2024-2025 B1G Basketball Thread

[ELA]

Not even an election year

[SFBadger96]

My wish for March: Wisconsin in the Sweet 16. I don't need more than that, but I would really like to see the Badgers make it through the first weekend.

[bayareabadger]

My wish for March: Wisconsin in the Sweet 16. I don't need more than that, but I would really like to see the Badgers make it through the first weekend.

The opening round looks like it shouldn’t be too bad. 

The second round could be a bear. That said, it’s March. You just gotta show up playing well, hope for the best.

(I’m in the same boat that I would really like a trip to the second weekend, but if they make it to Saturday and lose, I’m gonna be less irked than in past seasons)

[betarhoalphadelta]

B1G starts 1-0 in the tourney with Purdue's win over High Point. 

Suck it, Seth Davis!

[CatsbyAZ]

Tournament crowd scenes from Las Vegas this morning-

Irish Pub




Caesar’s  Palace Sports Book

[medinabuckeye1]

One less conference this year with the demise of the Pac12.  

This covers the last six tournaments (2019-2025 no 2020):


The top for each year is the NET ranking of the top team from the league in question.  The % for each year is the percent of that league's teams ranked in the top 68. Of the 31 leagues:

• 18 did not have a team in the top-68
• 12 did not have a team in the top-100
• 2 did not have a team in the top-200
• 6 haven't had a team in the top-68 in any of the past six years (Sunbelt, Big Sky, Horizon, NEC, MEAC, SWAC).  

[bayareabadger]

Wisconsin opens with a comfortable win.

[medinabuckeye1]

B1G starts 1-0 in the tourney with Purdue's win over High Point.

Wisconsin opens with a comfortable win.

So far today:

• #1 Houston over #16 SIU-Edwardsville - #1 seeds are now 157-2 over #16's
• #3 Wisconsin over #14 Montana - #3 seeds are now 134-23 over #14's
• #4 Purdue over #13 High Point - #4 seeds are now 124-33 over #13's
• #9 Creighton over #8 Louisville - #9's are now 83-74 over #8's

The #9 seeds having a winning record over #8's might make you think that the Committee doesn't know what they are doing but apparently they do because #8's are twice as likely to make the S16 (16 vs 8) and it is actually worse than that because both times that a #16 knocked off a #1, it was a #9 that got the benefit and beat #16 to advance to the S16.  Thus:

• #8 seeds are 16-58 against #1's
• #9 seeds are 6-74 against #1's

#8 seeds are also nearly twice as likely to make the E8 (9 vs 5) and three times as likely to make the F4 (6 vs 2).  Finally, no #9 seed has ever won a F4 game but four #8 seeds made the CG and one of them won the NC. 

[betarhoalphadelta]

WTF? I get off the Peloton and come out and #12 McNeese St is up on #5 Clemson 31-13 coming out of the half? 

On the day that it leaks that their coach is leaving for NC State?

[medinabuckeye1]

Georgia is currently on pace to lose roughly 104-25.  

[MarqHusker]

I think I've reached the point where I no longer find this event as compelling as I once did.  Unpopular take I'm sure.   Probably doesn't help that I've watched about ten minutes all year and didn't fill out a bracket again. 

To be precise with my view, I'm speaking about the 1st round.    I dont feel tempted to play hooky anymore .  I'll still turn on 3tvs tonight.

[medinabuckeye1]

Half way through the 40th Tournament (since expansion) first round.  On the first day the 1-4 seeds all went 2-0, the 5-12 seeds all went 1-1, and the 13-16 seeds all went 0-2.  

[847badgerfan]

The ACC really sucks.

[bayareabadger]

The ACC really sucks.

It’s kind of funny that we knew that basically throughout the entire year, and then the universe just offered a chance to confirm.