2022-2023 B1G Basketball Thread

[ELA]

https://twitter.com/rodger/status/1636867295879233537?t=zabAYRLtPCG5X6NsltsVJA&s=19

[bayareabadger]

I'm gonna go with Tulsa v Duke in whatever year it was.  Tulsa is the tiniest in football.  That's about a 12,000 -13k student enrollment game.  FAU is north of 30k.

Fun fact: Baylor-Creighton have less combined enrollment than FAU. 

[bayareabadger]

Penny Hardaway showing why I think he’ll always accumulate talent but never win big with it.  His bench was chaos the last 5 minutes.  Had two players that had to be separated during a timeout.  The last 30 seconds he wanted to make a substitution but his player didn’t properly check in so he couldn’t enter the game.  Then at the end when Memphis lost he chucks a water bottle across the court.

He also had a kid who followed his coach’s example by picking up a stupid, unnecessary technical earlier in the second half that gave FAU two free points that made a difference in a one point win.

I don't quite know what to make of Penny because his team got better with less talent. 

This year they have two top-100 recruits, three 247 four-stars, most pretty fringy. That's basically a nice Big Ten team. 

And you'd think if he's chaotic and such behind the bench, they'd be really nice on offense because of the talent, but not on defense. Yet his second and third teams, the ones that were on the outside looking in, rocked on defense and struggled with guard play. 

So it feels like he's doing some level of coaching, but also a lot of dumb stuff. It's a very weird ride he gets to continue. 

[OrangeAfroMan]

Ah, didn't realize that.

Lets go lowest number of season ticket holders?

FYI...
There are 9 colleges & universities in Florida with 30K+ enrollment:
In order:  UCF, FIU, Florida, South Florida, FSU, Miami-Dade College, Valencia College (Orlando), Broward College, FAU

[medinabuckeye1]

Looking at our league's situation and it is not good.

None of our teams got a busted bracket, none.

Thus, in the second round we have:

• #4 IU -1.5 vs #5 Miami 
• #7 MSU +3 VS #2 Marquette 
• #10 Penn State +5.5 vs #2 Texas
• #7 Northwestern +8 vs #2 UCLA
• #8 Maryland +8.5 vs #1 Bama

I honestly believe, even after Purdue's loss that ours is s strong league. For tournament purposes though, being incredibly deep sticks us in a lot of bad matchups 

[OrangeAfroMan]

 For tournament purposes though, being incredibly deep sticks us in a lot of bad matchups

Way to be objective, lol.

[MaximumSam]

Are you actually arguing that Fairlane Dickinson (sp?) Is more talented than Purdue?

Definitely not. I'm saying Purdue doesn't have the talent of your typical 1 seed. Their starting point guard was a freshman who Purdue got over Montana and Appalachian State. 

[847badgerfan]

Looking at our league's situation and it is not good.

None of our teams got a busted bracket, none.

Thus, in the second round we have:

• #4 IU -1.5 vs #5 Miami
• #7 MSU +3 VS #2 Marquette
• #10 Penn State +5.5 vs #2 Texas
• #7 Northwestern +8 vs #2 UCLA
• #8 Maryland +8.5 vs #1 Bama

I honestly believe, even after Purdue's loss that ours is s strong league. For tournament purposes though, being incredibly deep sticks us in a lot of bad matchups

1. We can be proud that one of our teams created a busted bracket.

2. The B1G sucks.

[FearlessF]

yup, Big 12, PAC, & B1G

Overrated

[ELA]

Way to be objective, lol.

I think saying we are deep, without strength at the top hurts.  In 2005, the Big Ten only got 3 teams into the tourney, but all three made it to the Elite 8.  Is that better?

[847badgerfan]

I think saying we are deep, without strength at the top hurts.  In 2005, the Big Ten only got 3 teams into the tourney, but all three made it to the Elite 8.  Is that better?

For me, yes.

[betarhoalphadelta]

On the bright side, I at least have one bracket in the top ten in the annual pool @jhetfield99 puts together... 13/16 of the S16 round, 7/8 of the E8, and 4/4 of the F4 picks still alive. 

Had FAU beating Purdue in the R32 of that bracket. So I've got that going for me. Which is nice. 

[medinabuckeye1]

Way to be objective, lol.

1. We can be proud that one of our teams created a busted bracket.

2. The B1G sucks.

Indiana, our #4 seed won and, more impressively, the six teams we had in coin-flip type 50/50 games (7-10 seeds) went 4-2.

We ended up 5-3 overall in the first round which is almost exactly equal to expectations based on seeds.

We had a high seed lose, upsets happen. The other seven teams, based on past tournaments *should* have gone roughly 4-3 and they went 5-2.

If the league simply sucked we'd have gone 2-5 or worse with the Purdue upset.

IMHO, our high end was quite weak. Purdue wasn't all that good for a league Champ and they won the league easily. OTOH, there also wasn't much drop-off from Purdue all the way down to our 13th best team, tOSU. That is superb depth. How many leagues have 13 teams capable of playing tournament-quality ball relatively consistently?

[jhetfield99]

On the bright side, I at least have one bracket in the top ten in the annual pool @jhetfield99 puts together... 13/16 of the S16 round, 7/8 of the E8, and 4/4 of the F4 picks still alive.

Had FAU beating Purdue in the R32 of that bracket. So I've got that going for me. Which is nice.

Nice work.  I still think it's terrific my Mom that watches 0 games a year is leading the pool.