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Topic: 2019-2020 B1G Basketball Thread

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bayareabadger

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Re: 2019-2020 B1G Basketball Thread
« Reply #98 on: April 09, 2019, 02:09:45 PM »
SMDH.
I realize the storyline on Purdue this year is that it was Carsen surrounded by four guys randomly picked from Cary Quad, but to leave this team out of the top 25 entirely?
Two years ago: how do they replace Biggie? We won 30 games and went to the S16.
Last year: how do they replace 4 seniors? Win the B1G regular season,  win 26 games, coach wins B1G COY and national COY and go to the E8.
This year: how do they replace Carsen? I don't know, but my money is on Painter figuring it out.
Purdue has been a preseason Top-24 to Top-15 team four years in a row.
That one ranking that is trying to be edgy has squeezed them out of the bottom group is ... unimportant at best. Don’t shake your head. Remember all rankings are silly frivolities, this one especially. 

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Re: 2019-2020 B1G Basketball Thread
« Reply #99 on: April 09, 2019, 02:14:07 PM »
Getting the Wisconsin treatment. 19 years straight in the Big Dance, 18-straight top-4 Big Ten finishes, ten sweet sixteens, four elite eights, and 2015 was about the only year they had real recognition to start.
Whatever--it's where they finish that matters, not where they start.
From 2003-4, Bo’s second year and the first after a 20-win season, UW was ranked in the preseason 10 of 14 years. 
That included three times in the top 10. 
UW was generally ranked fine.

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Re: 2019-2020 B1G Basketball Thread
« Reply #100 on: April 09, 2019, 02:28:18 PM »
Purdue has been a preseason Top-24 to Top-15 team four years in a row.
That one ranking that is trying to be edgy has squeezed them out of the bottom group is ... unimportant at best. Don’t shake your head. Remember all rankings are silly frivolities, this one especially.
Yeah, I was going to say, a lot of times they use spots at the bottom just to throw some different names in

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Re: 2019-2020 B1G Basketball Thread
« Reply #101 on: April 09, 2019, 02:39:35 PM »
How dare you use facts to challenge the chip on my shoulder!

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Re: 2019-2020 B1G Basketball Thread
« Reply #102 on: April 09, 2019, 03:09:25 PM »
How dare you use facts to challenge the chip on my shoulder!
I ... I’m really being unproductive at work. 

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Re: 2019-2020 B1G Basketball Thread
« Reply #103 on: April 09, 2019, 03:30:00 PM »
Iggy announces he's declaring for the draft, and hiring an agent.

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« Reply #104 on: April 09, 2019, 03:47:06 PM »
Wow. 
U RAH RAH! WIS CON SIN!

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Re: 2019-2020 B1G Basketball Thread
« Reply #105 on: April 09, 2019, 03:51:50 PM »
Iggy announces he's declaring for the draft, and hiring an agent.
I think they can hire agents and come back now. 
So we need a new shorthand for permanently in the draft.

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Re: 2019-2020 B1G Basketball Thread
« Reply #106 on: April 09, 2019, 03:55:13 PM »
Yeah hiring agents is just part of the exploration process now

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Re: 2019-2020 B1G Basketball Thread
« Reply #107 on: April 09, 2019, 04:03:37 PM »
Poole and Mathews also going pro and hiring agents.

Going by the quotes Mathews and Iggy are 100% gone. Poole prolly like 70%-80% gone.

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Re: 2019-2020 B1G Basketball Thread
« Reply #108 on: April 09, 2019, 10:31:13 PM »
I know hiring agents during the pre-draft process isn't an issue now, but apparently there's reason to think that Brazdeikis and Poole will more likely than not both go pro. It makes no sense to me, since they'd far more likely be first-rounders next year. If nothing else, hopefully their decisions will be finalized sooner than later so Michigan knows what to do.

Fortunately, Michigan has had success with late recruits (LeVert, Abdur-Rahkman, Wagner, and to a lesser extent Horford, Novak, Albrecht, and Dawkins.... Bielfeldt is the main exception), though as you can see, it's been awhile since they had to sign anyone this late, as everyone on this year's roster signed early.

They should also be more aggressive and should get more interest from graduate transfers. The initial list of players that they were reportedly looking at weren't that impressive, but perhaps now someone like Pat Andree of Lehigh will have some more mutual interest, since various articles have him just looking at borderline top 25 teams at best, so far, despite his good offensive stats.
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Re: 2019-2020 B1G Basketball Thread
« Reply #109 on: April 10, 2019, 12:24:28 PM »
Kaleb Wesson also going through the "draft process"

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Re: 2019-2020 B1G Basketball Thread
« Reply #110 on: April 10, 2019, 12:28:50 PM »
Kaleb Wesson also going through the "draft process"
Yeah, I think we are going to have to start reading into their actual words now to figure out how serious any of them are.  Wesson to me is like Nick Ward, good college player, but not an NBA player, but the body limitations aren't going to go away with more time, so if he wants to go get paid, go for it.

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Re: 2019-2020 B1G Basketball Thread
« Reply #111 on: April 10, 2019, 02:32:22 PM »
Nebraska head coach Fred Hoiberg is closer to completing his coaching staff.

During a podcast appearance with Jon Rothstein on Wednesday, Hoiberg confirmed that he plans to retain Armon Gates as an assistant coach, and will name former Charlotte head coach and Iowa State assistant Bobby Lutz as a special assistant.

Gates attended Hoiberg’s introductory press conference last week and was part of the in-home visit that resulted in Akol Arop deciding to stick with his signed letter of intent to Nebraska.

Gates spent one year on Tim Miles’ staff at Nebraska. That followed a very brief stop at Florida, and a five-year stint at Northwestern. Gates was a key architect in the Top-30 recruiting class that helped fuel Northwestern’s NCAA tournament run. Gates has deep ties in the Chicago area, as well as other locations in the Big Ten footprint.

Gates had one year remaining on a contract that paid him $256,000 under Miles.

Lutz rejoins Hoiberg as a staffer after coaching with Hoiberg for a season at Iowa State. Lutz was with Hoiberg at Haymarket Park on Tuesday night, and brings veteran experience to Nebraska’s basketball staff.

Lutz was a head coach at Charlotte from 1998 to 2010, before serving under Hoiberg as an assistant from 2010-11 at Iowa State. He most recently was an assistant coach for the Windy City Bulls — the G League affiliate of the Chicago Bulls.
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