2019-2020 B1G Basketball Thread

[bayareabadger]

Justin Pierce is going to visit Michigan after Beilein visited him. I'm not really impressed with the video that I've seen of him and especially his stats (though he has a good DR%, 2FG%... The hope is he would be more efficient playing fewer minutes with better players....), but he's gotten interested from a lot of power conference and/or top 50 teams, including Gonzaga, Notre Dame (where he's also visited), Florida, Texas, NC State, Virginia Tech, Purdue, and Wisconsin, so maybe I'm missing something....

His sophomore stats when he had lower usage were pretty good. 
Also, 6-7 guy who can dunk off the bounce, pass a little, shoot. Was a player I hoped UW would get in on at some point.

[MichiFan87]

BigTen opponents for next year were released today.

Michigan's home-only opponents are Indiana, Penn State, and Wisconsin, which is a decent break, since Michigan tends to have struggled in road games against those teams more than they probably should.... Their road-only games are Maryland, Minnesota, and Northwestern, which is decent since only Maryland would likely be a quality home win.

Glad to get Michigan State, Ohio State, Purdue, and Iowa all twice next year (Rutgers, Nebraska, and Illinois being the other 3 double-plays).

In recruiting news, Michigan is visiting a late-rising kid Nahshon Hyland who until recently only had A10/CAA level offers after recovering from a tragic housefire last year.

[betarhoalphadelta]

Purdue:

Home-and-Home:

• Illinois
• Indiana*
• Iowa
• Michigan
• Northwestern
• Rutgers
• Wisconsin

Home Only:

• Michigan State
• Minnesota
• Penn State

Away Only:

• Maryland
• Nebraska
• Ohio State

Not too horrible... Avoid the expected away loss at MSU. I'm not sure what Maryland will be next year without Fernando [and possibly Cowan], so it's not a team that I necessarily *fear* playing on the road only. Ohio State is an unknown. Could be great which reduces the opportunity for a big home win, but they were so all over the map this year that I'm not going to call them a lock to be an automatic road loss for Purdue. 

Purdue would have a decent shot at 3-0 against our road-only teams, or at least 2-1. 

[betarhoalphadelta]

I've mentioned Zeke Nnaji before, I think. He's a 6'11" PF recruit in the 2019 class, was heavily recruited by Purdue, Arizona, Kansas, Baylor, UCLA, and with a very late push by UNC.

He verbally committed to Arizona but deliberately did so after the fall signing period. It was widely expected at the time that this was deliberately done to allow him flexibility in case there were NCAA/FBI issues. So he can't sign a LOI until next Wednesday at the earliest, with the spring signing period.

Nnaji signed with Arizona today. So we can close the book on that one.

[medinabuckeye1]

Thanks @MichiFan87 and @bwarbiany .  The B1G released the schedule mix today, here is the link.  

Here is a chart of who each team misses:

Team	noAway	noAway	noAway	noHome	noHome	noHome
MSU	IA	tOSU	RU	IU	UNL	PU
M	IU	PSU	UW	UMD	MN	NU
Purdue	MSU	MN	PSU	UMD	UNL	tOSU
Iowa	tOSU	RU	UW	IU	MSU	NU
UMD	M	UNL	PU	MN	PSU	UW
tOSU	IL	PU	RU	IA	MSU	NU
UW	IL	UMD	NU	IA	M	PSU
PSU	IL	UMD	UW	M	UNL	PU
Minny	UMD	M	UNL	IL	PU	RU
RU	IU	MN	NU	IA	MSU	tOSU
ILL	IU	MN	UNL	tOSU	PSU	UW
IU	IA	MSU	NU	IL	M	RU
UNL	MSU	PSU	PU	IL	UMD	MN
NU	IA	M	tOSU	IU	RU	UW

My first thought is that it looks like Rutgers gets a healthy scheduling bump.  They will probably project to lose all of their road games and all three of the home games that they don't play (IA, MSU, tOSU) are games that they would probably lose as well.  It is always nice to take six projected losses off the board.  

Among likely contenders I think that Michigan has the toughest schedule because all six of the games they will not play would probably project as wins.  

[ELA]

Unsurprisingly, Ward declares for the draft, Winston returning for his senior season.

[847badgerfan]

 
Jon Rothstein

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Marquette transfer Joey Hauser tells me that he and his brother Sam plan to visit Wisconsin, Virginia, Iowa, and Michigan State.

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MSU, Iowa and Virginia would all have to do some house Creaning to make this happen, I believe.

[betarhoalphadelta]

MSU, Iowa and Virginia would all have to do some house Creaning to make this happen, I believe.

Not sure on Virginia. Don't they have basically EVERYONE leaving to the NBA draft? 

[bayareabadger]

Not sure on Virginia. Don't they have basically EVERYONE leaving to the NBA draft?

Virginia needs Hunter and Jerome to confirm going pro. Iowa and UW have the spots. ELA can speak better to MSU. 
Lots of rumblings for Wisconsin, but in life things can always change. 

[847badgerfan]

I dunno. It always seems like Wisconsin is not supposed to have nice things. 

[betarhoalphadelta]

I dunno. It always seems like Wisconsin is not supposed to have nice things.

I dunno. They're white, goofy-looking, and have vaguely central/eastern European names. 
Seems like typical Wisconsin recruits to me!

[ELA]

Virginia needs Hunter and Jerome to confirm going pro. Iowa and UW have the spots. ELA can speak better to MSU.
Lots of rumblings for Wisconsin, but in life things can always change.

They are currently one under the limit.  There are rumblings from some corners that Ahrens may medically retire, but I don't put much stock in that.  Kid seems like he's planning on coming back.

[ELA]

Jordan Poole announces he's staying in the Draft after it came out he was taking $40 payments on Cameo, that would have made returning difficult.

[847badgerfan]

I dunno. They're white, goofy-looking, and have vaguely central/eastern European names.
Seems like typical Wisconsin recruits to me!

Minus the STARZ, of course.