2024-2025 B1G Basketball Thread

[ELA]

OSU plays like an AAU team.  They are completely unorganized on both ends.  When they make 3s they look good, when they dont they dont

[ELA]

Big win for Creighton, they were trending towards missing the tourney, and the Big East in general had looked bad

[FearlessF]

makes Huskers win over the jays look better

[ELA]

its sad what has happened to the Barn.  This used to be the toughest arena in the conference.  It was dark, and loud.  They tirned up the lights, and the fans stopped coming.  at this point just build a new gym, bc you've taken all the charm out of it

[ELA]

Nice of the refs to pull an Auburn player aside from 4 Duke players.

Duke = Chiefs

[ELA]

I would love a Purdue-Duke game with Robbie Hummell and Jay Bilas announcing.  We could do a drinking game where you take a shot every time they pretend to be neutral.

They are both good at their job, but man they call like 90% of their alma maters games, and play coy

[medinabuckeye1]

OSU plays like an AAU team.  They are completely unorganized on both ends.  When they make 3s they look good, when they dont they dont

It makes it all random.  Creighton can beat Kansas or lose to Nebraska.  

For Ohio State specifically, they started out looking great with a neutral-site win over a ranked Texas team.  That Texas team hasn't lost since so the win is holding up nicely.  In that game the Buckeyes shot 50% from three at 14-28 consisting of:

• 4-4 Mobley
• 3-4 Thornton
• 3-6 Parrish
• 2-4 Royal
• 2-7 Johnson
• 0-1 Stewart
• 0-2 Bradshaw

Last night against Maryland the Buckeyes shot barely over 20% from three at 4-19 consisting of:

• 3-6 Mobley
• 1-6 Johnson
• 0-1 Njegovan
• 0-1 Thornton
• 0-2 Royal
• 0-3 Parrish

It is almost completely explained by the three point shooting (against Texas) or lack thereof (against Maryland).  Around 50% last night would be 5-6 more made threes which is 15-18 points and they lost by 14.  

The Buckeye Bigs (from the portal and homegrown) don't look impressive so it looks like the Buckeyes will live and die by the three this year which likely means that they'll have a punchers chance against anyone but at the same time a legitimate chance of losing against anyone.  

Last night was just a godawful shooting night.  I mean, they only hit barely over 60% of their freaking free-throws.  

[MaximumSam]

It is almost completely explained by the three point shooting (against Texas) or lack thereof (against Maryland).  Around 50% last night would be 5-6 more made threes which is 15-18 points and they lost by 14. 

They lost by 24 and that was after being down by 40 in the second half. It wasn't just a rough shooting night.

[ELA]

Pretty big statement from PSU.  Really aggressive defense in the half court.  Led Purdue by 26 late, and won by 11

[Brutus Buckeye]

Well that football season didn't finish so hot, time to pivot to Basketball for some much needed relief... 

  

So, yeah. Really looking forward to those CFB playoffs. 

[ELA]

Also, not sure the tier projections hold anymore, because I don't think home court holds the same sway it did even 10 years ago, and nobody knows what the cross country road games are going to mean.

Based off KenPom, it would be...

• 1 - Illinois, Oregon, Michigan, Purdue, UCLA, Maryland
• 2 - OSU, MSU, PSU, Wisconsin
• 3 - Nebraska, Indiana, Iowa
• 4 - Northwestern, Rutgers, Washington
• 5 - USC, Minnesota

We even had 6 through last year, so my inclination is to at least have 7, so here is what my edits would be in splitting them out to get to 7.  I combined what I think is the bottom of 1 and the top of 2, as the new 2, and left the remaining 2s in 3, which bumps everyone else down.  So then I combined the bottom of 4 (now 5) and top of 5 (now 6) into the new 6, leaving Minnesota in 7

• 1 - Illinois, Oregon
• 2 - Michigan, Purdue, Maryland, MSU, Wisconsin
• 3 - OSU, PSU
• 4 - Nebraska, Indiana, Iowa
• 5 - Rutgers, Washington
• 6 - Northwestern, USC
• 7 - Minnesota

[847badgerfan]

Big game in Milwaukee today.

[ELA]

Well, I will say the ball movement with Hoggard gone is much better

[MarqHusker]

Mixed afternoon for me.