2021-2022 B1G Basketball thread

[847badgerfan]

Davison didn't pick the right game to lay an egg either. My gosh, he was terrible last night.

[bayareabadger]

Davison didn't pick the right game to lay an egg either. My gosh, he was terrible last night.

It was weird because he was taking some bad shots but generally those were going in. And the shots that I was good with him taking just weren’t falling. Very weird day

[medinabuckeye1]

According to my phone the Iowa at Ohio State game scheduled for tonight has been postponed.  

[medinabuckeye1]

According to my phone the Iowa at Ohio State game scheduled for tonight has been postponed. 

Apparently due to travel cancellations in Iowa.  

Ohio State now has two home games that could be rescheduled (UNL and IA).  

[medinabuckeye1]

All 14 teams are scheduled to play league games this weekend with five games on Saturday and two more on Sunday:

• Illinois at Indiana Saturday at noon on BTN
• Northwestern at Nebraska Saturday at 1 on BTN
• Michigan at Purdue Saturday at 230 on FOX
• Michigan State at Rutgers Saturday at 4 on FS1
• Penn State at Wisconsin Saturday at 6 on BTN
• Maryland at Ohio State Sunday at 1 on CBS
• Minnesota at Iowa Sunday at 430 on BTN

Each team has now played between nine and 11 league games.  Only the Buckeyes and Wolverines have played <10 and that is due to each of them having two games postponed.  Eight teams (IL, PU, UW, IU, RU, UMD, NU, and UNL) have played 11 games while the other four (MSU, IA, PSU, MN) have played 10.  

[medinabuckeye1]

Updated projections:
The tiers are:

• PU+1 (+2,-1), MSU even(+1,-1), IL-1 (+1,-2), UW even(+1,-1), tOSU
• RU even(+1,-1), IU even(+1,-1), IA-1 (+1,-2)
• PSU+1, M even(+1,-1), UMD even(+3,-3), NU even(+2,-2), MN even(+1,-1)
• blank
• UNL

Upsets so far have been:

Scheduled games "postponed" and not, to my knowledge, rescheduled yet:

Thus, the projected final standings/BTT seeds are as follows:

• 15-5/24-7 Michigan State (wins tie over PU based on H2H, no game in W. Lafayette)
• 15-5/26-5 Purdue
• 13-5/20-7 Ohio State
• 14-6/22-9 Illinois (wins tie over UW based on H2H, no game in Madison)
• 14-6/23-7 Wisconsin
• 11-9/20-10 Indiana (wins tie over RU based on H2H, no game in Piscataway)
• 11-9/17-13 Rutgers
• 10-9/20-10 Iowa
• 7-12/12-15 Penn State
• 7-13/13-17 Michigan (wins tie over UMD and NU based on H2H2H, no games in College Park or Evanston)
• 7-13/14-15 Northwestern (wins tie over UMD based on record against the 15-5 teams, win over MSU)
• 7-13/15-16 Maryland
• 6-13/15-13 Minnesota
• 0-19/6-24 Nebraska

Based on all of that the match-ups at the B1G Tournament in Indianapolis would be:
Wednesday, March 9, 2022:

• #11 Northwestern vs #14 Nebraska, 830 BTN
• #12 Maryland vs #13 Minnesota, 6 BTN

Thursday, March 10, 2022:

• #5 Wisconsin vs UMD/MN, 230 BTN
• #6 Indiana vs NU/UNL, 9 BTN
• #7 Rutgers vs #10 Michigan, 630 BTN
• #8 Iowa vs #9 Penn State, noon BTN

Friday, March 11, 2022:

• #1 Michigan State vs IA/PSU, noon BTN
• #2 Purdue vs RU/M, 630 BTN
• #3 Ohio State vs IU/NU/UNL, 9 BTN
• #4 Illinois vs UW/UMD/MN, 230 BTN

Saturday, March 12, 2022:

