2019-2020 B1G Basketball Thread

[Abba]

I'm just glad they will be out of the rankings now.  Can finally reset expectations a little bit.  It is now a fight to get to 10-10 in conference play and make the tourney.  

[medinabuckeye1]

I'm not sure why it would be safe to assume that.  For one, there is a chance they get to full strength.  For two, even though they are on a three game losing streak, that's to KenPom's #7, #13, and #21 teams.  Indiana is #42.  These are good ass teams they are playing and even looking mostly like crap they've had chances.

See it now?

Believe me, I'm not happy about it but at some point this team just completely forgot how to put the ball through the hoop. If you can't score, you can't win.

[medinabuckeye1]

Obviously the Buckeyes are not as good as they looked early this season and they will be downgraded to Tier-2 when I do the update on Monday. 

Even as a Tier-2 team they are -1 in net upsets because they still should have managed to beat Wisconsin at home. 

[medinabuckeye1]

I'm just glad they will be out of the rankings now.  Can finally reset expectations a little bit.  It is now a fight to get to 10-10 in conference play and make the tourney. 

I've never seen a team go from having a legitimate argument to be ranked #1 to not having a legitimate argument to be ranked at all this quickly. 

You are right, now the question is whether or not they will make the tournament. 

[MaximumSam]

See it now?

Believe me, I'm not happy about it but at some point this team just completely forgot how to put the ball through the hoop. If you can't score, you can't win.

I guess but if we go by the last four games they are the worst team in the big ten

[ELA]

PSU-Wisconsin scoreless at the first TV timeout is the most Big Ten thing ever

[ELA]

Micah Potter is quite a bit better than I figured he'd be

[ELA]

Took PSU 9 minutes to score

[Abba]

I've never seen a team go from having a legitimate argument to be ranked #1 to not having a legitimate argument to be ranked at all this quickly.

You are right, now the question is whether or not they will make the tournament.

I remember UVA in the late 90s being #4 in the country in Feb and then failing to make the tourney.  It happens sometimes.

[ELA]

Baylor should be #1 next week.  Were already #4, pick up road wins at Texas Tech and Kansas?  Anyone who doesn't vote them #1 should have their vote taken away.

[medinabuckeye1]

Northwestern is up by 15 at the break and the Buckeyes are about to join the Cats in the B1G's basement. 

[medinabuckeye1]

The next five games are enormously important for the Buckeyes. They have PSU and NU on the road along with UNL, MN, and IU at home. 

The team is an enigma.

If they play the way they started out, they could easily go 5-0 and get to 6-4 in the league and looking good for the tournament. 

OTOH, if they keep playing the way they have been lately, they could lose three or more in which case they'll be no better than 3-7 in the league heading into a two game road swing in Ann Arbor and Madison. In that case the tournament would be nothing but a dream.

[Brutus Buckeye]

They failed their one job; to be relevant after FB season.

[ELA]

They failed their one job; to be relevant after FB season.

Welcome to football season for the rest of us.  I have been singing Holtzman's praises, but I'm starting to wonder.  Basically all he's done is get Matta's high end recruits to stop crapping the bed two years ago, and finish 4th in a Big Ten that went exactly 4 deep.