2022-2023 B1G Basketball Thread

[medinabuckeye1]

First upset, #4 Virginia goes down.

Perspective:
This is a surprising but not shocking upset. #13's generally win roughly one out of five games so slightly less than once a year, about four times every five years.

Upsets beyond #13 become increasingly rare:

• #14 is 22-126 against #3. That is less than 15%, about every other year.
• #15 is 10-138 against #2. That is less than 7%, about once every four years.
• #16 is 1-147 against #1. That is less than 1%.

[ELA]

First upset, #4 Virginia goes down.

https://twitter.com/BenRossTweets/status/1636454223633338368?t=BQQ4pyd87seFEioqliV7bQ&s=19

[medinabuckeye1]

https://twitter.com/BenRossTweets/status/1636454223633338368?t=BQQ4pyd87seFEioqliV7bQ&s=19

Feast or famine.

[medinabuckeye1]

#2 Arizona goes down.

[ELA]

Iowa-Auburn feels like it should be played in the Outback Bowl

[ELA]

https://twitter.com/runthistrain/status/1636499959577993217?t=Mg3Cb9GeJAbLCCAsnXMnYw&s=19

[CatsbyAZ]

#2 Arizona goes down.

Cue the well spoken post from @betarhoalphadelta the other day: "As fans, we become emotionally invested in the outcome of our teams...The 2019 loss was a gut punch...That one hurt, but I walked away thinking we gave our best shot and it just wasn't enough...2022? No, I walked away after that with a feeling of complete and total disgust. I walked away from that thinking: "Nope. They're never, ever going to do it. I'm not going to let them get my hopes up--and then dash them--ever again." So I went the other direction. No expectations. No interest. Harden my heart. They can win. They can lose. But if I'm no longer emotionally invested, I can't be hurt."

Oh well...☹️

In his first two seasons thus far, Arizona coach Tommy Lloyd has parlayed the Arizona program into Gonzaga 2.0, before Gonzaga started breaking through past the Sweet Sixteen fifteen years into Mark Few's tenure (1999-2013). Second Round Few, his fans referred to him.

In Mark Few's first fifteen years, Gonzaga achieved FOUR S16s, EIGHT 2nd Rnds, & THREE 1st Rnd losses. Often losing as the higher seed to more physical teams? Similar to the way Arizona were out-bodied by TCU, Houston, and now Princeton. With Euro-heavy rosters that Coach Lloyd likes putting on the court. Tommy Lloyd's Arizona Wildcats appear A LOT like Gonzaga 1999-2013, where Lloyd happened to be Mark Few's longtime assistant during that time.

[ELA]

Iowa and Auburn could save so much money by just playing coachless, it would be the same

[Kris60]

Some kid from Northwestern had a dipsy doo, behind his back,  floater in the first half that was so pretty.

Auburn starting to run away from Iowa and, yeah, they are feeding off the crowd in Birmingham.

[ELA]

I have exes who hate me less than Fran hates defense

[Kris60]

Iowa climbing back in it. Down 8 with plenty of time to go.

[MarqHusker]

so many brutal scoring droughts n these games.

[ELA]

https://twitter.com/acaseofthegolf1/status/1636537447193497600?t=Bd5TK6hadBF2PizIRp1QKw&s=19

[slugsrbad]

Andrew Funk is feeling it.