams. I'm not saying we were dramatically worse off than Illinois, but I would rather have had their schedule than ours.
 
MAIZEandBLUE09 said:
Home and away really meant nothing this year. There was no crowd. Michigan had to face 3 top 10 teams in the final 6 games. And ended with two games against our biggest rival in Basketball. Since the postponement, 4/8 games were against top 25 teams. I'm not saying we were dramatically worse off than Illinois, but I would rather have had their schedule than ours.
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Sure there weren't any crowds. But Michigan did lose by 20 at Minnesota and lost at MSU and you destroyed both at home. There's a comfort level to playing at home, especially in these times. Illinois closed with 5 of 6 on the road against two teams Michigan lost to on the road. Just be glad the B1G made Michigan play both MSU games and not just the scheduled game at MSU, or Michigan wouldn't have had the better winning %.
 
MAIZEandBLUE09 said:
Home and away really meant nothing this year. There was no crowd. Michigan had to face 3 top 10 teams in the final 6 games. And ended with two games against our biggest rival in Basketball. Since the postponement, 4/8 games were against top 25 teams. I'm not saying we were dramatically worse off than Illinois, but I would rather have had their schedule than ours.
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That's not true or at least Vegas didn't think that to be true.
 
ericd7633 said:
Sure there weren't any crowds. But Michigan did lose by 20 at Minnesota and lost at MSU and you destroyed both at home. There's a comfort level to playing at home, especially in these times. Illinois closed with 5 of 6 on the road against two teams Michigan lost to on the road. Just be glad the B1G made Michigan play both MSU games and not just the scheduled game at MSU, or Michigan wouldn't have had the better winning %.
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Honestly, I don't know a ton about basketball but I thought it was more problematic that we were playing every couple days down the stretch there. We had no time to prep, no time to heal, it was just game after game.
 
MAIZEandBLUE09 said:
Honestly, I don't know a ton about basketball but I thought it was more problematic that we were playing every couple days down the stretch there. We had no time to prep, no time to heal, it was just game after game.
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That's 2020/2021 for you. Oregon played 6 games in 13 days down the stretch and "journalists" were complaining about Oregon getting favorable scheduling.
 
If Ohio State could finish games this discussion wouldn't matter.
 
On another note...Izzo seems to be doing some Izzo shit with Michigan State again this year. They seem to really be playing well as the season comes to an end. Curious to see if they can continue it into the B1G tourney and March Madness
 
MAIZEandBLUE09 said:
Honestly, I don't know a ton about basketball but I thought it was more problematic that we were playing every couple days down the stretch there. We had no time to prep, no time to heal, it was just game after game.
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Illinois did the same thing. Both played 6 games in the last two weeks.
 
Michigan wins the Big Ten for the 3rd time in 10 seasons
 
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