Northwestern beats OSU
December 26th, 2020 at 3:57 PM ^
Go Cats! Great game from beginning to end.
December 26th, 2020 at 3:59 PM ^
Just another day in the Big Ten.
December 26th, 2020 at 4:02 PM ^
So nu? Go, NU!
December 26th, 2020 at 4:03 PM ^
Always root against Ohio state. Too much success in football so they can go to hell in every other sport. That is all
December 26th, 2020 at 8:31 PM ^
They can go to hell in football too, but probably won’t.
December 27th, 2020 at 9:17 AM ^
They'll have to give the devil his due at some point.
December 29th, 2020 at 7:53 PM ^
I’m certain that’ll happen sometime after I’m dead.
December 26th, 2020 at 4:06 PM ^
GO CATS!!
December 26th, 2020 at 4:09 PM ^
Can someone explain why Chris Holtmann has this reputation as some underrated gem of a head coach? He's followed Stevens at Butler and Matta at OSU and hasn't come close to matching the success of either. Pretty mediocre coach, hope he stays at OSU for a long time.
December 26th, 2020 at 4:26 PM ^
He's a little bit of a Harbaugh coach, good to great regular season results, but pretty middling post season efforts. No sweet 16s at OSU and only one at butler. Matta was a great coach for them because they made deep tourney runs consistently. OSU and Holtmann don't have the horses or the coaching to replicate that. Definitely would rather have him there than someone like Matta, Izzo, or even Underwood
December 26th, 2020 at 4:38 PM ^
I don't think his regular season results have been that great. He overachieved his first year at OSU finishing 2nd in the Big Ten but that was also riding a senior Keita Bates-Diop who was a 5 star recruited by Matta. Since then he's finished 8th and 5th in the Big Ten, he never won his conference at Butler, and as you mentioned hasn't come close to achieving the tournament success that Stevens and Matta had. He just strikes me as a very mediocre coach.
December 26th, 2020 at 8:07 PM ^
Agree, he was a very meh hire for them. He'll win enough to not be on the hot seat (especially since they are a football school) but I don't see him doing anything great. He seems like a slightly richer man's Amaker.
December 26th, 2020 at 4:55 PM ^
He beat Juwan twice despite being a garbage team. Humiliated us at Home and curbstomped us when we played there.
December 26th, 2020 at 5:01 PM ^
Humiliated us at home = lost because Simpson got a flagrant foul for being fouled on a layup?
December 26th, 2020 at 5:11 PM ^
And? Juwan whooped Mark Few but I'm not ready to claim that Juwan is better (just yet).
December 26th, 2020 at 8:03 PM ^
Nice to see you developing patience after calling for Beilein's job.
December 26th, 2020 at 9:38 PM ^
I was far from the only one doing that. But yes I can admit that Beilein proved me wrong. I did not see him turning his team into a defensive juggernaut.
December 26th, 2020 at 6:01 PM ^
With that logic we curbstomped mark few and Gonzaga. Does that mean we’re a better team and Juwan is the better coach? No. Overall I think Juwan will have far more success than Holtman. His recruiting classes are beginning to take shape and we’re seeing the results on the court
December 26th, 2020 at 4:10 PM ^
this would have been useful last week.
December 26th, 2020 at 4:11 PM ^
OSU lost arguably their two easiest road games already. They're gonna have to make hay at home if they can't do anything on the road
December 26th, 2020 at 4:17 PM ^
NW seems pretty legit this year; dunno if this should be thought of as an easy road game.
December 26th, 2020 at 4:29 PM ^
Too early to tell. People thought NW football turned the corner this year too, and then got rampaged by MSU
Beating Indiana and OSU do not move the needle for me at all, but MSU was a good win for them. If they can win even one of their next three (at Iowa, at Michigan, home vs Illinois) then I'll be a believer
December 26th, 2020 at 4:25 PM ^
NW this week has beaten MSU and OSU at home and IU on the road. It might be hard for any team to match that 3 game stretch all season in the B1G. Our game against them January 3rd just got really interesting.
December 26th, 2020 at 4:30 PM ^
Hasn't Indiana been one of the worst home teams in the big ten since Miller has been coach?
December 26th, 2020 at 4:38 PM ^
They only lost 4 games at home last year, to Arkansas, Maryland, Wisconsin and Purdue. They also beat MSU, OSU, PSU, FSU and Iowa. So all things considered pretty solid.
