2020-2021 B1G Basketball Thread

[bayareabadger]

Minnesota may just have fallen into "Need to win BTT" territory.

Their resume is strange with great wins and bad losses.

They have three top-7 KenPom wins, plus No. 14 Purdue and went 1-2 vs Neb/NW.

Rick has earned his firing. 

[betarhoalphadelta]

Maybe this is starting to show that Gard<Ryan?

When you have the culture Bo Ryan built, it takes a while for it to fall apart if the new guy can't sustain.

[Brutus Buckeye]

Maybe this is starting to show that Gard<Ryan?

When you have the culture Bo Ryan built, it takes a while for it to fall apart if the new guy can't sustain.

That is indeed a distinct possibility. 

[bayareabadger]

Maybe this is starting to show that Gard<Ryan?

When you have the culture Bo Ryan built, it takes a while for it to fall apart if the new guy can't sustain.

Oh. I don't know that was ever really a question. Bo won 73 percent of his games, finished top-4 in the league every year. There were some things his teams were absurd at every single year. Bo is very likely gonna make the Hall of Fame. Those streaks were gonna be hard to maintain, no matter what. If Gard is even 80 percent the coach Bo was, he should be in Madison for at least another decade.

And in truth, there were plenty of rough days in the Ryan era. Plenty of scoring droughts, plenty of bad shots. Some players who didn't develop, some trying seasons. I remember chats in college if the Badgers were destined to just always leave us wanting in March, a team that couldn't overachieve when it counted. Bo's first really high-lever team lost to a 7 seed. His second to an 11 seed it couldn't bully. I remember when I felt relief to compete in a loss to a higher seed in the tournament

UW is in the midst of a disappointing year, and even in that, the team has done some things very well. Next year will be a different beast, and the year after.

There's a possibility this is the start of the end, but I'll play wait and see. Something isn't going well, but we're a long way from it falling apart, at least for now. If the bad times are winning a Big Ten title (by overachieving), starting top-10 and still having a top-20 KenPom team, ehhh, we got a long way to fall. And the secret is, UW in its natural state ain't good. So you ride with someone who seems pretty good until the engine falls out.

(I always remember the downward trend of the football program. Two years of declining wins with a new coach. Much disappointment. The last team hated each other and almost lost to an FCS team. They won 40 games the next four years, two legit conference titles and a fluky third. This year's problems are this year's. And when you pile up enough this years that don't work out, you change. The prediction and long-terms guessing, I've watched too much to think on it. Shoot, I watched Matt Painter. I watched OSU win 25 games with a roster I was mostly told was going to get Matta fired had he been allowed to coach it)

[847badgerfan]

I mean, they’re going to go to the tournament. This season has been so odd because four or three veterans who you expected to at least be decent Big Ten players have been some variation of garbage for two months now.

feels like the surprisingly bad shooting has compounded into pressing. When you were not consistently hitting makeable open shots, everything else kind of goes to hell

They will not another game.

[bayareabadger]

They will not another game.

Though missing a word, what you suppose is quite possible. 

[847badgerfan]

It's hard to type that word right now.

[ELA]

Maryland on pace to go 15-20 from 3 at the under 4.

Not a bad recipe

[ELA]

No legs.  Playing 7 games in 2 weeks is ridiculous.  This is MSU's third game since Maryland's last one.

My guess is the Big Ten assumed MSU was done, but knew they got good ratings, so they might as well run them into the ground, while Michigan coasted in at a cool 17

[ELA]

No legs.  Playing 7 games in 2 weeks is ridiculous.  This is MSU's third game since Maryland's last one.

My guess is the Big Ten assumed MSU was done, but knew they got good ratings, so they might as well run them into the ground, while Michigan coasted in at a cool 17

Which, between this and the football rules changes, get your money I guess, but don't pretend like the purpose of the conference is anythign other than to suck from the UM/OSU teet

[ELA]

Well, the day isn't a total loss. Sounds like dan dakich may have finally gotten fired

[Brutus Buckeye]

Well, the day isn't a total loss. Sounds like dan dakich may have finally gotten fired

???

[medinabuckeye1]

Wrong time for the Bucks to have "Holtman's annual month long swoon"

I was hoping that Michigan was just that good and that Michigan State was just that improved or desperate or whatever. 

With Iowa no whipping Ohio State in Columbus this is starting to look like Holtman's annual month long swoon.

At this point I do not expect the Buckeyes to win another game this year. This game already feels over. I expect the Buckeyes to lose at home to Illinois then go one and done in both tournaments unless they are seeded highly enough in the NCAA that it isn't possible to lose the opener in which case I expect 1-4 from here (in all, finishing either with six straight losses or 1-6 in their last seven.

[TyphonInc]

#1 seed my ass. This Buckeye team is more 3 more losses from from ending their season.