2025-2026 B1G Basketball Thread

[Brutus Buckeye]

Step 1 is a Billy Donovan tattoo. 

[OrangeAfroMan]

Step 1 is a Billy Donovan tattoo.

Bet!  

[FearlessF]

I liked Billy as a player and a coach 

[FearlessF]

[FearlessF]

[ELA]

Massey composite rankings...40 computers (last week in parenthesis)

• MICHIGAN (1)
• Duke (2)
• Arizona (4)
• Iowa State (6)
• Gonzaga (5)
• PURDUE (3)
• Vanderbilt (10)
• Connecticut (12)
• MICHIGAN STATE (7)
• BYU (13)
• Alabama (11)
• Houston (8)
• Louisville (9)
• ILLINOIS (20)
• North Carolina (23)
• Kansas (18)
• Florida (17)
• St. John's (19)
• Texas Tech (24)
• Arkansas (-)
• Saint Mary's (-)
• NEBRASKA (-)
• Auburn (16)
• Georgia (-)
• Tennessee (14)

27. Iowa (22)
29. USC (21)
32. Wisconsin (40)
33. Indiana (15)
34. UCLA (48)
36. Ohio State (44)
63. Washington (70)
75. Northwestern (59)
83. Penn State (84)
102. Maryland (95)
104. Oregon (93)
126. Minnesota (137)
143. Rutgers (130)

[ELA]

Florida should be consistently great at every sport.  Its probably the easiest gig outside of Texas.  But somehow they were whatever for decades, until hiring the best coaches of their generation (Spurrier/Donovan), and then otherwise perpetually underachieved unless they looked the other way to hire a coach who looked the other way (Urban/Golden)

[FearlessF]

[ELA]

feels like there have been more blowouts than normal in games between power five schools this year

[847badgerfan]

Wisconsin is not good. No identity on defense at all.

[ELA]

Didn't realize how backloaded Michigan's Big Ten schedule is.

They are 2 games into a 12 game stretch where they play no ranked teams, 9 of those 12 games are at home.

Then 7 of their final 11 games are against ranked teams, 6 on the road.

They will be pretty heavy favorites to be 18-0 when they host #23 Nebraska on January 27, and then play at #9 MSU 3 days later.

They have #25 UCLA, at #6 Purdue, #3 Duke, and at #13 Illinois in a 2 week span in late February.

MSU plays 1 more ranked Big Ten opponents than UM, but they at no point face 2 in a row

[betarhoalphadelta]

Marquette @ Purdue starts in under an hour. 

Let me tell you just how insanely happy I am that they're putting a game like this on Peacock. You know, after they told us that the whole point of the BTN was so that we'd never miss one of our team's games. I understand that the BTN doesn't show everything... But it should be networks, ESPN, and then BTN. 

fPeacock. fNBC.

[FearlessF]

#14 vs #22 on peacock as well

ranked Big Ten matchups must not be worth much $$$

[ELA]

BTN does have a college basketball quintupleheader straight from 12 to 10

But it does seem like Peacock has jumped it in terms of quality of games.

What irritates me is how often live sports are on BTN+, and you go to actual BTN and its a "classic" from 2 months ago. 

The amount of live baseball and hockey is terrible.  They do better with volleyball and wrestling.  Granted I hate wrestling