Mich vs Illinois a no go
February 6th, 2021 at 4:26 PM ^
The real question I have, is how many of these games will be rescheduled?
February 6th, 2021 at 4:44 PM ^
From the earlier thread, it was said that rematches will take a backseat to making sure that every team plays each other at least once.
My guess:
- Not playing Wisconsin, NW, or PSU again
- Will play OSU, Illinois, Iowa, Rutgers
- MIGHT play 2 vs. MSU and IU
That puts us at 17 games, which seems like a reasonable amount given the amount of time we're missing.
February 6th, 2021 at 4:46 PM ^
Thx for that info.
We need 6 or 7 games, to get legs back, in my experience. Let's hope these guys hit the ground running, they have a real chance to b special.
February 6th, 2021 at 5:39 PM ^
I'd like to think half of that timeframe should suffice to getting their legs back. They've been doing something all along, not purely couch ridden.
February 6th, 2021 at 5:56 PM ^
U might b right, but in my YMCA league it took me 5 games tstop cramping, playing full court vs half court!! ??
February 6th, 2021 at 7:16 PM ^
haha valid point!
February 7th, 2021 at 7:55 AM ^
That sounds reasonable and rational. Hopefully this will be enough for a long tournament run
February 6th, 2021 at 4:26 PM ^
Was expecting this to become official, but still hurts. I miss watching this team.
February 6th, 2021 at 4:27 PM ^
Boooooo
February 6th, 2021 at 4:28 PM ^
This has been known for a week. It is a good thing though, will be better to play them after we are back up to speed. That game could be for the B1G championship.
February 7th, 2021 at 1:15 AM ^
Widely reported. Even in the front-page article. Has been officially reported.
https://mgoblue.com/news/2021/2/4/general-michigan-athletics-department-updates.aspx
February 6th, 2021 at 4:30 PM ^
I am so ready for some more U-M hoops - but that would have been a brutal 1st game back.
After watching the Wisconsin-Illinois game, and other recent Illini games - they are a great team. But at full strength - think we match up well against them - and they have not played a defense like ours.
Hope we come out rested and ready in mid-Feb. I trust that Howard and the veteran senior leadership will do their best to have us ready during what currently is and WILL be a special and unexpected season for M hoops!
Go Blue!
February 6th, 2021 at 5:37 PM ^
Illinois gives me pause as a Michigan fan, mostly because of that monster of a human being in the paint they call Kofi Cockburn. That guy is one of the few people in college basketball that can bully Hunter Dickenson on both ends of the court. Hunter seems more fundamentally sound but Kofi has such raw power and talent he could own anyone he plays against.
February 6th, 2021 at 6:26 PM ^
Except for a couple critical things. Dickinson has a lot more endurance than Cockburn. So he can play more minutes. Also, Hunter is more mobile and can exploit Cockburn near the basket. Either way, the game will actually be determined by how everyone else plays.
February 6th, 2021 at 9:15 PM ^
Two starting bigs named Dickinson and Cockburn in the same conference. What are the odds?
February 7th, 2021 at 1:12 AM ^
Kofi struggles at the FT line, too. I advocate an Austin Davis hack-a-Kofi-athon.
February 6th, 2021 at 4:38 PM ^
What are they allowed to do right now? Surely, they aren't stuck in their rooms. We've seen these guys play, they are all about it, about the work, the winning. There will be some rust to knock off, but I don't think it's going to take them that long to get back to the 'A' game. Hard work and hustle can cover up a lot of mistakes too. Hopefully, the Illini game is the last game cancelled, Go Blue!
February 6th, 2021 at 4:44 PM ^
I need someone smarter than I am, to calmly and kindly explain to me why we aren't playing basketball?
For the life of me I can't wrap my head around it
February 6th, 2021 at 4:48 PM ^
My only guess is that there is some information that we don't know, and they are not making public. Because with the information I have, it's a bit of a head-scratcher.
February 6th, 2021 at 9:21 PM ^
That's my take. It's not like they're going to be eager to just shut it down, for no good reason, when the team is on the tear it has been on. There is almost definitely some information we don't have that's driving this.
February 6th, 2021 at 6:42 PM ^
My question to you is: would you rather play the Illinois game and have it almost certainly be a loss? I'd much rather reschedule this game so the team is back up to full speed
February 7th, 2021 at 3:53 AM ^
A track and Field player brought a variant form of COVID back from South Africa to Ann Arbor and there was some spread within the Athletic Department. No contamination in any of the major sports but the AD decided to halt everything for 14 days. I'm not sure when the 14 days started, it sure feels like it has been 14 days but May be one more week?
