2020-2021 B1G Basketball Thread

[Kris60]

The announcers highlighted that historically the premier recruits in the state of Indiana tend to find their way to Bloomington instead of West Lafayette...

...yet Purdue leads the historical series, has now won 8 straight against IU (including 4 straight on the road), and Archie Miller hasn't beaten Purdue as the coach of the Hoosiers.

Most would also be surprised to know that Gene Keady actually had the H2H edge against Bobby Knight. It's narrow (I think he was one game above .500), but I think most casual fans would have thought that Knight led.

I’m actually very surprised by all of that 

[medinabuckeye1]

Wow, things going very well so far in Urbana/Champaign for the Buckeyes!

[Brutus Buckeye]

Cockburn is twice the size of Liddell, and thrice the size of everyone else. 

[Brutus Buckeye]

Whew. 

Those last few minutes dragged on forever. 

[bayareabadger]

Nice win by OSU. Bucks trying to bully their way into the top-4 discussion, and that's a good way to do it. 

[MaximumSam]

Whew.

Those last few minutes dragged on forever.

It felt like time stopped.  

In any event, heckuva nice win.  OSU struggled with physicality last year, not so much this year.  I was not optimistic because going against Illinois without a point guard or anything resembling a center seems like an uphill battle.  But Liddell became the biggest matchup problem and turned in a great game.  Not sure about being a top four team but better than I expected given how they played earlier in the season.   

[bayareabadger]

It felt like time stopped. 

In any event, heckuva nice win.  OSU struggled with physicality last year, not so much this year.  I was not optimistic because going against Illinois without a point guard or anything resembling a center seems like an uphill battle.  But Liddell became the biggest matchup problem and turned in a great game.  Not sure about being a top four team but better than I expected given how they played earlier in the season. 

They're 14th in Kenpom, tied for fourth right now. 

Granted, they've only had one game against another top-5 team thus far. They have five more. But they have one win. 

[MaximumSam]

Man this conference. Minny putting the whomp on Michigan

[ELA]

If they played the tournament in the Barn, Minnesota could win a national title.

[ELA]

For the mid and low majors, if you have no fans in attendance, and you just want that ESPN paycheck to televise your championship game, why would you not just cancel the tournament and have the top two teams play each other

[Kris60]

For the mid and low majors, if you have no fans in attendance, and you just want that ESPN paycheck to televise your championship game, why would you not just cancel the tournament and have the top two teams play each other

Probably get some pushback from schools hoping to win the tournament and earn a berth.

[bayareabadger]

For the mid and low majors, if you have no fans in attendance, and you just want that ESPN paycheck to televise your championship game, why would you not just cancel the tournament and have the top two teams play each other

Does ESPN pay some pittance to stream the other games? Or televise them?

[ELA]

Probably get some pushback from schools hoping to win the tournament and earn a berth.

Perhaps, but I can't imagine arguing against, keeping your revenue, while also advantaging your best team

[Kris60]

Flipped off the playoff game for a minute. UVA is beating Clemson 25-5 with 6:30 to play in the first half. Clemson is shooting 13% from the field.