2018-2019 B1G Basketball Thread

[Entropy]

UNL is a 4...   They will win games they shouldn't and lose games they should win.   They'll be hard to quantify.   But my sense is this team is inconsistent and not playing as a a unit.   Feels like a 4 to me.  jmo

[ELA]

Yeesh, OSU tailspin continuing

[medinabuckeye1]

Yeesh, OSU tailspin continuing

The losing streak is now at five and about to be seven. The NCAA tournament is, out of the question barring a miracle. The question now is whether or not this team can make the NIT.

[MaximumSam]

Pretty fun game, and actually very encouraging for the future of the team, if not this year.  But they play hard and actually made some shots. Refs seem like Kaleb Wesson has a target though.  That is frustrating, because they call a lot of tic tac fouls on him but aren't calling the times he's getting fouled, which is a bad combo.

[ELA]

The losing streak is now at five and about to be seven. The NCAA tournament is, out of the question barring a miracle. The question now is whether or not this team can make the NIT.

They actually bounced back decently.  I posted that during the 2#-1 run, when it looked like they might get run out of their own gym.

[medinabuckeye1]

They actually bounced back decently.  I posted that during the 2#-1 run, when it looked like they might get run out of their own gym.

Regardless of the semi-competitive second half, the Buckeyes have lost five straight (about to be seven) and are now 2-5/12-6 (about to be 2-7/12-8).

[Brutus Buckeye]

The Nit is probably a stretch. Barely eligible wasn't good enough in Thad's final year. 

[ELA]

If you hate basketball, you may enjoy UW-Illinois, because the officials are allowing very little of it to be played 

[FearlessF]

yup, going to bed

[bayareabadger]

If you hate basketball, you may enjoy UW-Illinois, because the officials are allowing very little of it to be played

This was truly a disaster of a game.
UW won, and needed to win, as it’s the fourth-easiest game left. Getting to 13-6, 5-3 is good. Now need to hold off NW.

[847badgerfan]

This was truly a disaster of a game.
UW won, and needed to win, as it’s the fourth-easiest game left. Getting to 13-6, 5-3 is good. Now need to hold off NW.

That was a very hard stretch to watch. I think UW had 10 fouls only 5-6 minutes into H2. Terrible. But, as you said, they won and they needed to. Road wins are precious so I'll take it.

Iverson sure bounced back last night. Great game for him. Message received, apparently.

[betarhoalphadelta]

Big stretch for MSU (and their opponents) over the next few days. Road games @Iowa and @Purdue. Sagarin has MSU as 5.9 favorites in Iowa City, and 2.85 point favorites in West Lafayette. 

But Iowa is 10-2 in their last 12, with the only losses being road losses to MSU and Purdue. Purdue is 7-1 in their last 8, with the only loss being @MSU, with the only game being decided by single digits [sadly including the MSU loss] being the road win over Wisconsin.

ESPN say that MSU win likelihood is 67.2% at Iowa, and 52.8% at Purdue. That means that the odds of the below are the following:

• Win both: 35.5%
• Lose both: 15.5%
• Split: 49%  (17.3% for L @Iowa and W @Purdue, 31.7% for W @Iowa / L @Purdue)

Obviously as a Purdue fan I'm hoping Purdue wins on Sunday regardless of what Iowa does, but I think this is shaping up to be a HUGE couple of days for the entire B1G race. 

[847badgerfan]

Big stretch for MSU (and their opponents) over the next few days. Road games @Iowa and @Purdue. Sagarin has MSU as 5.9 favorites in Iowa City, and 2.85 point favorites in West Lafayette.

But Iowa is 10-2 in their last 12, with the only losses being road losses to MSU and Purdue. Purdue is 7-1 in their last 8, with the only loss being @MSU, with the only game being decided by single digits [sadly including the MSU loss] being the road win over Wisconsin.

ESPN say that MSU win likelihood is 67.2% at Iowa, and 52.8% at Purdue. That means that the odds of the below are the following:

• Win both: 35.5%
• Lose both: 15.5%
• Split: 49%  (17.3% for L @Iowa and W @Purdue, 31.7% for W @Iowa / L @Purdue)

Obviously as a Purdue fan I'm hoping Purdue wins on Sunday regardless of what Iowa does, but I think this is shaping up to be a HUGE couple of days for the entire B1G race.

I like 10-3 in their last 13 much better.

[ELA]

Yeah, the Big East knew how to schedule their teams into the tourney.  The Big Ten seems to care about nothing but squishing as many games into as many nights as possible.  The Big East ensured their top teams never double played each other.  The Big Ten has their highest rated team playing 3 games in one week, two on the road, all against top 24 KenPom teams.

Maryland is picking up steam...and has to play road games Friday-Monday.

How is any of this good for the conference?