2022-2023 B1G Basketball Thread

[Kris60]

Northern Kentucky won’t go away.

[slugsrbad]

Andrew Funk is feeling it.

5-6 from 3... his only miss got wedged between the glass and the rim

[ELA]

The afternoon games were banger after banger, but the night games have been horrible

[ELA]

Seems like the Skyy Clark issue was an issue.  I don't know when, the transfer portal needs to go away. All of this was just to try and appease players not to unionize or demand payments from the school. Now that it's clear that there is plenty of money in NIL, we need to close the portal, and go back to the old eligibility rules, with no waivers.  I am totally fine with keeping completely unregulated NIL.  Do not restrict athletes earning capacity at all. But mandating a one-year red shirt to transfer, is no different than saying you can't play for 8 years.


https://twitter.com/DPiper247/status/1636528324267606016?t=VAqB6QL8jZfy6eHe5hznAg&s=19

[bayareabadger]

Seems like the Skyy Clark issue was an issue.  I don't know when, the transfer portal needs to go away. All of this was just to try and appease players not to unionize or demand payments from the school. Now that it's clear that there is plenty of money in NIL, we need to close the portal, and go back to the old eligibility rules, with no waivers.  I am totally fine with keeping completely unregulated NIL.  Do not restrict athletes earning capacity at all. But mandating a one-year red shirt to transfer, is no different than saying you can't play for 8 years.


https://twitter.com/DPiper247/status/1636528324267606016?t=VAqB6QL8jZfy6eHe5hznAg&s=19

To be clear, you don’t mean the portal as much as the free transfer thing.

I tend to agree, the speed bump thing is good. I care less about Skyy Clark. Seems like the kid had some issues. Been a just wild couple of years for Illinois on the portal front.

[bayareabadger]

Andrew Funk is feeling it.

That’s a kid I’m so mad UW didn’t get after harder. 

[medinabuckeye1]

3-2 the first day is not bad considering which five played. Friday the B1G has three favorites playing. 6-2 in the first round would be fine and 5-3 wouldn't be terrible. 

[boilerbanger]

Seems like the Skyy Clark issue was an issue.  I don't know when, the transfer portal needs to go away. All of this was just to try and appease players not to unionize or demand payments from the school. Now that it's clear that there is plenty of money in NIL, we need to close the portal, and go back to the old eligibility rules, with no waivers.  I am totally fine with keeping completely unregulated NIL.  Do not restrict athletes earning capacity at all. But mandating a one-year red shirt to transfer, is no different than saying you can't play for 8 years.


https://twitter.com/DPiper247/status/1636528324267606016?t=VAqB6QL8jZfy6eHe5hznAg&s=19

I believe Illinois has another kid coming in next year that is full of drama also, he is from Lafayette and decommitted from Purdue to go to Illinois and I am fine with it.

[FearlessF]

A short time ago, with the Hawkeyes trailing by double-digits, USA TODAY's Dan Wolken took aim at Iowa head coach Fran McCaffery--and his football counterpart Kirk Ferentz.

"It’s mind boggling what Iowa puts up with from its two longtime coaches," Wolken tweeted. "Barring a huge comeback, it’ll be four NCAA tournament wins for Fran in 13 years there. Never been to the Sweet 16 as a head coach at any of his stops."

[rolltidefan]

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.

auburn is pure emotion. when feeling it, they can be deadly. but they can, and often have this season, fallen to it as well. i don't expect a close game vs houston. they'll either be sky high and win convincingly, or fall flat and get drummed.

[NickSmith4Three]

Skyy Clark's timing of his announcement that he has committed to Louisville 5 minutes after the Illinois loss was a nice touch. 

Matthew Mayer allegedly punched Clark in the locker room early in the season.  Clark lost his starting job and left the team.  Mayer and others apparently would never run plays that Underwood would call.  This season was a tough one to get through.  I admit I was excited in the beginning of the season because it looked like they had brought in some talent when they lost most of the roster.  Not having an experienced PG was really tough and they won't have one next year unless they find one in the portal.

Underwood has had some good success in the B10 (not NCAA obviously) but he has had Ayo and Kofi to carry his teams.  6 years in or so and I am still not really sure what the Brad Underwood Illinois offense identity is.

[medinabuckeye1]

Winning percentage by seed in second round games:

• .857 #1 seeds, 126-21
• .674 #2 seeds, 93-45
• .611 #3 seeds, 77-49
• .598 #4 seeds 70-47
• .526 #5 seeds 50-45
• .473 #6 seeds 43-48
• .456 #11 seeds 26-31
• .415 #12 seeds 22-31
• .414 #10 seeds 24-34
• .311 #7 seeds 28-62
• .300 #15 seeds 3-7
• .211 #8 seeds 15-56
• .194 #13 seeds 6-25
• .091 #9 seeds 7-70
• .091 #14 seeds 2-20
• .000 #16 seeds 0-1

[longhorn320]

Winning percentage by seed in second round games:

• .857 #1 seeds, 126-21
• .674 #2 seeds, 93-45
• .611 #3 seeds, 77-49
• .598 #4 seeds 70-47
• .526 #5 seeds 50-45
• .473 #6 seeds 43-48
• .456 #11 seeds 26-31
• .415 #12 seeds 22-31
• .414 #10 seeds 24-34
• .311 #7 seeds 28-62
• .300 #15 seeds 3-7
• .211 #8 seeds 15-56
• .194 #13 seeds 6-25
• .091 #9 seeds 7-70
• .091 #14 seeds 2-20
• .000 #16 seeds 0-1

this doesnt make sense 
doesnt the number 1 seed play the 16th seed and so on
here the number 1 seed has played a total of 258 games but the number 16 has played only 1 time
seems like they should be roughly the same

[medinabuckeye1]

Winning percentage in S16 games:

• .802 #1 seeds 101-25
• .720 #2 seeds 67-26
• .600 #8 seeds 9-6
• .571 #9 seeds 4-3
• .481 #3 seeds 37-40
• .375 #10 seeds 9-15
• .357 #7 seeds 10-18
• .349 #6 seeds 15-28
• .346 #11 seeds 9-17
• .333 #15 seeds 1-2
• .314 #4 seeds 22-48
• .200 #5 seeds 10-40
• .091 #12 seeds 2-20
• .000 #13 seeds 0-6
• .000 #14 seeds 0-2
• n/a #16 seeds 0-0