Also as far as NW is concerned, IU was a top 20 team to KP/Torvik and we know how hard winning on the road is in the B1G, even this year with no fans. By itself it wouldn't make your week, but with the other two games it's incredibly impressive IMO.
December 26th, 2020 at 7:59 PM ^
we know how hard winning on the road is in the B1G, even this year with no fans.
Do we?
I don't think we should compare home/road situations this year with any other year. Fans are most of what makes up homecourt advantage (I'll concede a little bit due to familiarity, travel, etc). We'll probably see lots of "road upsets" this year.
December 26th, 2020 at 5:40 PM ^
Indiana I currently up on Illinois in the 2nd half (at Illinois)
December 26th, 2020 at 4:29 PM ^
Easy road game? This should be thought of as a quality win if it were to happen
December 26th, 2020 at 4:31 PM ^
They should’ve fired Chris Collins after last season!
December 26th, 2020 at 5:09 PM ^
I’m still amazed at the hate spewed about Chris Collins when he was a name being dropped for Michigan job. Guy can coach.
December 26th, 2020 at 6:02 PM ^
Because he ran guys off the team. I think some other stuff too, but now I can't recall exactly.
December 26th, 2020 at 6:57 PM ^
I mean, he made a tournament with NW, but then finished at least 2 games under .500 in the three years since, including going 8-23 last year
That looked a lot more like reversion to the mean than a program taking the next step towards relevancy
December 26th, 2020 at 5:30 PM ^
Is NW...good?
December 26th, 2020 at 5:38 PM ^
Yes. Yes they are.
December 26th, 2020 at 7:01 PM ^
Is Northwestern actually pretty good or are the Buckeyes and Spartys overrated? I think it is a little bit of both Northwestern has some decent players and OSU and Spartys are ranked this high because of last year's teams.
December 27th, 2020 at 12:54 AM ^
Ohio State fans seem to think they're in for a rough season, based on their personnel. I thought Sparty was good, especially after their win over Duke, but their fans say they have no good PG (compared to Cassius Winston) or Center, so the whole thing falls apart too easily. I say it's early in B1G play, so teams are still figuring out how to matchup best in this conference, but I'd take our teams ability to matchup against anybody over every other team save Iowa (Garza could almost win the B1G by himself) or Wisconsin (a plucky well-rounded team with loads of experience). Having a very good center seems to be what separates the best from the rest. Kofi Cockburn for Illinois is saving them every game for example. Dickinson will be our ticket to the top if he keeps up his good play.
December 26th, 2020 at 7:03 PM ^
Northwestern! Just another sports factory.
December 26th, 2020 at 7:18 PM ^
Northwestern is legit.
December 27th, 2020 at 10:14 AM ^
Agreed.
Watched a lot of BB over the last few days and they are a complete, skilled team. Looked a helluva lot better than MSU, UK, or Louisville for sure.
Funny how a bunch of blood bloods look like complete crap this year. The UK vs Lousiville game would have been unwatchable if not for Covid.
But, damn, the Zags look really, really good, don't they?
December 26th, 2020 at 8:02 PM ^
It’s sad when the greatest joy for Michigan is predicated by a Rivals loss.
December 26th, 2020 at 8:25 PM ^
Who said anything about "greatest joy"? OSU losing, to NW no less, is purely a bonus.
December 26th, 2020 at 11:35 PM ^
Yes it was.
Now let's beat them both!
December 27th, 2020 at 9:23 AM ^
Any loss by any team in any sport by the Central Ohio Football Polytechnic College is a bonus.
December 26th, 2020 at 9:19 PM ^
Typical OSU when up for most of the game and never could put NW away and it cost them.
Not a home loss and not really an embarrassment to them. The Sparty EL Loss was much sweeter for me anyway.
December 27th, 2020 at 5:27 AM ^
B1G is a bloodbath this year.
December 28th, 2020 at 10:46 AM ^
Glad to see that NW got a little bit of revenge after their matchup vs OSU in football.
Certainly, very few, if any, Big 10 "gimmes" this season. Take away the home court advantage, too, and many of these games are true toss-ups.
I'll say it: this is much more fun than (mostly) predictable Big 10 football. There were some surprises this season, though, undoubtedly -- Indiana being one of those. But, for the most part, it's Ohio State and then, well...everyone else. Hoops is a different story, especially this season. Looking forward to the madness.