2018-2019 B1G Basketball Thread

[ELA]

Beilein returning.  Not sure what the Pistons are waiting on.  Sounds like Casey was their #1 choice, Beilein was their #2, and they don't really have a #3, but they've offered none of them.  Unless they've offered Casey and Beilein behind closed doors, and knew a deal wasn't happening, and didn't want to Tennessee the whole thing.

[NickSmith4Three]

The annual United Center game next season will be against a Big Ten team.  That should draw more folks than UIC.

[medinabuckeye1]

@Brutus Buckeye posted this in the old thread but it belongs here:

[ELA]

Penn State's Mike Watkins arrested on a possible gun charge on campus?  Third arrest in two years.  First one was for criminal mischief, second for a bar fight.

[Brutus Buckeye]

Couldn't find this thread for some reason. 

Probably because I searched "hoops" and "Basketball" neither of which appear in the thread title. 

[medinabuckeye1]

Couldn't find this thread for some reason.

Probably because I searched "hoops" and "Basketball" neither of which appear in the thread title.

That would be my fault because I started this thread. I really didn't think of searches, but good point.
It has been edited.

[bayareabadger]

Wisconsin picked up 6-7 forward Tyler Wahl, No. 95 in the composite rankings.

Seems like a guy who does a little of everything, though I can’t find his shooting splits. 

[MaximumSam]

Encouraging news for OSU.  They picked up 5 star PG DJ Carton out of Iowa, who chose the Bucks over Michigan and Indiana.  That's two top 30 players for the class, and Holtmann looks like he can recruit.

[bayareabadger]

Encouraging news for OSU.  They picked up 5 star PG DJ Carton out of Iowa, who chose the Bucks over Michigan and Indiana.  That's two top 30 players for the class, and Holtmann looks like he can recruit.

Good pickup. Kid looks pretty athletic. Some UW fans are very salty the Badgers went from seemingly very in the mix to very out of it (despite the fact UW’s guard situation is kind of backlogged)

[betarhoalphadelta]

I thought he was a big IU lean. There's two other guards Purdue is in on that we thought might be much bigger Purdue leans if Carton went IU. So we might be battling IU on those two now .

[847badgerfan]

Good pickup. Kid looks pretty athletic. Some UW fans are very salty the Badgers went from seemingly very in the mix to very out of it (despite the fact UW’s guard situation is kind of backlogged)

Gard could not promise him early playing time. Trice, Davison and Strickland will all be there. UW didn't even make the final 6, despite being the kid's first P5 offer (another case of UW finding talent very early and others swooping in*).
OSU will not have a PG on the roster by the time the kid enrolls. It was a no-brainer and a good move for him because he wanted to play early and often.

* This happens too often. I'd like to see the staff be able to close more often on these kids.

[bayareabadger]

Gard could not promise him early playing time. Trice, Davison and Strickland will all be there. UW didn't even make the final 6, despite being the kid's first P5 offer (another case of UW finding talent very early and others swooping in*).
OSU will not have a PG on the roster by the time the kid enrolls. It was a no-brainer and a good move for him because he wanted to play early and often.

* This happens too often. I'd like to see the staff be able to close more often on these kids.

About sums it up. 
Here's the thing, I don't know that you're ever gonna get a really good guard in the situation UW is in. They have three primary ball-handlers who will have two or three years of eligibility when a kid in this class arrives. Plus they'll have a shooting guard who will be a senior. Of the ones who are on campus, each has at one point averaged in the high 20s in minutes per game. And they took point guards three years in a row. 
The only kid I could think of who committed to a situation where there was a logjam when he arrived was Koenig, but when he committed, the two point guards when he arrived had 92 career minutes. 
This staff needs to close on some dang bigs. That frontcourt is starting to look very thin. 

[ELA]

Beilein had double bypass heart surgery this morning.  Seems to be doing ok.  I certainly hope so, never met anyone who disliked him.  Seems like a genuinely good guy.

[Anonymous Coward]

Oh dang. I had no idea. I hope the same.

As for the procedure, I've long been amazed by it. They dissect a *vein* from your leg, disconnect a blocked artery in your heart, attach the leg vein where the heart artery just was ... and over time that vein responds to the new environment and becomes arterialized. 

Physiology is wild.