2024-2025 B1G Basketball Thread

[GopherRock]

Jeez, now that I have to think about Minnesota sports more actively, any opinions on their new basketball head coach (a MN grad, coming from Colorado State)?

If he can get the NIL spigot opened, good for him. No one in this town has done it yet. And based on the response of the Dinkytown Athlete Collective, the early returns are promising.

[medinabuckeye1]

So we have two #1's, a #2, and a #3 in the E8.  

On tap tonight:

• #2 Michigan State -3.5 vs #6 Ole Miss from Atlanta
• #2 Tennessee -4.5 vs #3 Kentucky from Indianapolis
• #1 Auburn -9 vs #5 Michigan from Atlanta
• #1 Houston -8 vs #4 Purdue from Indianapolis

Then, on Saturday, for a berth in the F4:

• #1 Florida -6.5 vs #3 TxTech from San Francisco
• #1 Dook -6.5 vs #2 Alabama from Newark

[medinabuckeye1]

https://www.facebook.com/share/r/1HcAPuzRwT/

[847badgerfan]

To me, it's a shot and a beer.

[FearlessF]

drop the shot of whiskey in the beer

[CatsbyAZ]

Arizona loses to Duke last night in the Sweet Sixteen round, 100-93. Good season overall; for basketball I like being a Wildcat whose Arizona program has a good team most every season. The one last thing I want is a Final Four. For all the high seeds and tournament runs into the second weekend, they haven't cracked the Final Four in a while. The last three Elite Eights I remember came down to the last possession. But all in all, once Arizona's football season ends - and it usually ends by Halloween - I appreciate having a competitive, well run basketball program worth watching every season.

[SuperMario]

Great win Sparty!!!

Also great to see they aren’t stopping to review every out of bounds ball for 5 minutes. Some of the games near the end of the season were unbearable. This has been a much better quality of game experience.

[medinabuckeye1]

Michigan/Auburn sounds more like a COI Meeting than a S16 game, LoL 

[medinabuckeye1]

Great moments in March Maddness Broadcast history!

[ELA]

The SEC can buy coaches and players, but they cant buy fans.   Its very clearly all UM and MSU fans rooting for their own teams and against each other.  There might be a couple Auburn and Ole Mkss fans in the house

[SuperMario]

The SEC can buy coaches and players, but they cant buy fans.  Its very clearly all UM and MSU fans rooting for their own teams and against each other.  There might be a couple Auburn and Ole Mkss fans in the house

And buy refs. The auburn bigs hacking and hammering every time and nothing being called and then Michigan breathing on Auburn completely changed the second half. Pettiford then got hot and ended it but the swing was the stripes 

[ELA]

And buy refs. The auburn bigs hacking and hammering every time and nothing being called and then Michigan breathing on Auburn completely changed the second half. Pettiford then got hot and ended it but the swing was the stripes

The one thing you want is consistency. and in that game, they let a ton go in the first half, and then called everything in the second half

[ELA]

Wow, Kelvin Sampson with the play call of the year

[medinabuckeye1]

So the E8 is:

• 4 #1 seeds
• 3 #2 seeds
• 1 #3 seed