• MSU/IA/PSU vs IL/UW/UMD/MN, 1 CBS
• PU/RU/M vs tOSU/IU/NU/UNL, 330 CBS

Sunday, March 13, 2022:

• MSU/IA/PSU/IL/UW/UMD/MN vs PU/RU/M/tOSU/IU/NU/UNL, 330 CBS

[medinabuckeye1]

@Brutus Buckeye will want to know, what would it take for tOSU to play M in the BTT:

• Michigan would need to upset #7 Rutgers in the 7/10 game on Thursday, and
• Michigan would need to upset #2 Purdue in the 2/7/10 game on Friday, and
• Ohio State would need to win the 3/6/11/14 game on Friday.  

If that happened then the late semi-final on Saturday would be between #3 Ohio State and #10 Michigan.  

[medinabuckeye1]

Impact of the "postponed" games:
Ohio State:
The Buckeyes have missed two projected home wins (IA, UNL) and they are projected to finish 13-5 which is right between the co-champions (MSU/PU at 15-5) and two teams tied for 4th/5th (IL/UW at 14-6):

• 15-5:  If the Buckeyes played and won both as projected they would be a third league co-champion along with MSU and PU.  The first tiebreaker is H2H2H but all three are projected to go 1-1 against each other because each one misses a home and a road game against the other two.  Ohio State loses on the second tiebreaker (record against IL/UW) both because the other two have upset road wins over those two (MSU at UW, PU at IL) and because Ohio State doesn't host Illinois so the Buckeyes would get the #3 seed anyway.  
• 14-6:  If the Buckeyes played and split the two games they would finish in a three-way tie for 3rd/4th/5th along with the Illini and Badgers.  Illinois wins that because they don't play in either Madison or Columbus.  Ohio State gets the #4 seed over Wisconsin because the Badgers lost at home to MSU.  
• 13-7:  If the Buckeyes played and lost both they would finish alone in 5th place one game behind the 3rd/4th place Badgers and Illini and two games ahead of the 6th/7th place Hoosiers and Scarlet Knights.  

Iowa:
The Hawkeyes missed one projected road loss (tOSU) and they are projected to finish 10-9 which is one-half game behind the 6th/7th place Scarlet Knights and Hoosiers and three games ahead of the 9th place Nittany Lions:

• 11-9:  If the Hawkeyes played and won the game they would move into a three-way tie for 6th/7th/8th with RU and IU.  
• 10-10:  If the Hawkeyes played and lost the game as projected they would remain alone in 8th a game behind 6th/7th and 2.5 games ahead of 9th.  

Penn State/Minnesota:
The Nittany Lions missed a projected home win over the Gophers.  The Nittany Lions are projected to finish 7-12 which is one-half game ahead of 10th/11th/12th (M, UMD, NU all at 7-13) while the Gophers are projected to finish 6-13 which is one-half game behind 10th/11th/12th:

• 7-13 both:  If the game was played and the Gophers won then both would project to finish 7-13 joining what would then be a projected five-way tie for 9th/10th/11th/12th/13th.  
• 8-12 Penn State, 6-14 Minnesota:  If the game is played and the Nittany Lions win as projected they finish alone in 9th and the Gophers finish alone in 13th.  

Nebraska:
It really doesn't matter because the difference between 0-19 and 0-20 is nil.  

[medinabuckeye1]

Not sure what to make of Indiana, their home games (league only):

• W vs UNL 68-55
• W vs tOSU 67-51
• W vs MN 73-60
• W vs PU 68-65
• L vs M 80-62
• W vs PSU 74-57
• L vs IL 74-57

[bayareabadger]

MSU lost to Rutgers because this sport is majestic and dumb. 

[MaximumSam]

A real barn burner in Madison

[ELA]

MSU lost to Rutgers because this sport is majestic and dumb.

4th highest adjusted FG% against MSU in the 21 year KenPom erA

[bayareabadger]

A real barn burner in Madison

None of the cows escaped alive. 

[847badgerfan]

I did not see the game. What happened?