2019-2020 B1G Basketball Thread

[MaximumSam]

I hate that coaches can call timeouts in any sport

[ELA]

Big Ten-ACC matchups announced

MONDAY
Miami at Illinois
Clemson at Minnesota

TUESDAY
Michigan at Louisville
Iowa at Syracuse
Rutgers at Pitt
Duke at Michigan State
Florida State at Indiana
Northwestern at Boston College

WEDNESDAY
Virginia at Purdue
Notre Dame at Maryland
Nebraska at Georgia Tech
Ohio State at North Carolina
Wisconsin at NC State
Wake Forest at Penn State

[ELA]

So based on ESPN's re-racked Top 25, MSU plays...

#2 Kentucky in NYC
#3 Kansas in Maui
#4 Duke in East Lansing
#13 Seton Hall in NJ

Fun times

[medinabuckeye1]

Big Ten-ACC matchups announced
WEDNESDAY
Ohio State at North Carolina

Personally, I think Ohio State is going to be pretty good this year but this seems like more than the Buckeyes can likely handle. 

A few years ago the Buckeyes were the only BigTen team with a winning record in B1G/ACC Challenge games.  Ohio State was 7-6 but has now lost five straight.  Only Maryland (5 straight as a B1G member +1 as an ACC member) has a longer current losing streak.   

Maryland should have a good opportunity to break their losing streak at home against the Irish but I doubt that Ohio State is going to be able to go into Chapel Hill and win. 

Ohio State's five game losing streak has seem them go from the best record among B1G schools to nearly the worst:
 - .625 UNL
 - .556 PU
 - .500 PSU
 - .500 UW
 - .474 MN
 - .450 NU
 - .444 M
 - .421 MSU
 - .400 IL
 - .400 RU
 - .389 IU
 - .389 tOSU
 - .333 IA
 - .000 UMD

This will be the 21st year of the Challenge.  For the first 10 years the (then) Big11Ten was a dismal 0-10 with the "bright spots" being close losses. 

For the last 10 years the (now) B1G has done much better, 5-2-3.  However, even while accumulating that winning record in terms of years, the B1G has won less games than the ACC because their two winning years (17/18) were blowouts (11-3 and 9-5) while the B1G's five winning years were mostly close. 

[MaximumSam]

OSU's noncon getting kind of beefy with @NC, home with Villanova, Kentucky (in Las Vegas), and also WVU and Cincy.

[bayareabadger]

Don’t know how too feel about NC State again. I guess they were good for the resume last year.

[847badgerfan]

We'll see. Maybe a hand-slap for the blue bloods and the death penalty for Cleveland State?


https://www.cbssports.com/college-basketball/news/at-least-six-college-basketball-programs-will-be-notified-of-major-ncaa-violations-by-this-summer/

[ELA]

Um...yikes

"4 star Jalen Wilson decommitted from michigan after their last coach left. He, his high school coaches, his parents, all said Jalen wanted to talk to Juwan before making a final decision. At this point, over two weeks after the hire he still hasn't talked to Juwan nor has Juwan set up a visit. Why you ask? Well, Juwan Howard, Michigan's head coach still hasn't passed the NCAA recruiting test. The test is an open book test.

Jalen Wilson is now committing next week without ever meeting with the head coach Juwan. He's graduated from high school now and he's moving on.

At this point, we don't know if he failed the test the first time or if he's studying for the open book test ... but we do know he hasn't passed it."

[847badgerfan]

Not a good look. I wonder why this is happening. It's not like he's stupid. Far from it.

[FearlessF]

perhaps he's not "book" smart

[Anonymous Coward]

Um...yikes

"4 star Jalen Wilson decommitted from michigan after their last coach left. He, his high school coaches, his parents, all said Jalen wanted to talk to Juwan before making a final decision. At this point, over two weeks after the hire he still hasn't talked to Juwan nor has Juwan set up a visit. Why you ask? Well, Juwan Howard, Michigan's head coach still hasn't passed the NCAA recruiting test. The test is an open book test.

Jalen Wilson is now committing next week without ever meeting with the head coach Juwan. He's graduated from high school now and he's moving on.

At this point, we don't know if he failed the test the first time or if he's studying for the open book test ... but we do know he hasn't passed it."

I'm skeptical of this. Juwan's been recruiting rather actively. I am less so accusing Jalen's parents of lying than I am curious if they are poorly informed. Also, that's kind of a salacious story. If true, why hasn't it made the media rounds?

[Anonymous Coward]

And then I googled: not much is out there, spare a thread on the 247 MSU site. That doesn't mean it isn't true. If it is true, an explanation appears to be that the regulation book is 400 pages and any coaches who fail are prevented from trying again for 30 days. Which would be a recruiting death sentence at this time of the year.

If I were completely new to recruiting (Juwan may have lots of AAU connections, but this is different), I know I'd take my sweeeet sweet time to get it right (as long as that sweet time is less than 30 days). Taking the test too soon would be far worse than losing Jalen Wilson.

Let's see how this story evolves over the next 10 days as we approach Juwan's 30th day on the job.

[Anonymous Coward]

perhaps he's not "book" smart

Juwan graduated faster than I did (4 versus 5 years). And to do that after being drafted early, he had to pull double time between being a full time NBAer and being a bookish undergrad on the bus and in the hotel while his teammates were letting loose on the town.

[bayareabadger]

UW got some commits last week. Johnny Davis, a 6-4 wing who is a top-140 guy, and his brother Jordan, who is 6-5 and a less heralded recruit. They had to offer Jordan to get Johnny. It still feels like football could steal Jordan, a decent WR prospect. Hopefully both are solid.