2023-2024 B1G Basketball Thread

[847badgerfan]

Watch this Twitter.

Wisconsin On BTN on X: "Tyler Wahl takes it right at the reigning NPOY. @tjwahl01 x @BadgerMBB 📺: FOX/@CBBonFOX https://t.co/KSNFFXPAGB" / X (twitter.com)
Wisconsin On BTN on X: "Tyler Wahl takes it right at the reigning NPOY. @tjwahl01 x @BadgerMBB 📺: FOX/@CBBonFOX https://t.co/KSNFFXPAGB" / X (twitter.com)

[MaximumSam]

Watch this Twitter.

Wisconsin On BTN on X: "Tyler Wahl takes it right at the reigning NPOY. @tjwahl01 x @BadgerMBB 📺: FOX/@CBBonFOX https://t.co/KSNFFXPAGB" / X (twitter.com)
Wisconsin On BTN on X: "Tyler Wahl takes it right at the reigning NPOY. @tjwahl01 x @BadgerMBB 📺: FOX/@CBBonFOX https://t.co/KSNFFXPAGB" / X (twitter.com)

I mean, nice play by Wahl, but Edey finished with more points and rebounds than Wahl and Crowl did combined. He had more blocks than the entire Wisconsin team.

[847badgerfan]

All because he is simply huge, and you can't touch him.

[FearlessF]

He's tall

[MaximumSam]

All because he is simply huge, and you can't touch him.

Who knew being tall was helpful for basketball

[847badgerfan]

Who knew being tall was helpful for basketball

If he was a foot shorter, he would not be playing basketball.

[MaximumSam]

If he was a foot shorter, he would not be playing basketball.

If he was a foot shorter, Michael Jordan would have spent most of his time playing penny slots

[847badgerfan]

Comparing the best player of all time to a 7-4 Elbowsaurus is not a good argument, counselor.

[MaximumSam]

Comparing the best player of all time to a 7-4 Elbowsaurus is not a good argument, counselor.

We are talking about a foot shorter Michael Jordan, who would have been the annoying guy in rec league yelling at everyone who misses a shot and then goes back home to his parent's house

[847badgerfan]

He still would have been better than Muggsy.

[ELA]

@ELA
Will there be a B1G Tournament game this year?

I don't think I've done one in years

[medinabuckeye1]

I don't think I've done one in years

I thought so, just checking

[medinabuckeye1]

Regular season complete NET and KenPom for all B1G teams, sorted by NET:

• 2 Purdue, 3
• 15 Illinois, 10
• 22 Wisconsin, 21
• 25 Michigan State, 19
• 37 Nebraska, 32
• 50 Northwestern, 42
• 54 Ohio State, 49
• 60 Iowa, 52
• 77 Maryland, 58
• 86 Minnesota, 75
• 89 Penn State, 77
• 93 Indiana, 86
• 102 Rutgers, 98
• 132 Michigan, 127

Is Northwestern in any danger of missing the NCAA Tournament? They went 12-8 in the league and 21-10 overall which *should* be safely in but their computer numbers are barely better than tOSU/Iowa. 

Northwestern is the BTT #4 seed so on Friday they will play either:

• #5 Wisconsin, or
• #12 Maryland, or
• #13 Rutgers 

Northwestern is clearly in with a Friday win and I think they'd be OK with a loss to Wisconsin but would a loss to Maryland or Rutgers knock them out?


As I see it:
Top five are clearly in. 

Bottom six can't make it without winning the BTT. 

That leaves Northwestern, Ohio State, and Iowa:
Northwestern, might need to avoid a bad loss.

Iowa/Ohio State: Loser of their game on Thursday is out. Winner of their game might need to beat Illinois on Friday. Either is pretty safely in with a win over Illinois. 

[bayareabadger]

Only because I peruse Outkick did I notice this oddity, but one of their prominent columnists, David Hookstead, who covers a wide range of topics, takes free reign to post article after article on Wisconsin basketball. No other program gets close to this amount of devoted coverage on Outkick, a website that isn't geared toward college basketball.

Everything from betting, postgame analysis, criticisms of Gard, social media reactions: https://www.outkick.com/category/wisconsin-badgers

Definitely contributes his share of chicken little-ing:


https://twitter.com/dhookstead/status/1765816104390099237

That man is an annoying dink. He's also spent a long time living the old blogger lifestyle writing random stuff that he just feels like and putting it on his employer's sites. He use to sneak UW blog posts onto sites that didn't do sports coverage at all (they would mention sports when they crossed over to politics).