2022-2023 B1G Basketball Thread

[ELA]

If Michigan wins tomorrow, they are alone in 2nd.  If Illinois wins it's a 7 way tie for 2nd, and would be 8 if MSU-Minnesota hadn't been cancelled

[847badgerfan]

F Michigan.

[847badgerfan]

Edey is gonna be a "big" problem for UW tonight. Thankfully it's a 9PM tip so I don't have to see it.

[ELA]

It's 11:19 the morning after a double tier upset night, and no update.

medina is becoming the Chris Holtsman of updating tiers.  

[medinabuckeye1]

It's 11:19 the morning after a double tier upset night, and no update.

medina is becoming the Chris Holtsman of updating tiers. 

LoL.

I do updates after the week's games so tonight or tomorrow morning. 

Besides I'm home with multiple sick kids.

[medinabuckeye1]

The only way our league title race will continue into the weekend is if Michigan wins in Champagne-Urbana AND Purdue loses in Madison. 

Purdue clinches an outright title with either:

• A Michigan loss to Illinois, or
• A win over Wisconsin. 

Purdue has clinched the BTT's #1 seed regardless because they would win a tie with the Wolverines. 

This is unusual this late in the season but Illinois and Rutgers both still in positions where they could end up either tied for one of the top-4 spots (double-bye) or tied for one of the bottom four spots (play on Wednesday).

Michigan State still has a path to a doube-bye but it is REALLY narrow.

The only clinched seeds are:

• #1 Purdue 
• #13 Ohio State 
• #14 Minnesota 

Tonight we have:

• Michigan at Illinois, 7 ESPN
• Rutgers at Minnesota, 7 FS1
• Purdue at Wisconsin, 9 FS1

[ELA]

LoL.

I do updates after the week's games so tonight or tomorrow morning.

Besides I'm home with multiple sick kids.

I've got norovirus.  Rub some dirt on it, I need to know when I can start bitching about Rutgers refusing to accomodate a school shooting costing us a double bye!

[ELA]

Here's my crack at it after the last two days.

• 15-5/26-5 Purdue
• 12-8/20-11 Iowa
• 12-8/21-10 Indiana
• 12-8/20-11 Rutgers
• 11-8/19-11 Michigan State
• 11-9/20-11 Maryland
• 11-9/17-14 Michigan
• 11-9/20-11 Illinois
• 11-9/20-11 Northwestern
• 10-10/19-12 Penn State
• 9-11/17-13 Wisconsin
• 8-12/15-16 Nebraska
• 5-15/13-18 Ohio State
• 1-18/7-22 Minnesota

[ELA]

Here's my crack at it after the last two days.

• 15-5/26-5 Purdue
• 12-8/20-11 Iowa
• 12-8/21-10 Indiana
• 12-8/20-11 Rutgers
• 11-8/19-11 Michigan State
• 11-9/20-11 Maryland
• 11-9/17-14 Michigan
• 11-9/20-11 Illinois
• 11-9/20-11 Northwestern
• 10-10/19-12 Penn State
• 9-11/17-13 Wisconsin
• 8-12/15-16 Nebraska
• 5-15/13-18 Ohio State
• 1-18/7-22 Minnesota

Which also means if MSU got to play that Minnesota game, they'd move up to #3, and knock Rutgers down to playing Thursday.  Nice job you Scarlet cowards.  I wish you were worried about AAC positioning, as you deserve

[bayareabadger]

I guess Wisconsin‘s point guard practiced yesterday after some kind of knee thing. It all feels like a stupid smokescreen to me, and I’m gonna assume he can’t go up until he does and doesn’t look terrible.

[847badgerfan]

They have looked better without him lately. Seems to be in a funk.

[medinabuckeye1]

I've got norovirus.  Rub some dirt on it, I need to know when I can start bitching about Rutgers refusing to accomodate a school shooting costing us a double bye!

I was working on this in my head earlier. Assuming:

• Illinois beats Michigan in Champagne-Urbana tonight and
• Rutgers beats Minnesota in Minneapolis tonight

Then going into everyone's final game MSU will be in 9th place 1/2 game behind a seven-way tie for second.

In order to get a double-bye the Spartans would need all but two of the teams tied for 2nd to lose this weekend.

Good news:
Two of them will definitely lose!

Bad news:
Two of them will definitely win.

The above is because Michigan visits Bloomington and Northwestern visits Piscataway.

Thus, the Spartans would need to beat Ohio State AND they would need the other three 11-8 teams to all lose. They all play on Sunday:

• Maryland is at Penn State at noon on BTN
• Illinois is at Purdue at 12:30 on FOX
• Iowa hosts Nebraska at 2 on BTN.

If all of that happened then:

• Purdue would get the #1 seed.
• The M/IU and RU/NU winners would get the #2 and #3 seeds at 12-8. 
• MSU would get the #4 seed at 11-8. 

[ELA]

Watching the women's tournament today, I think it has changed more rapidly than the men's game.  MSU seemed to be content with holding steady, which was good enough to be the 3rd best team in the Big Ten a decade ago.  Nebraska plays aggressively horrible basketball.  Horribly coached, but they have some 3 point shooters.  That's their jam, and maybe that's enough now?  They don't even scheme open 3s.  It's like early John Beilein, when he was the only guy who knew 3 > 2.  It's just jacking up contested 3s, and hoping you make enough of them.

Nebraska literally runs zero offensive schemes.  It's just throw the ball around the perimeter, and then someone decides to shoot it.  That was Beilein's offense at WVU and early UM

[grillrat]

Hmmm.  Purdue basketball recruit Kanon Catchings just vaulted up to #17 in 247's 2024 rankings.  If that holds, he will be Purdue's highest ranked recruit for Painter (the only other 5 star being Swanigan).