2020-2021 B1G Basketball Thread

[Brutus Buckeye]

[TyphonInc]

3 straight days, 3 straight double leads disappear, in the last 3 minutes.

How does this team fall apart so bad at the end?
Liddell today, misses an open dunk, turns it over to a 7 footer, and dribbles it out of bounds. What should have been a cruise to a double digit win, was an answered prayer for a TTUN miss at the end.

[TyphonInc]

Luckily bailed out my inexplicable call from Michigan

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[MaximumSam]

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Meant to say by Michigan, referring to letting Mike Smith dribble out the clock instead of giving the ball to Dickinson

[medinabuckeye1]

Late game Buckeyes are inexplicable

They are just giving the fans their money's worth!

[TyphonInc]

Meant to say by Michigan, referring to letting Mike Smith dribble out the clock instead of giving the ball to Dickinson

Yah I, the coaches, and announcers at the game and back in the studio were all confused with that.
I watched the replay, and it more confusing because OSU does OSU and switches Liddell off and has Sueing guard Dickinson after the high pick. I thought game over right there.
But Buckeyes do a great prevent defense, Sueing goes almost into a %45 degree lean trying to keep Dickenson from going to wear he wanted. Liddell sagged on defense showing the Buckeyes hand that they were going to crash on the 7 footer, so Smith took a decent open shot to try and win. 

Looking at stats Dickerson is shooting 60%, and Smith is shooting 45% from behind the arc. I think the Buckeyes prevented option 1, and TTUN with with their 2nd best play, he was just a bit off. 

[medinabuckeye1]

Is Ohio State the only B1G team to beat each of the other 13 B1G teams?

[medinabuckeye1]

In this entire tournament only three games were different from chalk and Ohio State was involved in all three:

• #5 Ohio State played #13 Minnesota instead of #12 Northwestern. 
• #1 Michigan played #5 Ohio State instead of #4 Purdue in the semi-final. 
• #2 Illinois will play #5 Ohio State instead of #1 Michigan in the Championship. 

[MaximumSam]

Rick Pitino and Iona headed to the big dance

[MaximumSam]

Georgia Tech and Georgetown headed to the tourney

[ELA]

Lot of bid stealers making me less confident about MSU

[MaximumSam]

https://twitter.com/ChrisHoltmann/status/1370851475539263494?s=20

[bayareabadger]

Wisconsin is starting to settle into a 7 seed in the projections. Who knows how it actually falls?

[MaximumSam]

BTT Championship KenPom

1. Michigan (2)
2. Illinois (3)
3. Iowa (5)
4. OSU (7)
5. Wisconsin (11)
6. Purdue (13)
7. Maryland (31)
8. Rutgers (34)
9. PSU (35)
10. Indiana (46)
11. MSU (56)
12. Minny (57)
13. Northwestern (70)
14. Nebraska (94)