2020-2021 B1G Basketball Thread

[FearlessF]

refs gotta protect those top seeds for march madness

[bayareabadger]

Very this year-type game for UW. Showed grit, competitive right to the end. UW has played pretty well the past two games. A bucket here, call there. I bet if Brad Davison throws up a 3 like Bohannon did, it's coming back on a flop warning, but that's me being petty. 

In any case, just a weird, weird year UW has played gritty in a lot of games. Dropped a few it shouldn't managed to not have one big upset. It's still a top-15 KenPom team and I think has the ability to be dangerous. But the wins have been so hard to snatch. Such is life, I suppose. There's a roster reset coming, so you enter a new era of sorts.

[bayareabadger]

Update: Wisconsin's Greg Gard unloads on the hook and hold, Big Ten refs, the extra close eyes on Davison.

UW fans have been calling on him to work the refs more, which is often kinda silly. But he had some strong, strong words today. Teammates backed Davison too. So at least there's some fire there.

(I usually don't talk officiating. I think there were a couple calls that I'd deem, "unnecessary" down the stretch. Like, they were on the light side and the sort I would say you don't call down the stretch of a tight game like that. Combine that with not looking at a shoulder to the face in that final minute, and I just felt like the chance for a better finish was taken out of play)

[ELA]

NOt confirmed, but the UM-MSU ref had to be French, the way he let the German Wagner do whatever he wanted without repercussion in the final minute.

ONe non call shove led to an MSU three, and the other uncalled shove led to a missed UM three.  So, much like France, the good guys bailed him out in the end.

[MaximumSam]

They really should make Illinois co-champs

[ELA]

They really should make Illinois co-champs

They are a half game ahead in the standings

[ELA]

MSU has 3 AP Top 5 wins in the past 2 weeks.

Nobody else in the country has more than 1 all season

[ELA]

They also *ALMOST* pulled within 20 spots of Penn State in KenPom

[medinabuckeye1]

If MSU wins the 8/9 game on Thursday then they will play Michigan on Friday. It will be Michigan's third straight game against MSU and MSU's third game out of four against Michigan. 

[NickSmith4Three]

They really should make Illinois co-champs

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[ELA]

They really should make Michigan play the road game at Illinois that they opted out of for no reason

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[NickSmith4Three]

I dont think that is true ELA.  I dont think Illinois was ever to host Michigan.  Michigan just delayed their home game where Illinois beat them by 20+.

[NickSmith4Three]

Michigan is not playing at PSU and games against Indiana and Northwestern, if I recall correctly.

[medinabuckeye1]

Final:

• 14-3 Michigan 
• 16-4 Illinois 
• 14-6 Iowa
• 13-6 Purdue 
• 12-8 Ohio State 
• 10-10 Wisconsin (wins tie with RU based on H2H)
• 10-10 Rutgers 
• 9-11 Maryland (wins tie with MSU based on H2H, not that it matters because they are in the 8/9 game anyway so the tiebreaker just determines jersey color)
• 9-11 Michigan State 
• 7-12 Indiana (wins tie with PSU based on H2H)
• 7-12 Penn State 
• 6-13 Northwestern 
• 6-14 Minnesota 
• 3-16 Nebraska 

Wednesday:

• #11 Penn State va #14 Nebraska, 9pm on BTN
• #12 Northwestern vs #13 Minnesota, 630pm on BTN

Thursday :

• #5 Ohio State vs NU/MN, 2pm on BTN
• #6 Wisconsin vs PSU/UNL, 9pm on BTN 
• #7 Rutgers vs #10 Indiana, 630pm on BTN
• #8 Maryland vs #9 Michigan State, 1130am on BTN

Friday:

• #1 Michigan vs UMD/MSU, 1130am on BTN
• #2 Illinois vs RU/IU, 630pm on BTN
• #3 Iowa vs UW/PSU/UNL, 9pm on BTN
• #4 Purdue vs tOSU/NU/MN, 2pm on BTN

Saturday:

• M/UMD/MSU vs PU/tOSU/NU/MN, 1pm on CBS
• IL/RU/IU vs IA/UW/PSU/UNL, 330 on CBS

Sunday:

• M/UMD/MSU/PU/tOSU/NU/MN vs IL/RU/IU/IA/UW/PSU/UNL, 330pm on CBS