February 6th, 2021 at 4:45 PM ^
Ok. So in general I'm not against the lockdown of the team. I do think its overkill, but whatever, I'll go with it. With that, I do think that our chances of winning the big ten are getting less and less every day. I can't help but think our team coming out really cold and just getting demolished on the back half of our schedule.
February 6th, 2021 at 4:51 PM ^
Much rather return against wisco than illinois
February 6th, 2021 at 4:53 PM ^
This is WAY bigger than I suspect 99% of you are thinking.
February 6th, 2021 at 5:10 PM ^
Or its not, and the university is just overreacting by a mile.
February 6th, 2021 at 6:04 PM ^
Health dept forced their hand with their "recommendation" - a very specific, strongly worded, and public "recommendation" that the university wouldn't dare to countermand.
February 6th, 2021 at 6:35 PM ^
And yet the health dept came out and said that they didn't make the university cancel all of these sports.
February 6th, 2021 at 6:57 PM ^
Correct, they didn't "make" the university do anything - it wasn't an order. Yet, the university wasn't going to do anything but follow the health dept recommendations as given - anything less (in the middle of the pandemic) would be ripped apart both professionally and in public opinion.
February 6th, 2021 at 5:18 PM ^
Yet all these other programs are completely missing the obvious as well apparently.
February 6th, 2021 at 7:51 PM ^
Okay so lay it out for us...
February 6th, 2021 at 8:30 PM ^
None of us are in control of any of this.
February 6th, 2021 at 10:45 PM ^
Ominous posts...keep em comin
February 7th, 2021 at 3:31 PM ^
He negged us instead of answering :(
February 6th, 2021 at 10:55 PM ^
Who is in control?
February 6th, 2021 at 7:52 PM ^
Then they should be communicating that. So tired of this fake BS about HIPAA like we're not supposed to know about a raging pandemic sweeping through the athletic department and university. If they're actually serious about the spread, they need to be more open about where it's spreading just as the countries that have actually done well with this have done. That doesn't mean singling out individuals. Yet somehow we knew it was someone on the women's rowing team or whatever anyway.
February 6th, 2021 at 9:48 PM ^
And yet somehow the rest of the conference, including our instate rival sixty miles down the road, is playing basketball with little to no problems whatsoever. The rest of America is playing basketball with little to no problems whatsoever.
I get being safe, but this is blatant overreaction.
February 6th, 2021 at 10:18 PM ^
Little to no problems? Have you seen the daily counts of canceled/ppd games and the constant notices of teams going on quarantine?
I've already stated my belief that the health dept overreacted regarding the shutdown order triggered by a few UK-strain cases, but... this still is raging pandemic causing mass repercussions that everybody is encountering to various extents.
February 6th, 2021 at 4:53 PM ^
I sure hope they can reschedule this. Definitely would have fixed some popcorn for it.
February 6th, 2021 at 4:56 PM ^
This has probably crushed the best bball season Michigan has had since xxxx.
This sucks. Teams are coming out like Ass after Covid shutdown. We were steamrolling teams, now we will be rusty.
February 6th, 2021 at 5:12 PM ^
It's gonna take a few games to regain form, but what matters is the tourney, and we should b back in form by then.
February 6th, 2021 at 5:40 PM ^
Agree that the tourney matters most but seeding in the tourney matters too.
February 6th, 2021 at 9:49 PM ^
I am curious how seeding matters to this team. What would you consider a bad seed here???
February 6th, 2021 at 6:18 PM ^
Didn't we win 30 games all of two years ago? And don't we have the best recruiting class in the country coming in next year?
We aren't a flash in the pan, once in a lifetime team like Iowa is this year. We're built for the long haul. Even if things go off the rails when we come back from pause, we're still set up for future success as nicely as any program in the country is
February 6th, 2021 at 7:05 PM ^
Also, why did the poster use 'xxxx'? Somehow suggesting that the last extremely successful M Bball team was from some long-forgotten era. This program has made two National Championships in the past eight years. We've had three season of 30 or more wins in the same eight year period. We have witnessed multiple "special" M Bball teams through both Beilein's tenure, and now at the dawn of Howard's. Such doomer energy jeez.
February 6th, 2021 at 8:00 PM ^
Jesus Christ...How long have you've been living under a rock?
February 6th, 2021 at 5:19 PM ^
Ahhhh. Jeez man this is out of hand
February 6th, 2021 at 8:12 PM ^
Yup. 100% healthy and negative, lock it down. First kid to shart will shut the campus down.
February 6th, 2021 at 6:18 PM ^
Postponed, not cancelled. Cancelled means no chance it's made up which is not the case as the conference has stated they intend to have every team to play each other at least once, and this was the lone Michigan/Illinois matchup.
February 6th, 2021 at 6:36 PM ^
I speak for everyone when I say golsh darn it to heck.