2020-2021 B1G Basketball Thread

[ELA]

Best case scenario for Maryland, would be for their county to pull a Santa Clara, and force them to play all their games on the road

[bayareabadger]

UW ran up a big lead and let it get interesting. That was weird. 

[medinabuckeye1]

Here are the B1G's .500+ teams' records against each other:

• 2-0 Michigan:  Beat UW at home and PU on the road.  6-1 against the sub .500 teams.  
• 1-0 Iowa:  Beat PU at home.  5-2 against the sub .500 teams.  
• 2-2 Ohio State:  Beat UW and IL on the road, lost 2x to PU.  5-2 against the sub .500 teams.  
• 1-1 Illinois:  Beat PU, lost to tOSU both at home.  5-2 against the sub .500 teams.  
• 2-3 Purdue:  Beat tOSU 2x, lost at IA and IL, lost at home to M.  4-1 against the sub .500 teams.  
• 0-2 Wisconsin:  Lost at M, lost at home to tOSU.  7-1 against the sub .500 teams.  

Interesting that all six have lost at least once to a sub .500 team:

• Michigan lost at Minnesota.  
• Iowa lost at Minnesota and vs Indiana.  
• Ohio State lost at Minnesota and at Northwestern.  
• Illinois lost at Rutgers and vs Maryland.  
• Purdue lost at Rutgers.  
• Wisconsin lost vs Maryland.  

Minnesota stood out to me with their three wins over the B1G's .500+ teams.  That is the most in the league (M, tOSU, PU, RU, and UMD have two each).  The Gophers are 3-4 against the .500+ teams and 1-1 against the sub .500 teams.  The Gophers' schedule so far has been brutal.  Within the conference they have played:

• 8-1 M twice
• 6-2 Iowa twice
• 7-3 UW on the road
• 6-3 IL on the road
• 7-4 tOSU at home
• 2-4 MSU at home
• 3-7 UMD on the road

[medinabuckeye1]

The .500+ teams and Minnesota so far:

[Brutus Buckeye]

[FearlessF]

where's the canoe?

[ELA]

Just opt out of the season, the players already have

[ELA]

Kithier misses at the basket, they hit a turnaround.  Loyer misses an open 3, they hit a 3 in transition.  10 point swing off of Rutgers simply hitting a more difficult version of a shot MSU just missed

[FearlessF]

only down 6 at the half

[ELA]

only down 6 at the half

It's ugly.  Rutgers is playing poorly on both ends.  MSU is playing abysmally on offense, and decent on defense.  The result is MSU missing open shots, and Rutgers hitting enough contested ones when they don't turn it over.

Bingham is playing well, and I'm struggling to think of anyone else.  Henry and Watts are actually negatives.  I'm hoping Watts' benching works the right way.

[ELA]

15-3 Rutgers run since the missed layup to cut it to 1

[MaximumSam]

Well that escalated quickly

[ELA]

13 of 15 players have had COVID, a team captain was pictured partying at WMU.  This team checked out long ago.  Just go home, because you don't want to be here

[MaximumSam]

KenPom Power Rankings with about 10 games to go for everyone

1. Michigan (3)
2. Iowa (4)
3. Illinois (8)
4. Wisconsin (11)
5. OSU (14)
6. Indiana (23)
7. Rutgers (28)
8. Purdue (31)
9. Minnesota (34)
10. PSU (42)
11. Maryland (43)
12. MSU (61)
13. Northwestern (72)
14. Nebraska (125)