2022-2023 B1G Basketball Thread

[ELA]

As a Boiler fan, congrats on the win last night, looked ugly at the start but they got rolling with the 3s.  Gets us 1 step closer to locking up the BIG regular season title, now rooting for Illinois on Thursday.

Can they officially knock out Indiana at home on Saturday?

[grillrat]

If NW loses on Thursday and Purdue wins on Saturday, it is pretty much officially over.  The boilers would be two games ahead with only two games remaining.  IU would be 4 games back and no official shot.

[medinabuckeye1]

Can they officially knock out Indiana at home on Saturday?

Mathematically here is where we are:

If Purdue wins on Saturday that eliminates all the seven-loss teams:

• Indiana
• Illinois 
• Maryland 
• Iowa
• MSU
• Rutgers 
• Michigan 

Maryland (vs MN), Iowa (at UW), and IL (vs NU) could be eliminated before that by losing today or tomorrow. Also, the loser of the Michigan at Rutgers game tomorrow night will be eliminated. 

If Northwestern loses at Illinois tomorrow night then a Purdue win Saturday would clinch AT LEAST a share of the title for Purdue.

[847badgerfan]

It burns me that Wisconsin was once 12-2 and was a team that went to the wire with Kansas.

It was a 3 seed. It's now gonna be an NIT team.

Wisconsin went to the NCAA Tournament 19 years in a row before it missed out in 2018.

This will be second time under Gard that they will miss. So, 2 misses in 7 years.

I'm totally not used to this.

[medinabuckeye1]

It burns me that Wisconsin was once 12-2 and was a team that went to the wire with Kansas.

It was a 3 seed. It's now gonna be an NIT team.

Wisconsin went to the NCAA Tournament 19 years in a row before it missed out in 2018.

This will be second time under Gard that they will miss. So, 2 misses in 7 years.

I'm totally not used to this.

Trade ya.

[bayareabadger]

It burns me that Wisconsin was once 12-2 and was a team that went to the wire with Kansas.

It was a 3 seed. It's now gonna be an NIT team.

Wisconsin went to the NCAA Tournament 19 years in a row before it missed out in 2018.

This will be second time under Gard that they will miss. So, 2 misses in 7 years.

I'm totally not used to this.

3-seed? I don’t think they were ever that good.

It’s been interesting because this seems like either a development problem or good players needing to play better, more than anything.

I think in some spots there was too much confidence in the portal, but that will happen. Interesting moving forward is what sort of transfer losses they suffer. In theory, with the two freshmen bigs coming in, running it back is the least an appetizing option.

[847badgerfan]

3-seed? I don’t think they were ever that good.

It’s been interesting because this seems like either a development problem or good players needing to play better, more than anything.

I think in some spots there was too much confidence in the portal, but that will happen. Interesting moving forward is what sort of transfer losses they suffer. In theory, with the two freshmen bigs coming in, running it back is the least an appetizing option.

Lunardi had them as a 3 early on.

[ELA]

I had Wisconsin up to a #4 in mid-December in my bracket.  But also wanted to point out this response to medina's tiers having Wisconsin being 4-6 after 10 conference games 

This won't be close.

[847badgerfan]

The way they were playing at the time, it sure didn't look like that was gonna come out.

[ELA]

The tiers know all

[ELA]

Why did Meechie Johnson transfer out?  I had totally forgot about him, until watching him play for South Carolina tonight

[bayareabadger]

I thought UW could win. I did not think it would be comfortable at the end. 

Basically played a deeply close game, then had a spurt between the 10:30 mark and the last media timeout (19-6 run).

UW actually hit 2s, which never happens. Bad from 3. Free throws still trash. Iowa offense just evaporated. Which we will take. 

So UW clinches at least a .500 record on the year and a kind of wonky finish.

The most important game remains the last one. If they beat Minnesota on the road, they head to the BTT at least in the bubble convo. This sport is dumb, so they could also crap the bed.

The other two games are odd. They'll be solid underdogs at Michigan and hosting Purdue. They shouldn't win either, but each of those teams has had flighty moments and the sport is dumb. 

[bayareabadger]

Why did Meechie Johnson transfer out?  I had totally forgot about him, until watching him play for South Carolina tonight

Greener grass and such?

[ELA]

Greener grass and such?

As I recall, he got a decent amount of playing time