2021-2022 B1G Basketball thread

[ELA]

The fact that Iowa as a program is better positioned to deal with the loss of Garza than we are the loss of Aaron Henry is a sad state of the program

[ELA]

Izzo had a chance to replace Fife with a young offensive minded assistant, like Beilein did with Yaklich and his defense.  Instead he just recycled through his friends.  This is the result.  The same stuff that got the fan base pissed at Dantonio is how Izzo wants to go out?

[Brutus Buckeye]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQGahI-ZRME

[ELA]

The fact that I have now seen media say that Howard feels invincible because of woke culture, and Gard was only not suspended because of racism, kind of sums up everything

[bayareabadger]

Man, Whitlock got weird. Well, weirder.

[847badgerfan]

could you think any other way?

Could you?


If Gard did something wrong, I would condemn it, just as I condemn Neath's role. There is no place for that, and he was suspended, as I said he would be, and should be.

Shouldn't need him to win the next game, but hey, it's on the road and you never know.

(I'm also on record here, stating Howard should not be fired.)

[847badgerfan]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQGahI-ZRME

Well... Juwan is from Chicago, so..

[medinabuckeye1]

Games played/remaining:

• 17 down, 3 to go:  PU, NU
• 16 down, 4 to go:  UW, IL, RU, IA, MSU, IU, PSU, UMD, MN, UNL
• 15 down, 5 to go:  tOSU, M

Michigan plays tonight and again on Sunday so entering next week they'll be at 17/3 and they play MSU on Monday.  

Ohio State plays tomorrow night and again on Sunday so entering next week they'll be at 17/3 and they play UNL on Monday.  

The game tonight between Rutgers and Michigan is big for NCAA purposes because both teams are on or close to the bubble depending on who you ask.  

For Rutgers a win would be yet another tier-1 win for the Scarlett Knights but actually a loss might ALSO give Rutgers another Q1 win because Michigan is at #33 in the NET rankings and Rutgers already beat them in Piscataway.  If they lose in Ann Arbor that loss might move Michigan up into the top-30 which would elevate Rutgers' earlier win to Q1.  A loss wouldn't hurt too badly because a road loss to #33 is easily Q1.  Rutgers' remaining schedule is @M, vsUW, @IU, vsPSU and they are currently 16-10/10-6.  I think they need to go at least 2-2 and vsPSU is the only one you can feel very confident about so a win here helps a lot.  A loss isn't fatal but it reduces their margin for error.  

For Michigan the biggest problem is that their total number of losses is approaching a point where it gets hard to get an at-large bid.  They are 14-11/8-7 so they don't have a lot of losses to give.  Their remaining schedule is vsRU, vsIL, vsMSU, vsIA, @tOSU.  All except this one are Q1 but Michigan probably needs to go 3-2 to feel even remotely comfortable heading into the BTT.  Having four home games certainly helps but none of Michigan's remaining opponents are easy.  By net ranking Michigan's remaining opponents are:

• #14 IL at home
• #18 IA at home
• #19 tOSU on the road
• #35 MSU at home
• #80 RU at home

At least in theory this is Michigan's easiest remaining game so while losing wouldn't be fatal it would be problematic because it would necessitate winning probably three of their other remaining four.  

[MaximumSam]

That's an interesting game tonight for Rutgers and Michigan, both needing every win they can get, and UM playing for the first time since The Incident and down two guys.

[ELA]

Phil Martelli coaching Juwans players is a scary proposition for the rest of the conference

[bayareabadger]

Phil Martelli coaching Juwans players is a scary proposition for the rest of the conference

The jokes will arrive, and Howard can't win. If they're bad, he cost them a chance at the dance. If they're good, he doesn't matter. Not like Martelli hasn't already been doing most of that work. 

[ELA]

The jokes will arrive, and Howard can't win. If they're bad, he cost them a chance at the dance. If they're good, he doesn't matter. Not like Martelli hasn't already been doing most of that work.

That's the problem, isn't it?

[bayareabadger]

Welp, Wisconsin burped up a lease 8-point lead, lost Johnny Davis in a tie game for the final 2-plus minutes. Went ahead and won anyway. 

UW functionally clinches a top-4 seed. Not too bad. 

[847badgerfan]

Any road win is a good win.

@Rutgers is gonna be a tough one this weekend.