Are we so Distraught there is no Big 10 BB board?
Guys and Gals, lots of basketball still to be played. Great games left to discuss. So far, Indiana beats Illinois, and Wisconsin out. How are you feeling? Who wins the Big 10, and do we make it to the tourney? Tough choice between Iowa and Purdue, but we beat both, so?
Not distraught at all. Msu actually isn’t hateable this year
Tom Izzo is always hateable.
March 12th, 2022 at 11:31 AM ^
I think he's referring to the players they've got this year. There really isn't anyone on that team that I absolutely can't stand right now. They've got a good roster, but Izzo's lineups are terrible. Leaving Marble and Hauser on Dickinson made a lot of fun for us.
True. There is no Denzel Valentine on this year's roster.
We found the mole!
MSU could apologize to each opponent on the way to an 0-30 season and they'd be hateable.
March 12th, 2022 at 12:46 AM ^
This one is the hero post!
March 11th, 2022 at 10:28 PM ^
msu not hate-able? This is blasphemy!
March 12th, 2022 at 10:58 AM ^
may be the dumbest post I've ever read on a message board. sparty is always hateable as is their rape enabling angry elf coach.
" today's rooting guide "
There was no reason to watch Wisky-MSU, both teams are losers no matter who won.
Vaguely prefer Purdue to win, like Painter, Iowa is relatively fun to watch and you never know when Fran is going to blow, indifferent about Indiana, though they've been bad about long enough for the fanbase to be more tolerable, don't care about the Nits and FUS.
Summary. We pretty much all hate the big 10 at this point and almost no team is likeable. The refs are undefendable. The league is a slog.
The conference is terrible this year. There is essentially no difference between teams 1 through 11 and not a single team plays with any consistency. If we get multiple teams in to the sweet 16 based on sheer volume alone, I'll be shocked
What conference is actually good then? I think the Big 12 is and Arizona is legit great...but beyond that, the parity in the sport creates a lot of "Not very good" teams. In fact the teams are good and have many talented players but the competition is much more stiff night in and night out compared to 15, 20 years ago.
Also the way the game is called, my new gripe, ruins the game a bit. The block/charge call single handedly ruins college basketball. More offense is needed and allowing defenders to cheaply get charge calls by leaping in front of athletic players ruins the flow and offensive output of the sport.
If the Big Ten is terrible every conference is lmao. What you're described is a healthily competitive conference. Without a clear elite team, sure. But terrible? Lol
March 11th, 2022 at 11:12 PM ^
Yep any conference whose regular season champion loses to Nebraska at home is clearly a competitive one
What's the stat line on floor-slaps and dong punches from the MSU-Wisconsin game?
Definitely can't remember a recent time of wishing so strongly that both teams could lose. Don't like either coach or either program.
Wisconsin is a one man team and said man didn’t play well. MSU is a zero man team and apparently that was good enough.
Davis was 3/19 and 0-5 from 3. Ooof.
That explains why he didn't get first team all BIG ten
March 12th, 2022 at 11:16 AM ^
Karma for having that douchebag dong puncher on their team all these years. Hasn't he been around long enough that he got McGary all those years ago?
If people are distraught, it's probably because the "Today's Rooting Guide" thread wrongly suggested that we needed a bunch of games to go our way when a lot of them don't affect us that much. We don't need every other bubble team to lose today, just some of them - and several have. Of the four teams right below us in the Bracket Matrix, three have lost and Wyoming is playing right now (and losing).
We'll make the tournament. There's an outside chance we drop down to the First Four. But that's our floor.
Yeah, making the tournament isn't the 15-game parlay some in that thread thought it was.
I feel like UM is getting pretty close to not even being in the play-in game given what's happening, though obviously there are still games to be played.
Not distraught. Just don't care what happens now.
I'm not a conference cheerleader, don't give a crap once michigan is out.
Ditto. I am a tried & true University of Michigan fan until the end of my days. But the other teams in the conference they happen to play in? Don't care, and can't imagine why I should.
Unless STAEE or tosu get stomped. That's always nice from a schadenfreude point of view.
Lots of Eeyore’s on this blog. These next couple of weeks are some of the best for sports fans and I can’t wait, regardless of how Michigan does.
Penn St. looking good so far.
March 11th, 2022 at 10:53 PM ^
Fuck Penn State.
Yea a solitary loss in the BigTen Tournament has made for some realizations that we have dour-ass fans amongst us. That loss realllly sucked but golly, the attitude about not even caring anymore and about the Tournament (best weekend in sports, IMHO) is so weak.
This year is clearly a disappointment after being pretty great the past number of years. We had a lot of solid players to replace and it didn’t quite happen. Watching now is largely to invest in the team’s maturation next year, but if HD, MD and Houston go pro and Dvante graduates we probably won’t get the payoff.
