Rooting interest for the weekend?
As I type this, MSU and Minnesota are rockfighting at 12-10 at the under 12 timeout in the first half. What is your best case scenario for the weekend?
Personally, I would not be averse to Michigan losing in the semis, if it's to Minnesota, if only to save their legs, since nearly everyone on twitter was noting both team's exhaustion at the end of the game.
Obviously, if they win out, it's a great memory and probably pushes their seeding much higher, but I'd be concerned with how they might perform next week, i.e. 2006 Syracuse.
MSU vs. Minnesota? I don't think there will be too much debate here.
End of conversation
I want MSU, as I think Michigan will be too tired for another physical battle against Minny after today, and I think MSU is an easier matchup also for us to get to the finals, while still getting us a top-50 win.
I don't want MSU to win anything. Ever.
We used to play from 10am until sundown with breaks for meals and what not. We would do it again the next day. Kids shake off tired within 48 hours and other than maybe people telling them they are tired they will be fine. Hopefully we play Friday in the tourney with Mon,Tues,Wed, Thursday giving them a good break.
Make someone fight you for that next loss. The more we keep winning the harder it will be for someone to knock us off. Win the next two and get a 6th seed. Then keep the ball rolling.
Kids shake off tired within 48 hoursBut the problem is that the BTT plays games within 24 hours.
Plus there is virtually no mental pressure playing in pick up games all day. Mental pressure coupled with the physical demands can be pretty exhausting.
That, and physical demand is like 10000000x larger
This is true, but most teams enter the tournament having played 2-4 games the previous week. I think the whole "conference tournament runs lead to exhaustion/momentum in the NCAA's" argument is just confirmation bias at its finest. People remember when teams followed a strong conference tourney run with a strong NCAA run. People remember when a conference tourney champ as a lowish seed flames out in the NCAAs. What people forget are about all those teams that perform as expected in both tournaments, or flame out in both tournaments.
MSU's case, they'll have 3 hours less recovery time. Minnesota will too, but this is their first game.
Either way, I hope it goes several overtimes and they beat each other with clubs and rocks before it's over lol
from Mon-Thursday I was reffering to. There is no doubt they are tired right now. Plane crashes, 6am flights, back to back to back games? Thats a whole different world.
If we keep winning could probably get to the six line, which if we avoid UCLA as the three would be a huge advantage. So maybe root against the current six/seven line. Minnesota, Iowa State, Maryland, Wisconsin, South Carolina, Creighton are the ones still playing I think.
I want Sparty to lose and everything else is just gravy
It would be better if MSU won just for the fact that they would be playing their 3rd game in 3 days like us.
I want MSU to lose...every time
Plus I want a rematch against the gophers at a neutral site, preferrably without the officials we had at the barn (and definitely not the fuckwads we had against Purdue today) for a neutral shot against them to show we're the better team.
Gobs and gobs of greasy grimy gopher guts to dine on to prep us for the BTT final.
Give me Minny. Myles Bridges scares me. Dude can pop off and take over a game. Minny doesn't have that kind of star power.
MSU wins today, then M beats MSU 759-1.
M wins B1G and gets 6 seed in the tourney. M goes on a run and wins National Championship.
The end
I win 10 bucks if that happens.
Playing Saturday vs. Sunday doesn't make that much of a difference as far as the tourney goes. We won't play again until either Thursday or Friday.
Fuck MSU.
I'm rooting for Michigan to win.
and, preferably, to look really bad doing it
a lot of those 6/7 teams are in the B10, so we can do our own work.
I have no problem if Walton Jr rolls a fattie and shares it with Mo while they check out some shit on Netflix for a few hours. Get those dudes some industrial strength rest.
Admit it. You told Mitch McGary the same thing.
Mitch seemed like the dude that would try to completely mess with your buzz. Like get you to eat nasty black licorice or show you a grisly snuff film. For his entertainment.
Would prefer playing MSU tomorrow. Think they are an easier matchup. Plus more pain for them to lose to us twice in a season. It isn't that I want them to win. It is that I want Michigan to thrash them. If Michigan keeps on winning, that means that Purdue, Minnesota/MSU, Wisconsin, Northwestern, Maryland will all have lost. I'm assuming we can't jump Purdue in seeding, but we might be able to jump the rest of the Big 10
As for other rooting interests, root for at least the following teams to lose: Dayton, Creighton, South Carolina, Iowa State, Arkansas, VCU. They are all on the 6 - 9 line in this morning's bracketology. Every team at our level or slightly ahead of us that loses is good. More likely to be seeded below us. Critical to get at least to 7 seed. And a 6 seed would be better, even a 5 seed.
I dont know if we want the 6 if we end up having to face UCLA second round. I wouldn't mind being a 7 seed. I would rather play louisville, baylor, or oregon than arizona, duke, fsu, or ucla. Call me crazy if you want. I also really dont want to face Kentucky because we haven't played athleticism like that all year.
I mean you're going to run into those teams eventually if you want to take the ultimate prize. I see the point you're trying to make, but eventually, you're going to run into a Duke, or an Arizona, or a Villanova, or a UCLA, or a UNC.
I definitely want off the 8/9 line, but anything beyond that is pure gravy.
There is no guarantee UCLA will be a #3 seed, but even if they are, they're just one of four. I'll take our chances.
We've got the whole "our b-ball team survived a plane crash" thing, they've got the "our athletic department is trying to survive multiple train wrecks thing".
That and the fact that we could put another dent in their collective identity as an elite basketball school and I think the upside of winning against them far outweighs the downside risk.
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Suck it Izzo - NIT?
Probably not, but we can hope.
Would love for bama to hang on vs SC as we are fighting with them on the seed lines!
South Carolina just lost. They were the last 7 seed on the Bracket Matrix. And they've been going the opposite direction of Michigan so if they take end of season momentum into account (which they do inconsistently), Michigan may be ahead of them now.