2021-2022 B1G Basketball thread

[bayareabadger]

And Wisconsin down 10 at home to Providence?

Big Ten not looking up to their standard of the past couple seasons at all.

I don’t know if this UW team will be particularly good, but that game was a little odd. Best player was out. Veteran reserve guard was also out. Meant the back court was Brad and a couple of freshmen.

Then Providence‘s extremely large center got both Wisconsin‘s center and back up center in foul trouble. And The next guy up as a four-star soph who seems to be struggling mightily in the first couple games. But they fight and clawed and made it a close game before losing. Maybe it’s a good sign. Maybe it’s a sign this team is going to be horrendous from three (and Providence is quite good at shooting). We shall see.

[ELA]

Purdue is about to play Bellarmine, a team heading into their second year of Div I basketball.

And it appears they basically run the "option" of basketball.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2T4bJh165g

Already played #7 Purdue, and perennial tourney Saint Mary's.  They play #1 Gonzaga on Friday, #2 UCLA on Monday, and West Virginia the following week.

Certainly not ducking anyone

[Brutus Buckeye]

OSU is getting smoked by Xavier. 

[ELA]

Big Ten is going to be a lot dicier in the middle tier.  NET rating has to be getting crushed

[Abba]

I thought the Buckeyes looked ok.  Still figuring out their rotation while their 3rd best player is out for awhile.  I think they could be pretty good around January or February, but this isn't a great year to have a tough OOC schedule.

[ELA]

I thought the Buckeyes looked ok.  Still figuring out their rotation while their 3rd best player is out for awhile.  I think they could be pretty good around January or February, but this isn't a great year to have a tough OOC schedule.

If this was their off night, I'd agree.  The problem is they could (should?) have lost to Akron and Niagara already

[MaximumSam]

Sueing is a rough injury, because they are missing both their versatile wings. A lot of freshmen in the back court, which leads to a lot of ups and downs. Certainly some potential with Meechie and Branham though.

[Abba]

Not a matter of off night.  More like they are still figuring out how to play together.  I thought they looked a lot better against Xavier than they did the first game against Akron.  Probably shouldn't have been ranked in the top 25 as this team will take some time to gel, but I do like the individual players on the team.

Some of the positives:

Wheeler is starting to find his role in the offense as a guy who can stretch the defense with 3's.

Meechie is able to drive and shoot, but still looks a bit out of control at times

Branham can definitely get to the basket, but missed a lot of easy ones last night.

Kyle Young looks healthy enough to be a contributing factor

Liddell is Liddell.  Best player on the team by far, but basically at the ceiling now of what he is going to be.


Some negatives:

Too many turnovers.  Again I hope this is just them figuring out how to play together.

Defense wasn't really great.  This may be an ongoing problem.  They kind of just got lucky that Xavier went cold for awhile.

Rebounding was atrocious.  I'm hoping this is fixable.

The team looks way too reliant on Liddell for everything.  Hopefully others will step up more as the year goes on.

Zed Key looks a little confused on how to handle his increased role.  Hopefully he will grow into it after sporadic minutes and a clearly defined lesser role last year.

[medinabuckeye1]

If this was their off night, I'd agree.  The problem is they could (should?) have lost to Akron and Niagara already

Yeah, I'm the @TyphonInc of tOSU BB.  I look at this group and just see doom and gloom.  The team that struggled with Akron and Niagara then trailed wire-to-wire in a loss to a Xavier team that I frankly don't think is very good (they also struggled with Niagara and didn't beat Kent all that impressively).  They are ranked for now but enjoy it because this doesn't even look like a tournament team to me let alone a top-25 team.  

[betarhoalphadelta]

Purdue up 41-35 at the half on UNC.

Had to play the last several minutes small-ball with both Tre and Edey on the bench with two fouls each.

[betarhoalphadelta]

Boilers win! 

They controlled the game until the middle of the second half, as UNC was just chipping and chipping away, eventually taking a 1 point lead. 

Purdue responded with a 10-0 run and I thought it was blown back open, but UNC responded with their own 7-0 run...

But then Purdue went 7-0 and it was out of reach the test of the way.

[ELA]

Glad we got the Nova-Purdue matchup we wanted.  Tennessee will be good in March, but they are young, and UNC has looked like trash this year.  Purdue and Villanova are both top 5 teams, so this should be fun tomorrow.

[ELA]

It only took 4 years, but maybe taking Marcus Bingham over Trevion Williams finally paying off?

The 3 point shooting remains very problematic.

[MaximumSam]

Fabulous first half between Purdue and Nova, which is great because I don't have to have the Lions and Browns inflicted on me