2020-2021 B1G Basketball Thread

[ELA]

Virginia is out, COVID.

ACC is a mess.

[Brutus Buckeye]

[ELA]

Virginia is out, COVID.

ACC is a mess.

They might be ineligible for the NCAA tournament as well.  You need 7 days of negative tests before you are allowed to even travel to Indianapolis

[MaximumSam]

Virginia is out, COVID.

ACC is a mess.

They might be ineligible for the NCAA tournament as well.  You need 7 days of negative tests before you are allowed to even travel to Indianapolis

Oh man I was hopeful we were out of the woods for teams in the tourney. Would be crushing to be knocked out that way.

[TyphonInc]

• Michigan State announces basketball team will now be called 'MSU Spartans Presented by Rocket Mortgage'
• https://sports.yahoo.com/michigan-state-basketball-team-msu-spartans-presented-by-rocket-mortgage-223057968.html?ncid=twitter_yahoosport_dw14wrbb51g

[ELA]

• Michigan State announces basketball team will now be called 'MSU Spartans Presented by Rocket Mortgage'
• https://sports.yahoo.com/michigan-state-basketball-team-msu-spartans-presented-by-rocket-mortgage-223057968.html?ncid=twitter_yahoosport_dw14wrbb51g

On arena signage

[medinabuckeye1]

On tap today:
19-3/14-3 #1 seed Michigan vs 16-12/9-11 #8 seed Maryland, 1130am on BTN:

Michigan -8.5
Michigan went 2-0 in regular season meetings. 

18-8/13-6 #4 seed Purdue vs 19-8/12-8 #5 seed Ohio State, 2pm on BTN:

Ohio State -1.
Purdue went 2-0 in regular season meetings. 

20-6/16-4 #2 seed Illinois vs 15-10/10-10 #7 seed Rutgers, 630pm on BTN:

Illinois -8.
Rutgers won the only regular season meeting at home in December. 

20-7/14-6 #3 seed Iowa vs 17-11/10-10 #6 seed Wisconsin, 9pm on BTN:

Iowa -4
Iowa went 2-0 in regular season meetings. 

[MaximumSam]

Juwan Howard looking like he was trying to fight someone on Maryland

[MaximumSam]

Purdue has no answers for, uh, Kyle Young

[Kris60]

So, Howard’s story is he came down the sideline to argue an out of bounds call  and Turgeon started pointing out to the refs he was out of the coaches’ box.

Howard said he sort of asked Turgeon, “Come on, are you really trying to make a big deal of me being out of the box?” Then Turgeon said something like “You can’t talk to me” or “don’t talk to me” and, as, Howard described it “Rushed at me.”

Howard said when Turgeon rushed him he reacted in a way he shouldn’t have and instincts kicked in. He apologized for his actions.  Take it fwiw.

[MaximumSam]

Purdue solved Kyle Young by clocking him in the head

[medinabuckeye1]

I'm at work so can't watch but color me concerned. The Buckeyes are up by six right now (about 4 to go) but led by 18 at the half so Purdue has been chipping away at Ohio State's advantage all second half and at this rate it will be a very close ending. 

I'm also worried because the Buckeyes have had trouble holding late leads lately:

• Against Minnesota yesterday the Buckeyes were up 14 with just over 2 minutes to play and barely escaped. 
• Against Illinois last week the Buckeyes took a 68-64 lead with 3:48 to play and never scored again en-route to a 73-68 loss.
• Against MSU the Buckeyes took a 63-60 lead with 3:16 to go then got outscored 11-4 down the stretch to lose 71-67.
• Against Michigan the Buckeyes last lead was with about seven minutes to go but they were within one as late as the four minute mark and they had the ball down three with about 2:30 to go then imploded with a dumb turnover, fast break, and foul to make it a six point game.

[medinabuckeye1]

And now the lead is two. According to ESPN, Ohio State's win probability has dropped from 96% at halftime to just 68% now.

[medinabuckeye1]

Ugh:
With 5:26 to go the Buckeyes scored to extend their lead to nine at 70-61. They haven't scored since and now it is 70-68 with about 90 seconds to go.