2020-2021 B1G Basketball Thread

[FearlessF]

Nebraska basketball coach Fred Hoiberg announced Sunday that he tested positive for Covid-19 on Friday.

[medinabuckeye1]

Purdue at Ohio State tomorrow is interesting. Both are 5-3 and tied along with Illinois for 4/5/6 in the league.  That is one half game behind third place Wisconsin and 1-1/2 games behind co-leaders Iowa and Michigan. 

Both have very difficult next games. Purdue hosts the Wolverines while Ohio State travels to Madison. 

[847badgerfan]

Wisconsin needs to get Reuvers going if it's going to make any noise. He is just in a bad funk right now.

[ELA]

Nebraska basketball coach Fred Hoiberg announced Sunday that he tested positive for Covid-19 on Friday.

Took them awhile to get that test back from Chicago last March

[ELA]

MSU has 3 more positive tests (walk on player and 2 staff members).  Game next Saturday against Illinois is postponed

[bayareabadger]

Wisconsin needs to get Reuvers going if it's going to make any noise. He is just in a bad funk right now.

Yeah. Potter just isn't there fully on defense. But get center rolling, keep Trice as good as he's been, other guys chip in, should be a good team. 

[FearlessF]

Duke is unranked in The Associated Press men's basketball poll, falling from the Top 25 for the first time since Feb. 8, 2016.

The Blue Devils dropped to 5-3 overall and 3-1 in the ACC after losing to Virginia Tech. Their streak of 91 consecutive weeks in the Top 25 was second only to Kansas, which extended its record to 229 weeks. Gonzaga is now No. 2 at 87 weeks.

[847badgerfan]

Yeah. Potter just isn't there fully on defense. But get center rolling, keep Trice as good as he's been, other guys chip in, should be a good team.

Would have been nice for Jalen Johnson to have stayed home, instead of taking bait from Duke. 

[betarhoalphadelta]

Purdue at Ohio State tomorrow is interesting. Both are 5-3 and tied along with Illinois for 4/5/6 in the league.  That is one half game behind third place Wisconsin and 1-1/2 games behind co-leaders Iowa and Michigan.

Both have very difficult next games. Purdue hosts the Wolverines while Ohio State travels to Madison.

Purdue is the type of team that could pretty much do anything here and it wouldn't surprise me. Win by 15? Sure. Lose by 15? Sure. Win the first half by 25, go down by 15 at the under 8 TO, then make it up to regain the lead and lose on a last-second buzzer beater OSU FG? Sure. 

Such a young and inconsistent team. Flashes of greatness, flashes of crippling inexperience. 

[Abba]

From an Ohio State perspective, last time the Buckeyes were without Liddell, who is probably their best player and Seth Towns, who has slowly gotten more and more minutes.  These guys combined for 37 points against Illinois, so having them should make a big difference.  The Buckeyes will probably be without Sotos and Walker (#1 and #2 PGs) though who combined for 42 minutes against Purdue in the earlier meeting.  I feel a little more confident about the missing PGs, since the Buckeyes were able to navigate the Illini chaos on Saturday.

The Buckeyes have been killing it from behind the arc the last few games, after being pretty awful the first few games of the Big Ten season.  I think they're probably somewhere in the middle.  If the Buckeyes don't shoot the lights out again, then I think this will be a very tense game and will go down to the wire.  Purdue is a team that always seems to play the Buckeyes very tough.

[ELA]

Wisconsin needs to get Reuvers going if it's going to make any noise. He is just in a bad funk right now.

Reuvers is neck and neck with Rocket Watts for biggest underachiever this year.

Sometimes going from Robin to Batman is hard

[medinabuckeye1]

Purdue is the type of team that could pretty much do anything here and it wouldn't surprise me. Win by 15? Sure. Lose by 15? Sure. Win the first half by 25, go down by 15 at the under 8 TO, then make it up to regain the lead and lose on a last-second buzzer beater OSU FG? Sure.

Such a young and inconsistent team. Flashes of greatness, flashes of crippling inexperience.

And that makes this two game set very interesting. Two wins are not impossible and that would put Purdue solidly in the top four in the league and in the running for the title. OTOH, two losses are also not impossible and that would set them back to .500 and clearly out of the running for the league title.

OhioState is in a similar situation. Beat Purdue then win in Madison and they are a serious contender, split and they are good, not great, lose both and there is a lot of work to do.

[FearlessF]

Baylor looked pretty good tonight

[MarqHusker]

Baylor looked pretty good tonight

I tuned in mid 2nd, agree.  Defensively really a problem from my amateur vantage.   Bad beat for the betters of the world.  Kind of a head scratcher whistle on the shot clock violation w 1.8 secs.  Ball seemed turned over well before the 30sec hit zero.  Enabled KU to get a 40footer off which they hit, versus a likely 70footer which they might not have even gotten off.  BU wins by 8,  number for many likely -8.5.