2021-2022 B1G Basketball thread

[NickSmith4Three]

[Mdot21]

a 5 game suspension and a $40,000 fine (he makes $2 million a year at Michigan and made $150+ million in NBA earnings) is a joke if you ask me.

[Honestbuckeye]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[bayareabadger]

I like that this is basically what everyone suspected. Krabby dodging a fine is nice for him. 

A little sad to lose Neath for a game. He just looked maybe his best of the season. Granted, he's not make or break. 

[NickSmith4Three]

Allen Griffin was suspended 2 games by the big ten for stupidly stepping on a Purdue player a couple years ago.

Kofi suspended 3 games for selling gear...which is now legal.  Granted that was an NCAA punishment.

[ELA]

Advantage Michigan not having that clown on the bench.  Martelli is the brains of the in game operation

[ELA]

Lawyers the next time Michigan wants to fire someone for cause

Every Michigan professor at a conference should exercise their right to one free punch of a colleague they disagree with.

And I guess a student of your choice can borrow Warde's car.

He is the most emasculated AD in Big Ten history.

[betarhoalphadelta]

I was thinking of this comparison as well.

Woody Hayes coached Ohio State football for 28 years, won multiple NC's, a slew of league titles, etc. He punched a kid in the Gator Bowl and was fired the next day.

Not to mention Bobby Knight. Accosted a student who he felt disrespected him and got shitcanned. 

[Mdot21]

Every Michigan professor at a conference should exercise their right to one free punch of a colleague they disagree with.

And I guess a student of your choice can borrow Warde's car.

He is the most emasculated AD in Big Ten history.

for real. 

Harbaugh was out until the Vikings realized after spending 8 hours with him in person- yeah this guy is a f**king major weirdo, no thanks. 

Howard tries to knock another coach out on national tv and he gives him a 5 game suspension and fines him $40k. 

This dude has no balls.

[ELA]

And John Beilein, who is actually the best coach I have ever seen in Big Ten play, is sitting out there, still living in Ann Arbor, and you are trying to retain the shitty Hurley brother?

This is a perfect chance to get out of a desperation mistake, and if they don't take it, Jesus.  For MSU, I would love for them to keep him.  I want no part of more Beilein/Yaklich

[Abba]

Agree with ELA.  Beilein is one of my all time favorite coaches.  And Michigan could bring him back.  I hope he lands somewhere next year if not at UM.

[SuperMario]

I have MUCH worse words for Larry Nassar and his enablers.

But a head basketball coach who had a questionable reputation as a player, and has now tried to fight multiple coaches?  That's a POS.  And like I said, all respect to John Beilein, who I think is the best Xs and Os coach in my lifetime of basketball.  Even Tommy Amaker was a class act, and a good recruiter, guys just never got better under him.  I hope Michigan keeps Howard, he is a great recruiter, and a shit coach, and an embarrassment to the university.  I wonder how many UM professors have told a fellow professor he would "f****** kill him" and punched another one in the face and kept his job?  They just fired a President for less.  If he had followed Amaker, I'd see an argument for allowing middling success after no success to keep him.  But he has done so much less than his predecessor on the court, while being an absolute clown.  Hell, just on the court he has received two technicals for interfering with the on court play.  He's not a professional

Beilein is my all-time favorite coach. Reminds me a lot of my Hs football coach, Chuck Kyle, who I believe is one of the greats in HS football history. We have no argument or disagreement on Beilein being what you look for in a coach. Tough act to follow. Howard definitely has done some stupid things and this could have been a fireable offense, but I guess I don’t get the hate for him. 

additionally, claiming he hasn’t accomplished anything on the court is odd. He’s in year 3, a clear rebuild year, following his 2nd season going 23-5, 14-3 in the big ten with a big 10 title, getting knocked out in the elite 8. I’d say the Michigan brass disagree he’s an embarrassment, otherwise this was an easy exit plan.

[ELA]

When you recruit one and dones, there is no such thing as a rebuilding year.  Otherwise you could claim every year is a rebuilding year at Duke and Kentucky.  I saw a post that noted he had 4 McDonald's All Americans on the roster, and the rest of the Big Ten has four COMBINED.  He has far more NBA talent than anyone else in the conference, and he's on the bubble with it.  Like other posters have said.  If Michigan wants to keep him, good for us.  With the best talent in the conference, he's in like 8th place.  He might have more McDonald's All Americans on this roster this year than Beilein had in his whole career

[medinabuckeye1]

Update to the projections now at about 75-80% done with the season.  Updated projected final standings/BTT seeds:

• 15-5/23-8 Illinois (wins tie with UW based on H2H, no game in Madison)
• 15-5/24-6 Wisconsin
• 14-6/25-6 Purdue (wins tie with tOSU based on H2H, no game in Columbus)
• 14-6/21-8 Ohio State
• 12-8/18-12 Rutgers (wins tie with M based on record against IL/UW, won in Madison)
• 12-8/18-12 Michigan
• 11-9/21-10 Iowa (wins tie with MSU based on H2H, no game in E. Lansing)
• 11-9/20-11 Michigan State
• 9-11/18-12 Indiana
• 8-12/13-15 Penn State
• 7-13/14-15 Northwestern
• 6-14/14-17 Maryland
• 5-15/14-15 Minnesota
• 1-19/7-24 Nebraska

Thus the matchups at the BTT 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 Rutgers vs UMD/MN, 230 BTN
• #6 Michigan vs NU/UNL, 9 BTN
• #7 Iowa vs #10 Penn State, 630 BTN
• #8 Michigan State vs #9 Indiana, noon BTN

Friday, March 11, 2022:

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

Saturday, March 12, 2022:

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

Sunday, March 13, 2022:

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