2018-2019 B1G Basketball Thread

[Anonymous Coward]

So they only hang banners for regular season titles?

For MSU, yes, they've taken down their old tourney banners and don't hang new ones

[Brutus Buckeye]

As a guy with a lot of familiarity with the banner industry, I find Sparty's position to be the exception and not the norm.

[medinabuckeye1]

For those interested 538 has a prediction sheet that gives each team's percentage chances per round.  

For Ohio State:

• 33% to beat Iowa State
• 12% to make the Sweet Sixteen
• 4% to make the Elite Eight
• 1% to make the final four
• <1% to make the final
• <1% to win the NC.  

[ELA]

Massey composite rankings (61 rankings) going into the NCAA Tourney, with last week in parenthesis...

• Virginia (1)
• Duke (2)
• North Carolina (4)
• Gonzaga (3)
• MICHIGAN STATE (5)
• Tennessee (6)
• Kentucky (7)
• MICHIGAN (8)
• Texas Tech (9)
• Houston (10)
• Florida State (15)
• PURDUE (11)
• Auburn (18)
• Kansas (13)
• Virginia Tech (14)
• LSU (12)
• Buffalo (19)
• WISCONSIN (16)
• Kansas State (20)
• Iowa State (-)
• Nevada (17)
• Mississippi State (22)
• Villanova (24)
• Wofford (25)
• Cincinnati (-)

• 28. Maryland (21)
• 37. Iowa (36)
• 43. Minnesota (43)
• 46. Ohio State (46)
• 51. Nebraska (55)
• 52. Indiana (44)
• 59. Penn State (56)
• 90. Rutgers (88)
• 99. Northwestern (92)
• 104. Illinois (97)

[medinabuckeye1]

Indiana advanced in the NIT and will host Arkansas on Saturday.  

[MarqHusker]

Reports out there that Nebraska is eyeing Mayor Hoiberg as coach.  This assumes that Rasputin, er, Miles is relieved following the NIT.

[medinabuckeye1]

Reports out there that Nebraska is eyeing Mayor Hoiberg as coach.  This assumes that Rasputin, er, Miles is relieved following the NIT.

As a Nebraska guy, do you think moving on is the right move?  
Miles hasn't been great but my impression is that he has done better, on average, than Nebraska's historic average.  That may not be good enough but as an outsider I look at it and think that it could (and has been) worse.  

[Anonymous Coward]

The Glen Mason dilemma 

[847badgerfan]

I saw the Hoiberg stuff in the Sunday paper here. Seems odd, going from the Chicago Bulls to Nebraska.

[Kris60]

Reports out there that Nebraska is eyeing Mayor Hoiberg as coach.  This assumes that Rasputin, er, Miles is relieved following the NIT.

I’d actually be excited about that if I were a Nebraska fan.  He’s a Midwest guy who got Iowa St turned back around and has a NBA pedigree.  I’d consider that a really good hire for Nebraska.

[fezzador]

He has Nebraska roots so it makes sense.  But if he does get hired, it's probably safe to assume he'll have one eye on a bigger job (i.e. powerhouse program or back in the NBA).

[ELA]

I’d actually be excited about that if I were a Nebraska fan.  He’s a Midwest guy who got Iowa St turned back around and has a NBA pedigree.  I’d consider that a really good hire for Nebraska.

His admission standards are no bueno though.  Hell, he took two kids Izzo booted off the team, and the whole roster seemed like a bunch of dudes on their second and third chances.

[ELA]

The Glen Mason dilemma

Yeah, except Minnesota hadn't poured a ton of resources into the program to give Mason arguably the best facilities in the conference to work with.  And Mason was at least decentish, just couldn't get over the hump.
Miles seems like he's at least had Nebraska decent, but not really.
In seven years he's made one NCAA tournament.  I'd say making the tournament now is comparable to making a bowl when Mason was here, generally it's like 5-7 teams, 4 last year, 8 this year.  And he's only even made 2 NITs.  Four times, it's been no postseason.  He's finished in the bottom 4 of the Big Ten in 5 of his 7 seasons.  Mason at least had Minnesota in a bowl every year, ranked a couple times.
Miles seems like a really cool dude, and we all like him.  He hasn't failed spectacularly, but Nebraska didn't put all that money in to be a bottom 4 team every year in the conference.  Plus, while Mason's successors did worse than he did, is there really any risk in firing Miles?  Any drop is negligible, no difference in being 12th and not in the postseason vs. 14th and not in the postseason, so there's no risk.  This is a senior-laden team, so next year is going to be rough no matter what.  If you are going to fire him after another bad year next year, might as well fire him now, so at least a bad 2019-20 is the first year if a potential new era, rather than the final year of the last one.

[Kris60]

His admission standards are no bueno though.  Hell, he took two kids Izzo booted off the team, and the whole roster seemed like a bunch of dudes on their second and third chances.

Hmm. Idk.  I can’t say I followed his time at Iowa St closely enough to know about that.  I do know that he won a lot of games and had teams that were fun to watch while he was at ISU.  Sometimes to get a team turned around like that you need to take a risk or two.  Not every situation turns into Art Briles at Baylor.