2019-2020 B1G Basketball Thread

[betarhoalphadelta]

Purdue looking great in the first half against Marquette. Nojel in foul trouble, but Eric Hunter doing a great job locking down Marcus Howard so far. Looking a lot more cohesive on both ends than against Texas. 

Hopefully they keep it up in the 2nd.

[betarhoalphadelta]

Hopefully they keep it up in the 2nd.

They're not listening to me 

[betarhoalphadelta]

What a goddamn choke job. 

[ELA]

Villanova might want to opt out of this event.  Didn't UM do this to them last year?

[847badgerfan]

What a goddamn choke job.

One of Marquette's key players is now at MSU, and another one is at Virginia.

[bayareabadger]

What a goddamn choke job.

I only watched part of the last 10 minutes, so I wondered, choke job? 

and then I looked at the play by play. Oh dear. 

[ELA]

42% from the FT line

[MaximumSam]

In other news, how about Northwestern!  By Kenpom they have the 3rd best win in the conference.  Also the worst loss.

[betarhoalphadelta]

I only watched part of the last 10 minutes, so I wondered, choke job?

and then I looked at the play by play. Oh dear.

Yep. 38 points in the first half. Went into halftime with a 13 point lead.

17 points in the second half. 

9-21 from the charity stripe, including missing a lot of the front end of 1-and-1's. 33.9% from the field, 25% from 3pt range. 

And while I can't easily find per-half stats, you can clearly tell from those shooting stats and the score that the first half was pretty decent shooting, and the second half was abysmal. Rebounding was one of those. Purdue had a HUGE advantage in the first half. HUGE disadvantage in the second half. 

Purdue even played pretty good defense, holding Marquette <40% shooting, <30% 3pt shooting. And not just statistically--the eye test as well. It's not like Marquette was just missing open looks left and right. They really looked like they were harassing Marquette, forcing mostly very tough shots, and generally were a lot more cohesive than against Texas. 

But none of that matters if you don't bother showing up for both halves of the game. 

[ELA]

Yeah, there are a lot of flags with him.  From NC, but Duke never offered, UNC did then rescinded it, Kentucky cancelled his OV.  Early in his tenure Howard probably has to take a couple kids like this because he doesn't have the established relationships with recruits/coaches yet, because he hasn't been in the college game.

And now he didn't sign yesterday

[Brutus Buckeye]

What a goddamn choke job.

And you were looking forward to hoops season.

[betarhoalphadelta]

And you were looking forward to hoops season.

Not throwing in the towel just yet. I knew flat out that this season would be dicey in the early stages as Painter had to basically remake the team without Carsen/Cline/Eifert. Remember that last year Purdue started 6-5, but won the B1G regular season and was on the edge of a Final Four.

I've seen positive things so far, and I've seen negative things. It's highly disappointing to be 1-2, but Purdue led Texas by ~5 points with about 2:30 to play, and Purdue put together a pretty masterful first half against Marquette. The pieces are there. The team just needs to come together. The teams we've lost to are not horrible.

At least we didn't lose to Evansville.

[TyphonInc]

Bucks win by 25 and B1G finally gets a big scalp

Edit: Jay Wright was the snitch

I did not expect that.

[ELA]

Wow, PSU putting it on Georgetown