Rest of the Afternoon (Big Ten & elsewhere ) Basketball /Bubble Watch Thread
Add in snowflakes from that umm, performance, as well. Though I'm not sure I want to think much about it; not that I want to think about what lies ahead tomorrow, either.
On to Indiana and a squad full of athletes + Maxamillion "6th man of the year" Bielfeldt. Ugh.
Go Blue.
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You've waited years to say this, haven't you?!
We were not crushing it with Spike and Caris that is true but lets not forget that the Stauskas led team didn't really cover itself in glory until the Big Ten season. This team never had a chance because of the injuries. Not saying it was likely but this has to be the only Beilein team not vastly improve in Big Ten play
That said, I am skeptical that this team was ever better than MAYBE a Sweet 16 given the deficiencies on D and the play of the bigs.
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This team was never a real "challenger" for a title, so I never got why people thought they would be even with Caris. The lack of anything approximating defense in the front court was always going to doom them; but with Levert at least you'd have a guy who can go and get his shot when needed. Right now they'd be comfortably in the tournament with him and Spike, and to me that would have been a fine season for UM.
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As of now, Michigan is 3-8 against the RPI Top 25, but if RPI 23 Iowa and RPI 24 Texas both drop out of the RPI Top 25, then Michigan's record against the Top 25 would change to 2-6.
Tomorrow, while Michigan will be playing to keep its NCAA Tournament hopes alive, Indiana, playing after the dreaded conference tournament double bye, will be playing only to improve its seed. IF Indiana somehow manages to win the conference tournament, and finish with a 28-6 record and eight consecutive wins, then they'll be arguing for a two seed.
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and very critical of certain players who jusz havent delivered, I believe Michigan beats Indiana tommorow...You heard it here first...Just a feeling....I feel a BIG upset brewing....thats all Im going to say...Michigan beats Indiana and punches their ticket in a shocker
What you're having...have some, can I?!
They kill us again...they're everything we're not.
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They have shown tremendous growth over the course of the season and their wins are much more impressive than Michigan, it's not really close.
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The questions really lie with Oregon St., St. Bonaventure, VCU, Vandy, Monmouth, Syracuse, and Tulsa. How anyone can say those teams are clearly above us/have a better resume I'm not sure. We have 3 pretty damned good wins that those schools do not.
I know the downfalls of this team and I'm very unimpressed with them but goddammit I want to see them in a bracket next weekend. And to just unfairly rule out team out becasue of some shitty criteria is annoying.
Almost half our D-I wins (9 of 20) came against teams ranked worse than 200th in the RPI. Wisconsin is at 4 of 20, Vandy 5 of 19, VCU 6 of 22, Bona 7 of 22. How Michigan ends up with a higher share of its wins coming against tomato cans than A-10 St. Bonaventure is the real question.
The answer is look at that December stretch of ours, when we played four 280+ nonconference teams.
We can rail against the system all we want, but U-M knew full well how it worked, and it also knew what it was getting by scheduling four Bryant-level teams. It wanted (essentially) four scrimmages heading into B1G play; it did not want the slightest chance of EMU or NJIT repeating itself. I mean, Wisconsin was taking on solid teams like UWGB while we were kicking back against Delaware State. How can you not expect to pay a price for that?
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March 10th, 2016 at 11:24 PM ^