2021-2022 B1G Basketball thread

[Brutus Buckeye]

[MaximumSam]

Buckeye defense makes a rare appearance in a basketball game. Badgers rough outside of Davis

[ELA]

Buckeye defense makes a rare appearance in a basketball game. Badgers rough outside of Davis

Lesson learned for Wisconsin, going down double digits is not your comfort zone

[FearlessF]

Auburn basketball’s Bruce Pearl won’t coach Saturday due to a two-game NCAA suspension, and former Nebraska assistant Wes Flanigan will take his place against the Huskers.

Wes Flanigan musta held a grudge

[Abba]

Sparty cruising again.  They're gonna be a pain this year.

I'm very excited about this Illinois-Arizona game.  Let's see how good these teams are.  I think Illinois may have figured things out and will get the win at home, but this could go either way.

[ELA]

Sparty cruising again.  They're gonna be a pain this year.

This was their best halfcourt offense against a real opponent all year, but they were missing good looks.  Fortunately their transition game worked better than it has against Big Ten foes in years.

[bayareabadger]

Buckeye defense makes a rare appearance in a basketball game. Badgers rough outside of Davis

They were feisty, and UW obliged by rolling like 12 shots off the damn rim.

I don't totally know why Liddell is so good, but damn he is good. Ball movement is very good. When UW's defense got uncharacteristically lost, it seemed like an automatic open 3 or easy dunk. 

[Abba]

I think Washington going pro has allowed Liddell to blossom even more.  He is the unquestioned guy on the team now, whereas last year he was 1A or 1B.  I still don't think he'll ever be a player in the NBA, despite what the commentators tell me every game.

[Abba]

Kofi pretty quiet on the scoring front with 6, but did get 8 boards.  Meanwhile, the Illini were carried by Plummer and Frazier and lead 42-38 at the half.

[Abba]

Illinois fading big time.  Down 57-50 now midway thru the 2nd half.

[Abba]

I'm curious what kinds of tiers people are thinking about at this point.  To me:

Tier 1 based on performance: Purdue, Ohio State, Michigan State, Wisconsin

Tier 1 based on potential: Michigan, Illinois

Maybe that's too many in tier 1, but otherwise it's just Purdue at tier 1 and these other teams at 2.

Tier 2 I guess would include teams like Indiana, Northwestern, Rutgers, Minnesota and Iowa.

Then round out Tier 3 with Nebraska, Maryland, and Penn State.

[MaximumSam]

Torvik rankings

3. Purdue
14. Michigan State
16. Illinois
17. Michigan
20. Ohio State
21. Indiana
34. Wisconson
35. Iowa
48. Northwestern
70. Maryland
79. Minnesota
99. Penn State
108. Rutgers
159. Nebraska

[MaximumSam]

Man what a brutal turnover

[MaximumSam]

Illini get clipped. A game where they could have used Curbelo - they kept turning the ball over and seemed stuck sometimes trying to get into any offense that wasn't a three pointer.