2021-2022 B1G Basketball thread

[ELA]

Can Fran ever just be not angry about something?

[MaximumSam]

That was too much Fran face

[ELA]

Does the winner of the Arkansas-A&M SEC semi get the SWC Championship title?

[MarqHusker]

They should fly over to Jerry World to place this or the Mavs arena.

[bayareabadger]

CUSA possibly just became a two bid league now in one of the ugliest games you'll ever see.

We'll see if North Texas still gets an at large bid

Bad afternoon for bubble teams whose season was already over

down to the wire for the presumptive favorite spot in that league‘s title game.

[medinabuckeye1]

He has you in the golden cage of having relatively good, but not better than that, basketball teams. Sorry about that.

This, exactly this. He isn't a terrible coach. If I were tOSU's AD this would be a very tough situation. His teams aren't terrible. They are good but not better than that so here we are. 

If tOSU had missed the last two tournaments it would be an easy decision to fire him.

If tOSU had any combination of two S16's/league titles in his tenure it would be an easy decision to extend his contract and give him a raise.

Instead we are in this limbo land. He isn't performing poorly enough to fire him nor good enough to extend him. So now what?

If I were tOSU's AD I'd just not extend and when his contract comes up I'd offer no raise and a short extension. If he balked I'd wish him the best and point to the door. Similarly if, say Kentucky made him an offer and he asked me to match I'd wish him good luck with the Wildcats. 

[medinabuckeye1]

Heres to hoping to not get upset in the tourney.

Well, good news! We probably aren't going to be seeded high enough to need to worry about getting upset.

[medinabuckeye1]

But that was a journey I had to go on because UW kept getting good seeds and made it every damn year

I had to make this journey too. I used to think it was "failure" to lose as a higher seed. By that measure most P5 teams fail annually. 

I think the fair way to measure tournament performance is to compare to what teams at a particular seed usually accomplish. I wouldn't mind tOSU's #2 seed upset loss to #15 last year so much if it were offset by a #5 seed or #11 seed S16 appearance. 

The problem, of course, is that the only offset is an upset win in a 6/11 game. 

[ELA]

This is quite bad basketball

[ELA]

That half court heave was not one of the 10 ugliest shots that was attempted during that half

[MaximumSam]

This, exactly this. He isn't a terrible coach. If I were tOSU's AD this would be a very tough situation. His teams aren't terrible. They are good but not better than that so here we are.

If tOSU had missed the last two tournaments it would be an easy decision to fire him.

If tOSU had any combination of two S16's/league titles in his tenure it would be an easy decision to extend his contract and give him a raise.

Instead we are in this limbo land. He isn't performing poorly enough to fire him nor good enough to extend him. So now what?

If I were tOSU's AD I'd just not extend and when his contract comes up I'd offer no raise and a short extension. If he balked I'd wish him the best and point to the door. Similarly if, say Kentucky made him an offer and he asked me to match I'd wish him good luck with the Wildcats.

I will continue the drumbeat that conference titles and tourney advancement are fun and great, they are awful measures for judging the coach. The team was top 15 the last two years and likely would have been again this year if not for some rotten injury luck. That's not something you throw away willingly if you want to keep your job.

[ELA]

As soon as Hall missed both FTs to push it to 8, and UW came down at hit a 3, you know it is another Wisconsin close game victory

[ELA]

If Tyson Walker had Max Christie's confidence, he'd be an all-Big Ten player

[ELA]

If MSU could make a FT this would already be over.  Unbelievable