2024-2025 B1G Basketball Thread

[ELA]

Hunter Dickinson has made a lot of money for a guy who was good as a 20 year old freshman in the COVID bubble, and then helped his next 4 teams underachieve

[OrangeAfroMan]

I am not one to complain about winning games between ranked teams, but that game was a tough watch, and honestly I cant imagine anyone logging on to Peacock to watch a regular season basketball game?

A)  you sound like a great SEC fan
B)  what a great thing to model after (where college football is headed)

[847badgerfan]

Hunter Dickinson has made a lot of money for a guy who was good as a 20 year old freshman in the COVID bubble, and then helped his next 4 teams underachieve

Kansas also has the notorious AJ Storr as a cancer.

[CatsbyAZ]

San Diego St game last night, blew out Fresno St:

[medinabuckeye1]

As I pointed out, their starting 4, who is #2 on the team in rebounds and #1 in blocks, broke his wrist.  And they still have Purdue, Wisconsin and Michigan left.  As a fan of a team who would like those teams to lose I hate it, because I can't imagine Illinois beating any of those 4 teams with 6 guys, but there is a great chance they lose 4 more games because they are already thin.

Torvik says even if they lost those 4 games, they'd be the top 7 seed, at 18-13.  This is where I hate the predictive metrics when it comes to selection.  They would have 3 Top 40 wins, all home/neutral.  One Top 60 road win, on January 2 at Oregon

I didn't see that and my thought was that I wished tOSU played them a little later.

[bayareabadger]

Hunter Dickinson has made a lot of money for a guy who was good as a 20 year old freshman in the COVID bubble, and then helped his next 4 teams underachieve

What a weird career. Like he has been in terms of the playing of basketball pretty good to excellent for five years. But as said, hasn’t been on a particularly good team after that first year.

Some of that feels like a question of supporting cast, but it’s not like the supporting casts have lacked for talent. And it’s not like Self is a bad coach. Just a productive player, who isn’t quite the centerpiece of some messy teams

[847badgerfan]

[bayareabadger]

As I pointed out, their starting 4, who is #2 on the team in rebounds and #1 in blocks, broke his wrist.  And they still have Purdue, Wisconsin and Michigan left.  As a fan of a team who would like those teams to lose I hate it, because I can't imagine Illinois beating any of those 4 teams with 6 guys, but there is a great chance they lose 4 more games because they are already thin.

Torvik says even if they lost those 4 games, they'd be the top 7 seed, at 18-13.  This is where I hate the predictive metrics when it comes to selection.  They would have 3 Top 40 wins, all home/neutral.  One Top 60 road win, on January 2 at Oregon

Six guys? It looks like they’re fully healthy rotation went to eight or nine deep?

[847badgerfan]

What a weird career. Like he has been in terms of the playing of basketball pretty good to excellent for five years. But as said, hasn’t been on a particularly good team after that first year.

Some of that feels like a question of supporting cast, but it’s not like the supporting casts have lacked for talent. And it’s not like Self is a bad coach. Just a productive player, who isn’t quite the centerpiece of some messy teams

Do we know for sure?

Now that everyone is getting paid above the table, he's not so hot.

[847badgerfan]

Six guys? It looks like they’re fully healthy rotation went to eight or nine deep?

They were missing players. Underwood cancelled the handshake line because almost all of his players are sick.

[bayareabadger]

Do we know for sure?

Now that everyone is getting paid above the table, he's not so hot.

I was sort of skeptical too, but apparently other coaches speak highly of him in terms of tactics and program building.

[bayareabadger]

They were missing players. Underwood cancelled the handshake line because almost all of his players are sick.

They played 7 last night, and an eighth started, but I think ended up too sick to go. 

[847badgerfan]

Yep.

[ELA]

Six guys? It looks like they’re fully healthy rotation went to eight or nine deep?

They only played 7 against MSU, and Johnson was one of them.  because of constant injuries and illness, they've had to go to some other guys, but fully functioning, it's 7 sometimes 8, and now one is her