Purdue and MSU home games
It is now January 24th and Michigan basketball travels to East Landfill Saturday. With the team starting to turn things around, is anyone else worried about getting the msu and Purdue home games rescheduled? We need those games played to build the tournament resume and I haven’t seen any update, even as we are now two weeks removed from the postponements. Hope they both end up being played.
January 24th, 2022 at 4:53 PM ^
Crickets
January 24th, 2022 at 4:56 PM ^
RULE #1: If the Big Ten can screw over Michigan, the Big Ten will screw over Michigan.
RULE #2: Playing those games will screw over Michigan.
RULE #3: Not playing those games will screw over Michigan.
This means Michigan will get screwed over by the Big Ten no matter what happens.
January 24th, 2022 at 4:58 PM ^
When we talk about the big ten screwing over Michigan we sound as dumb as the fans who said the big ten screwed over illinois last year. Just let it go.
January 24th, 2022 at 5:13 PM ^
Also 'East Landfill'. So so funny, such a great insult. Could even call MSU 'Sharty' to counter being called 'Scum' and really one-up the enlightened MSU, I mean Sharty fan base. Really great stuff, keep it up.
January 25th, 2022 at 9:23 AM ^
I prefer scuMSUcker.
January 25th, 2022 at 4:09 PM ^
Yep, yep, yep. The supposedly witty put downs just are juvenile and not amusing. (I guess I'm just a crabby old man: "Get off my lawn!.")
January 24th, 2022 at 5:14 PM ^
Uhhhhh, the Big Ten typically doesn't want to hurt the schools who bring value to the conference. Michigan Basketball has definitely been bringing value to the conference for a while now.
I haven't seen anything to suggest the Big Ten has done things to hurt Michigan's chances in Basketball. In fact, they have received very favorable schedules the past few years and last year the conference held firm to make sure Michigan was the regular season champion.
You want to talk football? Okay, I have a laundry list of things there, but it goes both ways.
January 24th, 2022 at 7:39 PM ^
Yeah, get out of your BPONE. Michigan benefitted from not rescheduling the Illinois game last year.
January 24th, 2022 at 4:57 PM ^
i duno - i love the optimism around the team - its been a while since we felt it (this season), but take a look at who we've played and beaten and take a look who we havent played yet at all. Just saying, we might want to temper expectations a little bit. i don tknow that playing purdue and msu is necessarily a good thing if we can build a resume by finishign in the top 7 in the B10 with a few more solid wins... (42-27 included).
But, either way, if they can keep improving, win or loss, i dont care.. even if we do the NIT.. just improve and hopefully everyone is back to make a run next year.
January 24th, 2022 at 5:06 PM ^
But don't you look at statistics. Indiana is a great defensive team and we just demolished them on the road. We should have no trouble beating MSU , WIS , PUR , and OSU on the road.
January 24th, 2022 at 5:58 PM ^
This exactly. In the last 2 games, Michigan has shot 58% (40% 3PT) and 57% (64% 3PT). On the season they have averaged 48% (35% 3PT).
Good things happen when you make baskets. Small sample size, but averaging 52% from downtown over the last 2 games is a big reason why they have won, and won handily. I'd expect the team shooting percentage to tick up a little bit from the season average as the freshman gain confidence and continue to grow, but you can't expect to sustain this over the rest of the season.
Hopefully the good trend continues. But automatically expecting a tournament birth at this point is crazy.
January 25th, 2022 at 8:41 AM ^
Making baskets has a positive correlation to scoring points. Scoring more points than your opponent is key to winning the contest.
good point, i won't argue that.
January 25th, 2022 at 8:41 AM ^
I'd counter that it took 64% from 3 to beat Indiana, which is not a sustainable shooting %. Sure, they'll have other plays when the 3's aren't falling but living and dying by the 3 can't mean shooting over 50% to win.
January 24th, 2022 at 7:41 PM ^
We had a lower chance of beating IU at IU than we would of beating MSU at home (we'd probably be favored if it happened right now) and Purdue at home.
Those are games that can do more good than harm so we absolutely want to play them.
January 24th, 2022 at 5:04 PM ^
As I understand, the ability to make up these games depends on Purdue and Michigan State. I'm sure Tiny Tom is itching to get a game at Crisler with an improving Wolverines team. Likewise, Matt Painter doesn't need another Michigan game on his school's resume to go to the NCAA. So, I'm guessing NO.
January 24th, 2022 at 7:49 PM ^
Yeah, if it depends on them, there's almost no way they would cooperate. They don't want to have to come to Crisler with more to lose than gain. Small chance MSU falls behind in the conference race and needs a win to catch up, but that's probably the only scenario and I don't think they'd know that with enough time to schedule it.
January 24th, 2022 at 9:08 PM ^
Exactly.
Neither school will want to pack in extra games into an already tight BIG schedule.
They are not required to accommodate UM by agreeing to play.
We had the issue creating this situation.
The reason we haven't seen reschedule dates is because Purdue/MSU don't need to play for their resumes.
January 24th, 2022 at 5:14 PM ^
Feagin'd.
January 24th, 2022 at 5:58 PM ^
Given how the B1G has games scheduled on nearly every day of the week, you're probably only looking at a few dates that a game with MSU could happen and allow a day between already scheduled games:
Thursday, Feb 3rd
Thursday, Feb 10th
Tuesday, March 1st
Feb 24 is a possibility, but Michigan would play a back to back at home
I don't even know if there's a feasible date that would work for the Purdue game. Purdue plays a lot on Thursdays that Michigan has off.
January 24th, 2022 at 6:39 PM ^
Someone will need to play back to back games no matter what, but I don't see why that matters. These are young kids, they should be able to handle it.
January 24th, 2022 at 10:28 PM ^
It’s also unnecessary to make them play
January 24th, 2022 at 6:02 PM ^
In my opinion these are the worst threads. A misleading title (initially made me believe someone had found news of those games being officially rescheduled) followed by an uninteresting and obvious question that has already been speculated upon. I'm not going to harp on this much because we've all been there but I'm still going to leave this comment here in hopes that OP doesn't make another thread like this in the future.
January 24th, 2022 at 6:19 PM ^
They won’t listen to me! I already told them that my sources said,”Harbaugh will definitely stay or leave. He hasn’t signed any other contract since 21’ and he is still working under that contract until he is otherwise instructed to sign on another Michigan lifetime contract. You can quote me. You can even retweet it if you’d like. Quit listening to these other insiders, for they do not know as much as I do with my insider knowledge of the situation, at hand.
January 24th, 2022 at 6:36 PM ^
Better hope so, I have tickets for the Purdue game.
January 24th, 2022 at 7:14 PM ^
Seriously can we cut out the 3rd grade names and insults for MSU and OSU? If you’re going to throw insults at least come up with something creative. You sound like some of the redneck Buckeye fans I have to deal with down here
January 25th, 2022 at 8:25 AM ^
Dude, you totally win the Most Improved award. After 9 years on MGoBlog, you, with 1 post and an upvote, just doubled your point total!