Basketball Open Thread
Some good basketball on today! Selection Sunday tomorrow.
OSU is one team that can steal a bid, Go Purdue! Penn State Indiana on the other side.
Texas vs Kansas
Duke vs Virginia
Arizona vs UCLA
A lot of teams looking to improve their seeding!
March 11th, 2023 at 11:48 AM ^
tl;dr. Michigan isn’t improving their seeding.
College basketball is still a thing on this board? I’m giving official notice that I am checking out until next November.
Well…I might sneak a peak at how the women are doing but THAT’S ALL!!
March 11th, 2023 at 12:08 PM ^
Ask my friend to put $20 down on OSU at 60-1 to win the BTT. Didnt get the bet in on time. Its funny but outside of Purdue, OSU is just as good as anyone else (or as mediocre maybe?)
March 11th, 2023 at 12:16 PM ^
Bad.. The word you want is bad. Also OSU is not as good as Indiana or Penn State... Ugh. What an awful sentence about basketball
March 11th, 2023 at 12:24 PM ^
The BIG TEN success in the tourney will come down to how they do in coin flip games. Doing the usual 25% wins in 3 points or less games will get us the same results. What I am really surprised is nobody talking about no teams winning the championship west of Texas since 1997.
March 11th, 2023 at 12:34 PM ^
What I am really surprised is nobody talking about no teams winning the championship west of Texas since 1997.
In the western US, you've got Arizona, UCLA, and Gonzaga as perennial contenders. Other teams have popped up here and there but that's about it.
March 11th, 2023 at 12:39 PM ^
SDSU has been as good as anyone in the BIG TEN the last several years.
Also Gonzaga, Arizona, SDSU, and UCLA is a lot of talent to go 25 years without a championship.
March 11th, 2023 at 12:15 PM ^
As a Marquette undergrad, I’m hoping for a Big East tourney win to compliment the Big East champions, and at least a two seed. Smart has been unreal. Glad Wojo is gone.
March 11th, 2023 at 12:24 PM ^
Go Vandy!
That was fantastic to see Vandy beat Kentucky yesterday! How the mighty have fallen.
March 11th, 2023 at 12:26 PM ^
Go Blue!
March 11th, 2023 at 12:27 PM ^
Men's college basketball, it's over, go Lady Wolverines!!!
March 11th, 2023 at 12:36 PM ^
Are we really worrying about bid stealing? Michigan is out and they have no one to blame but themselves.
I dont think OP's statement about bid stealing came from a place of concern in regards to Michigan. I think it was just to point out that OSU's only shot at getting in the tourney is winning the B10...and thus taking someone else's bid.
It's so hard to watch knowing Michigan (and Rutgers for me) BTT is over.
I was thinking we would be the upset team, not OSU or PSU. Just a few weeks ago we beat Rutger soundly on the road! Not sure why the team just folded?
No Jett in the road game.
Bingo! The scrappiness and fight left when he came back. They weren't great but they were fighting to win and played as a team. Less hero ball
not ohio. that's all i care about. not those dentistry-challenged miscreants who would lose a game of old maid against our cattle. not ohio.
Alabama's such a weird team - they've got a lot of talent but just seem off-kilter on the court. Like, they could be a #1 seed and lose in the second round and I wouldn't be remotely shocked.
Fortunately Purdue pulled away but apparently OSU had almost 40% chance of winning
In defense of 1966 you would just go ahead and round up to 38%.
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Math is easier when you can round to any number that makes you happy
Extra 10% expected as the third team, refs, tend to support the buckeyes.
I think Chris Holtmann saved his job with that mini BTT run
Which I think is good, because I don’t think he’s an overall great coach. Stay!
Indiana would be more tolerable without the Where's Waldo pants.
Enjoying an IU meltdown. This penn state team was annoying to play, but easier to like when they aren’t old-man gaming our wolverines.
They're a fun team to watch. Remind me of a vintage Michigan team. Elite point guard, shooters everywhere, crisp passing.
Watching some of these coaches closely and comparing them to Juwan.
If we flail next season.
I really hope someone poaches Shrewsberry from Penn St., I really like that Utah St. Coach, Odom. Brian Dutcher is someone we would consider as coach if it wasn't for the violations, he can recruit and coach defense and rebounding.
Also, Kobe Bufkin, stay in school, make yourself a complete player next year, be patient before you try to declare.
Edited from spelling it Queensberry.
Shrewsberry. Looks like Georgetown could be a spot.
Dutcher is fantastic but even if violations were overlooked doubt he’d come.
Have to hit the portal and get a stretch 4 who can rebound. Add another guard and wing too
All good points Cobra, I can attest that San Diego is a wonderful place to live.
Check out Utah St coach Odom, he looks like a tactician.
I'd be nervous about reading too much PSU this year. They're the oldest team in the country with a fair number of transfers and are all gas/no brakes as a team. Maybe he's figured it all out but it's just as likely they're bad next year with basically a whole new roster.
Completely agree. Would not be surprised at all if they are back to the same old Penn State next year.
Even this year with all the 5th/6th year players, the ball bounced their way a lot in close games to put them in position to just make the tournament. Kind of the opposite of how our season went.
About to see the biggest choke job in the history of the sport if Penn State blows this.
If Jay Wright gets bored and wants to coach again after next year, we should put the full court press on and go and get him.
Would be awesome but I doubt he cos he’s anywhere but Nova. Guy is all Philly
Penn St has 6 seniors that play significant minutes. That is the recipe for March success for sure. It’d be nice if Michigan could keep everyone of importance this off-season and perhaps add a key player or two to the roster.
PSU is a bit of an outlier in that they are extremely old and have a fair number of transfers. Last year they were the 11th-oldest team in the country and finished 14-17. Michigan was one of the youngest teams in the country and so some additional experience would have helped but being this full of 5th and 6th-year players (thanks to COVID) isn't (a) easily reproducible, and (b) usually means you've just got a lot of middling players who aren't going to raise your ceiling. PSU is likely to get bounced out of the tourney pretty early.
Credit to PSU for playing their way into the tournament.
If Juwan doesn’t work out, go get Shaka Smart!!!
March 11th, 2023 at 11:26 PM ^
Not me, but people screamed objections to Smart before we hired Howard.
March 12th, 2023 at 10:05 PM ^
Beilein absolutely dismantled his team.
March 11th, 2023 at 10:32 PM ^
Our little, 350 HS student, Hesston High boys just won their third consecutive Kansas state basketball championship-and the cupboard remains very full...could make it to five in a row. Four schools within 20 miles of us won state championships today and another 3 were runners-up.
Fun day out here on the prairie.
Texas, Duke and Arizona, the lower-seeded teams, won their conference tournaments although Arizona's win might be somewhat tainted by (1) UCLA missing two of its starters due to injuries and (2) a horrible officiating call that went against UCLA.
Slightly OT: Has the Michigan men's basketball team decided whether it will accept a bid to the NIT?
March 12th, 2023 at 10:37 AM ^
Juwan was asked after the game and basically said they would be accepting it if it came
I thought that he said that the team would discuss whether or not to accept an NIT bid after they got home from the Big Ten Tournament.