2022-2023 B1G Basketball Thread

[TyphonInc]

I'm proud how his Buckeye team finished their season.

I don't know where/how/why OSU lost 14/15 games mid season. But to finish 7-2 with he season basically over tells me there is hope for improvement.

[bayareabadger]

I'm proud how his Buckeye team finished their season.

I don't know where/how/why OSU lost 14/15 games mid season. But to finish 7-2 with he season basically over tells me there is hope for improvement.

At the very least, not much give up. (God I wish they'd given up)

[FearlessF]

10 seed is in

[medinabuckeye1]

I'm proud how his Buckeye team finished their season.

I don't know where/how/why OSU lost 14/15 games mid season. But to finish 7-2 with he season basically over tells me there is hope for improvement.

It was 5-2 not 7-2. The bigger issue, as you pointed out, was that they won their first game in January and their last game in February but went 1-14 between those.

[MarqHusker]

If tomorrow was IU v Purdue,  I'd watch it since it isnt i won't watch a dribble of PSU v Purdue.  Am I alone in this?

[ELA]

If tomorrow was IU v Purdue,  I'd watch it since it isnt i won't watch a dribble of PSU v Purdue.  Am I alone in this?

I feel the same either way.  I think pre-realignment, certain conference tournaments, specifically the ACC and Big East, had some oomph behind them.  Now, it's fun to watch good basketball, but it largely no more important than a regular season game.  The one bid league tourneys are way more fun to watch.  I will say Indiana-Purdue would be fun as a rivalry.  OSU-either would be fun because one team was playing for their tourney lives.  But largely this is what it is.  Did anyone care about Purdue-Iowa last year?  I'll watch it, what else is there, but it's on par with the P5 conference tourneys in general.  And I say that as someone who used to put Championship Week on only a half tier behind the NCAA tourney

[ELA]

Also no disrespect to Big Ten baseball, but the Big Ten sports season is both starting and ending with Penn State-Purdue

[medinabuckeye1]

Purdue has literally almost the easiest possible path to a B1G Tournament Championship:

• Friday they got #9 Rutgers instead of #8 Michigan 
• Saturday they got #13 Ohio State instead of #4 MSU, #5 Iowa, or #12 Wisconsin. 
• Sunday they get #10 Penn State avoiding #2, #3, #6, and #7.

[betarhoalphadelta]

Purdue has literally almost the easiest possible path to a B1G Tournament Championship:

• Friday they got #9 Rutgers instead of #8 Michigan
• Saturday they got #13 Ohio State instead of #4 MSU, #5 Iowa, or #12 Wisconsin.
• Sunday they get #10 Penn State avoiding #2, #3, #6, and #7.

We know how well they take advantage of broken brackets... 

[medinabuckeye1]

We know how well they take advantage of broken brackets...

I'm not sure that it matters and to the extent that it does I think Purdue would have been better off playing a tougher path because beating M, MSU, and IU would have buttressed their argument for a #1 seed a lot more than beating RU, tOSU, and PSU.

The RU/M difference is probably irrelevant and PU was probably better off playing tournament-bound RU but the other two are a big difference. Beating non-tournament tOSU and slightly above bubble PSU is just a lot less impressive than MSU/IU.

[FearlessF]

If tomorrow was IU v Purdue,  I'd watch it since it isnt i won't watch a dribble of PSU v Purdue.  Am I alone in this?

Also no disrespect to Big Ten baseball, but the Big Ten sports season is both starting and ending with Penn State-Purdue

I'll be watching rooting for PSU (underdog) since the Husker baseball game isn't televised

[medinabuckeye1]

Eight years ago today I was in Chicago for the 2015 B1G Tournament. I met up with @nuwildcat aka Marcel Pianist, visited Navy Pier and Cheeseborger Cheeseborger and saw them dye the river green for Pi Day.

Pi Day in 2015 was really special because it was 3.14.15!

[bayareabadger]

Wisconsin isn’t going to make it, despite having a base resume (I.e. quad wins) that is probably good enough. 

My gut is that wins volume is putting them at the edge and advanced metrics (NET, KenPom)/resume metrics are not boosting them enough. 

A part of me wonders if a canceled game not getting canceled would’ve helped, just to be 18-14 (though there was slight loss potential). I’m either case, this team had nine close game opportunities it lost, and showed up like crap in Chicago, so you get what you get. 

[medinabuckeye1]

Wow, exciting ending in Chicago. All of a sudden this is a one point game.