Rooting for Purdue, fuck everyone else.
So we could have Indiana vs. Iowa and MSU vs. Penn St. in the semi finals…?
Crazy year. I’m sure Purdue pulls this out, but it’s not too crazy to think we could see an Indiana vs. Penn St. final.
I realize I'm probably in the minority here, but B1G basketball is better when Indiana is good. I hope they win this tournament, and I think Mike Woodson was the best coaching hire from the last cycle. If they just had just gone .500 in all those close games they lost this year, they'd be in the running for a 1-seed.
1 seed? Don’t get too emotional here you crazy oligarch.
March 12th, 2022 at 12:47 AM ^
No I think the B1G has been plenty good recently and Indiana has been ass. I don't think the conference needs Indiana to be good, because everyone else is pretty good most years. It's not like football where only OSU being good is bad for conference perception.
There are a lot of really good players in the league this year. I only really make it a point of watching Michigan but I check the other playoff games once in a while and they are usually fun to watch. I just checked Iowa/Indiana and it's a very entertaining game. Don't know why some people seem to hate all the other BIG teams.
I’ve been watching the tournament but that wolves game yesterday was pretty rough stuff. It’s almost as if you’d rather just see them get blown out.
March 11th, 2022 at 10:00 PM ^
They did get blown out the last 13 minutes, 31-9 with only 2 field goals and one of them was a 3 with 10 seconds left.
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Get a pair
March 11th, 2022 at 10:03 PM ^
Yeah, the Big Ten Tourney is kinda 'meh' for me once Michigan is out. However, Michigan or not, I'll be channel surfing all the games the next 2 weekends... always anticipating that!
March 11th, 2022 at 10:13 PM ^
Watching the Big Ten Tournament (Purdue / Penn State at the moment) is an interesting exercise if you let your mind wander a bit. For example, pretend that you don't know the rules of basketball, but you are watching this game and you are paying attention to Big Ten officials and the broadcast crew and you take this information and explain the game to others. Do you know what you would be describing? Probably a cross between cribbage and Kerplunk, but still....the attempt was entertaining.
March 11th, 2022 at 11:07 PM ^
Purdue trying hard to blow this game. I usually wouldn't care but don't want an easy road for MSU here.
March 11th, 2022 at 11:19 PM ^
Nice to have a lottery pick. Tipping that rebound to create a one on two break and converting is...yeah.
March 11th, 2022 at 11:53 PM ^
Honest answer: Yeah, I don't really care about college basketball if we're not good.
Even if Michigan (17-14 with a NET ranking of 34 before Friday’s games) winds up having to play in one of the First Four games in Dayton as the last team in thanks to a strong NET ranking and one of the three strongest schedules in the country, with Indiana’s tournament wins over Michigan and Illinois to get them to 20-12 (NET ranking of 41 before Friday’s games), Rutgers might be the only Big Ten team that’ll be sweating out Selection Sunday.
Rutgers has a weird resume. They’re 18-13 and beat every one of the other top nine Big Ten teams, but lost four against the bottom five. Those four losses plus their loss to Iowa in their first Big Ten Tournament game, three very bad out-of-conference losses in November by a total of seven points and their low NET ranking (77 before their loss to Iowa) may drop the Scarlet Knights to the NIT.
If Rutgers fails to make the NCAA Tournament, then they’ll have to be thinking about their inability to adequately replace the three players they lost to transfers after last season (Myles Johnson, Jacob Young and Montez Mathis). Those three were among Rutgers’ top five scorers last season. Johnson was their leading rebounder and Young led the team in assists and steals.
Against Iowa on Friday, Rutgers got no points and two rebounds from their bench players; Iowa’s bench players had 18 points and 12 rebounds.
Johnson averages close to six rebounds and four points a game as a backup center at UCLA. Young has averaged a little over 12 points, three rebounds and three assists as a starting guard at Oregon. Mathis has averaged 8.2 points, 3.4 rebounds and 1.9 assists as a starting guard at St. John's. None of Rutgers’ reserves averaged more than 4.4 points a game this season.
Indiana appears to be getting the most out of playing instate. Our team has shown how well it can play when rested. Perhaps this loss may have a silver lining. Yep, there's plenty of basketball still left.
Can we schedule next year's BTT at the Silverdome? Oh wait...
Is Jerry Palm drunk? Seriously? Fuck this guy!
March 12th, 2022 at 11:23 AM ^
He just sucks. He's the 100th-ranked bracketologist over the last five years.
How am I feeling? I’m annoyed. One of the most talented teams in the nation and we have 14 losses and lost a game that we had a 1.5% chance of losing.
I actually developed a respect for Calipari through all this. He gets one and done players and still manages to accomplish something. I didn’t realize you could screwup 5stsr talent like they are in Ann Arbor.