2022-2023 B1G Basketball Thread

[bayareabadger]

Wisconsin won another NIT game, this one in dumber fashion than the last. 

They're really making some of those edge of the roster guys wait on these transfers.

[ELA]

Wisconsin won another NIT game, this one in dumber fashion than the last.

They're really making some of those edge of the roster guys wait on these transfers.

It's just the South Park youth baseball episode

[847badgerfan]

Wisconsin won another NIT game, this one in dumber fashion than the last.

They're really making some of those edge of the roster guys wait on these transfers.

I'm surprised they won out there.

[bayareabadger]

I'm surprised they won out there.

They did spend like 38 minutes playing like they absolutely had no business doing so.

[847badgerfan]

So I read.

[ELA]

Dana Altman seems mad that fans aren't happy that he didn't do a very good job this year


https://twitter.com/MattNorlander/status/1638529687004561410?t=Z0DGezKts8mpy71MUrH5nA&s=19

[847badgerfan]

Wow...

Seems to me the game has past him by, and that he knows it. 

Ya gotta promote these days.

[medinabuckeye1]

In deference to the Badgers who have made it to the Final Four of the NIT, the only B1G team still playing toward their initial goal is MSU.

The Spartans face Kansas State tonight at 630 in NYC on TBS.  According to my phone MSU is favored by a point over the Wildcats despite being a #7 seed playing a #3 seed. Apparently the wise guys who set the lines are familiar with the name Tom Izzo.

If the Spartans win they'll get the FAU/TN winner on Saturday for a spot in the Final Four in Houston. 

Go Green, Go White, a final four for MSU would help the league's reputation after taking a (mostly) undeserved hit the first weekend. 

[medinabuckeye1]

Go Green, Go White, a final four for MSU would help the league's reputation after taking a (mostly) undeserved hit the first weekend.

I say that this hit was mostly undeserved because the first weekend for the B1G consisted of:

• Seven teams performing roughly as expected based on their seeds, and
• One team taking a historically awful upset loss.

The seven B1G Tournament teams not named Purdue consisted of:

• A #4 seed
• Two #7 seeds
• Two #8 seeds
• A #9 seed
• A #10 seed

Those seeds have historically averaged 3.88 teams in the second round and 1.27 teams in the S16. That group did a little better than average in first round games and a little worse than average in second round games. In thr latter case the average result rounds to the actual result so basically what I am saying is that those seven teams performed about as close to expectations as possible. No better, no worse.

Our problem was that six of our eight Tournament teams were on the #7-10 lines where game one is roughly a coin-flip and game #2 is nearly impossible. That is not a complaint, it is the nature of the Tournament. Slightly above average P5 teams generally get slotted in as roughly #7-10 seeds and we had a slew of slightly better than average teams. It is what it is.

Purdue's loss was historically awful but it shouldn't really tarnish Purdue's reputation much and it definitely shouldn't tarnish the reputation of the league as a whole. Upsets happen. 

After Virginia lost as a #1 seed neither they specifically nor ACC BB in general disappeared. On the contrary, UVA won the NC the next year.

[ELA]

The Spartans face Kansas State tonight at 630 in NYC on TBS.  According to my phone MSU is favored by a point over the Wildcats despite being a #7 seed playing a #3 seed. Apparently the wise guys who set the lines are familiar with the name Tom Izzo.

Based on KenPom, KSU should be about a 2 point favorite, so I did hear them say they figure Izzo must be worth about one basket

[ELA]

I knew Kansas state's two best players were transfers, I didn't realize they didn't have a single kid on their entire roster who started there. I mean I get why their coach did it, and clearly it worked, but I can't imagine caring at all how that team did if I was a fan

[ELA]

This is the MSU perimeter defense we saw down the stretch

[longhorn320]

I knew Kansas state's two best players were transfers, I didn't realize they didn't have a single kid on their entire roster who started there. I mean I get why their coach did it, and clearly it worked, but I can't imagine caring at all how that team did if I was a fan

not sure that makes any difference
if a team is a winner they will always have plenty of fans

[MaximumSam]

I knew Kansas state's two best players were transfers, I didn't realize they didn't have a single kid on their entire roster who started there. I mean I get why their coach did it, and clearly it worked, but I can't imagine caring at all how that team did if I was a fan

Probably helps getting to watch Nowell