2018-2019 B1G Basketball Thread

[ELA]

To top it all off, Bill Walton closed hyping tomorrow's slate and asked his PBP partner what his name is.  I think it's totally plausible he doesn't know or forgot during the telecast.

https://twitter.com/beckjason/status/1064706351824293889

[MarqHusker]

I had that game on, Walton sounded like he was talking to himself.  It was bizarre for Bill Walton standards.  His touting of the Maui colored floor,  whatever that means, was quite amusing.

It was an awkward telecast. 

[ELA]

Massey composite rankings (21 rankings), with last week in parenthesis...

• Duke (1)
• North Carolina (2)
• Kansas (3)
• Virginia (4)
• Gonzaga (5)
• MICHIGAN (14)
• Tennessee (7)
• MICHIGAN STATE (8)
• Virginia Tech (19)
• Auburn (9)
• Nevada (12)
• Florida State (10)
• PURDUE (11)
• OHIO STATE (13)
• NEBRASKA (17)
• Kentucky (16)
• Mississippi State (22)
• Clemson (18)
• Kansas State (25)
• Texas Tech (23)
• Oregon (21)
• INDIANA (-)
• Villanova (6)
• WISCONSIN (-)
• NC State (-)

• 33. Iowa (66)
• 41. Maryland (36)
• 44. Penn State (34)
• 56. Minnesota (69)
• 59. Northwestern (59)
• 76. Illinois (60)
• 96. Rutgers (119)

[ELA]

Xavier blowing a 19 point lead against San Diego State.

Just how bad is the Big East this year?  Whole conference seems WAY down.

[MaximumSam]

Bucks down at the half to Samford. I'd tell you what's going on, but the game is mired on BTN+

[MaximumSam]

Turned it around to get a win over a scrappy bunch

[Entropy]

Nebraska basketball is what it was last year.   Teams that don't allow UNL to penetrate and/or work hard at rebounding win.   TT won by 18 but honestly, the score wasn't that close.   

[ELA]

Tell you what, really looked like MSU had a shot at Talen Horton-Tucker, before he landed at Iowa State, and he looks like the vastly underrated player some MSU insiders felt he was, when other just looked at his starz and said "pass."

[MaximumSam]

Realized we've got some good daytime basketball and furiously found ESPN. Wiscy up 4 at the half.

[ELA]

Feast Week is underrated with all of the daytime college hoops.  Wasn't a terrible week to be off on paternity with a newborn three years ago.  Stuff to watch during the day.  Up with a baby at night, there are games tipping at 1 am.  Used to basically play through the night back when the Great Alaskan Shootout was neck and neck with Maui for top tourney.  Then teams learned spending this week in Atlantis or Florida or Vegas is a lot better than Alaska.

Granted Glen Rice didn't mind the Alaskan trip.

[ELA]

Gonzaga is the better team.  They don't even get their best player back from injury til January.

[MaximumSam]

Zags pull it out. I remember Hachimura killing the Bucks last year. He's still good

[jhetfield99]

What time did Gonz-Duke tip?  Totally would have watched the game, but I got home after picking up the kids from sports and found out it was already final.  The champ game was expected to be between highly ranked teams, why didn't this thing tip at like 8 or 10 pm, I mean hell did it tip at noon locally?


Nice win for Minn vs Wash, btw.

[jhetfield99]

I had that game on, Walton sounded like he was talking to himself.  It was bizarre for Bill Walton standards.  His touting of the Maui colored floor,  whatever that means, was quite amusing.

It was an awkward telecast.

I don't know if I can get on board with that.  Anytime I flip on a game and hear Walton I think it's bizarre.