Bowling Green Basketball looks good on paper
Bought a Lindy's college basketball preview magazine.
Bowling Green is predicted to win the MAC, 21-10 (12-6) last year, 3 returning starters.
Justin Turner 6'4 guard scored 18.8 ppg.
Got some bigs too...2 6'10 guys I but don't know how much they play.
Coach, Michael Huger, has been there for 5 years. 88-75 record.
Seems like an worthy adversary.
GO BLUE!!!
November 24th, 2020 at 7:32 PM ^
Seems like Juwan is going away from scheduling the cupcakes ranked in the 300s to focusing more on the cupcakes ranked in the 100s. Probably won't have much of an impact this year but will be good for tournament seeding going forward.
November 24th, 2020 at 7:42 PM ^
Maybe.
Or they scrambled to fill the schedule at the last minute for whatever opponent they could find who's geographically close in consideration with Covid concerns.
Should be a good test though.
November 24th, 2020 at 11:54 PM ^
I'm just surprised people still buy magazines.
November 25th, 2020 at 9:23 AM ^
Good point. Non-con basketball scheduling is one of the prime examples of college sports being expensive because schools choose to make them expensive. Off the top of my head, I can think of the following list of D1 basketball schools who could reasonably bus to Michigan (5 hours or less).
EMU
UofD
Oakland
Toledo
Bowling Green
CMU
WMU
Akron
Kent State
Ohio
Cincinnati
Xavier
Dayton
Butler
IUPUI
IUPFW
Notre Dame
DePaul
UIC
Chicago State
November 25th, 2020 at 10:39 AM ^
Cleveland St.
Wright St.
Youngstown St.
Ball St.
Northern Illinois
November 24th, 2020 at 8:21 PM ^
I enjoyed the Houston Baptist mid-December Saturday afternoon games
November 24th, 2020 at 10:44 PM ^
Once a year is fine, but we don't need 4 games against Donkey State every November and December, either.
I've seen enough Binghamtons and Sacremento States for quite a while.
November 25th, 2020 at 7:54 AM ^
Yeah no more of those NJIT cupcakes either.
November 24th, 2020 at 9:54 PM ^
Deduction based on ridiculously limited sample.
November 24th, 2020 at 7:38 PM ^
Not to worry, as long as Michigan looks good with scissors tomorrow afternoon.
November 24th, 2020 at 7:55 PM ^
Rock, paper, scissors, lizzard, spock
November 25th, 2020 at 6:47 AM ^
Covid beats all but rock
November 24th, 2020 at 8:55 PM ^
I would rather not see them scissor.
November 25th, 2020 at 6:48 AM ^
Oh scissor me timbers
November 25th, 2020 at 7:55 AM ^
That's a multichild level dad joke right there. I approve
November 24th, 2020 at 7:59 PM ^
Should be a competitive game. Turner will be a touch match up because of his combination of size and explosiveness.
We're thin upfront and will need to rely heavily on a freshman five to stay out of foul trouble and maintain the endurance to stay on the court.
Could see Michigan struggling in this one, because of the lack of depth of front along with the difficult roster match up despite the fact Michigan will have the more talented team
November 24th, 2020 at 11:56 PM ^
Not sure I agree with being thin up front. We have 3 guys that can play the 5 (Davis, Dickinson, Johns) and multiple guys that can play the 4 (Livers, Johns, Williams, even Wagner or Brown in a pinch).
November 25th, 2020 at 6:12 AM ^
I prefer a tough tackle match up to a touch match up.
November 24th, 2020 at 8:01 PM ^
Do they look as good on construction paper as they do on college ruled?
November 25th, 2020 at 6:52 AM ^
What about quad paper?
November 24th, 2020 at 8:05 PM ^
+1 for adversary ?
November 24th, 2020 at 8:15 PM ^
Pretty good...Dude's car got a little dinged up
November 25th, 2020 at 10:25 AM ^
The dude in the black pajamas....stfu Donny.
November 24th, 2020 at 8:08 PM ^
Michigan favored 14 points
Go Blue!!
November 24th, 2020 at 8:12 PM ^
They brought 4 primary players back from last year. Turner is good. He will be a load to stop with his size against our guards. Plowden is athletic down low. Number 21 can shoot in a pick and pop 3 game. Trey Diggs is similar to Livers in his game. This will be a competitive game.
November 24th, 2020 at 10:28 PM ^
Maybe a good defensive matchup for Chaundee Brown?
November 24th, 2020 at 10:50 PM ^
This might be the right trial test for him for sure. I'm not sure Brooks will be able to check Turner with his size. They lost their pg from last year so I have no idea what that position will look like for them. I think Franz can hang with Diggs and Livers with Plowden. Number 21 picks and pops for 3 a lot so this might be one of those nights where Johns is needed more.
November 24th, 2020 at 8:19 PM ^
It’s going to be a Bowling Green massacre.
November 24th, 2020 at 8:28 PM ^
Bowling Green always looks good on paper.
November 24th, 2020 at 8:39 PM ^
Zig-zag > reefer rollers?
November 24th, 2020 at 9:03 PM ^
In paper?
November 25th, 2020 at 9:33 AM ^
When my buddies and I started smoking cannabis back in the day I didn't know anything about papers. I went into a gas station after I turned 18 and bought Oranges because I thought they were orange flavored papers.
November 24th, 2020 at 8:37 PM ^
I’m a billionaire in excel
November 24th, 2020 at 9:01 PM ^
Game definitely makes me nervous. I think we may get a rude awakening early in the season. Some experience back but lots of new players to work in the rotation. I think Michigan will struggle in this game.
November 24th, 2020 at 10:09 PM ^
I think any first game should be a little nerve wracking. Thing is, they don't have any more returning contributors than we do. This is a game Michigan should win but it will not be a cakewalk. They have the ones I listed above but Michigan has Livers, Brooks, Davis, Wagner, etc. Also, Smith and Brown have a lot of experience playing as well.
November 24th, 2020 at 9:44 PM ^
Franz will be the best guy on the court by far. And we might have the second and third best players in the matchup also. UM 72 BG 60
November 25th, 2020 at 7:34 AM ^
November 25th, 2020 at 6:59 AM ^
Wouldn’t at all be surprised to see Michigan struggle in this one. COVID-impacted off-season, loss of a couple regular starters and the guy you facilitated your entire offense through (Simpson) going against a mid-major projected to win its own conference with most of its starters coming back. First game jitters do exist.
I’d love to be wrong but I could see Michigan not covering the spread tonight.
November 25th, 2020 at 7:19 AM ^
It's not often when both my schools play it's competitive lol. BG should be quite good this year. I remember when I was going after my undergrad freshman year at BG when they beat UM in basketball. They had a kick ass team that year. I'm pretty sure UM was terrible at the same time.
Don't think it will go that way today but BG should provide a worthy adversary today.