2020-2021 B1G Basketball Thread

[MaximumSam]

Illinois stuffs Michigan into a trash can

[medinabuckeye1]

Illinois stuffs Michigan into a trash can

Making a really strong case for a #1 seed!

[NickSmith4Three]

Well that was surprising.  Should help with staying on that 1 seed line.

[MaximumSam]

Horizon league - Wright State goes down, Cleveland State in third OT

[ELA]

This MSU team deserves to enjoy Frisco.

Henry splits a pair of FTs, then Hauser misses the front end.

Hoosiers hand you 6 points, and you settle for 2.

[bayareabadger]

I'm just saying, when every missed shot is short, and you are playing your 5th game in 10 days, you can usually point to something.

Ita not something you see in getting up and down the court, you see it in the jump shots, usually.

A bunch of the contenders have looked awful offensively over the past few days.

I was gonna make a joke about this because I think the tired legs is a very playing the results kind of thing, but looking at the final shooting numbers, well, MSU might have bad shooters whose legs are also tired. 

[bayareabadger]

Wisconsin played generally well in Mackey outside the continued inability to hit open 3s, which is kinda important when your team is four-out and everyone has a decent jumper.

They lost by 4, had not that many looks I was mad at and hit 24 percent from outside. Oh, and they caught that giant going nuts and 11 points on three 3-point attempts and one free throw trip from a guy who was shooting 22 percent from 3 and 41.6 percent from the line.

I'm not really mad because the fight was really, really there, but if they did one thing they're supposed to be good at well OR Wheeler doesn't discover his groove, they coulda actually gotten a win they really, really needed.

(And the giant kid probably could've been chased from the game is Nate Reuvers, who in theory can shoot, could take advantage of a couple goddamn pick and pops. Christ)

[ELA]

I was gonna make a joke about this because I think the tired legs is a very playing the results kind of thing, but looking at the final shooting numbers, well, MSU might have bad shooters whose legs are also tired.

And in fairness I said that pretty early into the MSU Indiana game. And it was more seeing that, after a good deal of the Michigan Illinois game, the Illinois Wisconsin game, and the Iowa Ohio State game, over the weekend. All of which seem to suffer from poor shooting, compared to what I had seen earlier. It was not an MSU specific thing

[bayareabadger]

And in fairness I said that pretty early into the MSU Indiana game. And it was more seeing that, after a good deal of the Michigan Illinois game, the Illinois Wisconsin game, and the Iowa Ohio State game, over the weekend. All of which seem to suffer from poor shooting, compared to what I had seen earlier. It was not an MSU specific thing

Wisconsin's non-sensical lack of depth in 2015 has made me believe that unless you're super up and down, tired legs is maybe sometimes an illusion to explain natural swings of the game.

Shoot, if it is a thing, UW needs to figure out why it's had tired legs for a damn month. 

[847badgerfan]

If UW would like to shock me and win another game, I'm good with that.

[bayareabadger]

If UW would like to shock me and win another game, I'm good with that.

I honestly felt like they played more than well enough to win last night. But if you're gonna miss 10-plus open 3s on the road in Mackey, I got nothing. 

[847badgerfan]

Where are you at with seniors/moving on?

[ELA]

Where are you at with seniors/moving on?

The lack of seniors moving on is killing social security

[ELA]

ESPN+ night in the Horizon last night. Four quarterfinal games, #1 Cleveland State survived in 3OT, #2 Wright State blew an 18 point second half lead and lost in OT, #3 Oakland won in OT, and Detroit Mercy lost by 1