2021-2022 B1G Basketball thread

[847badgerfan]

I've seen games at both.

[MarqHusker]

I'd put ND Joyce Center even behind ISU Hulman Center.  5th in my own personal visit rankings.   That's a pretty big whiff.

[847badgerfan]

Just... wow.

Alando Tucker tried to undermine Greg Gard and take over as UW coach (jsonline.com)

[Abba]

Can't view the article, but I believe this was rumored a month or so back.  I'm assuming there is more proof now.  Crazy to think one of my favorite CBB players in recent Big Ten history would do that.

[847badgerfan]

He's dead to me.

Some of the article is below.

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Yet interviews with more than a half-dozen sources close to the UW athletic department and/or Tucker reveal he was not retained because he engaged in a coordinated plan to undermine Gard and get himself installed as coach.

Those sources spoke under the condition that they would not be named by the Journal Sentinel.
“It was a plot,” a source familiar with both the program and Tucker said.



According to several sources familiar with the program, Tucker went so far as to tell then-athletic director Barry Alvarez he was prepared to replace Gard and lead the team when the Badgers were struggling in late January during the 2019-20 season.

Alvarez made it clear he did not plan to make such a change; UW won its final eight regular-season games to secure a share of the Big Ten title; and UW officials attributed Tucker’s bold suggestion to inexperience and youth.

They eventually concluded Tucker wanted to advance his own career at the expense of Gard and the program, and the overwhelming feelings of those in the department included disbelief, pain and betrayal.

“Unbelievable,” said a source who is close to Tucker and the athletic department. “Speechless. Mind-blowing. All of those.”

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Sources told the Journal Sentinel after the conclusion of the 2020-21 season that rather than work to unify the locker room during a trying season exacerbated by COVID-19 protocols, Tucker instead caused tension. He did so by using his close relationship with the players to coalesce support and power around him.

For example, a team source noted Tucker would tell one player to ignore the coaching points of a fellow assistant in charge of that player’s position group.

“I feel sad for the seniors,” a source said. “That is what I feel sad about because the players are the ones that are affected the most.”

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Tucker remained on the search committee and, according to multiple sources, lobbied for UW to hire Northern Illinois athletic director Sean Frazier.

Frazier was hired at UW in 2007, served as Alvarez’s deputy athletic director from 2011-13 and knows Tucker.

Sources told the Journal Sentinel that Tucker hoped that if Frazier was hired as UW’s athletic director, he would remove Gard.

“He truly believed Frazier would fire Greg and hire him,” one source said.

[MaximumSam]

Duncan Robinson just signed a 90 million dollar contract in the NBA. What a heck of a journey for that guy.

[Brutus Buckeye]

Is there a term for a team/coach that routinely "beefs it" in the opening round of a tournament? 

[Brutus Buckeye]

[MaximumSam]

KenPom out for the new season

2. Michigan
5. Illinois
6. Purdue
8. Ohio State
18. Maryland
22. MSU
23. Iowa
31. Indiana
44. Wisconsin
48. Northwestern
67. Rutgers
70. PSU
81. Nebraska
120. Minnesota

[ELA]

https://twitter.com/MattNorlander/status/1450938299485462533?t=lh7KAsBp7VSh-nIU0RbbVg&s=19

[ELA]

He's back...

https://bigten.org/news/2021/10/21/mens-basketball-dr-ed-hightower-named-big-ten-conference-special-advisor-for-basketball-officiating.aspx

[Abba]

A fan favorite.

[847badgerfan]

Why on God's green earth would the B1G wonks do this to us?  Do they hate fans, coaches and players?

[ELA]

The fantasy NCAA Hoops dynasty league I help run had 3 owners not show up this year if anyone is interested.

The Draft has already started