2024-2025 B1G Basketball Thread

[ELA]

Updated seeds.  Green moving up, red moving down

• 1 - Auburn, Houston, Duke, Florida
• 2 - Alabama, Tennessee, MICHIGAN STATE, St. John's
• 3 - Texas Tech, WISCONSIN, MARYLAND, Iowa State
• 4 - Louisville, Kentucky, Clemson, Arizona
• 5 - Texas A&M, BYU, MICHIGAN, Ole Miss
• 6 - OREGON, Saint Mary's, Kansas, PURDUE
• 7 - Missouri, Marquette, ILLINOIS, Creighton
• 8 - UCLA, Memphis, Gonzaga, Connecticut
• 9 - Mississippi State, Georgia, North Carolina, New Mexico
• 10 - Baylor, Oklahoma, Drake, Utah State
• 11 - VCU, Xavier, Arkansas/West Virginia, UC San Diego
• 12 - Vanderbilt/San Diego State, Boise State, McNeese, Liberty
• 13 - High Point, Yale, Akron, Grand Canyon
• 14 - UNC Wilmington, Troy, Lipscomb, Montana
• 15 - Robert Morris, Norfolk State, Bryant, Omaha
• 16 - Wofford, American, SIU Edwardsville/St. Francis, Jackson State/Iona

Boise State now the projected MWC auto-bid, which knocks out Texas
Iona replaced Merrimack as projected MAAC auto-bid

NIT

• 1 - Colorado State, INDIANA, SMU, Texas
• 2 - OHIO STATE, Wake Forest, NEBRASKA, UC Irvine
• 3 - Cincinnati, San Francisco, Villanova, North Texas
• 4 - George Mason, NORTHWESTERN, Dayton, Central Florida
• 5 - IOWA, Kansas State, Pittsburgh, PENN STATE
• 6 - TCU, Stanford, Utah Valley, Chattanooga
• 7 - Northern Colorado, South Alabama, Towson, Central Connecticut
• 8 - Quinnipiac, SE Missouri State, Southern, Bucknell

[bayareabadger]

If MSU is gonna bang home a lot of 3s, this ain't gonna be much of a game. 

[847badgerfan]

MSU has the refs.

[ELA]

If MSU is gonna bang home a lot of 3s, this ain't gonna be much of a game.

Short lived.  Back to their track record.

3-3 to start, 1-13 since

[bayareabadger]

I still think the Spartans are probably gonna win, but honestly a very spirited and resilient half from Wisconsin.

[847badgerfan]

Yep, they dealt with a lot of crap.

[ELA]

Kohler picking up his second, and going to Booker, who was absolutely awful, swung the half.

Looks like the Wisconsin parade to the free-throw line is going to continue in the second half which doesn't bode well

[ELA]

Tonje not being POTY remains a joke

[ELA]

Tonje not being POTY remains a joke

I think he has scored 14 of their past 16 points, and assisted on the 2 he didnt score

Blackwell just made Wisconsins 2nd non-Tonje basket of the half, and the score this half is just 24-23 MSU

[847badgerfan]

Tonje not being POTY remains a joke

Agree.

[SFBadger96]

If there was any doubt, that should lock up a 3-seed, which is nice. Still makes me shake my head about Penn State, but no use crying over spilled milk.

Being a good free throw shooting team should be a real asset in the tourney.

[ELA]

MSU has the refs.

LOL, missed this

[847badgerfan]

Well, Wisconsin almost never puts teams in the double bonus, and they did it twice today.

[ELA]

I'm not saying MSU got a bad whistle.  But to complain in a game where you shoot MORE free throws, despite shooting 15 fewer 2 pointers is certainly a choice

MSU leads the Big Ten in FT attempts per game, because they shoot so many 2s.  Wisconsin shoots 18 per game in conference play.  Today they shot 28.  Sounds like they just called a lot of fouls