2020-2021 B1G Basketball Thread

[ELA]

For all of the early season football weirdness, the favorites are all winning comfortably in hoops.

And I'm Mr. Traditional, but the new MSU uniforms are perfect

[ELA]

He couldn't stay on the court.  He shot the ball well enough, but if you pressured him, he panicked, turned it over, and defensively he was awful.  I thought (particularly as Watts improved late in the season), they should have tried to buy him more minutes off ball when Watts was on the court.  Winston was a subpar defender, so you couldn't play them together, but Watts was bigger, and a better defender, so you could afford to.

Izzo tried to sneak him in when there was a stoppage close to a TV timeout, to give him a minute or two, and work that into the TV timeout to give Winston a longer rest.  And there were times it went so poorly MSU had to call a timeout because they couldn't afford to wait any longer.  I know the game against Northwestern immediately comes to mind, and there were at least a handful of others.  The Northwestern game, he came in, missed a 3, had a turnover, and allowed his man to score on 4 straight possessions, and the lead went from like 16 to 5 in like 90 seconds, and MSU had to call a timeout to get him out

He scored 20 tonight.  Nobody is questioning his shooting.  But unless he's playing mid major zone defenses, it doesn't translate

[MaximumSam]

Get decent matchup today. Nebraska v. Nevada and Clemson v. Purdue.

[MaximumSam]

Kenpom through 1 game.

8. Wisconsin
10. OSU
13. MSU
14. Iowa
16. Illinois
18. Michigan
24. Indiana
27. Purdue
28. Rutgers
29. Minnesota
47. Maryland
64. Penn State
69. Northwestern
109. Nebraska

[FearlessF]

Nevada scouting report: Defense, defense, defense. Nevada played a lot of it in a 62-48 win over North Dakota State, holding the Bison to just 29.1% shooting from the floor. The Wolfpack has good size in its starting five, and its best scorer, long-term, may be freshman Tre Coleman, who came off the bench to score 13 points without missing a shot. Nevada is coached by Steve Alford, who generally had dynamic offenses at his last two stops, UCLA and New Mexico. The scoring punch may not quite be in place with this young team.

[MaximumSam]

Not quite enough for the Huskers

[FearlessF]

tight contest to the end, but not on the winning side

[MaximumSam]

Illinois getting all they want from the mighty Bobcats

[bayareabadger]

Dosunmu is a bad man

[NickSmith4Three]

Squeaked that one out....yeesh 

[betarhoalphadelta]

Zach Edey appears to be the real deal. 7'4" (the tallest player in Purdue history, as the TV announcers said several hundred times) and appears to be a mix of the best aspects of Isaac Haas and Matt Haarms. Moves really well for his size like Haarms (and unlike Haas), but isn't too willowy that he gets pushed around in the post (like Haas, unlike Haarms). And seems to rebound better than either. 

[ELA]

26-0 runs help

Granted Notre Dame is back to being a football school

[ELA]

Izzo doing November Izzo things


https://twitter.com/JSWarno/status/1332881553433767943?s=19

[MaximumSam]

Buckeyes back on the court.