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Ohio State's guard play has a long way to go.

Need to get Sueing healthy, he should not have even played yesterday, probably hurt more than he helped he was completely out of synch.

I expect Wheeler will eventually click and at least be a good defender and distributor PG. They need someone else to step up though. Might be Branham the freshman, he showed some "it factor" in his time. Could be the key player to this season.

Bigs should be fine. Liddell and Key are good and it will only get bolstered when Young returns.
 
osubuckeye89 said:
Ohio State's guard play has a long way to go.

Need to get Sueing healthy, he should not have even played yesterday, probably hurt more than he helped he was completely out of synch.

I expect Wheeler will eventually click and at least be a good defender and distributor PG. They need someone else to step up though. Might be Branham the freshman, he showed some "it factor" in his time. Could be the key player to this season.

Bigs should be fine. Liddell and Key are good and it will only get bolstered when Young returns.
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UM may get smacked around again in football, but they have a sick class of freshman Houston and Diabate are as good as any incoming freshman we've ever had. Houston is the true freshman they have on the Naismith watch list for player of the year, but Diabate may be even more impressive. I think we may get some frustration out on OSU in basketball. :)
 
Lehigh and Rutgers tied going to OT. Needless to say would be an awful loss. Lol
 
osubuckeye89 said:
Yea Lehigh is far away from beating Duke in the tourney lol. Pretty sure they were picked toward the bottom of the Patriot League this year
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Yeah McCollum isn't walking through the door. They aren't very good. 273 in KP entering the game.
 
Gotta admit the Gophers aren't that talented, but damnit if they won't be fun to watch just chucking up a ton of 3's, and it looks like Battle and Stephens are pretty decent shooters. But after the last couple of years, just being semi competent is a step in the right direction.
 
Western Kentucky is usually a tough team. They are brutal this year
 
ericd7633 said:
Gotta admit the Gophers aren't that talented, but damnit if they won't be fun to watch just chucking up a ton of 3's, and it looks like Battle and Stephens are pretty decent shooters. But after the last couple of years, just being semi competent is a step in the right direction.
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Team is pretty sound fundamentally it appears. D is solid. Not a lot of dumb decisions. Pass the ball.

Only issue is I literally have no clue currently how they will score in a big10 game. There isn’t 1 guy that could even drive on me.

Does battle not have any put it on the floor game?
 
Mr.Hockey said:
Team is pretty sound fundamentally it appears. D is solid. Not a lot of dumb decisions. Pass the ball.

Only issue is I literally have no clue currently how they will score in a big10 game. There isn’t 1 guy that could even drive on me.

Does battle not have any put it on the floor game?
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Yeah, it's gonna be tough to score in the B1G. I think they seem pretty well coached. I thought they'd only win 2 B1G games, if that, so I'm not expecting that much. Still nice to get the win.
 
Another solid perfprmance for Iowa especially on D

Murray balled out again
Rebraca played well
Bohannon is now like 10/14 on 3s this year

Going to be tough to gauge to much playing scrubs but winning by 33 and 32 the first 2 at leasr means theyre doing what their supposed to do vs the scrubs

Iowa 89
UMKC 57
 
rmilia1 said:
Another solid perfprmance for Iowa especially on D

Murray balled out again
Rebraca played well
Bohannon is now like 10/14 on 3s this year

Going to be tough to gauge to much playing scrubs but winning by 33 and 32 the first 2 at leasr means theyre doing what their supposed to do vs the scrubs

Iowa 89
UMKC 57
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Gophers struggled with UMKC the other night. It was like a 2 point game with like 6 minutes to play. 2/2 on covers, and by a lot. Top 20 in KenPom after tonight probably.
 
ericd7633 said:
Gophers struggled with UMKC the other night. It was like a 2 point game with like 6 minutes to play. 2/2 on covers, and by a lot. Top 20 in KenPom after tonight probably.
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Theyre fun as hell to watch. Im not used to all the athleticism lol
 
Another good half for the Gophers. Great close to half.
 
KenPom Ratings on 11/15:

1. Michigan (2nd nationally)
2. Illinois (4th nationally)
3. Purdue (5th nationally)
4. Ohio State (18th nationally)
5. Iowa (20th nationally)
6. Maryland (25th nationally)
7. Michigan State (26th nationally)
8. Indiana (36th nationally)
9. Wisconsin (40th nationally)
10. Northwestern (42nd nationally)
11. Penn State (64th nationally)
12. Rutgers (71st nationally)
13. Nebraska (88th nationally)
14. Minnesota (108th nationally)
 
Jesus PSU. Getting blown out against UMass is not a good look. Lol.
 
ericd7633 said:
Jesus PSU. Getting blown out against UMass is not a good look. Lol.
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Not a huge shock. The lower tier teams in the P6 leagues tend to take some losses to mid majors
 
Marquette missed like 5 straight free throws in the last 3 minutes and still won. Illini looked awful. What did they have like 30 turnovers?? Jesus
 
Ohio State looked in synch finally tonight and thrashed Bowling Green 89-58. Hopefully they come out firing again against Xavier on Thursday
 
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