2021-2022 B1G Basketball thread

[medinabuckeye1]

League title chase, what each teams needs:

As discussed above between @betarhoalphadelta and I, Purdue can clinch a league title by winning out.  Wisconsin, Illinois, and Ohio State could each clinch at least a share of the league title by winning out but each would need some help to be THE Champion as opposed to a co-Champion.  

Rutgers 10-5:

• Win out, and
• IL/tOSU winner loses a game.  

Michigan State 9-5:

• Win out, and
• UW loses at least one game.  

Michigan 8-6:

• Win out, and
• PU loses twice, and
• UW loses one more game, and
• IL loses one more game, and
• tOSU loses one more game.  

Iowa (7-7) is still mathematically in the race but they'd need a miraculous collapse by basically everyone in front of them.  

Indiana (7-8) could theoretically tie Purdue at 12-8 but that would require Purdue losing out which would give UW their 12th win so it would be a three-way tie.  Also, UW would have to lose all of their other games and IL could only win once and tOSU could only win three, and Rutgers could only win two and MSU could only win three and M could only win four and Iowa would have to lose a game.  

[medinabuckeye1]

This weekend 12 of our 14 teams are in action.  The only exceptions are Indiana (because they are at Ohio State on Monday) and Penn State (because they are at Maryland on Monday).  

The Purdue/Rutgers game (530 Sunday on FS1) is the biggest game as far as the league title race is concerned.  A Purdue win practically (though not mathematically) eliminates Rutgers.  It also mathematically eliminates Indiana (which I know PU fans would like to do, hi @betarhoalphadelta ) and would mathematically eliminate Iowa unless the Hawkeyes win in Columbus on Saturday.  

The games this weekend:
Friday:

• Maryland at Nebraska, 9pm BTN

Saturday:

• Illinois at Michigan State, noon ESPN
• Iowa at Ohio State, 230 Fox (Hi @ELA , enjoy the game with your little guy!)
• Northwestern at Minnesota, 4 BTN

Sunday:

• Michigan at Wisconsin, 1 CBS
• Rutgers at Purdue, 530 FS1

Then Monday we have:

• Indiana at Ohio State, 7 FS1
• Penn State at Maryland 7 ESPN

[ELA]

Alright, all locked in.  OSU-Iowa on Saturday, and Legoland on Sunday.

The funny thing was that by getting a refund on my original tickets and getting nearly identical tickets to OSU-Iowa, I'm going to see a better game for less money, because they put Indiana in the premier tier, but Iowa in their middle tier.

After dropping a home game last night to Michigan, it's going to be a desperate Hawkeye team in, dare I say, a must win situation?

[medinabuckeye1]

The funny thing was that by getting a refund on my original tickets and getting nearly identical tickets to OSU-Iowa, I'm going to see a better game for less money, because they put Indiana in the premier tier, but Iowa in their middle tier.

I would guess that Indiana is in the higher tier at least in part because Indiana probably travels a LOT better to Columbus than Iowa does.  The Schott is only 3:33 from Assembly Hall per google but about eight hours from Carver-Hawkeye.  I would imagine that a decent number of IU BB fans are pretty miffed about the swap since they went from a weekend game that would be easy to drive over for to a weeknight game that requires at least half a day off work to go see.  

Alright, all locked in.  OSU-Iowa on Saturday, and Legoland on Sunday.

Enjoy and I'd like to know your impressions of Legoland.  I know nothing about it (didn't even know it existed in Columbus) and my oldest is not quite three so I'm not there yet but I will be soon enough so I'd appreciate if you let us know how it is because I might be wrapping a BB game trip in with that in a year or two.  

After dropping a home game last night to Michigan, it's going to be a desperate Hawkeye team in, dare I say, a must win situation?

LoL.  

I don't *THINK* Iowa needs this one (for making the tournament purposes) but they are running out of margin for error.  They are now 7-7/17-8 and their two easiest remaining games are at Nebraska (2/25) and vs Northwestern (2/28).  If they win those two then they can do no worse than 9-11/19-12 and I think that would be enough even with an early exit in Indianapolis.  That said, it would obviously help their cause if they could pick up at least one win in their other four remaining games (@tOSU, vsMSU, @M, @IL).  

[betarhoalphadelta]

Enjoy and I'd like to know your impressions of Legoland.  I know nothing about it (didn't even know it existed in Columbus) and my oldest is not quite three so I'm not there yet but I will be soon enough so I'd appreciate if you let us know how it is because I might be wrapping a BB game trip in with that in a year or two.  LoL. 

I can't speak to the one in Columbus, but Legoland in San Diego is outstanding for kids that age. I had a weekend without my ex and our 2nd (who was an infant at the time) when my oldest was only a little over 2 years old. In successive days I took him to the Miramar Air Show and Legoland. 

Legoland was a blast. The rides are all targeted for that <5yo age range, and even the "roller coaster" wasn't too much for him at 2 yrs 3 mos. 

That was also the weekend of Purdue Harbor (2009), so after the Miramar air show, since I didn't have BTN at the time, I got to listen to it on the radio while driving back home and while he took his nap, being careful not to go nuts and wake him up 

[847badgerfan]

Must win  for UW against Michigan tomorrow. They look to be playing pretty well now. Will be a tough game for UW.

[medinabuckeye1]

I can't speak to the one in Columbus, but Legoland in San Diego is outstanding for kids that age. I had a weekend without my ex and our 2nd (who was an infant at the time) when my oldest was only a little over 2 years old. In successive days I took him to the Miramar Air Show and Legoland.

Legoland was a blast. The rides are all targeted for that <5yo age range, and even the "roller coaster" wasn't too much for him at 2 yrs 3 mos.

That was also the weekend of Purdue Harbor (2009), so after the Miramar air show, since I didn't have BTN at the time, I got to listen to it on the radio while driving back home and while he took his nap, being careful not to go nuts and wake him up

Thanks for sharing this. I didn't realize it was set up for kids that young. I was thinking I needed to wait a few years.

[ELA]

MSU missed 15 of their first 18 shots.  Absolutely brutal offense to watch. Illinois has been nearly as bad. The difference being somehow when they throw passes the ricochet off guy's backs, someone else picks it up and throws up a prayer three that goes in to be the shot

[ELA]

might be time for MSU to consider faking their own outbreak to duck Michigan back

[MaximumSam]

This Buckeye game has some of the most infuriating bounces I've seen in a game. Like a deflection will bounce off Kyle Young's head off the rim and to an open Hawkeye for three

[ELA]

This Buckeye game has some of the most infuriating bounces I've seen in a game. Like a deflection will bounce off Kyle Young's head off the rim and to an open Hawkeye for three

Illinois hit a 24 second clock fadaway three that ricochet off Hauser's back 

My main takeaway from Columbus, is I finally understand how Fran tricks recruits who aren't his children to play for him.  The entire Iowa bench complains at the refs the entire game

[medinabuckeye1]

Ohio State is doing everything in their power to make sure that Iowa gets their first quality win of the year.

[Abba]

Really loving this early afternoon loss.  Plenty of time to cool down so I won't go to bed angry.

[medinabuckeye1]

Really loving this early afternoon loss.  Plenty of time to cool down so I won't go to bed angry.

Are you for some reason surprised that the Buckeyes will:

• Finish outside of the top-4 in the B1G, and
• Make the tournament, and
• Underperform in the tournament?