2023-2024 B1G Basketball Thread

[ELA]

I know medina has thought about how to do a tournament with 18, that includes all teams.  How about this

Make sure the regular season ends on Saturday.

Top 6 teams advance to Chicago/Indy

Then Monday-Wednesday you have two separate 6 team tournaments, hosted by the #7 and #8 teams.
#7 tournament: #7 and #10 gets byes, #11 vs. #18, #14 vs. #15
#8 tournament: #8 and #9 get byes, #12 vs. #17, #13 vs. #16

Then the two winners jump in as the #7 and #8 seeds in the 8 team BTT in Chicago/Indy, starting on Friday

[ELA]

I know medina has thought about how to do a tournament with 18, that includes all teams.  How about this

Make sure the regular season ends on Saturday.

Top 6 teams advance to Chicago/Indy

Then Monday-Wednesday you have two separate 6 team tournaments, hosted by the #7 and #8 teams.
#7 tournament: #7 and #10 gets byes, #11 vs. #18, #14 vs. #15
#8 tournament: #8 and #9 get byes, #12 vs. #17, #13 vs. #16

Then the two winners jump in as the #7 and #8 seeds in the 8 team BTT in Chicago/Indy, starting on Friday

So, using his projections, but slotting in the Pac 12 teams, based on Ken Pom...

• Wisconsin
• Purdue
• Illinois
• Michigan State
• Iowa
• Nebraska

Those teams advance to the weekend, joined by the #7 and #8 seeds, based on the winners of the two campus tourneys

• EUGENE REGION
• #14 Penn State vs. #15 Ohio State; winner vs. #7 Oregon
• #11 Maryland vs. #18 UCLA; winner vs. #10 Minnesota

• EVANSTON REGION
• #12 USC vs. #17 Michigan; winner vs. #8 Northwestern
• #13 Rutgers vs. #16 Indiana; winner vs. #9 Washington

[847badgerfan]

Chicago and Indy?

We all know they will have a tournament in SoFi, just liked they forced MSG and DC on us. Target Center this year. I hear Minnie is awesome in March.

[FearlessF]

snow

[medinabuckeye1]

So, using his projections, but slotting in the Pac 12 teams, based on Ken Pom...

• Wisconsin
• Purdue
• Illinois
• Michigan State
• Iowa
• Nebraska

Those teams advance to the weekend, joined by the #7 and #8 seeds, based on the winners of the two campus tourneys

• EUGENE REGION
• #14 Penn State vs. #15 Ohio State; winner vs. #7 Oregon
• #11 Maryland vs. #18 UCLA; winner vs. #10 Minnesota

• EVANSTON REGION
• #12 USC vs. #17 Michigan; winner vs. #8 Northwestern
• #13 Rutgers vs. #16 Indiana; winner vs. #9 Washington

This would work out particularly well if the hosts were from different time zones, especially if they were as divergent as possible. Using this as the example:
Monday:

• 4pm EST, 3 locally: USC vs M in Evanston
• 6:30 EST, 5:30 locally: RU vs IU in Evanston
• 8:30 pm EST, 5:30pm locally: PSU vs tOSU in Eugene
• 11pm EST, 8pm locally: UMD vs UCLA in Eugene

Tuesday:

• 4pm USC/M vs NU
• 630 RU/IU vs Washington
• 830 PSU/tOSU vs Oregon
• 11 UMD/UCLA vs Minnesota

Wednesday:

• 6:30pm EST, 5:30 locally: USC/M/NU vs RU/IU/UW in Evanston
• 8:30pm EST, 5:30 locally: PSU/tOSU/OR vs UMD/UCLA/MN in Eugene

Thursday travel day.


Friday-Sunday: Eight-team BTT.

[medinabuckeye1]

Ohio State managed to win a January game today . . . But it was a home game against Penn State so don't get too excited. That said, Ohio State pretty thoroughly dominated the game and led from start to finish.

The Buckeyes are now 13-5/3-4 and on the bubble according to most projected brackets. In order to make the dance they will need to improve substantially.  They are Tier-3 because they are 0-4 in games that a Tier-2 team should win and a Tier-3 team should lose (@PSU, @IU, vsUW, @M). Here are the rest of their games followed by the Tier-3 projection and projected cumulative record then what the projection would be for a Tier-2 team and the projected cumulative record that way:

• At Nebraska, L 13-6/3-5, L 13-6/3-5
• At Northwestern, L 13-7/3-6, L 13-7/3-6
• Vs Illinois, L 13-8/3-7, W 14-7/4-6
• At Iowa, L 13-9/3-8, L 14-8/4-7
• Vs Indiana,  W 14-9/4-8, W 15-8/5-7
• Vs Maryland, W 15-9/5-8, W 16-8/6-7
• At Wisconsin, L 15-10/5-9, L 16-9/6-8
• Vs Purdue, L 15-11/5-10, W 17-9/7-8
• At Minnesota, L 15-12/5-11, L 17-10/7-9
• At Michigan State, L 15-13/5-12, L 17-11/7-10
• Vs Nebraska, W 16-13/6-12, W 18-11/8-10
• Vs Michigan, W 17-13/7-12, W 19-11/9-10
• At Rutgers, L 17-14/7-13, L 19-12/10-10

Bottom line:
If the Buckeyes continue to perform like a Tier-3 B1G team they will miss the Tournament. At 17-14/7-13:they would likely start on Wednesday and even a run all the way to the CG would only get them to 21-15.

If the Buckeyes improve and perform at a Tier-2 level from here out they'll hit the BTT on the bubble at 19-12/10-10. They'll need to AT LEAST win their Thursday BTT opener and an additional win in the quarter-final on Friday would probably lock down a tournament berth.

What they really need is to perform like a Tier-1 team the rest of the way (don't laugh, they have Tier-1 talent the problemi is Tier-5 coaching). That would switch the following losses to wins:

• At Iowa (I'm preemptively assuming that we are moving Iowa down)
• At Minnesota
• At Rutgers

That would take them to 22-9/13-7 and they'd be a lock.

[boilerbanger]

In Kenpom Purdue is up to 13th now on Defense. Getting really close to Alabama for #1 on offense.

He has us winning the B10 at 16-4 now with Wisconsin at 14-6. Winning today improved our expected finish by a game. Iowa was our 3rd toughest game remaining behind @Wisconsin and [color=var(--primary-color,#185886)]@Illinois[/color].

[ELA]

MSU would be so good if we could just tie teams coming out of the half.  Been a consistent problem all year

Today got way more stressful than it should have

[MaximumSam]

Some rando trying to film herself storming the court ran over Caitlin Clark. Really what are the odds.

[FearlessF]

Matt Painter warned about this

Caitlin had a rough day

[boilerbanger]

Matt Painter warned about this

Caitlin had a rough day

I would suspect the conference will take some sort of action moving forward.  

[Brutus Buckeye]

She clearly tried to shove the fan with both hands. 


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWulT2LxDto

[FearlessF]

needs to keep her head on a swivel

[MaximumSam]

I would suspect the conference will take some sort of action moving forward. 

People had fun at a game. Someone had better stop such nonsense.