2024-2025 B1G Basketball Thread

[ELA]

Nate Oats' strategy works as long as his team is interested in giving just 20% effort on defense

[ELA]

Ruben Jones is also a transfer?

does Michigan have a single player that actually started at their school?  I feel like being a Michigan basketball fan this year is like saying your favorite band is the traveling wilburys

[bayareabadger]

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

Ehh, I’d assume any team on the wrong end of that goal tend and tech will be a tad salty. 

Plus it’s always just a bit annoying playing MSU, football on hardwood and such. 

[ELA]

Ehh, I’d assume any team on the wrong end of that goal tend and tech will be a tad salty.

Plus it’s always just a bit annoying playing MSU, football on hardwood and such.

I mean both teams can complain about calls.  A soft whistle on a rebound effectively ended the game, and then a kid saying he was trying to foul, and then quickly correcting himself on another controversial call.  But in complaining about the refs is in general soft.  Particularly when you wound up with the advantage, despite doing none of the things that result in foul calls.  Just want this board to be above complaining about refs.  Wisconsin won, congrats.  Tonje is comfortably the best player in this league, and should have been rewarded as such.  If there is a beef to be had, it's over that.  Tonje beat the best team in the league 1 on 5 today.  Smith lost 1.5 on 5 last night

[SuperMario]

Ruben Jones is also a transfer?

does Michigan have a single player that actually started at their school?  I feel like being a Michigan basketball fan this year is like saying your favorite band is the traveling wilburys

It’s a weird place to be as a fan, but it’s probably going to be a new normal so I’m trying to accept it. It’s like being a Duke fan. It’s a new wave of players every year. I’d prefer making players stay for 3 years minimum at one program, but my desires aren’t reality.

[Honestbuckeye]

It’s a weird place to be as a fan, but it’s probably going to be a new normal so I’m trying to accept it. It’s like being a Duke fan. It’s a new wave of players every year. I’d prefer making players stay for 3 years minimum at one program, but my desires aren’t reality.

You don’t need to apologize.  

Don’t hate the player, hate the game.   This our new reality in college sports. 

[ELA]

Yeah, no need to apologize.  What are you going to do?  It's out of our control.  I feel like we are all faking our way through.  But we will be the last generation.  I've joked before about how my oldest became an OSU fan at age 5 because his favorite color was red, and they always won.  He does not care anymore.  He is more locked into every NFL and NBA game than any college game.  We all grew up with it, so we can pinch our nose and take it.  But nobody who didn't grow up with this is going to accept this as a minor league that you care about

[ELA]

Definitely picking Louisville and Clemson to lose Rd. 1

[OrangeAfroMan]

It's hard to lose when you score 57 points in a half.

[bayareabadger]

I mean both teams can complain about calls.  A soft whistle on a rebound effectively ended the game, and then a kid saying he was trying to foul, and then quickly correcting himself on another controversial call.  But in complaining about the refs is in general soft.  Particularly when you wound up with the advantage, despite doing none of the things that result in foul calls.  Just want this board to be above complaining about refs.  Wisconsin won, congrats.  Tonje is comfortably the best player in this league, and should have been rewarded as such.  If there is a beef to be had, it's over that.  Tonje beat the best team in the league 1 on 5 today.  Smith lost 1.5 on 5 last night

I’ll cop to it. I only watched the first half closely, second in bits at a bar. So I only lived and died with first half calls. Wouldn’t go into depth on the second half unless asked to (I gave the second half a watch, but wasn’t putting eyes on that)

anyway. Tonje had a day. And Gilmore came up big.  MSU did some tough shot making in spots, but it seemed to evaporate late.

[847badgerfan]

This is not good for Big Red.

[medinabuckeye1]

All tied up in Indianapolis. 

I think that is not good for Wisconsin, I think the Badgers are running out of gas in their fourth game in four days.

[bayareabadger]

Michigan found its energy late. UW missed far too many open shots. Would've liked that one, but such is life. 

[RestingB!tchFace]

Ended up being a pretty good game despite being a fairly poor showing (at least from a shooting standpoint) from both teams.  Believe that both Wisconsin and Michigan have the horses to make some noise in the tournament.  Still think that MSU and Maryland are the better two teams....which isn't really going out on a limb.